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英国文学史及选读复习要点总结
《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点
1.Beowulf:
nationalepicoftheEnglishpeople;Denmarkstory;alliteration,metaphorsandunderstatements(此处可能会有填空,选择等小题)
2.Romance(名词解释)
3.“SirGawainandtheGreenKnight”:
afamousromanaboutKingArthur’sstory
4.Ballad(名词解释)
5.CharacterofRobinHood
6.GeoffreyChaucer:
founderofEnglishpoetry;TheCanterburyTales(maincontents;124storiesplanned,only24finished;writteninMiddleEnglish;significance;form:
heroiccouplet)
7.Heroiccouplet(名词解释)8.Renaissance(名词解释)9.ThomasMore——Utopia
10.Sonnet(名词解释)11.Blankverse(名词解释)12.EdmundSpenser“TheFaerieQueene”
13.FrancisBacon“essays”esp.“OfStudies”(推荐阅读,学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照,本文用词正式优雅,多排比句和长句,语言造诣非常高,里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句,非常值得一读)
14.WilliamShakespeare四大悲剧比较重要,此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了,这些剧的主题,背景,情节,人物形象都要熟悉,当然他最重要的是Hamlet这是肯定的。
他的sonnet也很重要,最重要属sonnet18。
(其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读)
15.JohnMilton三大史诗非常重要,特别是ParadiseLost和SamsonAgonistes。
对于ParadiseLost需要知道它是blankverse写成的,故事情节来自OldTestament,另外要知道此书theme和Satan的形象。
16.JohnBunyan——ThePilgrim’sProgress
17.FounderoftheMetaphysicalschool——JohnDonne;featuresoftheschool:
philosophicalpoems,complexrhythmsandstrangeimages.
18.Enlightenment(名词解释)
19.Neoclassicism(名词解释)
20.RichardSteele——“TheTatler”
21.JosephAddison——“TheSpectator”这个比上面那个要重要,注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一样,它虚构了一系列的人物,以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文,这一部分要仔细读。
22.Steel’sandAddison’sstylesandtheircontributions
23.AlexanderPope:
“EssayonCriticism”,“EssayonMan”,“TheRapeofLock”,“TheDunciad”;hisworkmanship(features)andlimitations
24.JonathanSwift:
“Gulliver’sTravels”此书非常重要,要知道具体内容,就是Gulliver游历过的四个地方的英文名称,和每个部分具体的讽刺对象;(我们主要讲了三个地方)“AModestProposal”比较重要,要注意作者用的irony也就是反讽手法。
25.Theriseandgrowthoftherealisticnovelisthemostprominentachievementof18thcenturyEnglishliterature.
26.DanielDefoe:
“RobinsonCrusoe”,“MollFlanders”,当然是RobinsonCrusoe比较重要,剧情要清楚,RobinsonCrusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形,以及殖民主义的萌芽。
另外注意Defoe的style和feature,另外Defoe是forerunnerofEnglishrealisticnovel。
27.SamuelRichardson——“Pamela”(firstepistolarynovel),“ClarissaHarlowe”,“SirCharlesGrandison”
28.HenryFielding:
“JosephAndrews”,“JonathanWild”,“TomJones”第一个和第三个比较重要,需要仔细看。
他是一个比较重要的作家,另外Fielding也被称为fatheroftheEnglishnovel.
29.LaurenceSterne——“TristramShandy”项狄传
30.RichardSheridan——“TheSchoolforScandal”
31.OliverGoldsmith——“TheTraveller”(poem),“TheDesertedVillage”(poem)(bothtwopoemswerewrittenbyheroiccouplet),“TheVicarofWakefield”(novel),“TheGood-NaturedMan”(comedy),“ShestoopstoConquer”(comedy),“TheCitizenoftheWorld”(collectionofessays)
32.Sentimentalism(名词解释)
33.ThomasGray——“ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard”(英国诗歌里非常著名的一首,曾经被誉为“有史以来英国诗歌里最好的一首”)(arepresentativeofsentimentalismandgraveyardschoolofpoets墓园派诗人)
*GraveyardSchool/Poets”:
Atermappliedtoeighteenth-centurypoetswhowrotemeditativepoems,usuallysetinagraveyard,onthethemeofhumanmortality,inmoodswhichrangefromelegiacpensivenesstoprofoundgloom.ThevogueresultedinoneofthemostwidelyknownEnglishpoems,ThomasGray’s“Elegywritteninacountrychurchyard”.ThewritingofgraveyardpoemsspreadfromEnglandtoContinentalliteratureinthesecondpartofthecenturyandalsoinfluencedsomeAmericanpoets.
34.Inthelatterhalfofthe18thcentury,Pre-Romanticism;representative:
WilliamBlakeandRobertBurns.
35.ThomasPercy——“ReliquesofAncientEnglishpoetry”许多中古的民谣都是在这个时期重新收集和整理起来的,这个集子是那个时代比较有名的一个民谣集。
36.WilliamBlake比较重要,需要对主要作品有所了解,特别是SongsofInnocence和SongsofExperience,这两本集子的contrast一定要注意,另外Blake的写作特点也要注意,比如语言的简单明了,神秘主义氛围等。
37.RobertBurns伟大的苏格兰民族诗人,ARedRedRose,ScotsWhaHae,AuldLangSyne等名诗,写作特点:
Scottishdialect;apoetofpeasantandScottishpeople;plainlanguage;influencefromScottishfolksongsandballads;musicalqualityofhispoems.
《英国文学史及选读》第二册练习题
I.浪漫主义时期
I.Eachofthestatementsbelowisfollowedbyfouralternativeanswers.Choosetheonethatwouldbestcompletethestatementandputtheletterinthebrackets.
1.EnglishRomanticismisgenerallysaidtohavebegunwith__A_in1798.
A.thepublicationofLyricalBallads
B.thedeathofSirScott
C.thebirthofWilliamWordsworth
D.thepassageofthefirstReformBillintheParliament
2.TheRomanticPeriodisfirstofallanageof__B___.
A.NovelB.poetryC.dramaD.prose
3.Romanticismdoesnotemphasize__D___.
A.thespecialqualitiesofeachindividual’smind
B.theinnerworldofthehumanspirit
C.individuality
D.thefeaturesthatmenhaveincommon
4.___B__isnotaRomanticpoet.
A.WilliamBlakeB.SirScottC.P.B.ShelleyD.LordByron
5._C____isaRomanticnovelistbutisimpressedwithneo-classicstrains.
A.WalterScottB.MaryShelley
C.JaneAustenD.AnnRadcliff
6.____C_isnotcharacteristicofWilliamBlake’swriting.
A.plainanddirectlanguageB.compressionofmeaning
C.supernaturalqualityD.symbolism
7.WordsworthpublishedLyricalBalladsin1789with__B___.
A.ByronB.ColeridgeC.ShelleyD.Keats
8.Wordsworththinksthat_D____istheonlysubjectofliteraryinterest.
A.thelifeofrisingbourgeoisie
B.aristocraticlife
C.thelifeoftheroyalfamily
D.commonlife
9.DonJuanisthemasterpieceof__A___.
A.LordByron’sB.P.B.Shelley’sC.JohnKeats’sD.SamuelColeridge’s
10._A____isnotanovelwrittenbyJaneAusten.
A.JaneEyreB.SenseandSensibilityC.PrideandPrejudiceD.Emma
II.Completeeachofthefollowingstatementswithaproperwordoraphraseaccordingtothetextbook.
1.Inessence,Romanticismdesignatesaliteraryandphilosophicaltheorywhichtendstoseethe__.individual___astheverycenterofalllifeandallexperience.
2.FortheRomantics,_humanlife____isnotonlythemajorsourceofpoeticimagery,butalsoprovidesthedominantsubjectmatter.
3.Wordsworthisregardedasa“worshipperof_nature____.”
4.Accordingtothesubjects,Wordsworth’sshortpoemscanbeclassifiedintotwogroups:
poemsaboutnatureandpoemsabout____humanlife_.
5.Coleridge’sachievementaspoetcanbedividedintotworemarkablydiversegroups:
_.thedemonic____andtheconversational.
6.AsaleadingRomanticist,Byron’schiefcontributionishiscreationofthe“_Byronichero____.”
7.“__OdetotheWestWind___”isShelley’srepresentativework.
8.__Theodes___aregenerallyregardedasKeats’smostimportantandmaturework.
9.“Beautyistruth,truthbeauty”isafamouslineinKeats’s“__OdeonaGrecianUrn___.”
10._PrideandPrejudice____isthemostdelightfulofJaneAusten’swork.
III.Decidewhetherthefollowingstatementsaretrueorfalseandwriteyouranswersinthebrackets.
(T)1.TheRomanticperiodisalsoagreatageofprose.
(T)2.Romanticsalsotendtobenationalistic,defendingtheirownliteraryheritageagainsttheadvocatesofclassicalrules.
(F)3.ColeridgehasbeenrewardedasPoetLaureate.
(F)4.Keatsisoneofthe“LakePoets.”
(F)5.JaneAustenisatypicalRomanticwriter.
IV.Nametheauthorofeachofthefollowingliterarywork.
1.“TheRimeoftheAncientMariner”Coleridge
2.SongsofInnocenceBlake
3.“OdetoaNightingale”Keats
4.“ASong:
MenofEngland”Shelley
5.ThePreludeWordsworth
V.Definetheliterarytermslistedbelow
1.Romanticism
Romanticismisamovementthatflourishedinliterature,philosophy,musicandartinwesterncultureduringmostofthenineteenthcentury,beginningasarevoltagainstclassicism.TherehavebeenmanyvarietiesofRomanticisminmanydifferenttimesandplaces.TheleadingfeaturesofRomanticmovementsareWordsworth,Shelley,etc.
2.Ode
Odeisacomplexandoftenlengthylyricpoem,writteninadignifiedformalstyleonsomeloftyorserioussubject.Odesareoftenwrittenforaspecialoccasion,tohonourapersonoraseasonortocommemorateanevent.
VI.Foreachofthequotationslistedbelowpleasegivethenameoftheauthorandthetitleoftheliteraryworkfromwhichitistakenandthenbrieflyinterpretit.
1….BethroughmylipstounawakenedEarth.
Thetrumpetofaprophecy!
O,Wind,
Ifwintercomes,canSpringbefarbehind?
1.ItistakenfromShelley’sOdetotheWestWind.Inthispoem,Shelleyeulogizesthepowerfulwestwindandexpresseshiseagernesstoenjoytheboundlessfreedomfromthereality.Intheselastlines,thepoetshowshisoptimisticspiritforthefuture.
2.Foroft,whenonmycouchIlie
Invacantorinpensivemood,
Theyflashuponthatinwardeye
Whichistheblissofsolitude;
Andthenmyheartwithpleasurefills,
Anddanceswiththedaffodils.
2.ItistakenfromWordsworth’s“IWanderedLonelyasaCloud.”Thepoetthinksthatitisablisstorecollectthebeautyofnatureinhismindwhileheisinsolitude.Heexpresseshisstrongaffectingfornatureinthepoem
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II.维多利亚时期
I.Eachofthestatementbelowisfollowedbyfouralternativeanswers.Choosetheonethatwouldbestcompletethestatementandputtheletterinthebrackets
1.TheVictorianperiodroughlybeganattheenthronementofQueenVictoriain__B___.
A.1835B.1836C.1837D.1838
2.ThecriticalrealistslikeCharlesDickensintheVictorianperiodwrotenovels__D___.
A.representingthe18thcenturyrealistnovelB.criticizingthesocietyC.defendingthemass
E.alltheabove
3.___D__isnotaVictorianovelist.
A.CharlesDickensB.GeorgeEliotC.WilliamMakepeaceThackerayD.D.H.Lawrence
4.___C__isnotaworkbyCharlesDickens.
A.OliverTwistB.DavidCopperfieldC.MiddlemarchD.ATaleofTwoCities
5.WutheringHeightsisamasterpiecewrittenby___B__.
A.CharlotteBronteB.EmilyBrontC.AnneBronteD.BranwellBronte
6.__A___isnotThomasHardy’swork.
A.TheMillont