英国文学史及选读课件HistoryandAnthology.ppt

History and Anthology of British Literature Today’s Schedule introduction What is literature? Why do we study British literature? What are we going to know in this course? Unit 1: The Anglo-Saxon Period What is literature? “written compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and advocate拥护;提倡;主张 ideas.” Development: oral → written →printed Literary genres体裁 Fiction (narrative fiction叙述虚构 ): novel, novella中篇小说, short story, myth, parable 寓言, romance, epic史诗 Poetry images, sound, figurative language Drama Poetic form → daily language Nonfiction非小说类散文文学 prose散文 : news report, feature articles, text-books, historical and biographical works Why study literature? Help us grow Help us understand the world Clarify our own identity Improve our language competence能力,胜任,称职 What are we going to learn in this course? Syllabus教学纲要 for this course see the contents of the textbook Timeline时间轴 of British literature Tribal部落的,种族的 society of the Celts凯尔特人 → the Roman conquest → Anglo-Saxons盎格鲁撒克逊人 → the Norman诺曼底人 Conquest (the old and Medieval中世纪的 period) → 2. mid-15th to early 17th c. (the Renaissance) → Timeline of British literature 3. 17th century; 18th century (the Neoclassical period新古典主义时期 , Enlightenment, the rise of novel )→ 4. 19th century (Romanticism浪漫主义 , Victorian age, Realism) → 5. 20th century (Naturalism自然主义 , Modernism, Post-modernism) Unit 1 The Anglo-Saxon Period (449 - 1066) Basic Background 1. The formation of Britain: 1. The formation of Britain: 2. Social Background: 1）The Anglo-Saxons were in the later stages of tribal society, and feudalism封建制度 assumed definite shape. 2) Agriculture developed and trade expanded. 3) The Anglo-Saxons were heathens异教徒 (pagans无宗教信仰者 ) upon their first arrival in England. In A. D. 597, the first missionaries传教士 led by St. Augustine came to England from Rome and converted使皈依;使改变信仰 King Ethelbert of Kent, and within a century (i