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1、AdvancedLiteratureandCultureCoursesLC001.BritishLiteratureI[英國文學史（一）]3creditsMs.JenniferChiuForSophomoresandaboveClasssize:10-40;Non-EnglishDept.:5(mustallhavetakenatleastonecourserelatedtoliteraturesuchas“IntroductiontoWesternLiterature”)Prerequisite:Int

2、roductiontoWesternLiteratureThiscourseistosurveytheEnglishLiteraturefromtheMiddleAgestotheEighteenthCenturybysamplingthemajorwritersandworksinallperiods.Theobjectisnotjusttostudyasuccessionofwritersandworksbutalsotolearnatraditioninwhicheachindividualauthorandtextplaysapart.Wecannot,ev

3、eninalifetime,readalltheworksthatmakeupthetradition,butwecanlearnenoughaboutitfromaselectionofworkstorelatetheseworksandtheirauthorstooneanotherandtotheircommonheritage.Textbook:TheNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature:TheMajorAuthors.7thed.Vol.I.London:W.W.Norton&Company,2000.TentativeSc

4、hedule(subjecttochange)WeekAssignedreadingKeywords1IntroductiontothecourseIntroduction:TheMiddleAgestoca.1485Anonymous:“TheDreamoftheRood”allegory,elegy,epic,kenningsCeltic,runes;warrior,scop,comitatus,wergild,wyrd,meadhall2,3Anonymous:Beowulf5,6Chaucer:“TheGeneralPrologue,”“TheWifeofB

5、ath’sPrologueeandTale,”and“ThePardoner’sPrologueandTale”fromTheCanterburyTalesExamplum7,8Anonymous:SirGawainandtheGreenKnightMalory:fromMorteD’Arthurromantic-allegoricalepic,knight(hood),chivalry9MidtermExam10Introduction:TheSixteenthCentury:1485-1603Marlowe:DoctorFaustusShakespeare:se

6、lectionsfromSonnetSequencetragedy,blankverse,pride,knowledge;Petrarchan/Italiansonnets,Shakespearean/Englishsonnets11Introduction:TheEarlySeventeenthCentury:1603-1660Donne:“TheCanonization”Marvell:“TheDefinitionofLove”Milton:LycidasMetaphysicalconceits,dramaticmonologue/dialogue;passio

7、n/intellect12,14Milton:fromParadiseLostpastoralelegy,evocation/apostrophe;epic,blankverse,Satanichero;sonnet3415Introduction:TheRestorationandtheEighteenthCentury:1660-1785Dryden:“MacFlecknoe”Swift:“AModestProposal”mockheroic,heroiccouplet,satire16-17Swift:fromGulliver’sTravels18Fina