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英国文学习题

英国文学习题与练习

Week2

EarlyandMedievalEnglishLiterature

ReferenceQuestions:

1.WhoweretheearliestsettlersofBritton/England?

Whatdoyouknowaboutthem（home,language,belief,lifestyle）?

2.Whatarethe3conquests?

Whateffectstheyhaduponthenation?

3.Ideologicallywhatisthemostsignificantchangeinpeople’sspirituallife?

4.Howwasthenationdevelopedpoliticallyorwhatchangeswerethereintheformofthesocialstructure?

5.Intermsofliterature,whatinfluencehadtheFrenchuponEngland?

6.HowmanylanguageswerespokenduringtheFrenchreign?

HowdoyouunderstandmodernEnglishasalanguage?

7.WhatwastheessenceofChristiandoctrinepreachedatthetime?

Wasthereanyignoblereasonbehindit?

8.WhywastheMiddleAgesknownastheDarkAges?

9.Whatwastheformofliteratureatthetime?

Whatfeaturesdoesithave?

10.Whatarethe3periods/stagesofChaucer’sliterarycareer?

11.InwhatwaydowecallChaucer’sCanterburyTalesthefirstworkofEnglishliterature?

Textstudy:

Chaucer’sCanterburyTales（6-7）

1.Whatisimageofthenun?

2.Isshefavorablyandadmirablyorsatiricallyportrayed?

How?

3.Whatfiguresofspeechareused?

Week3

Renaissance

（1）

Referencequestions:

1.WhatisRenaissance?

Howandwhydiditcomeabout?

2.Whatisthedevelopmentofdrama?

Whatweretheoriginalformsandcontentandpracticeofdrama?

3.WhydiddramaflourishinElizabethanage?

Whoarethemajorplaywrightsofthetime?

4.WhoisMarlowe?

WhatcontributionsdidhemaketoEnglishdrama?

5.WhoisShakespeare?

Whatfamousandgreatplays（history,comedy,tragedy）?

Whatfeatures?

6.WhatdidBenJonsonwriteabout?

Whatrepresentativework?

7.PreparetheexcerptfromHamlet（31-32）.Whatisitmainlyabout?

Whathumanistideacanyoufindinthesoliloquy?

8.Whatwasthemostimportanttranslationofthetime?

Week4

Renaissance

（2）

ReferencequestionsonShakespeareandHamlet:

1.WhyisShakespeareaneternalsubjectofstudy?

Wherelieshisgreatness?

2.WhatarethethemesofHamlet?

3.WhatisthesignificanceofHamletasacharacter?

4.Whatisblankverse?

5.Whatissoliloquy?

TextstudyHamlet’ssoliloquy“Tobeornottobe”（31-32）

1.WhatisthemainideaofHamlet’ssoliloquy?

Summarizeinoneortwosentencesthemainideaofthesoliloquy?

2.Howdoesthesoliloquyreflectthespiritofthetimeortheideaofhumanism?

3.HowdoyouanalyzeHamlet’sargumentintermsofstructure?

Week5

Renaissance（3）

QuestionsforRenaissancepoetryandprose:

1.WhowasthoughttobethegreatestEnglishpoetsinceChaucer?

Whatishisrepresentativework?

Whatarethefeaturesofthispoem?

2.Whatnewforms（rhyme—blankverse,stanza--sonnet）ofpoetrywereintroducedintoEngland?

Bywhom?

3.Whowerethefamoussonneteersofthetime?

4.HowdoyoutellanItalian（Petrarchan）sonnetfromanEnglish（aShakespearean）one?

5.HowmanysonnetsdidShakespearewrite?

Whatarethemajorsubjects?

6.Whowerethetwomajorprosewriters?

WhatisUtopia?

WheredoyouthinkMorepossiblygottheideaorwasitallhisowninvention?

Howdoyouinterpretthetitleofthebook?

7.WhatcontributiondidBaconmaketotheEnglishsystemofthinkingandlearning?

8.What’sthepurposeofhisEssays?

9.Basedonyourreadingofhiswork,giveyourpersonalimpressionof/commentonhisEssays?

10.TheEnglishRenaissanceperiodisknownforitstranslations.Whatarethemostimportanttranslationsofthisage?

Textstudy

QuestionsonSonnet18byShakespeare（58）:

1.WhatistheEnglishsonnetform?

Studythemetricalandrhymeschemeaswellasthestructure?

2.What’sthemainidea?

Isitreallyaboutlove?

Whatispeculiarofthislovepoem?

3.Whatfiguresofspeechareused?

Questionson“OfStudies”byF.Bacon（52-53）:

1.Howdoyoudefinethestyle?

2.StudytheessaybycomparingtheEnglishversionwiththetranslationofMrWang.HowdoyouliketheChineseversion?

3.Paraphraseandcommentonsentences1-6,10-12.

Week6

RevolutionandRestoration

Referencequestions:

1.Whatwasthemostimportantsocialeventduringthemid-17thcentury?

2.Whatwerethetwomostpopularformsoflyric?

3.WhyisMiltonthegreatestpoetoftheperiod?

WhatisthesignificanceofParadiseLost?

Textstudy:

ParadiseLostbyJohnMilton（67-68）

1.Whatisthehistoricalbackgroundofthework?

2.Asatransitionalwriter,howdoesMiltoncombinehishumanisticideaswithhisPuritanideas?

3.WhatistheimageandthesignificanceofSataninthetwoextracts?

4.Whatphilosophycanwegetfromthetext?

Week7

18thcenturyEnlightenment

（1）

Questions:

1.Whatwasthemostimportantintellectualeventofthetime?

2.The18thcenturyiscalledanageofthebourgeoisie.Why?

Andwhateffectithadonliteratureofthecentury?

3.WhydidEnglishnovelappearinthiscentury?

4.Whatarethemajorformsofliterature?

5.Whathaveneo-classicismandrealismgottodowiththeEnlightenmentMovement?

6.WhydidliteratureofSentimentalityandGothicismcomeintobeinginthelatterpartofthecentury?

Textstudy:

J.Swift’s“AModestProposal”（81-89）

1.Howdoyoudescribethenarrator’stone?

2.WhatorwhoarethetargetsofSwift’smockery?

3.Istheproposalmodest?

Proveyourpoint.

Week8

18thcenturyEnlightenment

（2）

Textstudy:

AnEssayonManbyA.Pope（89-90）

1.Whatisheroiccouplet?

2.Whatisthepoeticpattern?

3.Whatarethethemesofthetwoextracts?

4.Paraphrasethetextsortellinbriefyourinterpretation.

“ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard”byThomasGray（91-92）

1.WhatdoyouknowoftheGraveyardpoetry?

2.Whatisthepoeticpattern?

3.Whatisthepredominantmood?

4.Whatisthetheme?

5.Summarizeeachstanzainyourownwords.

Week9

19th-centuryRomanticism

（1）

Questions:

1.Howistheperioddefinedintime?

2.Whatwasthehistoricalbackground,politically,economicallyandideologically?

3.Whatwasthepredominantgenreofliterature?

Whoweretheimportantwritersofthetime?

4.Inwhatwaywasromanticistliteraturedifferentfromthatofneoclassicisminthe18thcentury,suchasinform,guidingprinciple,subjectmatter,purpose,style,etc.?

Textstudy:

“IWanderedLonelyasaCloud”byWordsworth（103）

1.Whatisthetheme?

2.Whatisthepredominantimage?

3.Howdoesitreflectthepoet’sideaofromanticpoetry?

4.Whatisthepoeticpattern?

5.Paraphraseeachstanzainonesentence.

Week10

19th-centuryRomanticism

（2）

Textstudy:

“TheWorldIsTooMuchwithUs”byWordsworth（116-7）

1.Whatisthetheme,i.e.themeaning,ofthefirstline?

2.Whatromanticideasdoesitadvocate?

3.Whattypeofsonnetformitis?

4.Whatromanticspiritdoesitrepresent?

5.Paraphrasethepoeminyourownwords.

“OdeonaGrecianUrn”byJohnKeats（109-110）

1.Whatisthethemeofthepoem?

2.Whatistherhymescheme?

3.Whatromanticfeaturedoesthepoemreflect?

4.Summarizeeachstanzainoneortwosentences.

Week11

VictorianLiterature

（1）

Questions:

1.Whatisthehistoricalbackgroundpolitically,economicallyandideologically?

2.Whatisthepredominantformofliteratureduringthisperiod?

3.Whoaretherepresentativewriters?

Andwhatwastheliterarytendency?

4.Whatchangescameabouttowardstheendofthecentury?

Week12-13

VictorianLiterature

（2）（3）

SuggestedTopicsforworkshoponFrankensteinbyMaryShelley

[besuretosupportyourargumentwithevidencefromthetext]

1.Creatorvs.Creature

Whatistherelationbetweenthecreatorandthecreature?

[PrometheusandZeus;AdamandEveandGod;MonsterandVictor;ParentsandVictor]

2.GrowthandCorruptionoftheMonster

Whatkindofacreatureisheatfirst?

Whyandhowdoeshechange?

Whatdoeshebecome?

3.PsychoanalyticalStudyofFrankenstein

Whydoeshecreatethemonster?

Inwhatwayisthemonsterareflectionofhimself/hisinnerdesire?

CanyouapplyFreudiantheoryofid,ego,andsuperegoorhistheoryofdreamstothestudyofthecharacterofVictor?

Whatdualstructureistherewithinhim?

4.TheNovelandtheAuthor

WhydidMarycreatethemonster/thebook?

What’stherevelationoftheexperience（love,hatred,fear,guilt）,personality,andinterestoftheauthorasreflectedinthenovel?

5.Frankenstein,theFirstScienceFiction

Whatisscien-fiction?

Whatscien-fictionalfeaturesarethere?

Whatgothicelements?

6.TheModernPrometheus

Howhastheconceptofcreation（material,way,purpose&result）changedfromthatintheBible?

Whatmessageisleftaboutmodernscience?

7.WomeninModernlife

Whatroledowomenplayinmodernlifeasreflectedinthenovel?

8.TheRelayedNarration/OntheNarrativeStructure

Howandbywhomisthestorytold?

Whythreedifferentnarrators?

Howisthenarrationrelatedtothethemedevelopment?

9.TheJourneyofExplorationandDiscovery

WhatisthepurposeofWalton’sjourney?

Whatishisactualdiscovery?

10.TheStyle

Whatisthestyleofthenovel?

Andwhatstrengthandweakness?

Week14

20th-centuryLiterature

（1）

Referencequestions:

1.Whatisthehistoricalbackgroundoftheperiod?

2.Whatismodernism?

3.Whatispostmodernism?

Week15

20th-centuryLiterature

（2）

Textstudy:

ExtractfromMrsDallowaybyV.Woolf（handout）

1.Whatisstream-of-consciousness?

2.Howistheheroine’scharactersplitintotwoorportrayedattwodifferentlevels?

ExtractfromUlyssesbyJamesJoyce（handout）

1.Howisrandomthoughtportrayed?

Week16

20th-centuryLiterature（3）

Textstudy:

“Eveline”byJamesJoyce（192-195）

1.Whatissetting,historicalandsocial?

2.WhymakesEvelinedecidenottogoawaywithherboyfriend?

Howisepiphanyachieved?