Literature and English literature(文学和英国文学介绍)课件整理.pptVIP

Literature is literally a body of work about a particular subject. ;Why We Read Literature?;What are the differences between literary language and non-literary language? ;(2) While literary language is highly “connotative”(内涵的）. It is far from merely referential. It is expressive, conveying writer’s feelings, attitudes and tone between the lines; it is ambiguous(多歧义的）, the interpretation varies with context and reader.;Four Genres of Literature;An Outline of English Literature;OLD ENGLISHAchievements;II. Middle English Period (1066-1485);Achievements;III. The Renaissance Period (1485-early 17th century);Writers and Works:; William Shakespeare;Writers and works: John Milton: Paradise Lost 失乐园 John Buyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress 天路历程 (Metaphysical poet) John Donne: Songs and Sonnets 歌与十四行诗 William Congreve: Love for love 以爱还爱;Literary TraitsEnlightenment and Neoclassism , the early age of Romanticism ; Poetry: Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Rock 劫发记 Prose: Jonathan Swift: Guilliver’s Travels 格列佛游记 Samuel Johnson: The Preface of Shakespeare 莎士比亚戏剧集序言 The Lives of Great Poets 诗人传 (A Dictionary of English Language 英语词典);;VI. The Romantic Age(1789-1837);A: Poetry: William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads 抒情歌谣集 Byron: Dan Juan 唐璜 Shelley: Ode to the West Wind 西风颂 John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale 夜莺颂 ;B. Drama: Byron: Manfred Shelley: Prometheus Unbound C. Novel: Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma. Walter Scott: Ivanhoe ;;A. Novel: Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectation, A Tale of Two Cities William Thackeray: Vanity Fair, The History of Henry Esmond George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss, Silas Manner Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbevilles, Jude the Obscure. ;B. Poetry: Tennyson Browning Arnold (Big Three) Tennyson: In Memoriam Browning: The Ring and the Book Arnol