英国文学选读.ppt

AHistoryofEnglishLiterature(II)Lecturer:TaoYingBISUFall,2011

CourseOrientationAlectureusu.includesAbriefintroductiontotheauthorandtheselectedworkAclosestudyoftheexcerptDiscussionTextbooksAssessmentAttendance,presentationsandquizzes30%Mid-termexam10%Finalexam60%Ifthestudentis5timesabsentfromclass,nogradewillbesubmittedtohim.

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AnoutlineofthehistoricaldevelopmentofEnglishLiterature1.EarlyandMedievalPeriod(ca.5th--late15th)2.TheEnglishRenaissance(late15th–early17th)3.TheEnglishBourgeoisRevolution(the17thCentury)4.TheEnlightenmentandClassicism(the18thCentury)5.TheEnglishRomanticism(1798-1830)6.TheEnglishCriticalRealism(1830-1901)7.TheTwentiethCenturyEnglishLiterature

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1.EarlyandMedievalPeriod

(ca5th--late15th)450-1066:Anglo-SaxonPeriod:Beowulf(OldEnglish)1066-1500:MiddleEnglishPeriod:GeoffreyChaucer:TheCanterburyTales

2.TheEnglishRenaissance

(late15th–early17th)TheReformationandtheriseofbourgeoisclassHumanismThomasMore:UtopiaPhilipSidney:sonnets,AstrophelandStellaEdmundSpencer:TheFaerieQueeneChristopherMarlowe:DoctorFaustusWilliamShakespeare:RomeoandJulietBenJonson:Volpone,ortheFoxTheKingJamesBible

3.TheEnglishBourgeoisRevolution(the17thCentury)TheBourgeoisRevolutionandtheRestorationJohnMilton:“OnHisBlindness”JohnBunyan:ThePilgrim’sProgressJohnDonne:metaphysicalpoetFrancisBacon:“OfMarriageandSingleLife”

4.TheEnlightenmentandClassicism(the18thCentury)TheEnlightenmentandthe18thCenturyEnglandRepresentativepoet:AlexanderPopeEssayists:JosephAddisonandRichardSteeleSamuelJohnson:criticismandtheEnglishdictionary(his“Letter”)

:TheRiseofNovelin18thCenturyDanielDe