英美文学选读自学笔记解析.docVIP

English literature 前言: 配合笔记，看选读的文章，有个大概的印象就行了。学会对文章进行分析是考查的最终目标。本人判断力不错，但记忆力不好,考前看了两遍，考了68分。如果能记下要点，应该会考得更好。这次考试的40小题选择题我做对了32题最后,希望我整理的笔记能, I Old English Literature ---- 450—1066 two groups : religious –-on biblical themes ---- Secular ---- heroic age ---- --- a protector of people ,fight against the nature. II Medieval period --- 1066---14th Century Fame :1066 Norman conquest ---- three changes—feudalism system established politically --- Catholic Church Religiously --- French, Latin, English co-existed language In comparison with old English literature: 1 wider range of subjects 2 themes concerned with the personal salvation 3 romance love 4 the language is simple and straightforward ‘The epic reflects a heroic age ,the romance reflects a chivalric one’ 骑士 Chaucer : 1 titles: the English Homer , the father of English poetry from , 2 verse : first use heroic couplet , realistic picture of his time , vivid characters from all works of his life , the characters are both typical and individual, his ideas is to pursue earthly happiness, opposed asceticism 禁欲主义, advocate humanism, replace alliterative verse with rhymed stanzas 古英语的押头韵变成 中世纪的押尾韵 first use rhymed heroic couplet octosyllabic 八音节诗 3.novel: the first modern novel. III Renaissance 14th—17th Fame : ① move from feudalist ideas to the interest of rising bourgeoisie. ② recover from corruption of the Roman Catholic Church to the purity of the earthly church . England : the reign of Henry VIII -----England‘s Golden Age in literature ---- Bibles in English instead of Latin readable for common people The time of Tudos ---- change monasteries修道院 into schools and universities Traits of humanistic poetry : meter, rhyme, scheme, imagery and argument should be combined to frame the emotional theme. Poetry was to be a concentrated exercise of the mind , if craftsmanship and of learning. The most famous dramatists : Shakesperar , Ben Jonson, and Marlowe Writers : Wyatt introd