英国文学史期末复习笔记.doc

英美文学史期末复习笔记 英国 美国 1.伊丽莎白时期的文学 1.殖民地时期文学 2.17世纪和18世纪的文学 2.浪漫主义文学 3.浪漫主义时期 3.现实主义文学 4.维多利亚时期 4.自然主义文学 5.20世纪的小说与诗歌 5.20世纪20年代的诗歌与小说 6.二战后的诗歌 6.二战后的诗歌与小说 7.二战后的小说 7.美国戏剧梳理 8.少数族裔文学 Definition of epic An epic is a long narrative poem. 2.Geoffrey Chaucer(1340-1400)杰弗里。乔叟 the father of English poetry 英国文学之父 the heroic couplet 英雄双韵体：a verse unit consisting of two rhymed(押韵)lines inbic pentameter(五步抑扬格)AA BB CC DD EE 代表作The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷的故事（英国文学史的开端） The Renaissance(1500-1660) the definition of Renaissance Renaissance first rose in Italy in the 14th century and came to a flowering in the 15th and then in the 16th century it spread to other countries, notably France and thence to Germany and England and Spain and the other countries. 核心：humanism ：admire human beauty and human achievement 文艺复兴三杰：达芬奇，米开朗琪罗，拉斐尔 William Shakespeare(1564-1616) He is actor, playwright;totally 37 plays Four great tragedies:Hamlet (哈姆雷特) Othello(奥赛罗) King Lear(李尔王) Macbeth(麦克白) Four great comedies:The Merchant of Venice 《威尼斯商人》 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 《仲夏夜之梦》 As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》 Twelfth night 《第十二夜》 Ben Johson dedicated a poem in praise of him:“… Soul of the age.He was not of an age, but for all time”. Sonnet(十四行诗） Sonnet is a lyric poem comprising 14 rhyming lines of equal length: iambic(抑扬格的) pentameters（五步格诗） in English. The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearen sonnet after its foremost practitinoner) comprises three quatrains (四行诗)and a final couplet（对句），rhyming ababcdcdefef. An important variant of this is the Spenserian sonnet (introduced by Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser ), which links the three quatrains by rhyme, in the sequence ababbabccdcdee. In either form, the turn comes with