英国文学名词解释
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英国文学名词解释
1:Byronic hero: a variant of the Romantic heroes as a type
of character(pursuing freedom),named after the English
Romantic Poet Gordon Byron. e.g.
2:Renaissance:The Renaissance indicates a revival of classical
arts and sciences in Europe beginning in the 14th and extending
to the 17th ,marking the transition from the medieval to the
modern world. E.g Shakespeare’s
3:Romanticism: It flourished in literature, philosophy, music,
and art in western culture during most in the 19th ,beginning as
a revolt against classicism. In it, emotion over reason,
spontaneous emotion, a change from the outer world of social
civilization to the inner world of the human spirit. The main works
such as George Gordon Byron
4:Conceit: A far-fetched simile or metaphor, a literary conceit
occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things.
In the following example from Act V of Shakkespeare’ s , the
imprisoned King Richard compares his cell to the world in the
following line: I have been studying how I may compare this
prison where I live into the world. It occurs in 17th and the
examples is John Donne’s .
5: Stream-of –Consciousness: it is a literary technique that
presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
without any clarification by the author. It is a narrative mode. It
occurred in the 20th ,and the example is James Joyce
6:Critical Realism: Critical realism is one of the literary genres
that flourished mainly in the 19th . It reveals the corrupting
influence of the cash upon human nature. Here lies the essentially
democratic and humanistic character of critical realism. They often start with a powerful exposure of the ugliness of the
bourgeois world in their works, but their novels usually have
happy endings or an impotent compromise at the end.
E.g. Charles. Dickens
7:Dramatic monologue: It is a kind of narrative poem in
which one character speaker to one or more listeners whose
replies are not given in poem. The occasion is a crucial one in the
speak’ s life, and the it reveals the speak ’s personality as well
as the incident that is the subject of the poem . Robert Browing’
s is a case in point.
8:Epiphany(顿悟):a moment of illumination, usually
occurring at the end of the work. It exists in Modernist novels .E.g
James Joyce