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1、Whatisliterature?Literatureisbroadlydefinedasanywrittenorspokenmaterial,butthetermmostoftenreferstocreativeworks,whichareofartisticvalue.GeneralintroductionofEnglishliterature1.OldEnglishLiterature(449-1066)-----TheSongofBeowulf2.MedievalEnglishLiterature(1066-15thcentury)-----Geoffr
2、eyChaucer(1340_1400)3.RenaissanceEnglishliterature(late15thcentury~early17thcentury)------WilliamShakespeare4.EnglishLiteratureoftheRevolutionandRestorationPeriod(1640-1688)------JohnMilton,JohnBunyan5.18thcenturyEnglishliterature-theageofEnlightenment------DanielDefoe,JonathanSwifta
3、ndHenryFielding,WilliamBlake,RobertBurns6.RomanticEnglishLiterature(1798-1832)-----WilliamWordsworth,SamuelTaylorColeridge,GeorgeGordonByron,PercyByssheShelleyandJohnKeats,CharlesLamb7.CriticalRealisticLiteratureinthe19thCentury-----CharlesDickens,W.M.Thackeray,JaneAusten,Brontesiste
4、rs,Mrs.Gaskell,GeorgeEliotetc.8.20thCenturyEnglishLiterature----Hardy,Galsworthy,BernardShaw----1)Realisticwriting----2)Modernism----3)Englishliteraturesince1945TheAnglo-SaxonPeriod(449—1066)Targets:•1.了解古英语时期文学的历史背景,文学特征,主要作家和作品•2.掌握古英语诗歌的特点•3.史诗《贝武奥甫》及写作特点ROMANCONQUEST:In55B.C.,Bri
5、tainwasinvadedbyJuliusCaesar,theRomanConqueror.ButassoonastheRomanslandedonshoreoftheisland,theBritonsfoughtlikelions.AndwiththecomingsandgoingsofmanyRomangeneralswithinthetimeofthecentury,BritainwasnotcompletelysubjugatedtotheRomanEmpireuntil78A.D.WiththeRomanConquesttheRomanmodeofl
6、ifecameacrosstoBritainalso.TheRomanoccupationlastedforabout400year.ItwasalsoduringtheRomanrulethatChristianitywasintroducedtoBritain.AfterthefalloftheRomanEmpire(410A.D.),theaboriginalCelticpopulationwasconqueredbytheTeutonicTribesofAngles,SaxonsandJuteswhonamedthecentralpartofAlbion
7、Anglia,orEngland.TheirdialectsgraduallygrewintoasinglelanguagecalledAnglo-Saxon,orOldEnglish.BeforetheAnglo-SaxonssettledinBritaintheylivedintribalsociety.EachgroupoffamiliesunitedbykinshipfixeditshomeinaseparatevillageandafterthattheAnglo-Saxonperiodwitnessedatransitionfromtribalsoc
8、ietytofeudal
