Walter Scott司各特.ppt

Walter Scott(1771—1832 )瓦尔特·司各特 I. Life Story II. Scott‘s Works 1. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 《苏格兰边区歌谣集》, which he had collected among the Scottish people for many years. 2.The Lay of the Last Minstrel,《最末一个行吟诗人》 3. Marmion《玛密恩》 4. The Lady of the Lake《湖上夫人》 5. Waverley《威弗利》, first historical novel. 6. Scott’s Historical Novels 1.Quentin Durward 《昆丁·达沃德》, the best-known novel on French history. 2. Talisman 《惊军英雄记》 3. Count Robert of Paris《巴黎的罗伯特伯爵》 St. Ronan’s Wells《圣·罗南之泉》, the only one, dealing with his contemporary life (当代生活小说). III. Features of Scott’s Novels 1.Scott has an outstanding gift of vivifying the past. 2. In his novels, historical events are closely interwoven with the fates of individuals. 3. In his historical novels, he concerns both the lives and deeds of the higher class and that of the ordinary people. 4. He is a romantic. 5. He is a Tory, a conservative in politics. Scott’s historical novels paved the way for the development of the realistic novels of the 19th century and marks the transition from romanticism to realism in English literature of the 19th century. Ivanhoe 1) The title a. Derived from an old rhyme recording the names of three manors forfeited by a nobleman for striking the Black Prince with his tennis racket (“Tring, Wing and Ivanhoe were the three estates”); b. Scott’s choice of the title: it has an ancient English sound and it gives no indication of the subject matter of the story ( lest the readers should expect too much). 2. Setting  The action takes place in England in the summer of 1194, when the nations illustrious warrior king, Richard I, returns to his homeland from the Third Crusade in the Holy Land. Scott describes the specific locale (in northern England, east of present-day Manchester) in the opening paragraph. In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautifu