英美文学期末Summary 1 of English Literature

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1、EnglishLiteratureSummaryOnePartOne:OldandMedievalEnglishLiterature中古英国文学•BackgroundInformation:•ThreeConquests:theRomanConquest,theAnglo-SaxonConquest,theNormanConquest•ThePeriodofOldEnglishliterature:abouttheyearof450~theyearof1066(theyearoftheNormanconquestofEngland)Beowulf《贝尔武甫》:•Typeofl

2、iterature:thenationalepicoftheAnglo-SaxonandEnglishpeople,atypicalexampleofOldEnglishpoetry•Stories:fightswithmonsters•Characters:Beowulfvs.Grendel•Significance:reflectionofthefeaturesofthetribalsocietyofancienttimes.•Languagefeatures:theuseofalliteration;theuseofmetaphorsandunderstatements

3、.ThePeriodofMedievalEnglishLiterature:1066~aroundthe15thcentury•Representativewriters:GeoffreyChaucer,WilliamLangland,JohnGower•Genre:poetry,popularfolkliterature(romancesofknights/chivalry,theRobinHoodBallads)•Representativeworksinthisperiod:•GawainandtheGreenKnight《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》:thebestroman

4、ceoftheperiod,byJohnGower•PiersthePlowman《农夫皮尔斯》:alongpoemofover7000lines,writtenbyWilliamLanglandGeoffreyChaucer杰弗里·乔叟(1340~1400)•thefounder/fatherofEnglishpoetry•hismasterpiece:TheCanterburyTales•Chaucer’scontributiontoEnglishpoetry:•HeemployedforthefirsttimeinEnglishtherhymedcoupletofiam

5、bicpentameter(latertobecalledthe“heroiccouplet”),insteadoftheoldAnglo-Saxonalliterativeverse.•HeisthefirstgreatpoetwhowroteinthecurrentEnglishlanguage.PartTwo:TheRenaissancePeriod（文艺复兴时期）BackgroundInformation:•TheRenaissancemarksatransitionfromthemedievaltothemodernworld.•Generallyitreferst

6、otheperiodbetweenthe14thandmid-17thcenturies.•Itwasnotuntiltheearly16thcenturythattheEnglishRenaissancereallybegan,whichwasperhapsEngland’sGoldenAge,esp.inliterature.•Twofeatures:athirstingcuriosityforclassicalliterature,thekeeninterestinlifeandhumanactivities.6•HumanismistheessenceoftheRen

7、aissance.•TheElizabethandramaistherealmainstreamoftheEnglishRenaissance.Representativewritersandworks:•ThomasMore托马斯·莫尔(1478~1535):themostimportantearlyHumanistinEngland•Utopia《乌托邦》:More’smasterpiece,inwhichtheauthoranticipatessomeessentialfeaturesofanad