英语文学导论 ppt课件

v 文学是指以语言文字为工具形象化地反映客观现实的艺 术，包括诗歌、散文、小说、剧本、寓言、童话等，是 文化的重要表现形式，以不同的形式（称作体裁）表现 内心情感和再现一定时期和一定地域的社会生活。
Fiction 小说
❖ Elements of Fiction
❖ Theme ❖ Plot & structure ❖ Character ❖ Point of view ❖ Setting ❖ Tone ❖ Language & style ❖ Irony ❖ Symbol
revolution.
Recommended Novels for Reading
a romantic story a revenge story a tragedy of social inequality
a poor, plain governess struggling for self-dignity and
personal happiness
Recommended Novels for Reading
A Novel Without a Hero
tragic fate of a “pure” young peasant woman at the time of capitalist invasion
into the country in the 19th-century England
Training one’s thinking
Fostering one’s connoisseurship (the ability to appreciate a work of art)
Enjoying oneself
Aims

down the ladder to the lower. 9) Died in 1400 and buried in the poet’s corner of Westminster Abby
the Romans The Canterbury Tales
3 Major Events Turning the Middle Ages into the Modern Time
The Old English Period
History of Invasions ❖ 5th century BC: tribal kingdoms of Celtic people ❖ 55 BC: invaded by the Roman Empire (under control
for over 400 years) ❖ 5th Century: by Germanic people: the Angles and the
Key Points in Chapter 1
The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
• History of Invasion • Anglo-Saxons • Caedmon • Beowulf • King Alfred the Great
Beowulf
• significance • Outline of the Story
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The Reformation first started in Germany by Martin Luther
Collection of 15th century medieval ballads about Robin Hood

英美文学
Course syllabus
▪ Read at least the 15 books on the reading list and write at least 15 book reports
▪ Your book reports should be centered on your original commentary
but they still kept their own language, customs and religion. 2. Anglo-Saxon conquest (about AD 450) 3. Norman conquest (1066)
- the Middle Ages
The Anglo-Saxon conquest
▪ The Historical Background ◆ 3 conquests
1. AD 43-410 Roman conquest. - South Britain was made a Roman
province. - The Celts had to pay tributes or taxes,
pagan ['peiɡən]
- worship Heaven (Father), Earth (Mother) and Summer (son)
- evil monsters: Winter, Frost Giants, Woden and Thor (thunder) ◆AD 597, St. Augustine from Rome as a missionary to Kent (south) ◆Missionaries from Ireland began to preach Christianity in the north ◆Within a century or so the whole island was Christianized.

4) Irving's career as a writer started in journals and newspapers. His success in social life and literature was shadowed by a personal tragedy because his engaged love died at the age of seventeen. So he never married or had children.
2) The first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame, so he was regarded as father of American literature.
II. The reasons on the rise of American Romanticism
❖ Internal causes:
1) American burgeoned into a political, economic and cultural independence. Democracy and political equality became the ideals of the new nation. Radical changes came about in the political life of the country. Parties began to squabble and scramble for power, and new system was entatives of the early
American romanticism