英美文学复习

英美文学史复习资料英国文学史资料I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages<Beowulf>贝奥武夫Artistic features:ing alliteration头韵ing metaphor暗喻 and understatement含蓄陈述Geoffery Chaucer杰弗里乔叟The founder of English poetry.三个阶段：1<The Romaunt of the Rose>玫瑰传奇2<Troilus and Criseyde>特罗伊拉斯和克莱希德longest complete poe m3<The Canterbury Tales>坎特伯雷故事集：Significance :first time to use ‘heroic couplet’(英雄双韵体) b y middle EnglishIIThe Renaissance PeriodA period of drama and poetry. The Elizabethan drama is the realmainstream of the English Renaissance.Renaissance: the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14 th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the trans ition from the medieval to the modern world. Humanism is the ke y-note of the Renaissance.1. 1.Edmund Spenser埃德蒙斯宾塞1552~1599（后人称之为“诗人(de)诗人”.）The poets’ poet. The first to be buried in the Poet’s corner of Westerminster Abbey.① <The Faerie Queene>仙后(for Queen Elizabeth)The theme is not “Arms and the man”, but something more roman tic “Fierce wars and faithfull loves”.②<The Shepherds Calendar>牧人日历The theme is to lament over the loss of RosalinismMore2. Thomas托马斯莫尔1478~1535One of the greatest English humanists①<Utopia>乌托邦Two books: the social conditions of Englishan ideal communist societyBacon3. Francis弗兰西斯培根1561~1626The first English of english eassy.1<TheAdvancement of Learning>学术(de)推进2.<New Instrument>3<Essays>随笔58 essays4. Marlowe柯里斯托弗马洛①<The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus>浮士德博士(de)悲剧（根据德国民间故事书写成）②<Tamburlaine>帖木耳大帝③<The Jew of Malta>马耳他岛(de)犹太人5. William Shakespeare威廉莎士比亚1564~1616共37plays①Historical plays:Henry VI ; Henry IV : Richard III ; Henry V；Richard II；Henry VIII②四大喜剧:第二阶段<As You Like It>皆大欢喜; <Twelfth Night>第十二夜; <A Midsummer Night’S Dream>仲夏夜之梦; <Merchant Of Ven ice>威尼斯商人③四大悲剧:<Hamlet>哈姆莱特; <Othello>奥赛罗; <King Lear>李尔王; <Macbeth>麦克白④Shakespeare Sonnet :154 <The Sonnets>III The 17th Century1. John Milton约翰弥尔顿1608~1674（失明后写失乐园、复乐园、力士参孙.）①Epics:<Paradise Lost>失乐园（亚当Adam夏娃Eve受魔鬼撒旦Satan 诱惑偷尝禁果,被God逐出伊甸园Eden）< RegainedParadise>复乐园②Dramatic poem:<Samson Agonistes>力士参孙.2. John Bunyan约翰班扬1628~1688（代表作天路历程,宗教寓言,被誉为“具有永恒意义(de)百科全书”,是英国文学史上里程碑式着作.与但丁(de)神曲、奥古斯丁(de)忏悔录并列为世界三大宗教题材文学杰作.）Puritan poet(清教徒派诗人)①Religionary Allegory:<The Pilgrim’s Progress>天路历程3. John Donnethe Metaphysical poet(玄学派诗人).Metaphysical Poetry(玄学诗)：（用语）the diction is simple, the imagery is from the actual, (形式)the form is frequently an argument with the poet’s beloved, with god, or with himself.（主题：love, religious, thought）4. John Dryden:革命时期(de)保皇派代表royalistIVThe 18th Century1Enlightment 3位代表Addison,Steele,PopeJohnson2. Samuel塞缪尔约翰逊1709~1784①Dictionary =<A Dictionary of English Language>英语大词典3. Jonathan Swift乔纳森斯威夫特1667~1745①<Gulliver’s Travels>格列佛游记(fictional work)Four parts:Lilliput 小人国 Brobdingnag 大人国Flying Island 飞岛 Houyhnhnm 马岛<A Modest Proposal>一个小小(de)建议②<The Battle of Books>书战③<A Tale of a Tub>木桶(de)故事④ <The Drapper’s Letters>一个麻布商(de)书信4. Daniel Defoe丹尼尔笛福1660~1731< CrusoeRobinson>鲁宾逊漂流记5. Oliver Goldsmith奥利弗格尔德斯密斯1730~1774①poems:<The Deserted Village>荒村②novel:<The Vicar of Wakefield>威克菲尔德牧师传6.感伤主义sentimentalism and pre-romanticism:Blake& Burns7 William Blake威廉布莱克1757~1827①<Songs of Innocence>天真之歌.②<Songs of Experience>经验之歌③ <The Marriage of Heaven and Hell>天堂与地狱(de)婚姻8 Robert Burns罗伯特彭斯1759~1796The greatest Scottish poet in the late 18th century.Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect主要用苏格兰方言写(de)诗① <John Anderson, My Jo>约翰安德生,我(de)爱人② <A Red, Red Rose>一朵红红(de)玫瑰③ < SyneAuld Long>友谊地久天长④ <A Man’s a Man for A’That>不管那一套⑤ <HighlandsMy Heart’s in the>我(de)心在那高原上VThe Romantic PeriodThe romantic period began in 1798 the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s <Lyrical Ballads>, and end in 1832 with Sir Walt er Scott’s death.“The Lake Poets”湖畔诗人,who lived in the lake district.William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Robert Southey1. William Wordsworth威廉华兹华斯1770~1850（与柯尔律治、骚塞同被称为“”诗人. The Lake Poets）① <Lyrical Ballads>抒情歌谣集(with Samuel Taylor Coleridge)②<I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud>③Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey④The Solitary Reaper孤独(de)割麦女② <The Prelude>序曲2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge塞缪尔泰勒科尔律治1772~1834The Lake Poets① <The Rime of the Ancient Mariner>古舟子颂② <Christabel>柯里斯塔贝尔③ <Kubla Khan>忽必烈汗④ <Frost at Night>半夜冰霜⑤ <Dejection, an Ode>忧郁颂⑥ <Lyrical Ballads>抒情歌谣集(with William Wordsworth)3. George Gordon Byron乔治戈登拜伦1788~1824①<Don Juan>唐璜<Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage>恰尔德哈罗德尔游记<Cain>该隐②<When We Two Parted>当初我们俩分别<She Walks In Beauty>4. Persy Bysshe Shelley波西比希雪莱1792~1822①Poetic Drama：<Prometheus Unbound>解放了(de)普罗米修斯②<Queen Mab>麦布女王<Revolt of Islam>伊斯兰(de)反叛<The Cenci>钦契一家<A Defence of Poetry>诗辩<The Necessity of Atheism>无神论(de)必要性③Lyrics:Ode to the West Wind西风颂<To a Skylark>致云雀A Defense of Poetry ---critical worksSong to Men of England---greatest political lyricKeats5. John约翰济慈1795~1821(“美即是真,真即是美”是他(de)着名诗句.)①Four great odes: <Ode on a Grecian Urn>希腊古瓮颂<Ode to a Nightingale>夜莺颂<To Autumn>秋颂<Ode On Melancholy>忧郁颂②Five long poems:Endymion, Isabella, The eve of ,Lamia, Hyper ionScott6 Walter沃尔特斯科特1771~1832(历史小说之父”)Father of history novels①<Rob Roy>罗伯罗伊②<Ivanhoe>艾凡赫VIThe Victorian PeriodCommon sense and moral propreity, again became the predominant preoccupation. Critical realists were all concerned about the f ate of the common people and everyday events.1. Charles Dickens查尔斯狄更斯1812~1870（批判现实主义小说家）critical realist writer第一阶段： by Boz特写集2<The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club>匹克威克外传3<Oliver Twist>奥利弗特维斯特（雾都孤儿）4Nicholas Nickleby5.<The Old Curiosity Shop>老古玩店Rudge第二阶段：1Amercian Notes美国札记2,Martin Chuzzlewit宗教色彩,圣诞小说： .3<A Christmas Carol>圣诞颂歌 4 The Chimes 圣诞颂歌 5The Cricket on the Earth 灶上蟋蟀6<Dombey and Son>董贝父子7<David Copperfield>大卫科波菲尔自传体第三阶段1 <Bleak House>荒凉山庄2.<Hard Times>艰难时世dorrit4<A Tale of Two Cities>双城记(London & Paris)5 <Great Expectations>远大前程6 <Our Mutual Friend>我们共同(de)朋友7未完成：Edwin Drood2. William Makepeace Thackeray威廉麦克匹斯萨克雷1811~1863①<Vanity Fair>or a Novel without a Hero名利场(the name is an e xcerpt from <The Pilgrim’s Progress>by John Bunyan)②<The Book Of Snobs>3 Jane Austen简奥斯丁1775~1817浪漫主义时期(de)批判现实主义.①<Sense and Sensibility>理智与感情<Pride and Prejudic>傲慢与偏见(chapter I)<Emma>爱玛<Mansfield Park>曼斯菲尔德庄园<Northanger Abbey>诺桑觉寺<Persuasion>劝导3. Charlotte Bronte夏洛蒂勃朗特1816~1855① <Jane Eyre>简爱② <Shirley>雪莉③ <Professor>教师4. Emily Bronte艾米莉勃朗特1818~1854① < HeightsWuthering>呼啸山庄② <Old Stoic>Bronte安妮.勃朗特①Agnes Grey②The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall6.Robert Louis Stevenson①<Treasure Island>金银岛7. Oscar Wilde奥斯卡王尔德1856~1900①4 Comedies:<The Importance Of Being Earnest>认真(de)重要<Lady Windermere’s Fan>温德米尔夫人(de)扇子<A Woman Of No Importance>一个无足轻重(de)女人<An Ideal Husband>理想(de)丈夫②Novel:<The Picture Of Dorian Gray>多利安格雷(de)画像③Fairy Stories:<The Happy Prince And Other Tales>快乐王子故事集Hardy1 Thomas托马斯哈代1840~1928（小说多以农村生活为背景；自然主义小说家.Wessex novels; novels of character and environment）⑴Novels① <Tess Of The D’Urbervilles>德伯家(de)苔丝人物：Angel Clare,A lec② <Jude The Obscure>无名(de)裘德人物：Fawley, Arabella Donnm,(a ll body) Sue Bridehead(all mind)③ <Under The Greenwood Tree>绿荫下④< The Madding CrowdFar From>远离尘嚣⑤ <The Mayor Of Casterbridge>卡斯特桥市长⑥<The Return of the Native>还乡⑵PoemsWessex Poems And Other VersesPoems Of The Past And PresentThe Dynasts 列国2.George Bernard Shaw乔治伯纳萧1856~1950(英国杰出(de)批判现实主义剧作家）critical realistic dramatist ⑴Plays①Plays Unpleasant<Mrs Warren’S Profession>华伦夫人(de)职业<Widowers’ Houses>鳏夫(de)房产②Plays Pleasant<Arms And Man>武器与人<The Man Of Destiny>左右命运(de)人③Plays<Man And Superman>人与超人<Pygmalion>匹格玛利翁<The Apple Cart>苹果车< JoanSaint>圣女贞德1. David Herbert Lawrence劳伦斯男女关系①<Sons And Lovers>儿子与情人(autobiographical)②<The Rainbow>虹③<Women In Love>恋爱中(de)女人④<Lady Chatterley’s Lover>查特莱夫人(de)情人Joyce2. James詹姆斯乔伊斯1882~1941（爱尔兰小说家,意识流小说(de)代表人物）stream-of-consciousness <Ulysses>尤利西斯(S_O_C)<A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man>一个青年艺术家(de)肖像<Finnegans Wake>芬尼根(de)苏醒<Dubliners>都柏林人3. Virginia Woolf弗吉尼娅沃尔芙1882~1941（意识流小说(de)代表人物）stream-of-consciousness①Novels< DallowayMrs>达洛维夫人<To The Lighthouse>到灯塔去<The Waves>浪<The Lighthouse><Jacob’s Room>雅各布(de)房间<Orlando>奥兰朵<Between The Acts>幕间Yeats 1. 叶芝1865~1939（爱尔兰诗人,剧作家； The Irish nationalist movement 爱尔兰独立运动； The Irish Literary Revival 爱尔兰文艺复兴； The Irish Lit erary Theater, or the Abbey Theater 爱尔兰民族剧团）⑴collections①<The Wind Among The Reeds>苇风<Responsibilities>责任②<The Tower>塔<The Winding Stair>旋转(de)楼梯⑵Poems<Easter 1916>复活节,1916<The Second Coming>第二次来临/再世<Sailing To Byzantium>到拜占庭航行2. Thomas Sterns Eliot（诗人,剧作家,批评家）⑴Poems①<The Waste Land>②<Four Quartets>四个四重奏③<The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock>⑵Plays①<Murder In The Cathedral>大教堂谋杀案美国文学史复习1、Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林1）"Poor Richard's Almanac" 穷人查理德(de)年鉴 2）“The Way to W ealth”致富之道“The Autobiography”自传 18世纪美国唯一流传至今(de)自传2、Washington Irving华盛顿.欧文the first great belletrist 第一个纯文学作家,the first greatprose stylist of American romanticism. 美国第一位浪漫主义散文文体作家“Sketch Book”见闻札记, thefirst modern short storiesand the fi rst great American juvenile literature.现代文学史上第一部短篇小说和美国第一部伟大(de)青少年文学读物.“Legends of the Conquest of Spain”西班牙征服记A History of New York纽约(de)历史-----美国人写(de)第一部诙谐文学杰作；The Sketch Book见闻札记The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷(de)传说-----使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉(de)作家；Bracebridge Hall布雷斯布里奇田庄；Talks of Travellers旅客谈；The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉Fenimore Cooper詹姆斯.芬尼莫.库珀“Leatherstocking Tales”皮袜子故事集,包括“The Deerslayer”杀鹿者、“The Last of the Mohicans”最后(de)莫希干人、“The Pathfind er”探路人、“The Pioneers”拓荒者、“The Prairie”大草原, regar d as “the nearest approach yet to an American epic.” 被认为是迄今为止美国最接近史诗(de)作品.The Spy间谍The Pilot领航者The Littlepage Manuscripts利特佩奇(de)手稿4、Ralph Waldo Emersion 拉尔夫.沃尔多.爱默生be responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New England,是把超验主义引入新英格兰(de)先驱.Emerson believed above all in individualism个人主义, independence of mind思想独立, and self-r eliance自强.作品：“Nature”论自然、“Essays”随笔录“The American Scholar”美国学者, our intellectual Declaration of Independence.我们知识分子(de)独立宣言.④his most important works are “Representative Men”代表and “E nglish Traits”英国人、“Poems”诗集.5、Henry David Thoreau 亨利.戴维.梭罗“In Walden”沃尔登成名作“Civil Disobedience”平民反抗essay 随笔.非暴力不合作6、Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳萨尼尔.霍桑“Mosses from an Old Manse”古厦青苔、“The Marble Faun”玉石神像“The Scarlet Letter”红字人物：Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingwor th, Arthur Dimmesdale, Pearl7、Herman Melville 赫尔曼.麦尔维尔“Moby Dick”白鲸人物：Captain Ahab.船长阿哈比；Queequeg,捕鲸人奎因奎格Ishmael讲故事(de)人,Starkbuck 星巴克8、Walt Whitman 沃尔特.惠特曼①★free verse (自由诗体) 无固定节奏,无有规律(de)韵脚②“Leaves of Grass”草叶集 1870 the first genuine epic poem. 美国历史上第一部真正(de)史诗Poem’s 特点：most of the poems in “LeavesofGrass”are about man and nature.9、Emily Dickinson 爱米丽.狄金森“I died for Beauty” 我为美而死（诗歌）Beauty / Truth / Goodness are ultimate(终极) the same“Because I could not stop for Death”我不能等候死神Theme：死亡是实现永恒Immortality(de)途径“my life closed twice before its close”“mine—by the right of the white election”Allan Poe埃德加.阿伦.坡“The Fall of the House of Usher”鄂谢府崩溃记、“The Raven”乌鸦the title poem of a collection“Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque”述异集first collection of short stories. 第一部短篇小说集.“A modern instance一个现代(de)例证“The rise of Silas Lapham”塞拉斯.拉帕姆(de)发迹“The Amercian”美国人“Daisy Miller”黛西,米勒“The portrait of a lady”贵妇人画像“The ambassador”奉使记“The Wings of the Dove”鸽翼“the golden bowl”金碗Twain马克.吐温①美国现实主义文学(de)代表作“Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn”哈克贝里.费恩历险记(马克最有名(de)作品)②特点：local colorist地方特色:a unique variation of American literary realism, it refers to the particular concern about the local character of a region.代表作：“The Gilded Age”70-90年代,镀金时代,贫富分化,财富积累.“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”用词简单、幽默、使用当地语言编写“Life on the Mississippi”14、Theodore Dreiser 西奥多.德莱塞①代表作：“Sister Carrie”嘉莉妹妹 the first novel, which traces the material rise of Carrie Meeber and the tragic decline of G. W. Hurstwood.“The Financier”、“The Titan”、“The Stoic”Trilogy of Desire 欲望三部曲②“An American Tragedy”美国悲剧,The identification of potency with money is at the heart of Dreiser’s grea test and most successful novel,德莱塞最恢宏、最成功(de)小说,表达了金钱万能(de)主题.15、Thomas Stearns Eliot托马斯.斯特恩斯.爱略特现代主义代言人“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”poems,holds its place in the development of Eliot’s poetry as a whole.“Tradition and the Individual Talent”essay,随笔传统和个人天才, the earliest statement of his aesthetics第一次阐释了自己(de)审美观点.“The Waste Land”荒原现代主义(de)标志“Four Quartets”四个四重奏poem“Murder in the Cathedral”,poetic tragedy, 诗歌悲诗, a drama (戏剧) of impressive spiritual power.极富感染力(de)戏剧Frost罗伯特.弗洛斯特自然主义诗人 poet“The Road Not Taken”、“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”向往大自然,想逃避社会；死亡、迷惑17、Ernest Hemingway 厄恩斯特.海明威 novelist 小说家诺贝尔代表作：“The Sun Also Rises” Hemingway became the spokesman fo r “a lost generation”“A Farewell to Arms”、“For Whom the Bell Tolls”、“The Old Man and the Sea”18、William Faulkner 威廉.福克纳诺贝尔①作品(de)主题：the universal theme of “the problems of the hum an heart in conflict with itself”人类心灵与自己冲突是宇宙永恒(de)主题.②作品：“The Sound and the Fury”喧嚣与骚动成名作、“Absalom, Absalom”、“Go Down, Moses”Steinbeck约翰.斯坦贝克诺贝尔“Of Mice and Men”人鼠之间 portrayed the tragic friendship betw een two migrant workers“The Grapes of Wrath”愤怒(de)葡萄regarded as masterpiece 视为杰作.20. Eugene O’Neill诺贝尔“The Emperor Jones”琼斯国王、“Anna Christie”安娜.克里斯蒂、“The Hairy Ape”毛猿“Long days’Journey”自传21.Saul Bellow犹太人诺贝尔从1941年到1987年(de)4O余年间,贝娄共出版了9部.早期创作有结构优美(de)挂起来(de)人“Danglin Man”（1944）、受害者“The victim”（1947）,颇为评论界注目.（1953）(de)出版,一举成名,奠定了他(de)文学地位.由于把“丰富多彩(de)流浪汉小说与当代文化(de)精妙分析结合在一起”,这部小说成为当代美国文学中描写自意识和个人自由(de)典型之作.陆续出版了雨王汉德逊“Hederson the Rain King”（1959）、“H erzog”获得4项奖（1964）、赛姆勒先生(de)行星Mr Sammlers Plann et”（1970）、洪堡(de)礼物（1975）、系主任(de)十二月（1981）、而今更见伤心死（1987）、偷窃（1989）等.这些作品袒露了中产阶级知识分子(de)苦闷,从反映了美国当代“丰裕社会”(de)精神危机.成为美国轰动一时(de)畅销书.此外,贝娄还出版过中短篇小说集且惜今朝（195 6）和莫斯比(de)回忆（1968）,剧本最后(de)分析（1965）以及游记去来（1976）、散文集集腋成裘（1994）等.犹太人Jewish“The Catcher of the Rye”麦田里(de)守望者名词解释romanticism:Owing to difference in social and political attitudes,the roman ticists split into two romantic writers expressed the aspirati ons of the classes created by capitalism and held out an ideal, though a vague one,of a feature society free from oppression an d were the younger generation of romanticists represented by B yron,Shelley and Keats.Ronmanticism:Owing to difference in social and political attitudes,the roman ticists split into two romantic writers reflected the thinking of classes ruined by the bourgoisie,and by the way of protesti ng against capitalist development turned to the feudal were th e elder generation of romanticists,sometimes called escapist ro manticists,including Wordsworth,Coleridge and Southey.Critical Realism:English critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties. The critical realists decribe d with much vividness and great artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system fr om a democratic critical realists included Charles Dickens,Tha ckeray,the Bronte Sisters and so on..4、Lost Generation：Writers of the first postwar era self-consci ously acknowledged that they were a “Lost Generation,” devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization. It describes the Am ericans who remained in Paris as a colony of “expatriates” or exiles. It describes the writers like Hemingway who lived in se mipoverty. It describes the Americans who returned to their nat ive land with an intense awareness of living in an unfamiliar c hanging famous writers were Hemingway,Fitzgwrald.:Imagism was an Anglo-Amercian poetic movement flourishing in t he 1910s. Its program was formulated about 1912 by the Amercian poet,Ezra Pound and the movement soon broke up in about 1917. The imagist poetry was a kind of free verse shaking off the con ventional metres and emphasizing on the use of common speech,new rhythms and clear images. The two most important English poet s of the first half of 20th century were Yeats and Eliot.： It refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th century. It means revival , revival of interest in ancient Greek and Ro man culture. Renaissance, in essence , was a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attem pts to get rid of conservatism in feudalist Europe and introduc e new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoi sie , to lift the restrictions in all areas placed by the Roman church is the key-note of the Renaissance.The greatest humanist was Thomas More.colourism：Local Colourism is a type of writing that was popula r in the late 19th century, particularly among authors in the Sou th of the U.S.. This style relied heanvily on using words, phra ses, and slang that were native to the particular region in whi ch the story take place. The term has come to mean any device w hich implies a special focus. Whether it be geographical or tem poral. A well-known loca colourism author was Mark Twain with h is books Tom Sawyer and The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn.。

选择10X2分填空10X3分名词解释5X4分简答5X4分论述1X10分选择&填空各章重要知识点：包扌臣各历史时期的文学流派特点标志，重要的代表作家及主要作品，作品的主要情节和主要人物。

名词解释&简答BeowulfepicalliterationballadRomanceHeroic CoupletsBlank VerseChaucer and The Canterbuiy Tales WilliamShakespeare&his great works SonnetMetaphysical PoetsThe RenaissanceEnlightenment RomanticismCritical RealismImagismModernismThe Stream of Consciousness 诗歌格律韵式辨析John Milton and Paradise LostJohn Bunyan and The Pilgrim? sProgress HumanismEnlightenmentNeoclassicismSentimantalism浪漫主义的重要诗人和代表作Byronic HeroesDramatic MonologueCritical RealismOedipus Complex 论述ChaucerShakespeareJohn MiltonHenry FieldingCharles DickensJane AustenThomas HardyRenaissance特点：1. There was a thirsting curiosity for the classical literature and an expression of the general dissatisfaction at the Catholic and feudal ideas.2eHumanism is the key-note of the Renaissance.Representative Figures1） Thomas More Utopia2） Thomas Wyatt He was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.3） John Lyly the novel Eupheus gave rise to the term "euphuisrrT（绮丽体）euphuism refers to an affectedly elegant literary style of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, characterized by elaborate alliteration, antitheses（对照）,and similes（明喻）•4） Christopher Marlowe Timur （《巾占木丿L》）he is known for his magnificent blank verse,《帖木儿》是一部英雄剧，塑造了一个叱咤风云却又野心勃勃的征服者形象，充分体现了文艺复兴时期的巨人精神。

American Literature:the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States.●For more than a millennium, each stage in the development of the English language has produced itsmasterworks.●Following the NormanConquest of 1066, French influence shaped the vocabulary as well as the literarypreoccupations of Middle English.●The publication of the King James V ersion of the Bible in 1611 infused the literature of the period withboth religious imagery and a remarkably vigorous language, and it served as an important instrument for the spread of literacy throughout England.●Gradually seven kingdoms arose in Britain. By the 7th century, these small kingdoms were combinedinto a united kingdom called England.●Angles, Saxons and Jutes usually known as Anglo-Saxons are the first Englishmen. Language spokenby them is called Old English, which is the foundation of English language and literature. With the Anglo-Saxon settlement in Britain, the history of English literature began.Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language.●Thus three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke French, the lower classspoke English, and the scholars and clergymen used Latin.●The romance was the prevailing form of literature in the Middle Ages.●The central character of the romance is the knight, a man of noble birth skilled in the use of weapons. GEOFFREY CHAUCER乔叟Chaucer was the representative writer of the 14th century, and therefore the 14th century is usually called the Age of Chaucer.the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare and ―the first finder of our language.‖ His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English.The Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集The great majority of the words Chaucer uses are the same in meaning and function as their Modern English counterparts. They usually differ greatly in spelling. But this initial difficulty soon disappears as one reads through the text -- especially if one reads the text aloud.Chaucer‘s contribution to English poetry is that he introduced from France the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter, which was later called the heroic couplet, to English poetry, instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.文艺复兴时期The English Renaissance●The Renaissance was a European phenomenon. It revived the study of Roman and Greek classics andmarked the beginning of bourgeois revolution.English literature in the Renaissance period is usually regarded as the high light in the history of English literature. In the Elizabethan period, English literature developed with a great speed and made a magnificent achievement. William Shakespeare 莎士比亚●Shakespeare occupies a position unique in world literature. Hamlet is made a hero of the Renaissanceperiod and the representative of humanism. Through him Shakespeare expressed his own humanist ideas, Hamlet is made a hero of the Renaissance period and the representative of humanism. Through him Shakespeare expressed his own humanist ideas,●Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day?●Thou art more lovely and more temperate:●Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,●And summer‘s lease hath all too short a date:●So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,●So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.iambic pentameter 抑扬格五音步●in poetry, a line of verse containing five metrical feet. Bacon‘s essays have a literary style peculiar totheir own. They are noted for their clearness, brevity and force of expression.●The Faerie Queene is a long poem with sweet melody and its lines are very musical. Spenserinvented a new verse form for this poem. The verse form has been called Spenserian Stanza. Each stanza has nine lines, each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentametre form, and the ninth line is an iambic hexametre line, rhyming a b a b b c b c c.Metaphysical poet 玄学诗人John Milton(1608-1674) 弥尔顿Milton ranks second only to Shakespeare among English poets; his writings and his influence are an important part of the history of English literature, culture, and libertarian thought. He is best known for Paradise Lost, which is generally regarded as the greatest epic poem in the English language.Paradise Lost 失乐园Paradise Lost is an epic poem written in blank verse—i.e., unrhymed iambic pentameter verse. It tells the story of Satan's rebellion against God and his expulsion from heaven and the subsequent temptation and expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.●It is a long epic in 12 books, done in blank verse. All is not lost; the unconquerable will●And study of revenge, immortal hate,●And courage never to submit or yield：The best-known section in this book is the V anity Fair episode. On the V anity Fair, honors, titles, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures and lives can be sold or bought, and cheating, roguery, murder and adultery are normal phenomena. Enlightenment 启蒙运动The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout W estern Europe in the 18th century. It was an expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism.●The main literary stream of the 18th century was realism. What the writers described in theirworks were social realities. The main characters were usually common men. Most of the writers concentrated their attention to daily life.Samuel Johnson 约翰逊博士●His letter to Chesterfield is often taken as sounding ―the death-knell of patronage,‖ which it did not. Butit did assert the dignity of the author.Sentimentalism感伤主义Daniel Defoe(1660-1731) 笛福Robinson Crusoe 鲁滨逊飘流记Robinson Crusoe (1719), an immediate success at home and on the Continent, is a unique fictional blending of the traditions of Puritan spiritual autobiography with an insistent scrutiny of the nature of man as social creature and an extraordinary ability to invent a sustaining modern myth.Jonathan Swift(1667-1745) 斯威夫特Gulliver‗s Travels 格列佛游记Numerous obstacles have to be overcome before he achieves this, however, and in the course of the action the various sets of characters pursue each other from one part of the country to another, giving Fielding an opportunity to paint an incomparably vivid picture of England in the mid-18th century.Romanticism浪漫主义Romanticism was marked by intense human sympathy, and by a consequent understanding of the human heart.The sympathy for the poor, and the cry against oppression grew stronger and stronger.Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton were inspiration of the romantic movement. W e can hardly read a poem of the early romanticists without finding a suggestion of the influence of one of these great leaders.Robert Burns 彭斯●national poet of Scotland, who wrote lyrics and songs in the Scottish dialect of English.The Romantic Age began in 1798 and came to an end in 1832. The publication of the L yrical Ballads marked the break with classicism and the beginning of the Romantic Age.In 1832, the last romantic writer Walter Scott died, so in that year, the Romantic Age came to an end.●This age is emphatically an age of poetry. Many young enthusiastic writers turned to poetry as ahappy man to singing. The glory of the age lies in the poetry of W ordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.●W omen as novelists appeared in this age. It was during this period that women assumed, for thefirst time, an important place in English literature. Jane Austen offered us her charming descriptions of everyday life in her enduring works, which raised woman to the high place in literature she has ever since maintained.William Wordsworth华兹华斯●major English Romantic poet and poet laureate of England (1843–50). His Lyrical Ballads (1798),written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement.●I wandered lonely as a cloud●That floats on high o‘er vales and hills,●When all at once I saw a crowd,●A host of golden daffodils:●Beside the lake, beneath the trees,●Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Lake Poet 湖畔派诗人Jane Austen 奥斯丁English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. Austen created the comedy of manners of middle-class life in the England of her time in such novels●Although the birth of the English novel is to be seen in the first half of the 18th century in the workof Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding, it is with Jane Austen that the novel takes on its distinctively modern character in the realistic treatment of unremarkable people in the unremarkable situations of everyday life.In her six novels—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion—Austen created the comedy of manners of middle-class life in the England of her time, revealing the possibilities of ―domestic‖ literature.George Gordon Byron 拜伦Percy Bysshe Shelley 雪莱Ode to the W est Wind 西风颂●Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth●Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!●Be through my lips to unawakened earth●The trumpet of a prophecy!O Wind,●If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?John Keats 济慈●English Romantic lyric poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked byvivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend.维多利亚时代English Literature in the Victorian AgeCritical Realism 批判现实主义English critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and the early fifties. It foun d its expression in the form of novel. The critical realists, most whom were novelists, described with much vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint. The greatest English realist of the time was Charles Dickens.Charles Dickens 狄更斯Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity than had any previous author during his lifetime. Much in his work could appeal to simple and sophisticated, to the poor and to the Queen, and technological developments as well as the qualities of his work enabled his fame to spread worldwide very quickly.The range, compassion, and intelligence of his apprehension of his society and its shortcomings enriched his novels and made him both one of the great forces in 19th-century literature and an influential spokesman of the conscience of his age.In his own time Thackeray was regarded as the only possible rival to Dickens. His pictures of contemporary life were obviously real and were accepted as such by the middle classes.V anity Fair 名利场The main plot centers on the story of two women Amelia Sedley and Rebecca Sharp.The Bronte sisters 勃朗特三姐妹●Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel, maintains that women should have equal rights with men. In thisnove l, Gaskell shows great sympathy for the workers. She highly praises the workers‘ struggle against capitalists●He clasps the crag with crooked hands;●Close to the sun in lonely lands,●Ringed with the azure world, he stands.Robert Browning 布朗宁Browning's dramatic monologues must, as he himself insisted, be recognized as the utterances of fictitious persons drawing their strength from their appropriateness in characterizing the speaker, and not as expressions of Browning's own sentiments.The play is about the training Higgins gives to a Cockney flower girl to enable her to pass as a lady and is also about the repercussions of the experiment's success.●The W aste Land(1922), traced the sickness of modern civilization—a civilization that, on theevidence of the war, preferred death or death-in-life to life—to the spiritual emptiness and rootlessness of modern existence.William Butler Y eats 叶芝T.S.Eliot 艾略特●If one figure had to be named as the pivotal leader among writers in English during the first halfof the twentieth century, it would be Thomas Sterns Eliot. Not only was he a great poet, a greatcritic, a fine playwright, and a far-reaching influence on others, but he became the conscience of his generation, deliberately fitting himself for this role, which he summed up in a celebrated phrase when he defined his belief as ―classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion‘.●What Eliot achieved was an exact expression for the spiritual disease of the twentieth century.After the unquenchable optimist of the Victorian Age had burned itself out in W orld W ar I, a period of intense questioning began. One by one, what had seemed established certainties were questioned; a society that had appeared both stable and progressive for ove r a century broke into fragments. Eliot‘s classic expression of the temper of his age is ‗The W aste Land‖, a poem which, despite its extreme difficulty, brought him immediate fame.The Waste Land 荒原●April is the cruelest month, breeding●Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing●Memory and desire, stirring●Dull roots with spring rain.Seamus Heaney 希尼Bogland 沼泽地●W e have no prairies●To slice a big sun at evening—●Everywhere the eye concedes to●Encroaching horizon.Modernist novelists 现代主义小说家V irginia Woolf 伍尔夫●In her long essay, A Room of One's Own (1929), she described the difficulties encountered bywomen writers in a man's world.William Golding 戈尔丁●Golding's first published novel was Lord of the Flies (1954; film 1963 and 1990), the story of a groupof schoolboys isolated on a coral island who revert to savagery.Its imaginative and brutal depiction of the rapid and inevitable dissolution of social mores aroused widespread interest. Doris Lessing 莱辛●The Golden Notebook (1962), in which a woman writer attempts to come to terms with the life ofher times through her art, is one of the most complex and the most widely read of her novels.美国文学American LiteratureAmerican literature is the youngest of all national literatures. English literature in the United States is therefore only about more than 200 years old. In spite of this fact, the people of the United States have produced some of the world‘s best literature.BradstreetShe wrote her poems while rearing eight children, functioning as a hostess, and performing other domestic duties.▪The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The W ar of the Independence lasted till 1783, and the United States of America was founded.The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment. Rationalism was the dominant spirit. The enlighteners were opposed to the colonial order fighting against the Puritan tradition, brought to life secular literatureBenjamin Franklin 富兰克林Franklin, next to George Washington possibly the most famous 18th-century American,Autobiography 自传Thomas Jefferson 杰弗逊draftsman of the Declaration of Independence of the United StatesThe Declaration of Independence 独立宣言▪W e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.超验主义和浪漫主义Transcendentalism and the Romantic AgeIn this period a new literature was forged by such authors as Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow, Melville and Whitman. It was rich in native character and tradition. Like the European literature of the time, it was romantic in character.Transcendentalism wrote an important chapter for the history of ideas in this period. It was the expression of an intuitional idealism which had taken various forms in American thought as a counter-current to rationalistic and authoritarian orthodoxies from early times.▪The American transcendentalists formed a club called the Transcendental Club. The club members often met at Emerson‘s Concord home. Thoreau is the most noteworthy of these in respect to literary values. Emerson was the leading spirit of the Transcendental club.The first great essay writer in the United States was W ashington Irving. He was the first great American author born after the Revolutionary W ar.W ashington Irving 欧文▪The Sketch-Book includes the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip V an Winkle. Ralph W al do Emerson (1803-1882) 爱默生Ralph W aldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is widely regarded as one of America's most influential authors, philosophers and thinkersThese roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. Henry David Thoreau 梭罗▪at the age of 28 in 1845, wanting to write his first book, he went to W alden pond and built his cabin on land owned by EmersonOver the years, Thoreau's reputation has been strong, although he is often cast into roles -- the hermit in the wilderness, the prophet of passive resistance (so dear to Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King) -- that he would have surely seen as somewhat alienBut Thoreau's style differs markedly from that of Emerson, whose natural expression is through abstraction. Thoreau presents experience through concrete images;Romantic Poets▪Often the romantic writers were transcendentalists and mystics. Sometimes they were lovers of nature. All the great poets of the middle of the nineteenth century in American literature were romanticists.Henry W adsworth Longfellow 朗费罗Americans owe a great debt to Longfellow because he was among the first of American writers to use native themes.W alt Whitman 惠特曼Leaves Of Grass 草叶集a collection of some of the finest American free-verse poetry ever written.Emily Dickinson 狄金森▪She is widely considered one of the greatest poets in American literature. Her unique, gemlike lyrics are distillations of profound feeling and original intellect, and they stand outside the mainstream of American literary tradition.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was Emily Dickinson.▪To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,▪One clover and a bee,▪And revery.▪Revery alone will do,▪If bees are few.James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) 库柏▪They are vivid and fascinating stories about Indian life. They also tell of the poineers in early America. The characters are vigorous, and the description of primitive forest life is captivating.Unfortunately Cooper‘s Indians are ideal Indians. They are very unlike the real American Indian, and have given people a false concept of the aboriginal American.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) 霍桑▪As America's first true psychological novel, The Scarlet Letter would convey these ideals;contrasting puritan morality with passion and individualism.The Scarlet Letter 红字The Scarlet Letter attained an immediate and lasting success because it addressed spiritual and moral issues from a uniquely American standpoint.▪Hawthorne was masterful in the use of symbolism, and the scarlet letter "A" stands as his most potent symbol, around which interpretations of the novel revolve. At one interpretive pole the "A"stands for adultery and sin, and the novel is the story of individual punishment and reconciliation.At another pole it stands for America and allegory, and the story suggests national sin and its human cost. Y et possibly the most convincing reading, taking account of all others, sees the "A" asa symbol of ambiguity, the very fact of multiple interpretations and the difficulty of achievingconsensus.Moby Dick莫比·迪克▪The novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville is an epic tale of the voyage of the whaling ship the Pequod and its captain, Ahab, who relentlessly pursues the great Sperm Whale (the title character) during a journey around the world.Harriet Beecher Stowe: 1811-1896 斯托夫人Stowe learned about slave life by talking to these people and by reading various materials, including slave narratives and antislavery tracts. She also saw Northern racial prejudice. Uncle Tom‘s Cabin 汤姆叔叔的小屋▪The novel ends with a chapter summarizing the lesson learned from these "sketches" of experiences with slavery: that slavery is indeed a very cruel and evil institution that should be abolished.Abraham Lincoln 林肯The Gettysburg Address Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Nov. 19, 1863 ▪Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.▪The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.现实主义小说Realistic Novelists▪writers who were interested in problems of daily life; authors who could picture the pioneers of the Far W est, the new immigrants, and the struggles of the working classes now began to gain the favor of the reading public. This literary interest in the so-called ‗reality‘ of life started a new period in American writing known as the rise of Realism.Mark Twain 1835 – 1910 马克·吐温The Adventures of Tom Sawyer汤姆·索耶历险记Huckleberry Finn哈克贝利·芬历险记▪The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is about a young boy, Huck, in search of freedom and adventure. The shores of the Mississippi River provide the backdrop for the entire book.Kate Chopin 1851-1904 肖班The A wakening 觉醒Henry James (1843-1916) 詹姆斯▪Among James' masterpieces are Daisy Miller(1879), where the young and innocent American, Daisy finds her values in conflict with European sophistication and The Portrait Of A Lady (1881) where again a young American woman becomes a victim of her provincialism during her travels i n Europe.Theodore Dreiser 1871-1945 德莱塞In his fiction, Dreiser deals with social problems and with characters who struggle to survive. His sympathetic treatment of a "morally loose" woman in Sister Carrie was called immoralSister Carrie 嘉莉妹妹Cather's work made her one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the 20th century. Cather's fiction is characterized by a strong sense of place, the subtle presentation of human relationships, an often unconventional narrative structure, and a style of clarity and beauty. Beginning with Alexander's Bridge (1912), Cather devoted herself to writing. Many of her books drew on her memories and knowledge of Nebraska. O Pioneers! (1913), My Antonia (1918), and A Lost Lady (1923) offer fascinating explorations of the experience of pioneers of the PlainsMy Antonia 我的安东尼娅The twentieth century witnessed a renaissance in American literature. The volume of American literary activity, the large number of new authors, the high level of their powers, the originality, daring, and general success of many new forms of expression, and the absorbed response of a reading public larger and more critical than ever before, produced a new and brilliant national literature.Robert Frost(1874-1963)弗罗斯特one of the finest of rural New England's 20th century pastoral poets.▪The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.Ezra Pound (1885-1972) 庞德▪Ezra Pound founded the Imagist movement in poetry, which encouraged experimenting with different verse forms, and opposed representational art in favor of abstract forms.The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Langston Hughes(1902-1967) 休斯The Lost Generation 迷惘的一代▪Name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First W orld W ar, who rebelled against former ideals and values, but could repalce them only by despair or a cynical hedonism.Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) 海明威William Faulkner 1897-1962 福克纳In an attempt to create a saga of his own, Faulkner has invented a host of characters typical of the historical growth and subsequent decadence of the South. The human drama in Faulkner's novels is then built on the model of the actual, historical drama extending over almost a century and a half Each story and each novel contributes to the construction of a whole, which is the imaginary Y oknapatawpha County and its inhabitants.John Steinbeck(1902-1968) 斯坦贝克He is best remembered for THE GRAPES OF WRA TH (1939), a novel widely considered to be a 20th-century classic.The Grapes of Wrath 愤怒的葡萄Eugene O‘Neill(1888-1953) 奥尼尔one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity.Arthur Miller 1915－2005 阿瑟·米勒Miller's plays are, above all, concerned with morality as they reflect the individual's response to the manifold pressures exerted by the forces of family and society.Joseph Heller (1923-1999) 海勒was a popular and respected writer whose first and best-known novel, Catch-22(1961), is considered a classic of the post-W orld W ar II era.▪Catch-22 is most often interpreted as an antiwar protest novel that foreshadowed the widespread resistance to the Vietnam W ar that erupted in the late 1960s.Toni Morrison 莫里森The Bluest Eye最蓝的眼睛first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola BreedloveAlice W alker 沃克The Color Purple紫色published in 1982, tells the story of Celie, a Black woman in the South. Celie writes letters to God in which she tells about her life--her roles as daughter, wife, sister, and mother.Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell 1900-1949 米切尔GONE WITH THE WIND 飘▪The novel had similar success throughout the United States and around the world. It won for Margaret Mitchell a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. It has sold more copies worldwide than any other book except the Bible.。

英美文学期末复习短文部分短文（生平、代表作、地位、风格几方面评价）1、Charles John Huffam Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯(Victorian Novelists)(1812-1870)1)、The Representative works 代表作Sketches by Boz (1836)The Posthumous Papers of Pickwick Club (1836-1837)Oliver Twist (1837-1838)The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841)Dombey and son(1848)Bleak House(1853)2)、Dickens’Artistic Technique 艺术手法1. Dickens has a tendency to depict the grotesque (very odd or unusual, fantastically ugly or absurd) characters or events.2. Dickens loves to instill life into inanimate things and to compare animate beings to inanimate things.3. Dickens is noted for his description of pathetic scenes that aim to arouse people’s sympathy.The most popular and influential English novelist of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens remains as popular today as he ever was, and was responsible for some of the greatest literature in the English language, and for creating some of its most iconic characters.Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialisation, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The practice lent his stories aparticular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next instalment. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.Dickens became a well-known personality, his novels proved immensely popular during his lifetime. His first full novel, The Pickwick Papers (1837), brought him immediate fame, and this success continued throughout his career.Dickens continues to be one of the best known and most read of English authors, and at least 180 motion pictures and TV adaptations based on Dickens's works help confirm his success. Many of his works were adapted for the stage during his own lifetime and as early as 1913 a silent film of The Pickwick Papers was made. His characters were often so memorable that they took on a life of their own outside his books. Gamp became a slang expression for an umbrella from the character Mrs. Gamp and Pickwickian, Pecksniffian, and Gradgrind all entered dictionaries due to Dickens's original portraits of such characters who were quixotic, hypocritical, or emotionlessly logical. Sam Weller, the carefree and irreverent valet of The Pickwick Papers, was an early superstar, perhaps better known than his author at first.It is likely that A Christmas Carol stands as his best-known story, with new adaptations almost every year. It is also the most-filmed of Dickens's stories, with many versions dating from the early years of cinema. The term Scrooge became a synonym for miser, with 'Bah! Humbug!' dismissive of the festive spirit. A Tale of Two Cities is Dickens best selling novel. Since its inaugural publication in 1859, the novel has sold over 200 million copies, and is among the most famous works of fiction.Dickens highlighted the life of the forgotten poor and disadvantaged and condemned the public officials and institutions that not only allowed abuses to exist, but flourished as a result. His most strident indictment of this condition is in Hard Times (1854). His writings inspired others, in particular journalists and political figures, to address such problems of class oppression; the prison scenes in The Pickwick Papers are claimed to have been influential in having the Fleet Prison shut down.Such was his influence, that Victorian society (1837 - 1901) is often universally termed "Dickensian‖.2、George Bernard Shaw萧伯纳（1856—1950）代表作：Widowers’HousesMrs. Warren’s ProfessionCanadidaArms and ManCaesar and CleopatraThe Devil’s DiscipleMajor Barbara (1905)Pygmalion (1912)Heartbreak House (1917)The Apple Cart (1930)Too True to Be Good (1932)生平：(是英国20世纪杰出的剧作家。

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I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each) 1. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A. Beowulf B. The Canterbury TalesC. Don JuanD. Paradise Lost 2. John Dryden called ______ the father of English poetry. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund Spencer C. John Milton D. John Donne 3. The Merchant of V enice is a ________. A. tragedy B. comedy C. history play D. tragicomedy 4. Hamlet faces the dilemma between ______. A. action and mind B. dream and reality C. money and power D. hate and love 5. John Milton ’s masterpiece is his ______. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise RegainedC. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica 6. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly ______. A. the frontier life B. The sea adventures C. the Puritan community D. New England landscape 7. The novel ________ is not written by Henry James. A. The Ambassadors B. The Wings of the DoveC. The Bostonians D. The Mysterious Stranger8. In the 1920s decade, O ’Neill established an international reputation with such plays as ______. A. The Emperor JonesB. Anna ChristieC. The Hairy ApeD. all of the above 9. Fitzgerald ’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in ______ society. A. the middle-class B. the upper-class C. the lower-middle-class D. the working-class 10. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques techniques Faulkner Faulkner Faulkner used used used to to to construct construct construct his his his stories stories stories include include include ______, ______, ______, symbolism symbolism symbolism and and and mythological mythological and biblical allusions. A. impressionism B. expressionism C. multiple points of view D. first person point of view 11. The following are Shakespeare ’s greatest tragedies except __________. A. HamletB. OthelloC. Twelfth NightD. King Lear12. __________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed killed”” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time. A. The AmericanB. The Europeans C. Daisy Miller D. The Portrait of A lady13. John Donne is the leading figure of ________. A. Lake Poets B. Graveyard School C. Satanic Poets D. Metaphysical School 14. In Jane Austen ’s novels, life and human nature are exposed __________________. A. at moments of crisis B. during the battles C. in the most trivial incidents of everyday D. through the traveling 15. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ________. A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. John Steinbeck D. Ernest Hemingway II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase. (30 points, 2 points each)16. Edmund Spenser ’s masterpiece is _________, a great poem of its age. 17. Marlowe ’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected _________ and made it the principle medium of English drama. 18. As a lexicographer, Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman: _________, a gigantic task which Johnson undertook single-handedly and finished in over seven years. 19. Pope ’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in _________.  is a didactic poem written in _________. 20. _________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel ” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. 21. Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as _____________, a unique variation of American literary realism. 22. Pound was the leader of a new movement in Poetry which he called “__________________”” movement. 23. Dreiser broke away form the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very _________ way 24. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human _________, especially as an explanation of sexual desire. 25. Two major figures of black fiction in America are ________ and Ralph Ellison. 26. 26. Apart Apart Apart from from from Darwinism, Darwinism, Darwinism, the the the two two two thinkers thinkers thinkers whose whose whose ideas ideas ideas had had had the the the greatest greatest greatest impact impact impact on on on the the Modernism period were the German ________ and the Austrian Sigmund Freud. 27. With the Norman Conquest starts the ________ Period in English Literature. 28. Emily Bronte ’s masterpiece is ___________ 29. Ulysses gives an account of man ’s life during one day in ________30. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working class background, they demonstrated a particular disillusion disillusion over over over the the the depressing depressing depressing situation situation situation in in in Britain Britain Britain and and and launched launched launched a a a bitter bitter bitter protest protest protest against against against the the outmoded social and political values in their society. They were known as “______________________________””. III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. (18 points, 6 points each)31． “Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow ’st; Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”32. 32. His His His father father father picked picked picked the the the baby baby baby up up up and and and slapped slapped slapped it it it to to to make make make it it it breathe breathe breathe and and and handed handed handed it it it to to to the the the old old woman. “See, it’s a boy, Nick,” he said. “How do you like being an internee?” Nick said, “All right.” He was looking away so as not to see what his father was doing. 33. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;”IV IV. . Give brief answers to the following questions. (22 points, 11 points each)34. Why do we say Hawthorne is a master of symbolism? Give at least two examples of symbols from The Scarlet Letter . . 35. Why is Thomas Hardy often regarded as a transitional writer? 期末复习题答案I ．1 A 2 A 3 B 4 A 5 A 6.D 7.D 8. D 9. B 10. C 11 C 12 C 13 D 14 C 15 C II ．16. The Faerie Queene 17. the blank verse 18. A Dictionary of the English Language 19. 19. heroic heroic heroic couplets couplets 20. 20. Henry Henry Henry Fielding Fielding 21. 21. local local local colorism colorism 22. 22. Imagist Imagist 23. 23. realistic realistic 24. 24. bestiality bestiality 25. 25. Richard Richard Richard Wright Wright 26. 26. Karl Karl Karl Marx Marx 27. 27. Medieval Medieval 28. 28. Wuthering Wuthering Heights 29. Dublin 30. The Angry Young Man III ．31. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18. A nice summer ’s day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last forever. 32. This is from “Indian Camp,” one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of InOur Time by Ernest Hemingway. Nick watches his father deliver an Indian woman of a baby by Caesarian section. This incident brings brings the the the boy boy boy into into into contact contact contact with with with something something something that that that is is is perplexing perplexing perplexing and and and unpleasant, unpleasant, unpleasant, and and and is is is actually actually Nick Nick’’s initiation into the pain and violence of birth and death. 33．Robert Lee Frost, “The Road not Taken ”. The speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon two roads that diverged in a wood. IV ．34. 34. Hawthorne Hawthorne Hawthorne is is is a a a master master master of of of symbolism, symbolism, symbolism, which which which he he he took took took from from from the the the Puritan Puritan Puritan tradition tradition tradition and and bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form. The symbol can be found everywhere in his writing, and his masterpiece provides the most conclusive proof. By using Pearl as a thematic symbol, Hawthorne emphasizes the consequence the sin of adultery has brought to the community and people living in that community. With the scarlet scarlet Letter Letter Letter A A A as as as the the the biggest biggest biggest symbol symbol symbol of of of all, all, all, Hawthorne Hawthorne Hawthorne proves proves proves himself himself himself to to to be be be one one one of of of the the the best best symbolists. symbolists. As As As a a a key key key to to to the the the whole whole whole novel, novel, novel, the the the letter letter letter A A A takes takes takes on on on different different different layers layers layers of of of symbolic symbolic meanings as the plot develops, but people come up with different interpretations and they do not know which one is definite. The scarlet letter A is ambiguous. And the ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of Hawthorne ’s art. 35. Hardy is regarded as a transitional writer not only because he lived at the turn of the century, but more importantly because there is the influence on him from both. He accepted the ideas of Darwin, and was influenced by Spencer, both of which were great thinkers of his time. But in his Wessex novels, there is an apparent nostalgic touch of the primitive rural life, which was gradually disappearing as England marched into an industrial country. So, on the one hand, there is bitter criticism of his towards the social reality in the Victorian age, on the other hand, the belief that man ’s fate is predeterminedly tragic colours mysteriously his characters characters who who who are are are always always always impotent impotent impotent before before before the the the half-blind half-blind half-blind and and and supernatural supernatural supernatural force. force. force. The The The conflicts conflicts between old and new, between the rural value and the utilitarian commercialism, between social moral and human passion are prints of longings for some better past while living in modern times. 。

小说（长篇小说，短篇小说，话剧，诗歌）小说（长篇小说，短篇小说，话剧，诗歌）非小说（科学性，推论性）非小说（科学性，推论性）西方文学的两个来源（希腊神话，基督教文学）西方文学的两个来源（希腊神话，基督教文学）英国文学发展英国文学发展1古英语时期：古英语时期：史诗，压头韵，beowulf（有记载的最早的英国文学作品）文学作品分类（pagan，chris on）2中世纪：中世纪：Geoffrey Chaucer（乔叟）：诗歌之父，代表作（the Canterbury tales 英国文学史上第一部现实主义典范，英国文学史开端）英国文学史上第一部现实主义典范，英国文学史开端）3文艺复兴时期文艺复兴时期Drama+canto文艺复兴在伊丽莎白时期达到高潮，人文主义（humanism）Francis bacon：散文之父：引入十四行诗的第一人（托马斯）Thomas wyatt：引入十四行诗的第一人：引入十四行诗的第一人Spenser：诗人中的诗人，《the fairy queen》（马洛）Marlowe：blank verse Shakespeare：四大悲剧（哈姆雷特，奥赛罗，李尔王，麦克白）37plays 4资产阶级革命与王朝复辟资产阶级革命与王朝复辟Prose（散文），believed in simplicity of life，disapproved of the sonnets and the love poetry John Milton：a great poet，玄学派诗人，代表作（为英国人辩护，失乐园，复乐园）乐园，复乐园）John donne：玄学派诗人的代表人物，代表作（death be not proud）John bunyan：a great prose writer，代表作（pilgrim progress）5新古典主义与启蒙运动新古典主义与启蒙运动被称为冷冰冰的时代被称为冷冰冰的时代Pope（蒲柏）：18世纪英国最伟大的诗人，新古典主义代表Defoe：现实主义小说家，代表作（鲁滨逊漂流），代表作（鲁滨逊漂流）Henry fielding：现代小说之父，代表作（弃婴汤姆琼斯的故事），代表作（弃婴汤姆琼斯的故事）Swi ：格列佛游记-yahoo的出处的出处Burns：national poet of Scotland，《a red red rose》6浪漫主义时期浪漫主义时期Black和burns浪漫主义先驱浪漫主义先驱wordsworth，coleridge，southey湖畔派诗人，消极浪漫主义代表，消极浪漫主义代表 Shelley，byron，keats-积极浪漫主义积极浪漫主义浪漫主义开始的标志：wordsworth和coleridge的《lyrical ballads》抒情歌谣（英国浪漫主义文学的奠基之作）情歌谣（英国浪漫主义文学的奠基之作）Wordsworth：桂冠派诗人，湖畔派中成就最高的，代表作（抒情歌谣，彩虹）彩虹）Shelley：英国空想社会主义色彩的浪漫主义诗人，代表作（西风颂，，代表作（西风颂爱的哲学）爱的哲学）Byron：代表作（唐璜，她走在美丽的光彩里）：代表作（唐璜，她走在美丽的光彩里）Keats：代表作（夜莺颂（美学原则））7现实主义与自然主义现实主义与自然主义进入维多利亚时期，小说为主Dickens：《oliver twist》，双城记（描述法国大革命），双城记（描述法国大革命）Thackeray：《vanity fair》名利场》名利场Bronte sisters Charlo e bronte：《jane egre》Emily bronte：《wuthering heights》呼啸山庄》呼啸山庄Anne bronte：poem Jane austen：中产阶级小说发起人，风俗小说，《pride and prejudice》美国文学发展美国文学发展1殖民地和清教徒的文学殖民地和清教徒的文学American Puritanism：idealist-prac cal，被称为（prac cal idealist）早期美国文学的特点：symbolism，simplicity，idealism Anne bradstreet：first female poet《sprung up in america》Franklin：被称为第一美国人：被称为第一美国人：《common sense 》2浪漫主义时期浪漫主义时期开端：《the sketches book 》washington irving 结束：《leaves of grass 》walt witman 浪漫主义高峰-超验主义超验主义 超验主义代表人物：fuller ，thoreau （瓦尔登湖），emerson ：美国第一位被世人认识的小说家，“”“father of short story ”《rip van winkle 》《the legend of the sleep hollow 》：首创了诗歌的自由体，《leaves leaves of of of grass grass 》“”Hawthorne ：“原罪论”《the scarlet le er 》：美国文学史上最重要的女诗人3美国现实主义美国现实主义Local color fic on （） 4自然主义文学自然主义文学比现实主义更加激进悲观比现实主义更加激进悲观Dreicer ：《sister carrie 》《an American teagedy 》5.imagism 与modernism （庞德）：《cathay 》-英译中文诗《in a sta on of the metro 》 Modernism Fitzgerald：《the great gatsby》Hemingway：新闻体小说的创始人，“文坛硬汉”《the sun alse rises》《老人与海》《老人与海》Frost：四次普利茨奖《a road not taken》Faulkner：南方文艺复兴代表作家，《a rose for emily》。

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Term definition1.A ballad(歌谣) is a story told in song, usually in 4-linestanzas（诗的一节）, with the second and fourth lines rhymed.When it was chanted（吟唱） by ballad-singers, the audience joined a refrain（重复） which usually followed each stanza.2.Pentameter（五步格诗）isa common pattern of beats in Englishpoetry in which each line consists of 5feet.3.Epic（史诗） is a longand exalted（高尚的）narrativepoem,usually on a serious subject centered on a heroic figure.4.Romance is aliterary genre（流派）in verse or in prose popular inthemiddle ages. It deals with legendary , supernatural oranonymous（无个性特征的）subjects and characters. Theromance of the middle ages was a form of chivalric（骑士的）and romantic literature.5.Chivalry（骑士精神）is the code of manners and moralsof aknight.6.Blank verse is a succession of unrhymed iambic（短长格的）pentameters primarily an English form and has been used in the loftiest（崇高的） epic and dramatic versefromShakespeare and Milton to the present.7.Sonnet is a poem of 14 lines,usually in iambic pentameter,restricted to a definite rhyme scheme. There aretwoprominent types: the Elizabethan, or Shakespearean sonnet.8.Stanza is a groupof lines whose pattern is repeated throughoutthe poem.9.Meter isthe result of stresses recurring（循环的）at fixed intends.10.Alliteration（押头韵）is a poetical form, in which certainaccented（带口音的） words in a line begin with the same consonant（和谐的） sounds.11.Heroic couplets are two rhyme iambic pentameter lines whichwas made popular by pop in the18c. This form is oftenused in epics and heroic dramas. Alexander emptied these heroic dramas withgreat effort.12.Spenserian Stanza is a special verse form that consists of eightiambic pentameter linesfollowed by a ninth line of six iambic feet, with the rhyme scheme ababbcbcc.13.Renaissance（文艺复兴）refers to the period between the14th and mid-17th centuries. It, in essence, is a historical period inwhich the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid ofthose feudalist ideas in medieval （中世纪的）Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressedtheinterests of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the purity of the earlychurch from the corruption of the Roman Catholicchurch.14.The metaphysical（玄学派诗歌的） poetry is a school of poetrythatappeared at about the beginning of 17th century, represented by JohnDonne. The works of the metaphysical poetry arecharacterized, generallyspeaking, by mysticism（神秘主义）in content and fantasticality in form.15.EnlightenmentMovement isa progressive intellectualmovement, a furtherance（促进） of theRenaissance, with its purpose to enlighten the whole world with the light ofmodern philosophical and artistic ideas. The enlightenerscelebrated reason,equality, and science, with AlexanderPope, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift,Daniel Defoe, and Henry Fielding as the famous representatives.16.Classicism isa literary tendency of a revival of interestin the old classical works.According to the classicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled afterthe classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers (Homer,Virgil,Horace, Ovid, etc.). They believed that the artistic ideas should be order,logic, restrained emotion, andaccuracy, and that literature should be judgedin terms of its service to humanity.17.Sentimentalism is one of the important trends in Englishliterature of themiddle and later decades of the 18th century, represented by Thomas Gray. Itjustly criticized the cruelty of the capitalist relations and the gross（恶劣的）social injustices brought about by the bourgeois revolutions. Itembracesa pessimistic（悲观主义的）outlook and blames reason and the Industrial Revolution, marked by asincere sympathy forthe poverty-stricken, expropriated（被征地的）peasants.Short Answer Questions1.features of Beowulf： The most striking feature in itspoeticalform is the use of alliteration. Other feature of Beowulf are the use ofmetaphors(隐喻) and of understatements （保守的陈述）.P52.artisticfeatures of Piers the Plowman：Itis written in theform of a dream vision, and the author tells his story underthe guise of having dreamed. The poem is also anallegory(预言)which uses symbolism to relate truth but isa realistic picture of medieval(中世纪的)England. P153.Christopher Marlowe’sliterary achievement s: He reformedthe English drama and perfected the verse ofdramatic works.Marlowe’s dramatic achievements lies chiefly in hisepical(叙述诗), and attimes lyrical（抒情诗），verse. His work paved the way for the play of the greatestEnglish dramatist—Shakespeare. P554.the popularforms of drama before the reign ofElizabeth :Miracle plays, morality plays,interludes(幕间节目)andclassical plays—such were forms of dramaprevailing until the reign ofElizabeth. P475.the fourperiods of Shakespeare’s dramatic career : Thefirst period is the period ofhis apprenticeship(学徒)in play-writing, as a newcomer to London, madeexperiments ina number of dramatic forms. The second period is hismatureperiod, mainly a period of “great comedies” and mature historical plays. Thethird period is mainly the period of “great tragedies” and “dark comedies”. P60-66 6.the a greatcomedies and 4 great tragedies of Shakespeare :AMidsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It andTwelfth Night have been called Shakespeare’s “great co medies”. Four greattragedies of Shakespeare areOthello,King Lear, Macbeth, and Hamlet. P67 P807.features of Shakespeare’sdrama : Shakespeare’s dramas arereflect the realistic world. Shakespeare’s dramaticcreation often used themethod adaptation. Shake speare’s long experience with the stage and hisintimate knowledge of dramatic art thus acquired make him a master handforplaywriting. P91-938.the image ofSatan: Satan is a real hero in ParadiseLost whowas obeyed and admired by those who follow him down to hell, he isthe spirit questioning the authority of God. P1089.a summery ofJohn Milton: Milton was political in both hislife and his art, he wrote thegreatest epic in English literature. Milton is a master of the blank verse(无韵诗),he is agreat stylist(文体学家)and has always been admired for his sublimity(崇高) of thought andmajesty(威严)ofexpression. P11110.Henry Fielding’s views on realistic novel: Theexactobservation and study of real life was the basis of Fielding’s work, the centreof Fielding’s workingphilosophy was Man, the profound knowledge of humannature displayed in his novels. P16911.the character of Robinson Crusoe : Robinson Crusoe, a dogand two cats, somecannibals(食人族), a young Negro Friday, the captain of anEnglish ship. 151-15212.rules of classical creation : Rimed couplet(对句) insteadof blank verse, the three unities oftime, palce, and action, regularity in construction, and the presentation oftypes rather than individuals—these weresome of standards the classicists required of drama. Poetry, following theancient divisions, should be lyric, epic, didactic, satiric, ordramatic, andeach class should be guided by some peculiar principles. Prose should beprecise, direct and flexible.P47 Work Analysis1.Please mak e an analysis of “Hamlet” andthe character ofHamlet: Hamlet is considered the summit of Shakespeare’sart.The story comes from an old Danish legend. Before Shakespeare, Thomas Kydhad written a play on the same subject. It was a tragedy of “blood andthunder.” But under Shakespeare’s pen, the medieval story assumed a newmeaning. Hamlet is neither a frail and weak-minded youth nor athought-sickbook-worm. In the play nobody thinks of him that way. Though he is deprived ofhis right to the throne, he is still loved and respected by everyone. Hamlet isa humanist,a man who is free from medieval prejudices andsuperstitions.Starting from his humanist love of man, he turns to those around him with thesame eagerness. Hisintellectual genius is outstanding. P84-872.the theme and characters of Shakespeare’s A Merchant of Venice : This is a great irony and comedy. The script is the subject of praise love, friendship and love, at the same time also reflects the business of early capitalism and thebourgeoisie sharks conflict between the performance of the authors of bourgeois society, money. Legal and religious issues such as the humanistic ideas. It plays an important literary achievement, this Shylock is the shape of the mercenary, ruthless typical image of sharks. Bassanio is a man loved Portia deeply, he could do anything for her. Portia is beautiful, cultured, courteous and capable of rising to an emergency. Antonio cherished his friendship and bear death for Bassanio , take everything from shylock without a single complain. Shylock is an avaricious money-lender, he is a Jew of pride and deep religious instincts.P683.the story,theme, and characters of John Milton’s ParadiseLost: Story The fallen angels led by freedom-loving Satanwho rose against God himself were finally defeated, Satan goes to Eden to persuade Eve to breakGod’s command, and Eve and Adam were both deprived of immortality and exiledformParadise and doomed to anearthly life full of hardship and sufferings. The main idea of the poem is arevolt against God’s authority. In Paradise lost God is no better than a selfish despot, his long speeches arenever pleasing, his Archangel is a bore,his angels are silly. Satan is by far the most striking character in the poem, Satanis a real heroin Paradise Lost whowas obeyed and admired by those who follow him down to hell, he is the spiritquestioning the authority of God. Adam and Eve craving for knowledge, adds aparticular significant characters. This longing forknowledge opens beforemankind a wide road to an intelligent and active life.P107-1084.structure andan analysis of Gulliver’s Travels: Inthe firstpart Gulliver describes hisshipwreck in Lilliput where the tallest people were six inches high, the secondpart is the voyage to Brobdingnag is described, the third part is a satire onphilosophers and projectors, the last partGulliver’s satire is of thebitterest. Swift hated all kinds of oppression—political, economical and religious,hecherished a great love for the peoplethat he wrote in the second part of Gulliv er’stravels.Swift’s Gulliver’s travels gives an unparalleled(前所未有的)satiricaldepiction(描写) of the vices of hisage. In many of his other famous works he addresses himself to thecommonpeople. And this is strikingly shown in hispamphlets(小册子) on Ireland.P141-1425.thecharacterization of Tom Jones : TomJones, the foundling , is a handsome young man. He is frank and open, kind,disinterested,and ,tough quick-tempered, devoid of malice. Blifil issober,discreet(谨慎的) and pious（虔诚的）beyond his age, extremely “careful ofhis money”, and skilled in bringing himself into favor with his patron by arespectful appearance and ready flattery. Sophia Western, the heroine of the book,is the “Somersetshire(索美塞夏特)angel.” Sheis her father’s “little darling,” and she returns al l his affection withangelic tenderness. Squire Western, Sophia’s father, is a boorish old huntingsquire. All his thoughts and interests are concentrated “ether in the field,the stable, or the dog-kennel. ” Partridge is Tom’s companion in his adventureson t he road, and an English Sancho Panza. He is a Jack-of-all-trades—schoolmaster, clerk, barber, surgeon and tailor.P165-168。

英美文学考研罗经国《新编英国文学选读》考研复习笔记一、盎格鲁-撒克逊时期(450～1066)1.1 复习笔记Ⅰ. Historical Background（历史背景）(1) The earliest settlers of the British Isles were the Celts, who migrated to the British Isles about 600 B.C.不列颠群岛最早的定居者是凯尔特人，他们大约在公元前600年移民到不列颠群岛。

(2) From 55 B.C. to 407 A.D. the British Isles were under the rule of the Roman Empire.从公元前55年到公元407年，不列颠群岛处于罗马帝国的统治之下。

(3) About 450 A.D., waves of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invaded the British Isles. They settled in England, and drove the Celts into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.公元450年左右，盎格鲁人、撒克逊人和朱特人占领了不列颠群岛。

他们在英格兰定居，将凯尔特人驱逐到威尔士、苏格兰和爱尔兰。

(4) It was around 500 A.D., in the struggle against Cerdic, the founder of the kingdom of Wessex, that the Celtic King Arthur, a legendary figure, is said to have acquired his fame.大约在公元500年，在与威塞克斯王国创始人塞迪奇的斗争中，传说中的凯尔特王亚瑟获得了他的名声。

(5) Beginning from the later part of the 8th century, the Danes, or the Vikings, came to invade England, at first, along the eastern coast, but later they threatened to overrun the whole country.在8世纪50年代初期，丹麦人又叫北欧海盗开始入侵英格兰，开始是东海岸，进而威胁到整个国家的统治。

一.What is the theme of Beowulf?这首诗主题介绍了如何原始人工资在聪明和强大的领导之下的自然世界的敌对势力的英勇斗争的生动写照。

这首诗是自然界神话与英雄传说混合在一起的一个例子。

Thematically the poem presents a vivid picture of how the primitive people wage heroic struggles against the hostile forces of the natural world under a wise and mighty leader.The poem is an example of the mingling of nature myths and heroic legends.二.莎士比亚（1）四个悲剧。

（二）四大悲剧的共同之处？3请简要总结每个英雄人性的弱点。

1.莎士比亚的四个最大的悲剧是：哈姆雷特、奥赛罗、李尔王、麦克白。

2.每个描绘了一些高尚的英雄，谁面临着人类生活的不公，陷入了一个困难的局面和他们的命运与整个国家的命运息息相关。

3.每一位英雄有他的弱点的性质；老国王李尔不愿意完全放弃他的权力；麦克白的权欲挑起他的抱负和他会导致无休止的罪行1.Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.2.Each portrays some noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.3. Each hero has his weakness of nature; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth’s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes三.试论莎士比亚的艺术的创作。

英美文学复习资料英美文学I. 本期讲过的所有名家名作II．名词术语:Ode——in ancient literature, is an elaborate lyrical poem composed for a chorus to chant and to dance to; in modern use, it is a rhymed lyric expressing noble feelings, often addressed to a person or celebrating an event.Alliteration——It is a form of initial rhyme, or head rhyme.It is the repetition of the same sound or sounds at the beginning of two or more words that are next to or close to each other.e.g. He came on under the clouds, clearly saw at lastRage-inflamed, wreckage-bent, be ripped openKenning——a figurative language in order to add beauty to ordinary objects. It is a metaphor usually composed of two words, which becomes the formula for a special object.e.g. Helmet bearer—— warriorSwan road——the seaThe world candle—— the sunRepetition &Variatione.g. Grendel / The spoiler / warlike creature /the foe / horrible monsterA host of young soldiers / a company ofKinsmen / a whole warrior-bandCaesura——every line consists of two clearly separated half lines between which is a pause, called caesura.e.g. Grendel stalking; God’s brand was on him.the gold-hall of men, the mead-drinking placenailed with gold plates. That was not the first visitBallad——is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides. The form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce lyrical ballads. In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.Epic——is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. The first epics are known as primary, or original, epics. One such epic is the Old English story Beowulf. Epics that attempt to imitate these like Milton’s Paradise Lost are known as literary, or secondary, epics.The six main characteristics:1. The hero is outstanding. He might be important, and historically or legendarily significant.2. The setting is large. It covers many nations, or the known world.3. The action is made of deeds of great valor or requiringsuperhuman courage.4. Supernatural forces—gods, angels, demons—insert themselves in the action.5. It is written in a very special style.6. The poet tries to remain objective.Sonnet (Italian Sonnet, Shakespearean Sonnet, Spenserian Sonnet, Miltonic Sonnet)①Italian sonnetcreated by Giacomo da Lentini, head of the Sicilian School.Petrarch (1304-1374) most famous early sonneteerIt falls into two main parts:an octave rhyming “abbaabba” (set up a problem ) + volta followed by a sestet rhyming “cdecde” or some variant, such as “cdccdc” (answer)②English / Shakespearean sonnetThe greatest practitioner: William Shakespearethree quatrains followed by a coupletoften presents a repetition-with-variation of a statement in each of the three quatrains ?The final couplet in the English sonnet usually imposes an epigrammatic turn at the end.——a fourteen-line poem of iambic pentameters. This form is made up of 3 quatrains and a couplet, rhyming：ababcdcdefefgg③Spenserian sonnetA variant on the English form is the Spenserian sonnet, named after Edmund Spenserthree quatrains connected by the interlocking rhyme scheme and followed by a couplet ?the rhyme scheme is abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee——has the rhyme scheme ababbcbccdcdee and no breakbetween the octave (an eight line stanza) and the sestet( a six line stanza). It is named after the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser.④Miltonic SonnetConceit——in literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. By juxtaposing, usurping and manipulating images and ideas in surprising ways, a conceit invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison. Extended conceits in English are part of the poetic idiom of Mannerism, during the later sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Simile—is a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two unlike elements ha ving at least one quality or characteristic in common.Simile is almost always introduced bythe following words:like,as,as…as,as it were,as if,as though,be something of,similar to, etc.Metaphor—is a figure of speech where comparison is implied.It is also a comparison between two unlike elements with a similar quality.But unlike a simile,this comparison is implied,n ot expressed with the word"as"or"like".Symbol——In literary usage, a symbol is a specially evocative kind of image: that is, a word or phrase referring to a concrete object, scene, or action which also has some further significance associated with it.Types of SymbolsI. Universal or cultural symbols/traditional symbolsare those whose associations are the common property of asociety or culture and are so widely recognized and accepted that they can be said to be almost universal.e.g. water—lifeSerpent—the DevilLamb—Jesus ChristII. Contextual, Authorial, or Private symbolsare those whose associations are neither immediate nor traditional; instead, they derive their meaning, largely if not exclusively, from the context of the work in which they are used.e.g. the albatross in Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”Synecdoche——a figure of speech in which a part is substituted for a whole or a whole for a part e.g.My baby woke for a bottle.[提喻用部分代替全体,或用全体代替部分,或特殊代替一般.]Oxymoron——is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory.Oxymora appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent errors (such as "ground pilot") and literary oxymorons crafted to reveal a paradox. The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective–noun combination of two words. For example, the following line from Tennyson's Idylls of the King contains two oxymora: And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.e.g. painful pleasure a thunderous silencePun——The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intendedhumorous or rhetorical effect. Puns are used to create humor and sometimes require a large vocabulary to understand. Puns have long been used by comedy writers, such as William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and George Carlin.Puns can be classified in various ways:①The homophonic pun, a common type, uses word pairs which sound alike (homophones) but are not synonymous.②A homographic pun exploits words which are spelled the same (homographs) but possess different meanings and sounds.③Homonymic puns, another common type, arise from the exploitation of words which are both homographs and homophones.④A compound pun is a statement that contains two or more puns.⑤A recursive pun is one in which the second aspect of a pun relies on the understanding of an element in the first.⑥Visual puns are used in many logos, emblems, insignia, and other graphic symbols, in which one or more of the pun aspects are replaced by a picture.Personification——a figure of speech which represents abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities, including physical, emotional, and spiritual; the application of human attributes or abilities to nonhuman entities.ExaggerationDramatic monologue—— a kind of poem in which the speaker is imagined to be addressing a silent audienceIrony——in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device,literarytechnique, or event characterized by an incongruity, or contrast, between what the expectations of a situation are and what is really the case.——A subtly humorous perception of inconsistency, in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined by its context so as to give it a very different significance.Allusion——is a figure of speech, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance from an external context. It is left to the reader or hearer to make the connection; where the connection is detailed in depth by the author, it is preferable to call it "a reference". Literary allusion is closely related to parody and pastiche, which are also "text-linking" literary devices. A type of literature has grown round explorations of the allusions in such works as Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock or T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. James JoyceRomanticism——Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe. 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.Modernism——Modernism is a rather vague term which is used to apply to the works of a group of poets, novelists, painters, and musicians between 1910 and the early years after the World War II. The term includes various trends or schools, such as imagism, expressionism, dadaism, stream of consciousness, and existentialism. It means a departure from theconventional criteria or established values of the Victorian age.The basic themes of modernism:1. Alienation and loneliness are the basic themes of modernism. In the eyes of modernist writers, the modern world is a chaotic one and is incomprehensible.2. Although modern society is materially rich, it is spiritually barren. It is a land of spiritual and emotional sterility.3. Human beings are helpless before an incomprehensible world and no longer able to do things their forefathers once did.The characteristics of modernism：1. Complexity and obscurity: (juxtaposition, no limitation of space)2. The use of symbols: (symbol: a means to express their inexpressible selves)3. Allusion: (Allusion is an indirect reference to another work of literature, art, history, or religion.)4. Irony: (an expression of one’s meaning by using words that mean the direct opposite of what one really intends to convey.)Rhyme scheme——the pattern in which the rhymed line-endings are arranged in a poem or stanza. Head rhyme: As busy as a bee End rhymeCrossed rhymeWill ye bridle the deep sea with reins, will ye chasten the high sea with rods?Will ye take her to chain her with chains, who is older than all ye Gods?Internal rhyme:“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" Iambic meter/ trochaicmeter/anapestic meterIamb is a metrical unit (foot) of verseabout [?'ba?t] =?+'ba?t[?'ba?t]an unstressed syllable(?) +a stressed syllable(?)=one iambic foot/meterAbout about about about about=iambic pentameter抑扬格(iambic):如果一个音步中有两个音节，前者为轻，后者为重，则这种音步叫抑扬格音步，其专业术语是（iamb, iambic.）。