英国文学期末复习资料最新

1、英国文学期末复习一、选择1、 浪漫主义时期开始的标志：the publication of the LyricalBallads（1798） Wordsworth.结束：the death of Sir Walter Scott.18322、湖畔派诗人（Lake Poets） : Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey.3、Charles Lamb（查尔斯 兰姆）：He is important in Englishliterature for his con tributi on to the Familiar Essay（随笔/小品文）4、Walter Scott（

2、沃尔特 司各特）：the founder and greatmaster of the historical novels（历史小说之父）。5、 Browning（布朗宁）：the contributionto the Englishliterature is dramatic monologue（戏剧独白）。6、 Emily Bronte（ 艾米丽勃朗特）的小说特点：Gothic noveleg.Wutheri ng Heights7、 George Bernard Shaw（肖伯纳）:Shaw s main contributionto En glish literature is his

3、 drama. & ThomasStearns Eliot（艾略特）：代表作 The Waste Land（ 荒原）9、Steam of consciousness（意识流）的 2 位代表作家： JamesJoyce,Virg inia Woolf 10、 Angry YoungMan（愤怒的青年）出自 John Osborne s play Look Back in Angry（ 愤怒的回顾）。11、只有1部代表作的作家及作品：William Makepeace Thackeray（ 萨克雷）：Vanity Fair（ 名利 场）EmilyBronte（艾米丽 勃朗特）：Wuthering

4、Heights（呼啸山庄）Joseph Con rad:Heart of Darkn ess（黑暗心脏）George Bernard Shaw:Major Barbara（芭芭拉少女）12、Wordsworth defines poetry as ? the spontaneous overflow of feelings ?（一切好诗都是强烈情感的自然流露）。 Wordsworth 代表作:Preface to Lyrical Ballads:抒情歌谣集序言；Composedupon Westerminster Bridge: 写于威斯敏斯特桥上； The Solitary Reaper:孤

5、独的割麦女；I Wan dered Lon ely as a Cloud:我好似一朵流云独自漫步；Lines Composed a Few Miles aboveTin tern Abbey :丁登寺13、Coleridge（柯尔律治）的代表作：Kubla Khan :忽必烈汗The Rime of the An cie nt Marin er:孤舟子咏（thealbatross,a sea bird is an ome n of luck. 作者想要达到的境界：? that willingsuspensions of disbeliefwhich con stitutes poetic fa

6、ith(情愿暂时信以为真)14、Byron的代表作Childe Harold s Pilgrimage:恰伍德 哈罗尔德游记Don Juan唐璜(the satirical epic)When We Two PartedShe Walks in Beauty她身披美丽而行15、Shelly 代表作： Song to the Man of England,Ode to theWest Wind.16、John Keats: On First Looking into Chapmah s Homer,Ode to a Nightingale,To Autumn17、Charles Dicke ns

7、: Dombey and Son,Bleak House18、Lord Alfred Tennyson: Break,Break,Break;Ulysses19、Robert Browning: My Last Duchess,Meeting atNight,Parting at Morning20、The Bronte SistersEmily Bron te: Wuthering HeightCharlotte Bron te:Jane EyreAnne Bronte: Agnes Grey21、Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D Urbervilles,Jude th

8、eObscure22、Three main trends of literature:modernism,Angry YoungMen and The Theatre of the Absurd.23、D.H Lawenee: Sons and Lovers24、Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot25、 William Golding:Lord of the flies （1983 年获诺贝尔文 学奖）26、Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook27、 积极浪漫主义诗人：Keats,Byron ,Shelly28、 批判小说之父：T

9、hackeray, Dicke ns29、 ?冬天来了，春天还会远么？ 出自The Odeto the West Wind二、名词解释1、Dramatic monologueAkind of poem in which a singlefictionalorhistorical character other than the poet speaks to a silent audienee of one or more persons. Such poems reveal not the poet s own thoughts but the mind of the impers on at

10、ed 模仿； 扮演 character, whose personalityis revealedunwittingly;this distinguishesa dramatic monologue froma lyric, while the implied prese nee of an auditor distinguishes it from a soliloquy.It is a piece of spoken verse that offers great in sight into the feeli ngs of the speakers.2、The term ? stream

11、-of-consciousness? which was coinedby William James in Principlesof Psychology (1890) is usedto in dicate a literary approach to the prese ntati on of psychological aspects of characters in ficti on .It prese nts un spoke n未在口头上说出的 materials directlyfrom the psyche 心灵； 灵魂 of the characters, or make

12、the characters tell their own inner thoughts in mono logues 独白 The realm 领域 of life with which stream-of-c on scious ness no vel is concerned is men tal and spiritual experienee心理和精神经历 ,such as sensations感觉,memories, imaginations,conceptions 思想,intuitions直觉,feelings情感 and the process of association联

13、想的过程.三、作家评论Dicke nsHe is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victoria n Age. It is his serious inten ti on to expose and criticize in his works all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and corrupt ness he sees all around him.ln his early novels, he attacks one or more specific social ev

14、ils in each: for example, the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, crim inal un derworld life in Oliver Twist.His later works show the developme nt of Dicke ns towards a highly con scious artist of the moder n type.Dicke ns is a master story-teller.I nIan guage, he is ofte ncompared with Shak

15、espeare for his adept ness with the vern acular and large vocabulary with which he brings out many a wonderful verbal picture of manand scene. His humor and wit seem inexhaustible.Character-portrayalis the mostdisti nguish ing feature of his works. His best-depicted characters are those innocent, vi

16、rtuous persecuted, helpless child characters and those horrible and grotesque characters.1、Dicke ns is remembered first of all for hischaracter-portrayal.Every character his creature fin ger touched came alive.Not only the major characters but many of the minor ones in his no vels also leave un forg

17、ettable impressions on the reader s mind.He often gives his characters certainpeculiarities in appearanee, in mannerof speaking or inactionof habit by the use of exaggerationand it is these peculiarities that make them more livelytha n life itself.2、 Ano ther feature of Dicke ns s ficti onalart is h

18、is humor and satire. The great humorists of the world are few innu mber, and Dicke ns is of that choice compa ny. Satire isfreque ntly employed by Dicke ns to achieve the effect ofirony. Mea nwhile, Dicke ns is powerful in painting pictures of pathos that aim to arouse people s sympathy.3、So far as con structi on in Dicke ns s no vels isconcern ed, the main plot is ofte n in terwove n with more tha n one sub-plot so that some in teresti ng minor characters as well as a broader view of life may be introduced. Thereisan abundant variety in Dicke ns s inven ti on of