英国文学史资料British Writers and Works
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英国文学史资料British Writers and Works
I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages
1.
Definition of alliteration: a rhetorical device, meaning some
words in a sentence begin with the same consonant sound(头韵)
Some examples on P5
2.
Definition of understatement: expressing something in a controlled way Understatement is a typical way for Englishmen to express their ideas
(首创“双韵体”,英国文学史上首先用伦敦方言写作。约翰·德莱顿(John Dryden)称其为“英国诗歌之父”。代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》。)
The father of English poetry.
① <The Canterbury Tales>坎特伯雷故事集:
first time to use ‘heroic couplet’(双韵体) by middle English
②<Troilus and Criseyde>特罗伊拉斯和克莱希德
③ <The House of Fame>声誉之宫
Medieval Ages’ popular Literary form: Romance(传奇故事)
II The Renaissance Period
A period of drama and poetry. The Elizabethan drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.
Renaissance: the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
Three historical events of the Renaissance – rebirth or revival:
1.
2.
3.
The most famous dramatists:
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson.
1.
(后人称之为“诗人的诗人”。) The poets’ poet. The first to be buried in the Poet’s corner of Westerminster Abbey
Artistic features:
1.
② <The Shepherds Calendar>牧人日历
③ <Amoretti>爱情小唱
2.
①<Utopia>乌托邦
3.
(哲学家、散文家;在论述探究知识的著作中提出了知识就是力量这一著名论断;近代唯物主义哲学的奠基人和近代实验科学的先驱。)
Philosopher, scientist, lay the foundation for modern science. The first English essayist.
Writing style:brevity, compactness&powerfulness, well-arranging and enriching by Biblical allusions, metaphors and philosophy to man’s reason.
①<The Advancement of Learning>学术的推进
②<Essays>随笔(famous quotas: <Of studies>)
The theme of Of
4.
①<Comedy of Humours>
②<Volpone, or the fox>狐狸
5. Christopher Marlowe柯里斯托弗•马洛1564~1595
(完善了无韵体诗。)
Blank verse: written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
①<The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus>浮士德博士的悲剧(根据德国民间故事书写成)
②<Tamburlaine>帖木耳大帝
③<The Jew
of
6.
②Four Comedies: <As You Like It>皆大欢喜; <Twelfth Night>第十二夜; <A Midsummer Night’S Dream>仲夏夜之梦; <Merchant Of Venice>威尼斯商人
③Four Tragedies: <Hamlet>哈姆莱特; <Othello>奥赛罗; <King Lear>李尔王; <Macbeth>麦克白
④Shakespeare Sonnet :154 <The Sonnets>
III
(诗人、政论家;失明后写 《失乐园》、《复乐园》、《力士参孙》。)
①Epics:
②Dramatic
poem:
③ <Areopagitica>论出版自由
<The Defence of the English People>为英国人民声辩
④ <On His
Blindness>我的失明
This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter rhymed in abba abba cde cde, typical of Italian sonnet.
Its theme is that people use their talent for God, and they serve him best sho can endure the suffering best.
2.
(代表作《天路历程》,宗教寓言,被誉为“具有永恒意义的百科全书”,是英国文学史上里程碑式著作。与但丁的《神曲》、奥古斯丁的《忏悔录》并列为世界三大宗教题材文学杰作。)
Puritan poet(清教徒派诗人)
①Religionary
3. John Donne
the Metaphysical poet(玄学派诗人).
Metaphysical Poetry(玄学诗):(用语)the diction is simple, the imagery is from the actual, (形式)the form is frequently an argument with the poet’s beloved, with god, or with himself.(主题:love, religious, thought)
Artistic features:
1.
2.
The Flea 虱子
② Songs And Sonnets
Holy Sonnets
③Valediction:<Forbidding Mourning>
IV The 18th Century
The Age of Enlightenment/Reason: the movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centries, a progressive intellectual movement, reason(rationality), equality&science(the 18th century)
小说崛起:In the mid-century, the newly literary form, modern English novel rised(realistic novel现实主义小说)
Gothic novel(哥特式小说):mystery, horror, castles(from middle part to the end of century)
1.
(18世纪英国最伟大的诗人,其诗多用“英雄双韵体”/ “ heroic couplets”。词句工整、精练、富有哲理性。)
One of the first to introduce rationalism to England.
①<An Essay on Criticism>批评论
② <The Rape of the Lock>卷发遇劫记
③ <Moral
Essays>道德论
<Essay on
Man>人论
<The Dunciad>愚人记
2.
3.
(十八世纪杰出的政论家和讽刺小说家a master satirist。)
①
<Gulliver’s
Travels>格列佛游记(fictional work)
<A Modest Proposal>一个小小的建议
② <The Battle of Books>书战
③ <A Tale of a Tub>木桶的故事
④ <The Drapper’s Letters>一个麻布商的书信
4.
(小说家,新闻记者,小册子作者;十八世纪英国现实主义小说的奠基人。)
He is the first writer study of the lower-class people,hislanguage is smooth, easy, colloquial and mostly vernacular, and he is the founder of realistic novel.
① <Robinson Crusoe>鲁宾逊漂流记
It praise the fortitude of the human labor and the Puritan.
Robinson grew from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man,tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.
It is an adventure story, Robinson, narrates how he goes to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned on a lonely island, struggles to live for 24-years there and finally gets relieved and returns to England.
② <Moll Flanders>
③ <Colonel Jacque>
④ <Captain singleton>
5.
(英国小说家,戏剧家,被誉为“英国小说之父” 。)
① novels:
<The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling>弃婴汤姆•琼斯
<The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews>约瑟夫•安德鲁
<The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild, the Great>大诗人江奈生•威尔德
<Amelia>爱米利亚
② plays:
<The Historical Register for 1736>一七三六年历史记事
<Don Quixote in England>堂吉柯德在英国
6.
① poems:
② novel:
7.
① <The Rivals>情敌
② <The School for Scandal>造谣学校
8. William Blake威廉•布莱克1757~1827
① <Songs of Innocence>天真之歌
② <Songs of Experience>经验之歌
Include:
<London>
<The Tyger>
③
9.
Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect主要用苏格兰方言写的诗
① <John Anderson, My Jo>约翰•安德生,我的爱人
② <A Red, Red Rose>一朵红红的玫瑰
③ <Auld Long Syne>往昔时光
④ <A Man’s a Man for A’That>不管那一套
⑤ <My Heart’s in the Highlands>我的心在那高原上
⑥ <Bruce At Bannockburn>
⑦ <The Tree Of Liberty>
V The Romantic Period
Two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen (realistic) and Walter Scott (romantic).
“The Lake Poets”湖畔诗人,who lived in the lake district.
1.
(与柯尔律治、骚塞同被称为“湖畔派”诗人。 The Lake Poets)
① <Lyrical Ballads>抒情歌谣集(with Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
② <I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud>
③ Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
④ The Solitary Reaper孤独的割麦女
② <The Prelude>序曲
2.
① <The Rime of the Ancient Mariner>古舟子颂
② <Christabel>柯里斯塔贝尔
③ <Kubla Khan>忽必烈汗
Artistic features: mysticism, demonism with strong
imagination,
④ <Frost at Night>半夜冰霜
⑤ <Dejection, an Ode>忧郁颂
⑥ <Lyrical Ballads>抒情歌谣集(with William Wordsworth)
3.
(拜伦式英雄Byronic heroes孤傲、狂热、浪漫,却充满了反抗精神。内心充满了孤独与苦闷,却又蔑视群小。恰尔德·哈罗德是拜伦诗歌中第一个“拜伦式英雄”。)
① <Don Juan>唐•璜
<Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage>恰尔德•哈罗德尔游记
<Cain>该隐
② <When We Two Parted>当初我们俩分别
<She Walks In
Beauty>
4.
① Poetic Drama:<Prometheus Unbound>解放了的普罗米修斯
② <Queen Mab>麦布女王
<Revolt of Islam>伊斯兰的反叛
<The Cenci>钦契一家
<A Defence of Poetry>诗辩
<The Necessity of Atheism>无神论的必要性
③ Lyrics:
<Ode to the West Wind>西风颂
<To a Skylark>致云雀
5.
(“美即是真,真即是美”是他的著名诗句。)
<Ode to a Nightingale>夜莺颂
<Ode to Psyche>心灵颂
<Ode On Melancholy> 忧郁颂
② <To Autumn>秋颂
6.
She compared her works to a fine engraving upon a literary piece of ivory only inches squire.
① <Sense and Sensibility>理智与感情
<Pride and Prejudic> 傲慢与偏见(chapter I)
【Collins & Charlotte Lucas】see the reality of marriage as a necessary step if a woman is to avoid the wretchedness of aging spinsterhood
【Lydia & Wickham】shown the dangers of feckless relationships unsupported by money.
【Mr.&Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Collins, Lady Catherine de Burgh】comic characters
<Mansfield Park>曼斯菲尔德庄园
<Emma>爱玛
<Northanger Abbey>诺桑觉寺
<Persuasion>劝导
7. Walter Scott沃尔特•斯科特1771~1832
① <Rob
Roy>
②
<Ivanhoe>
VI
Common sense and moral propreity, again became the predominant preoccupation. Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common people and everyday events.
1.
(批判现实主义小说家)critical realist writer
① <The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club>匹克威克外传
② <Oliver Twist>奥利弗•特维斯特(雾都孤儿)
③ <The Old Curiosity Shop>老古玩店
④
⑤ <Dombey and Son>董贝父子
⑥
⑦ <Bleak House>荒凉山庄
<Hard Times>艰难时世
⑧ <A Tale of Two Cities>双城记(London & Paris)
⑨ <Great Expectations>远大前程
⑩ <Our Mutual
Friend>我们共同的朋友
2.
①<Vanity Fair> or a Novel without a Hero名利场(the name is an excerpt from <The Pilgrim’s Progress>by John Bunyan)
②<The Book Of Snobs>
3. Charlotte Bronte夏洛蒂•勃朗特1816~1855
① <Jane Eyre>简•爱
Jane Eyre, a plain little orphan, was sent to Lowood, a charity school. There she suffer a lot and 8 years later she left school and became a boverness at Thornfield Hall. There she falls in love with the master,Mr. Rochester.
It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g. charity institution such as Lowood School
It is a successful introduction to the first governess heoine in the English novel, whom represents those middle-class working women struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being.
② <Shirley>雪莉
③ <Professor>教师
4.
① < Wuthering Heights>呼啸山庄
A story about two familie and an intruding stranger.
【TheEarnshaw Family】Mr. Earnshaw, his wife, the son Hindley, the daughter Catherine, Heathcliff
【The Linton Family】Mr.Linton, his wife, son Edgar, daughter Isabella
② < Old Stoic>
5.
① <The Mill on the Floss>弗洛斯河上的磨坊
② < Adam Bede>亚当•比德
③ < Silas Marner>织工马南
④
6.
(维多利亚时代最具代表性的伟大诗人)
Poet Laureate (桂冠诗人)
① < In Memoriam>悼念
② < Break, Break, Break>冲击、冲击、冲击
③ < Idylls of the King>国王叙事诗
7.
① < My Last Dutchess>我已故的公爵夫人
② < Home Thoughts From Abroad>海外乡思
Elizabeth Barrett Browing:
① <Sonnet from the Portuguese>葡萄牙十四行诗
8.
① <Treasure Island>金银岛
9. Thomas Hardy托马斯•哈代1840~1928
(小说多以农村生活为背景;自然主义小说家。Wessex novels; novels of character and
environment)
① < Tess Of The D’Urbervilles>德伯家的苔丝
Theme:experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration
② < Jude The Obscure>无名的裘德
③ < Under The Greenwood Tree>绿荫下
④
⑤ < The Mayor Of Casterbridge>卡斯特桥市长
⑥
⑵
Wessex Poems And Other Verses
Poems Of The Past And Present
The Dynasts
VII
Playwrights
① Oscar Wilde
② George Bernard Shaw
1. Oscar
Wilde奥斯卡•王尔德1856~1900
(The Aesthetic Movement: Art for Art’s
Sake)
① 4
<The Importance Of Being
Earnest>认真的重要
<Lady Windermere’s
Fan>温德米尔夫人的扇子
<A Woman Of No Importance>一个无足轻重的女人
<An Ideal Husband>理想的丈夫
② Novel:
<The Picture Of Dorian Gray>多利安•格雷的画像
③ Fairy Stories:
<The Happy Prince And Other Tales>快乐王子故事集
2. George Bernard Shaw乔治•伯纳•萧1856~1950
(英国杰出的批判现实主义剧作家)critical realistic dramatist
① Plays Unpleasant
<Mrs Warren’S Profession>华伦夫人的职业
<Widowers’
② Plays Pleasant
<Arms And Man>武器与人
<The Man Of Destiny>左右命运的人
③Plays
<Man And Superman>人与超人
<Pygmalion>匹格玛利翁
<The Apple Cart>苹果车
<Saint Joan>圣女贞德
Novelists (Realists)
1. Joseph Concrad
①<Lord Jim>吉姆爷
②<Heart Of Darkness>黑暗的心
1.Why the book’s title is Heart of Darkness?
The story happened in Congo, the heart of Africa, and the color of people’s skin in there is black. Most important point about the title is to the evil in humans’ heart.
2.What is the symbolism of black and white
【Black / dark- 】death, evil, ignorance, mystery, savagery, uncivilized
Middle Ages, when science and knowledge was suppressed, as the Dark Ages.
According to Christianity, in the beginning of time all was dark and God created light.
According to Heart of Darkness, before the Romans came, England was dark. In the same way, Africa was considered to be in the “dark stage”.
【White / light】life, goodness, enlightenment, civilized, religion.
Yet, in Concrad, the usual pattern is reverse and darkness means
truth(The truth within, therefore dark and obscure.), whiteness
means falsehood. This
White also suggests any number of unpleasant moral truths. The trade in ivory is white and dirty.Kurtz the white man is totally corrupt
The book implies that civilizations are created by the laws and codes that encourage men to achieve higher standards. The law acts as a buffer to prevent men from reverting back to their darker tendencies.
Civilization, however, must be learned. London itself, in the
book a symbol of enlightenment, was once
This savagery is seen in Kurtz. Marlow meets
Kurtz and he finds a man that has totally thrown
off
4.Character
【Kurtz】 represents what every man will become if left to his own intrinsic desires without a protective, civilized environment.
【Marlow】 represents the civilized soul that has not been drawn
back into savagery by a dark, alienating
In Heart of Darkness, we have an outside narrator telling us a story he has heard from Marlow. The story Marlow tells centers around Kurtz.However, most of what Marlow knows about Kurtz, he has learned from others.They have good reason for not being truthful to Marlow. Therefore Marlow has to piece together much of Kurtz’s story.
2. William Somerset Maugham
<Of Human Bondage>人性的枷锁
3. Edward Morgan Foster (E.M.Foster)
<A Passage To India>印度之行
<Hawards
End>霍华兹别墅
Modernists
① James Joyce
② David Herbert Lawrence
③ Virgirnia Woolf
1. David Herbert Lawrence戴维•赫伯特•劳伦斯1885~1930
① <Sons And Lovers>儿子与情人(autobiographical)
【Mrs. Morel】, daughter of a middle-class family, is "a woman of character and refinement", a strong-willed, intelligent and ambitious woman who is fascinated by a warm, vigorous and sensuous coal miner, Walter Morel, and married beneath her own class.Then, she was desponded at her husband and put her love to her sons. She hopes that they will become outstanding
【Paul Morel】depends heavily on his mother’s love and help to make sense of the world around him. He struggle to free from his mother’s influence, but he failed. After his mother has died and he is left alone, in despair.
Theme:
Lawrence was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works. He believed that the healthy way of the individual’s psychological development lay in the primacy of the life implulse, or in another term, the sexual impulse.huaman sexuality was, to Lawrence, a symbol of life force.by presenting the psychological experience of indivudual human life and of human relationships, Lawrence has opened up a wide new territory to the novel
Oedipus Complex is a thematic feature of
②<The Rainbow>虹
③<Women In Love>恋爱中的女人
④
2. James Joyce詹姆斯•乔伊斯1882~1941
(爱尔兰小说家,意识流小说的代表人物)stream-of-consciousness
<Ulysses>尤利西斯(S_O_C)
<A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man>一个青年艺术家的肖像
<Finnegans Wake>芬尼根的苏醒
<Dubliners>都柏林人
3.
(意识流小说的代表人物)stream-of-consciousness
① Novels
<Mrs Dalloway>达洛维夫人
<To The Lighthouse>到灯塔去
<The Waves>浪
<The Lighthouse>
<Jacob’s Room> 雅各布的房间
<Orlando>
<Between The Acts>幕间
⑵ 2 Poets
1.William Butler Yeats威廉•勃特勒•叶茨1865~1939
(爱尔兰诗人,剧作家; The Irish nationalist
①
②
⑵ Poems
<Easter 1916>复活节,1916
<The Second Coming> 第二次来临/再世
<Sailing To Byzantium> 到拜占庭航行
2. Thomas Sterns Eliot(诗人,剧作家,批评家)
①
②
③
①