讲义weekone.doc

What is literature? Literature is broadly defined as any written or spoken material, but the term most often refers to creative works, which are of artistic value. General introduction of English literature 1. Old English Literature (449-1066) -----The Song of Beowulf 2. Medieval English Literature (1066-15th century) -----Geoffrey Chaucer (1340_1400) 3. Renaissance English literature (late 15th century ~ early 17th century) ------William Shakespeare 4. English Literature of the Revolution and Restoration Period (1640-1688) ------John Milton, John Bunyan 5. 18th century English literature-the age of Enlightenment ------Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding , William Blake, Robert Burns 6. Romantic English Literature (1798-1832) -----William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, Charles Lamb 7. Critical Realistic Literature in the 19th Century -----Charles Dickens, W.M. Thackeray, Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot etc. 8. 20th Century English Literature ----Hardy, Galsworthy, Bernard Shaw ---- 1) Realistic writing ---- 2) Modernism ---- 3) English literature since 1945 Examination 题????型 例????题 I. Multiple Choice: ????Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. (20 points) 1．From the following choose the one that is not written by Francis Bacon. ( ) a.The Advancement of Learning b. The New Instrument c. Of Studies d. The Rape of the Lock 2．Gulliver’s Travels is a _______. ( ) a. sentimental novel b. novel of satire and allegory c. Gothic novel d. novel of stream of consciousness II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false: (10 points ) 1. Humanist writings affirm the value of man and repudiate the absolute control of man by God. ( ???? )2. The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is Edmund Spenser ( ????? ) III. Fill in each of the following blanks: (15 points) 1