middle english literature and Geoffrey_chaucer中古英语文学.ppt

The Anglo-Norman Period(1066-1400)Medieval English Literature;Father of English Poetry;Content;Ⅰ. Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400);Historical background;Some previous literary sources;Literary career;III. The Canterbury Tales;The Canterbury Cathedral; The Canterbury Tales;Origin of The Canterbury Tales;5.The Outline and the Prologue;The Prologue(开场白);The Prologue(开场白);;The prioress;The Knight;The Oxford Clerk;Chaucer;The Wife of Bath;The Monk;The Squire;The Pardoner;Summoner;The Friar行乞修道士 ;The Miller;The Prologue;6.The Tales ;7.The Wife of Bath （巴斯城的妇女）;The Wife of Bath’s Tale;Chaucer’s greatest work and the greater part of it was written in heroic couplets. A true-to-life picture of Chaucer’s time; It gives a comprehensive picture of Chaucer’s time. The gentle class--- the burgher(市民)---- the professionals Exposes and satirizes the evils of his time Presenting Chaucer’s humanistic views ;Chaucer’s Contribution;Chaucer’s Contribution;Notes;3. Heroic Couplet: the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter. (英雄双韵体) 4. Iambic Pentameter: is the most common English meter, in which each foot contains an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. (五音步抑扬格) ; See how /the world /its ve/terans /rewards! A youth /of fro/lics, an /old age /of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without lovers, old without a friend. “Of the Characters of Women” ---Alexander Pope ;Question;Question;7. Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter means ???A. the line has 6 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.????? B. the line has 6 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.????? C. the line has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.????? D. the line has 5 feet, and a stressed syllable is foll