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