名词解释 ENGLISH LITERATURE--DEFINITION OF TERMS
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singing the goods of Robin Hood. Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a
2Critical Realism of the 19th century
of fifties.2)The realists first and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying contradictions of bourgeois reality. But they did not find a way to eradicate social evils.3) Charles Dickens is the most important
3With the advent of the 18th century, in England, as in other
there sprang into life a public movement known as the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment on the whole, was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class of bourgeois against feudalism. The social inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other survivals of feudalism. They attempted to place all branches of science at the service of mankind by connecting them with the actual deeds and requirements of the people.
启蒙主义：启蒙主义是在18世纪在英国发生的。总体上，启蒙主义是当时的资产阶级对封建主义，社会的不平等、死寂、偏见和其他的封建残余的一种反对。通过将科学的各个分支与人民的日常生活和需要联系起来，启蒙主义者们努力将他们变成为人民大众服务的工具
4-of-Consciousness” or “interior monologue”, is It is the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images as the character experiences them. It was first used in 1922 by the Irish novelist James Joyce. Those novels broke through the bounds of time and space, and depicted vividly and skillfully the unconscious activity of the mind fast changing and flowing incessantly, particularly the hesitant, misted, distracted and illusory psychology people had when they faced reality. The modern American writer William Faulkner successfully advanced this technique. In his stories, action and plots were less important than the reactions and inner musings of the narrators. Time sequences were often dislocated. The reader feels himself to be a participant in the stories, rather than an observer. A high degree of emotion can be achieved by this technique.
意识流：“意识流”或“内心独白”是现代写作技巧之一。它是像是人物亲身经历的那样来模仿人物思想、感觉、回忆、和头脑中意象来写作的一种手法。爱尔兰作家詹姆斯•乔伊斯于1922年首次使用这种方法。意识流小说打破了时间和空间的限制，生动地描写人物不断变化的潜意识活动，尤其是当人们面对现实时的犹豫和充满困惑、幻觉和心不在焉的那种心理。美国作家福克纳对这种技巧做了进一步的发展，在他的故事中，行为和情节相比叙述者的反应和内心活动已经不那么
5 A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the
values of the society from which it originated.Beowulf is the greatest national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. John Milton wrote three great epics: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
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second half of the 18th century in Europe,and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution. In part,it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts,music,and literature,but had a major impact on historiography,education and natural history.
浪漫主义是一种艺术，文学和文化运动，起源于第十八世纪下半叶在欧洲，并获得了力量对工业革命的反应。在某种程度上，这是一个反对启蒙和对自然的科学合理化反应时代的贵族社会和政治规范的反抗它在视觉艺术、音乐和文学中表现得最为强烈，但对史学、教育和
81)Romance is a popular literary form in the
(such as bravery, honor, generosity, loyalty and kindness to the weak and poor) is the
9“rebirth”.It meant the reintroduction into Western Europe of the f ull cultural heritage of Greece and Rome.The essence of the Renaissance is Humanism.The real
the Elizabethan drama.
10is an English tendency in the Enlightenment
contemporary French ones were worshipped. The neoclassicists believe that the artistic ideals should be order, logic,restrained emotion and accuracy and the literature
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who wrote in a similar style. Metaphysical poetry is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas. The imagery is drawn from actual life.
玄学诗：约翰•多恩的诗或17世纪其他诗人写的相同风格的诗。玄学诗多使用巧智，结构精巧，韵律多变，语言口语化，意象奇特，把不同的事物进行并置。
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of spoken verse that offers insight into the feelings of t he speaker.A form practiced be Robert Browning.
戏剧独白是一种通过剧中一角色的话语以揭示剧中的中心人物的性格特点的诗体，简言之戏剧独白就是以人之口吻以戏剧性的表现形式阐述微妙的人物关系从而凸显诗中各个人物的性格特点。
Feature of dramatic monologue
1.A single person,who is patently not the poet,utters the speech that makes up the w hole of the poem,in a specific situation at a critical moment.
