英国文学乔叟时期课件.ppt

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1、TopicII.TheAgeofChaucerI.SocialBackground---atransitionalperiod.2.theawakeningofnationalconsciousnessinEngland.II.JohnWycliff(1324?-1384)TwoContributions---thefatherofEnglishProse.translatedtheBibleintostandardEnglish(toreformthechurch)III.WilliamLangland(1330?-1400?)1.TheVisionofPiersP

2、lowman---alliterativepoem.Twopartsofit.2.allegory---astoryordescriptioninwhichthecharactersandeventssymbolizesomedeeperunderlyingmeaning,andservetospreadmoralteaching.Ithasadoublemeaning.(surfaceandunderlyingmeaning)3.theme---Topraisethefairnessandhonesty.Differentpeoplehastheirownduty.

3、Tocriticizetheluxuryandrottenness.Tosupporttheequalityandthehonestwork.4.MajorCharactersLadyMeed---thebriberySevenSins.IV.GeoffreyChaucer(ca.1340-1400)1.lifestory---patron.“Poet’sCorner”inWestminsterAbbey.2.literaryCareer---threeperiods(1).1360-1372,hewroteundertheinfluenceofFrenchliter

4、ature.“TheBookofDuchess”.(2).1372-1386.hewroteundertheinfluenceofItalianliterature.“TroilusandCriseyde”---singfortheloveandtheindividualhappiness;opposethefeudalformalityandasceticismoftheday.Thebeginningofthehumanism.(3).1387-1400.hisowncreativeperiod.“TheCanterburyTales”---thefirstcom

5、pleterealisticpoemofthemedievalperiod.A.thecontents---858linesofthe“Prologue”and24tales.B.thetheme---hepresentedtousacomprehensiverealisticpictureoftheEnglishsocietyofhistimeandcreatedawholegalleryofvividcharactersfromallwalksoflifeinit.C.themaincharactersTheWifeofBath;thePardoner;theNu

6、n’sPriest;D.significanceofit-itgivesacomprehensivepictureofhistime;Thedramaticstructureofthepoemhasbeenhighlycommendedbycritics;Hishumour(gentlesatireandmildirony.).HiscontributiontotheEnglishlanguage.---nativelanguage.(Londondialect);heintroducedfromFrancetherhymedstanzaofvarioustypes,

7、especiallytherhymedcoupletof5accentediniambicmeter(heroiccouplets)toEnglishpoetry,insteadoftheoldAnglo-Saxonalliterativeverse.Chaucer’sachievement:1.      Hepresentedacomprehensiverealisticpictureofhisageandcreatedawholegalleryofvividcharactersinhisworks,especiallyinTheCanterbu