An Outline of History of English Literature

《An Outline of History of English Literature》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在教育资源-天天文库。

1、AnOutlineofHistoryofEnglishLiterature注：提纲仅供参考，请大家结合教材和课堂笔记复习。凡下划线部分和教材列出的作家的基本信息，请参照书本和课堂笔记复习相关知识。PartITheAnglo-SaxonPeriod(449-1066)1.HistoricalBackgrounda.TheRomanConquestb.TheAnglo-Saxon/EnglishConquestc.TheNormanConquest(1066)2.LiteratureTwodivisions:paganandChristianLiteraryforms

2、:poetryandprosePopularliterarygenre:epicPaganpoetry:BeowulfReligiouspoetry:worksofCaedmonandCynewulfProsewriters:VenerableBedeandAlfredtheGreatCaedmon:fatherofEnglishsong,Paraphrase(oftheBible)Cynewulf:TheChrist(poemsonreligioussubjects)VenerableBede:HistoriaEcclesiasticaGentisAngloru

3、m(EcclesiasticalHistoryoftheEnglishPeople)《英吉利教会史》AlfredtheGreat:fatherofEnglishprose,TheAnglo-SaxonChronicle3.TheEpicBeowulfEpic:AnEpicisalongnarrativepoemtellingaboutthedeedsofagreatheroandreflectingthevaluesofthesocietyfromwhichitoriginated.Makesurethemaincharacters,setting,plot,an

4、dthetheme.Features:apaganpoem;theuseofthealliteration;amixtureofhistoryandlegend;nationalepic20PartIITheAnglo-NormanPeriod(1066-1340)1.HistoricalBackgroundTheNormanConquestin10662.ThelanguageThreelanguagesco-existedinEngland.French:theofficiallanguageusedbythekingandtheNormanlordsLati

5、n:theprincipaltongueofchurchaffairsandinuniversitiesOldEnglish:spokenbycommonEnglishpeople3.TheliteratureExtensiveinfluenceofFrenchliteratureTheprevailingformofliterature:romance4.TheRomanceSirGawainandtheGreenKnightRomance:TheRomanceisalongcomposition,sometimesinverse,sometimesinpros

6、e,describingthelifeandadventuresofanoblehero(usu.knight).Itwaswrittenforthenobleclassandreflectedthespiritofchivalry.RomanceCycles:MattersofFranceMattersofRomeMattersofBritain:KingArthurandhisknightsoftheRoundTable,asinSirGawainandtheGreenKnight,theculminationoftheArthurianromances.Ma

7、kesurethemaincharacters,setting,plot,andthetheme.PartIIIGeoffreyChaucer(1340—1400)1.HistoricalBackgroundTheHundredYearsWar(1337-1453):2.ContemporariesofChaucer20JohnWycliff(1324?-1384)translatingtheBibleintoMiddleEnglishWilliamLangland(1330?-1340?)TheVisionofPiersthePlowman3.GeoffreyC

8、hauce