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刘炳善《英国文学简史》复习要点
Part One: Early and Medieval English Literature
1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark(丹麦) story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements (此处可能会有填空,选择等小题)
2. Romance (名词解释)
3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story
4. Ballad(名词解释)
5. Character of Robin Hood
6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet)
7. Heroic couplet (名词解释)
Part Two: The English Renaissance
8. The Authorized Version of English Bible and its significance(填空选择)
9. Renaissance(名词解释)
10.Thomas More——Utopia
11. Sonnet(名词解释)
12. Blank verse(名词解释)
13. Edmund Spenser
“The Faerie Queene”; Amoretti (collection of his sonnets)
Spenserian Stanza(名词解释)
14. Francis Bacon “essays” esp. “Of Studies”(推荐阅读,学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照,本文用词正式优雅,多排比句和长句,语言造诣非常高,里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句,非常值得一读)
15. Christopher Marlowe (“Doctor Faustus” and his achievements)
16. William Shakespeare可以说是英国文学史中最重要的作家,一定要看熟了。四大喜剧,四大悲剧比较重要,此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了,这些剧的主题,背景,情节,人物形象都要熟悉,当然他最重要的喜剧作品是Hamlet这是肯定的。他的sonnet也很重要,最重要属sonnet18。(其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读)
17. Ben Jonson个别戏剧的名字要能和人对上号,如Every Man in His Humor, 二外好像在这里出过一道匹配题,但是不用看太具体。
Part Three: The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution
18. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要,特别是Paradise Lost和Samson Agonistes。对于Paradise Lost需要知道它是blank verse写成的,故事情节来自Old Testament,具体情节在课本124页,另外要知道此书theme和Satan的形象。对于Samson Agonistes要知道它是poetical drama,知道故事大概情节及其来源。另外129页到130页brief summary中5条要看。
19. John Bunyan——The Pilgrim’s Progress
20. Founder of the Metaphysical school——John Donne; features of the school: philosophical poems, complex rhythms and strange images
21. Andrew Marvell 此人不重要,但他有一首名诗To His Coy Mistress
22. John Dryden——“All for Love”(a tragedy); “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”(Literary criticism); forerunner of the Classicism in Britain
Part Four: The Eighteen Century
23. Enlightenment(名词解释)
24. Classicism(名词解释)
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