外教社2024新世纪新编英国文学史教程 PPT课件unit 3.pptx

Unit3TheSixteenth-CenturyPoetryandProse

Overview1.Historicalbackgroundofthe16thcenturyTheendoftheWarsoftheRosesHenryVIIIElizabethILondon

AmapofLondoninthe16thcentury

KeyWordsRenaissanceNewlearning—revivingtheclassicworksNewreligion—religiousreformationNewworld—discoveryofthenewcontinentNewcosmos—thesunasthecenterofuniverseNewscience—hypothesescouldbetestedbypreciselymeasuredobservations

AmapmadebySebastianMünster(Germancartographer?and?cosmographer),1540

IntheCopernicanheliocentricmodelpublishedin1543,thesun?isatthecenteroftheuniverse.

KeyWordsHumanism“Manisthemeasureofallthings”.CentralpositionofhumanbeingsImportanceofeducationPrimacyofreasoningRoundeddevelopment

KeyWordsReligiousReformationTheBible—theonlysourceofauthorityTheBibleinvernacularlanguagemadeavailablethroughGutenbergprintingpressHenryVIII—headofEnglishChurch

ImportantFeaturesofthe

16th-centuryPoetryandProseEnglishasaLanguageforLiteratureWritingforthepublicratherthanforacoteriecircleExpressiveenoughtorepresentitspeopleandthenationEnglishSonnetsandPastoralRomances

WritersandWorksThomasMore(1478–1535)HumanistCouncilofHenryVIIIandadiplomatDissuadedHenryVIIIfromdivorcingCatharineofAragon

Interpretation:UtopiaUtopia—Greekou(“not”)+topos(“place”)whichmeans“Noplace”.ThestoryFrameStoryUtopianandDystopianNovels??WhydidMorewriteUtopiaasaframestory?Illustrationforthe1516firsteditionof?Utopia

WritersandWorksPhilipSidney(1554-1586)CourtieroftheTudorcourtroundeddevelopmentEarlydeathintheBattleofZutphenLiteraryachievementsAstrophilandStella(sonnetcircle)Arcadia(pastoralromance)TheDefenceofPoesy(literarycriticism)

Interpretation:AstrophilandStellaRenaissancesonnetsPetrarchansonnetsvs.EnglishsonnetsHowtoreadEnglishsonnets(rhymeschemeimagery)

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