英国文学史及选读知识要点i

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1、PartITheAnglo-SaxonPeriod(449-1066)IBackground449theTeutons(theJutes,theAnglos,theSaxons)IILiteratureTheliteratureofthisperiodfallsintotwodivisions—paganandChristianTwoAnglo-saxonChristianpoets:Caedmon（凯德蒙，公元7世纪盎各鲁－萨克逊基督教诗人）wholivedinthelatterhalfofthe7thcenturyandwhowroteap

2、oeticParaphraseoftheBible.Cynewulf（基涅武甫,盎各鲁――萨克逊诗人，生活在公元9世纪，其古英语诗稿于10世纪被发现，有《埃琳娜》,《使徒们的命运》，《基督升天》和《朱莉安娜》）,theauthorofpoemsonreligioussubjectsIIITheSongofBeowulf(Beowulf,公元7-8世纪之交开始流传于民间的同名史诗中的主人公，曾与水怪，火龙搏斗)Status:England’snationalepicWrittenatthebeginningofthetenthcenturyCom

3、posedmuchearlierLength:3182Thewholesongisessentiallypaganinspiritandmatter.Features:alliteration;metaphors;understatementSubjectmatterPartIITheAnglo-NormanPeriod(1066—1350)Ihistoricalbackground:TheNormanConquestII.TheLiteratureTheliteraturewhichtheybroughttoEnglandisremarkab

4、leforitsbright,romantictalesofloveandadventure.III.Romance1.RomancewastheprevailingformofliteratureinfeudalEngland.2.Definitionandfeatures(理解)IV.SirGawainandtheGreenKnightalate-14thcenturymiddle-EnglishoutlininganadventureofSirGawain,aknightofKingArthur’sRoundTable.Itwasaver

5、seromanceof2530lines,consideredasthebestofArthurianromances.PartIIIGeoffreyChaucer(1340?-1400)IMajorworksTheRomauntoftheRose《玫瑰传奇》isatranslationfromaFrenchpoem.Hismasterpiece:TheCanterburyTalesIIContributions1.Chaucer—theforerunnerofRenaissance2.Chaucer–amasterofrealism3Chau

6、cer—“fatherofEnglishpoetry”①IncontradistinctiontothealliterativeverseoftheAnglo-Saxonpoetry,ChaucerchosethemetricalformwhichlaidthefoundationoftheEnglishtonic-syllabicverse.②HeintroducedfromFrancetherhymedcouplet(twosuccessivelinesofverseequalinlengthandwiththyme)ofiambicpen

7、tameterwhichistobecalledlatertheheroiccoupletIIItheCanterburytales1.statusTheCanterburyTalesisChaucer'smasterpieceandoneofthemonumentalworksinEnglishliterature2.Itcontains(1)ageneralprologue(over800lines)(2)24tales(3)separateprologuesand“thelinksthataccompanysomeofthetales”P

8、artIVTheRenaissanceI.TheRenaissanceFeatures①Athirstingcuriosityfortheclassi