常耀信英国文学史复习重点 简答题.doc

荒原TSEliot the waste land 1a long poem 433lines mainly free verse with occasional snatches of rhyme and with many quoted lines in gernan French Italian and references and allusions to English writers as spenser Shakespeare and Milton.2published 1992 a land mark in English poetry ending romantic period signifying modernism 3divided into 5 parts the burial of the dead a game of chess the first sermon death by the water what the thunder said 4gave a picture of the spiritual ruins in Europe shortly after wwI expressed disillusionment of a generation of intellectuals.symbols taken from ancient myths are used to describe the decay of western culture.现代主义1flourished between 1910 and early years after WWII 2includes various trends or schools such as imagism expressionism Dadaism stream of consciousness and existentialism.3means a departure from the conventional criteria or established values of the Victorian age.4aliteration and loneliness are the basic themes 5characteristic modernist wrings :complexity and obscurity the use of symbols allusion irony.唯美主义1prevail in Europe at the middle of 19th century 2theory art for art’s sake.3two important representatives walter peter and oscar wilde.4”the renaissance” is peter’s masterpiece its conclusion became a kind of manifesto of aesthetic movement in English literature.5gist of peter’s theory:the sole duty of an aesthete:develop his aeathetic sensibilities and enjoy all possible varieties of artistic and sensuous experience. 6this in essence is a teaching of hedonism based on pessimism.华伦夫人的职业1Shaw attacked the vices of capitalist society.shows that under the guise of bougeois respectabitlity horrible crimes and corruption are convinced. accuses the bourgeois of making profit by fostering prostitution.3the play shocked the bourgeois audience by showing how prostitution houses are used as a way for exploitation investment and money-making in capitalist society.4goes on to reveal all the respectable capitalists carry on t