英国文学复习资料汇编
Pre-Renaissance period
Beowulf : the first English national epic
I. The position of the Beowulf:
the first English national epic
II.The story: (to simply narrate it )
Beowulf←→ Grendel and his mother
Beowulf←→ Fire dragon
III. Its artistic features
1. I t’s a 3183-line verse written in true epic style and in Old English;
2. the most evident feature: the use of alliteration; (refer to the history of literature By Liu Bingshan,)
3. to use compound-words to serve as metaphors;
4. the use of understatements: the impression and a color of humor.
△5. the mixing of pagan elements with Christian colouring.
Geoffrey Chaucer
I. life :
1. He was born in a wine merchant family in 1340;
2. His early life as a page and his marriage acquainted him with knowledge about upper class;
3.he was buried in Westminster Abbey, thus founding the “Poets Corner”.
II. His Work: The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue
...
The Prioress
There was also a Nun, a Prioress,
Whose name was gentle and full of guilelessness. “By St. Loy!” was the worst oath she would say. She sang mass well, in a becoming way,
Intoning through her nose the words divine,
And she was known as Madam Eglantine.
She spoke good French, as taught at Stratford-Bow For the Parisian French she did not know.
She was schooled to eat so primly and so well That from her lips no morsel ever fell.
She wet her fingers lightly in the dish
Of sauce, for courtesy was her first wish.
With every bite she did her skillful best
To see that no drop fell upon her breast.
She always wiped her upper lip so clean
That in her cup was never to be seen
A hint of grease when she had drunk her share, She reached out for her meat with comely air. She was a great delight, and always tried
To imitate court ways, and had her pride,
Both amiable and gracious in her dealings.
As for her charity and tender feelings,
She melted at whatever was piteous.
She would weep if she but came upon a mouse Caught in a trap, if it were dead of bleeding. Some little dogs that took pleasure feeding
On roasted meat or milk or good wheat bread
She had, but how she wept to find one dead
Or yelping from a blow that made it smart,
And all was sympathy and loving heart.
Neat was her wimple in its every plait,
Her nose well formed, her eyes as gray as slate.
Her mouth was very small and soft and red.
She had so wide a brow I think her head
Was nearly a span broad, for certainly
She was not undergrown, as all could see.
She wore her cloak with dignity and charm,
And had her rosary about her arm,
The small beads coral and the larger green,
And from them hung a brooch of golden sheen,
On it a large A and a crown above;
Beneath, “all things are subject unto love.”
I.Questions for discussion:
1.What is the tone of the setting? How did the author achieve such setting of the
tales?
2.Summarize the character of the Prioress in this Prologue.
3.To analyze Chaucer’s ways of characterization in this Prologue and the language
style of the selected part.
II. To illustrate the terms.
Heroic couplet: A two-line section of a poem, which rhymes and has five feet each in iambic meter(also termed as iambic pentameter ), and which has a meaning complete within itself.
Example: The vein s are bathed in li quor of such power
As brings about the engen dering of the flower,
(抑抑扬)
ATT: For the convenience of the interpretation for the foot, some words are detached.
Foot: A group of syllables forming a unit of verse, usually one foot contains at least one stressed word, or contains one stressed word and one or more than one unstressed words.
III. Social significance of The Canterbury Tales (also function as a simple analysis) 1.The Canterbury is not only a collection of stories strung by loose thread.
(1) To affirm men and women’s right to pursue their happiness;
(2) To oppose the dogma of asceticism;
(3) To praise man’s energy, intellect and love of life.
2.This work exposed the evil of time
(1) the degeneration of the noble;
(2) the heartless of judge;
(3) the corruption of church
IV. Chaucer’s achievements in and contribution to English literature
1.He is one of the earliest literary talents who embody humanism.
2.Father of English poetry
(1)the first great poet who wrote in English language;
(2)introduced rhymed five accents in iambic meter to English poetry (heroic
couplet)
3.Founder of English realism
The prologue supplies a miniature of then English society (ways of narrating the stories and different social status of these pilgrims).
4.His excellent works contribute a lot to establish English as the literary language of
the country. (set an example for the poets of later generation )
5.He made London dialect as the standard for the modern English speech.
Renaissance Period
William Shakespeare
I. Life
1. born of trader family in Stratford-on-Avon in 1564, and his family got into financial troubles;
2. Fail to finish formal schooling for the reason of financial difficulties, he left for London.
II. Shakespeare the dramatist
His plays are poetical dramas, most of which are written in blank verse which was created one of the famous university wits, Christopher Marlow.
His career as a dramatist may be divided into three (or four) periods: (to be lectured later)
Hamlet
●The Monologue：
To be: to exist, to live, to passively accept, to suffer;
Not to be: to die, to take action to fight against fate.
That is the question: this shows Hamlet confronted with both body and moral dilemma: whether to suffer passively or to take action to fight.
◆three reasons for his dilemma:
1.He receives Stoic philosophy: Forbearance is the noblest(顺从是最高的美德). Ciceronian philosophy: Duty is most important.
These two views of philosophy are quite contradictory for Hamlet. (to interpret in depth )
2.Religious reason: fear of after-life. (as obviously shown in this monologue: to die, to sleep)
3. Odepus complex (commonly called mother complex): this view was put forward by some critic, which conducted a psychological analysis based on the Freudian philosophy. (to simply narrate the origin of this complex.)
英国文学史及选读 复习要点总结
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英国文学史期末复习重点
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一、The Anglo-Saxon period (449-1066) 1、这个时期的文学作品分类：pagan(异教徒) Christian(基督徒) 2、代表作：The Song of Beowulf 《贝奥武甫》( national epic 民族史诗) 采用了隐喻手法 3、Alliteration 押头韵（写作手法） 例子：of man was the mildest and most beloved, To his kin the kindest, keenest for praise. 二、The Anglo-Norman period (1066-1350) Canto 诗章 1、romance 传奇文学 2、代表作：Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (高文爵士和绿衣骑士) 是一首押头韵的长诗 三、Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) 杰弗里.乔叟时期 1、the father of English poetry 英国诗歌之父 2、heroic couplet 英雄双韵体：a verse unit consisting of two rhymed(押韵) lines in iambic pentameter(五步抑扬格) 3、代表作：the Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷的故事(英国文学史的开端) 大致内容：the pilgrims are people from various parts of England, representatives of various walks of life and social groups. 朝圣者都是来自英国的各地的人,代表着社会的各个不同阶层和社会团体 小说特点：each of the narrators tells his tale in a peculiar manner, thus revealing his own views and character. 这些叙述者以自己特色的方式讲述自己的故事，无形中表明了各自的观点，展示了各自的性格。 小说观点：he believes in the right of man to earthly happiness. He is anxious to see man freed from superstitions(迷信) and a blind belief in fate(盲目地相信命运). 他希望人们能从迷信和对命运的盲从中解脱出来。 4、Popular Ballads 大众民谣：a story hold in 4-line stanzas with second and fourth line rhymed(笔记) Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission(书上). 歌谣是匿名叙事歌曲,一直保存着口头传播的方式
英国文学期末考试复习要点
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6.乔叟Chaucer地位（诗歌之父Father of English Poetry），主要作品The Canteberry Tales，文学贡献（英雄双行体Heroic Couplet，净化purified LONDON 音dialect），葬于西敏寺大教堂Westminster Abbey，为此建立诗人角Poet's Corner；《坎特伯雷故事集》主要人物（32 朝圣者pilgrims），选作P45(时间April，地点Tabard Inn，人物，巴斯妇人的故事Wife of Bath)，抑扬五步格iambic pentameter （轻音unstressed syllable+重音stressed syllable） 7.实行政教分离者（亨利八世Henry VIII）Religious Reformation:The King broke off with the Pope. 8.托马斯摩尔Thomas More的《乌托邦》Utopia，宣扬财产property与困境poverty 分离和建立理想国度ideal state。 9.托马斯怀亚特Thomas Wyatt把十四行诗sonnet引入英国，分离为莎士比亚体Shakespearian Sonnet和斯宾塞体Spencerian Sonnet，十四行诗源于意大利
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①Beowulf: The national heroic epic of the English people. It has over 3,000 lines. It describes the battles between the two monsters and Beowulf, who won the battle finally and dead for the fatal wound. The poem ends with the funeral of the hero. The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use if alliteration. Other features of it are the use of metaphors(暗喻) and of understatements(含蓄). ②Alliteration: In alliterative verse, certain accented(重音) words in a line begin with the same consonant sound(辅音). There are generally 4accents in a line, 3 of which show alliteration, as can be seen from the above quotation. ③Romance: The most prevailing(流行的) kind of literature in feudal England was the Romance. It was a long composition, sometimes in verse(诗篇), sometimes in prose(散文), describing the life and adventures of a noble hero, usually a knight, as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournament(竞赛), or fighting for his lord in battle and the swearing of oaths. ④Epic: An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significantly to a culture or nation. The first epics are known as primacy, or original epics. ⑤Ballad: The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad which is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas(诗节), with the second and fourth lines rhymed. The subjects of ballads are various in kind, as the struggle of young lovers against their feudal-minded families, the conflict between love and wealth, the cruelty of jealousy, the criticism of the civil war, and the matters and class struggle. The paramount(卓越的) important ballad is Robin Hood(《绿林好汉》). ⑥Geoffrey Chaucer杰弗里.乔叟: He was an English author, poet, philosopher and diplomat. He is the founder of English poetry. He obtained a good knowledge of Latin, French and Italian. His best remembered narrative is the Canterbury Tales(《坎特伯雷故事集》), which the Prologue(序言) supplies a miniature(缩影) of the English society of Chaucer’s time. That is why Chaucer has been called “the founder of English realism”. Chaucer affirms men and women’s right to pursue their happiness on earth and opposes(反对) the dogma of asceticism(禁欲主义) preached(鼓吹) by the church. As a forerunner of humanism, he praises man’s energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life. Chaucer’s contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic(抑扬格) meter(the “heroic couplet”) to English poetry, instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. ⑦【William Langland威廉.朗兰: Piers the Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》】
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