英国文学必掌握的名词解释及作品

1、【精品文档】如有侵权，请联系网站删除，仅供学习与交流英国文学必掌握的名词解释及作品.精品文档.Literary Terms1. Alliteration：alliteration is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby words. The term is usually applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word.2. Romance

2、：It is a literary genre（类型,风格）popular in the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century), dealing, in verse or prose, with legendary（传奇的. 著名的）, supernatural, or amorous subjects and characters. The name refers to Romance languages and originally denoted any lengthy composition in one of those lan

3、guages. Later the term was applied to tales specifically concerned with knights, chivalry, and courtly love. 3. Renaissance：Renaissance (“rebirth”) is the name commonly applied to the period of European history following the Middle Ages; it is usually said to have begun in Italy in the late fourteen

4、th century and to have continued, both in Italy and other countries.4. Sonnet：a lyric poem（抒情诗）consisting of a single stanza（节,段）of fourteen iambic pentameter（五音步抑扬格）lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme.5. Morality play：the miracle play had as its subject either a story from the bible, or else

5、the life and martyrdom（ 殉难）of a saint.6. Metaphysical poetry：A term that can be applied to any poetry that deals with philosophical or spiritual matters but that is generally limited to works written by a specific group of 17th century poets are linked by style and modes of poetic organization.

6、7.Neoclassicism：A style of Western literature that flourished from the mid-seventeenth until the end of the eighteenth century and the rise of Romanticism.8. Gothic novel：An alternative term is Gothic romance. It is a story of terror and suspense, usually set in a gloomy old castle of monastery.9. E

7、nglish Romanticism：A term applied to literary and artistic movements of the late18th and early19th century.10. Byronic Hero：A stereotyped character created by Byron. This kind of hero is usually a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.11. Negative capacity：The phrase used by the English poe

8、t John Keats to describe the quality of self lesser captivity necessary to a true poet.12.the Oxford Movement (1833-1845)：It was a movement of High Church Anglicans, eventually developing into Anglo-Catholicism.13. the Aesthetic Movement：It places art above life, and holds that life should imitate a

9、rt, not art imitate life. According to the aesthetes, all artistic creation is absolutely subjective as opposed to objective. Only when art is for arts sake, can it be immortal.14. Utilitarianism：It is an ethical theory holding that the proper course of action is the one that maximizes the overall &

10、quot;happiness", by whatever means necessary. It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined only by its resulting outcome, and that one can only weigh the morality of an action after knowing all its consequences.15. Wessex novels：These novels des

11、cribe the unexpected and huge changes in fields of society, economy, politics, ethics, and customs in England after the invasion of Capitalism, and the miserable fate of the broken farmers, and discover the potential crisis of the society in England which is under the mask of the Victorian thrive. 1

12、6. Modernism：A general term applied retrospectively to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in literature of the early 20th century, including Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Imagism, Vorticism, Dada, and Surrealism, along with the innovations of the unaffiliated writers.17. Blo

13、omsbury Group：（找不到、）18. Postmodernism：A term referring to certain radically experimental works of literature and art produced after World War II.Selected Readings1. The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue) in the Selected Readings Book2. Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1 in the Selected Readings Book3. Sonnet 18

14、 in the Selected Readings Book3. Of Studies in the Selected Readings Book4. Of Marriage and Single Life in the Selected Readings Book 5. Holy Sonnet 10 in the Selected Readings Book6. Paradise Lost (Book 1, Lines 111-179) in the Selected Readings Book7. Robison Crusoe (An Excerpt from Chapter IV) in

15、 the Selected Readings Book8. Gullivers Travels (Chapter VII) in the Selected Readings Book9. The Chimney Sweeper in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience10. London by William Blake11. A Red, Red, Rose in the Selected Readings Book12. Auld Lang Syne in the Selected Readings Book13. William

16、Wordsworth: The Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla KhanGeorge Gordon Byron: She Walks in BeautyPercy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West WindJohn Keats: Ode on a Grecian UrnAlfred Tennyson: The Eagle; Break, Break, BreakRobert Browning: My Last DuchessMatthew Arnold: Dover Beach William Butler Yeats: The Second ComingJane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Charlotte Bronte: Jane EyreCharles Dicke