现代大学英语精读课程unit 1.pptVIP

Collective Readings from British and American Literature Part A British Literature (The Fall Term, 2005-2006) Part B American Literature (The Spring Term, 2006) Performance Attendance Quizzes Discussion Homework Mid-term exam. Final-term exam. Literature in prose or verse Imaginative, creative, of recognized artistic value: Augustine A work of art should thus lead us to appreciate the conception of the artist, and this, like the beauty of nature itself, should lead us to a contemplation of the immutable beauty which is its source. The Middle Ages Renaissance Humanism What a piece of work is man; how noble in reason; how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel; in apprehension how like a god! Hamlet, Shakespeare the greatness of man culture Greco-Roman Judeo-Christian Greek and Roman The Bible and Christianity The Middle Ages Renaissance and Reformation The 17th C.—Science The Age of Enlightenment Romanticism Realism Modernism British Literature Epic: Beowulf Geoffrey Chaucer The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Life 1340-44 ----1400 His Contemporaries Guan Hanqing: The Injustice Done to Dou E (Snow in Midsummer) Dante: The Divine Comedy Boccaccio: The Decameron Works Subject matter: Genre Tone Style Genre “poetic genres“ Epic lyric Dramatic Comedy Tragedy melodrama prose genre” Fiction non-fiction Tone Formal Informal Playful Ironic Optimistic pessimistic Style Scientific Ornate Plain emotive The Canterbury Tales Above is a pilgrimage scene from a stained glass window inCanterbury Cathedral. Canterbury Way (The Road to Canterbury)-London-Rochester- Canterbury  Saint Augustine Thomas à Becket Pilgrimages The General Prologue April Aries Medieval Popular Astrology Three Estates right: Priest, Knight, and Labourer,the Three Estates of the Middle Ages. The Clerks