英国文学史及选读PPT1.ppt

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1、英国文学史与选读通过作品找意境，通过中西文学对比，让文学课升华至文化课，让我们的学生成为自己的主人。StructureEarlyandMedievalEnglishLiteratureRenaissanceEnglishLiteratureTheEnglishLiteratureofThe17thCenturyTheEnglishliteratureofTheEnlightenmentAgeTheAgeofRomanticismTheVictorianAgeThe20th-CenturyBritishpoetryEarlyandMedieva

2、lEnglishLiterature5Century------1485“Early”heremeansEnglishliteratureinprimitiveandslaverysociety.“Medievalperiod”isaquitespecialperiodinEnglishhistory.InChinese“Medieval”or“TheMiddleAge”.TheAngle-Saxons:EnglishliteraturebeganwiththeAnglo-SaxonsettlementAnglo-SaxonLanguage

3、(oldEnglish)BeowulfTheNorman:Feudalism,landlord&peasantbeganwiththeNorman,languagegreatlychangedandenriched.AdventuresofKingArthurandhisKnightsoftheRoundTableBeowulfisconsideredasanationalepicoftheEnglishpeople.TheepicpoemBeowulfdescribesthemostheroicmanoftheAnglo-Saxontime

4、s.ItisaDenmarkstorywhichusedalliteration,metaphorsandunderstatements.Thehero,Beowulf,isaseeminglyinvinciblepersonwithalltheextraordinarytraitsrequiredofahero.Heisabletousehissuper-humanphysicalstrengthandcouragetoputhispeoplebeforehimself.Heencountershideousmonstersandthemo

5、stferociousofbeastsbutheneverfearsthethreatofdeath.Hisleadershipskillsaresuperbandheisevenabletoboastaboutallhisachievements.GeoffreyChauceristhefounderofEnglishpoetry,writer,alsotheoutstandingEnglishpoetbeforeWilliamShakespeare.ChaucermadeacrucialcontributiontoEnglishliter

6、atureinwritinginEnglishatatimewhenmuchcourtpoetrywasstillcomposedinAnglo-NormanorLatin.Althoughhespentoneoftwobriefperiodsofdisfavor,ChaucerlivedthewholeofhislifeclosethecentersofEnglishpower.TheCanterburytalesTheCanterburyTalesisoneofthelandmarksofEnglishliterature,perhaps

7、thegreatestworkproducedinMiddleEnglishandcertainlyamongthemostambitious.ItisoneofthefewworksoftheEnglishMiddleAgesthathashadacontinuoushistoryofpublication.ItwasthelastofGeoffreyChaucer'sworks,writtenafterTroilusandCreseydeduringthefinalyearsofChaucer'slife.However,Chaucero

8、nlycompletedtwenty-fourtales,notevencompletingonetaleforeachpilgrim.RenaissanceEng