英国文学史-名词解释

1、名词解释1 Romance:a long composition, in verse or in prose, describing the life and adventures of anoble hero, especially for the knight. The most popular theme employed was the legend of KingArthur and the round table knight.2 Renaissance:a revival orrebirthof the artistic and scientificrevivalwhich or

2、iginatedinItaly in the 14thcentury and graduallyspread all over Europe. Ithas twofeatures: a thirstingcuriosity for the classical literature and keen interest in activities of humanity.3 Sonnet: 14-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter.4 Enlightenment : a revivalofinterestin t

3、he old classical works, logic, order,restrainedemotion and accuracy.5 Neoclassicism: the Enlightenment brought about a revival of interest in Greek and Romanworks. This tendency is known as Neoclassicism.6 Romanticism:imagination,emotionand freedom are certainlythe focalpointsofromanticism. The part

4、icular characteristics of the literature of romanticism include: subjectivity and an emphasis on individualism; freedom from rules; solitary life rather then life in society; the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason; and love of and worship of nature.7 Byronic Heroes: a variant of the Roma

5、ntic heroes as a type of character( enthusiasm, persistence, pursuing freedom), named after the English Romantic Poet Gordon Byron.8 Realism: seeks to portray familiar characters, situations, and settings in a realistic manner. This is done primarily by using an objective narrative point of view and

6、 through the buildup of accurate detail.9 Aestheticism: an art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than socio-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts.10 Stream-of-Consciousness: it is a literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a char

7、acter as they occur without any clarification by the author. It is a narrative mode.11 Epic: a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated.一、 The Anglo-Saxon period (449-1066)1、这个时期的文学作品分类：pagan(异教徒 ) Christian( 基督徒 )2

8、、代表作：The Song of Beowulf贝奥武甫( national epic民族史诗)采用了隐喻手法 3、 Alliteration 押头韵（写作手法）例子：of man was the mildest and most beloved,To his kin the kindest, keenest for praise.二、 The Anglo-Norman period (1066-1350)Canto诗章1、 romance传奇文学2、代表作：Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ( 高文爵士和绿衣骑士三、 Geoffrey Chaucer (1340

9、-1400)杰弗里 .乔叟时期)是一首押头韵的长诗1、 the father of English poetry英国诗歌之父2、 heroic couplet英雄双韵体： a verse unit consisting of two rhymed( 押韵 ) lines in iambicpentameter(五步抑扬格 )3、代表作： the Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷的故事(英国文学史的开端)大致内容： the pilgrims are people from various parts of England, representatives of various walk

10、s of life and social groups.精品文库朝圣者都是来自英国的各地的人,代表着社会的各个不同阶层和社会团体小说特点： each of the narrators tells his tale in a peculiar manner, thus revealing his own views and character.这些叙述者以自己特色的方式讲述自己的故事，无形中表明了各自的观点，展示了各自的性格。小说观点： he believes in the right of man to earthly happiness. He is anxious to see man f

11、reed from superstitions( 迷信 ) and a blind belief in fate( 盲目地相信命运 ). 他希望人们能从迷信和对命运的盲从中解脱出来。4、 Popular Ballads 大众民谣： a story hold in 4-line stanzas with second and fourth linerhymed( 笔记 )Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission( 书上 ).歌谣是匿名叙事歌曲,一直保存着口头传播的方式。代

12、表人物： Bishop Thomas Percy 托马斯.帕希主教 代表作： Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale 罗宾汉和阿林代尔四、 The Renaissance (16世纪 ) 文艺复兴时期Greek and Roman） 戏剧 drama 诗章 cantoThe term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of classical (Greek and Roman) arts andsciences.文艺复兴最初是指经典艺术和科学在英国的复兴。The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a

13、 particular development of English drama文艺复兴时期的英国戏剧也得到了迅速的发展。1、 key work: humanism人文主义：admire human beauty and human achievement2、代表人物： 1)、Thomas More 托马斯 .莫尔 Utopia 乌托邦 2)、Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯 . 培根 第一个散文家 (essayist) 3)、 Thomas Wyatt 托马斯 .怀亚特 引入十四行诗的第一人sonnet(十四行诗 )： form of poetry intricately rhymed(

14、 间隔押韵 ) in 14 lines iambic pentameter 4)、Edmund Spenser 埃德蒙 .斯宾塞 poets poet(诗人中的诗人 ) The Fairy Queen仙后 (epic poem 史诗 ) 5)、Christopher Marlowe 克里斯托弗 .马洛 blank verse(无韵体：不押韵的五步抑扬格 ) 是十六世纪英国戏剧的主要表现形式。6)、William Shakespeare威廉姆 .莎士比亚戏剧 drama四大悲剧： Hamlet( 哈姆雷特 )， Othello( 奥赛罗 )， King Lear( 李尔王 )，The Trage

15、dy of Macbeth( 麦克白 )五、 the period of Revolution and Restoration (17世纪 ) 资产阶级革命与王权复辟prose 散文 1、文学特点： the Puritans(清教徒 ) believed in simplicity of life 、disapproved of the sonnets and the love poetry、breaking up of old ideals. 清教徒崇尚俭朴的生活、拒绝十四行诗和爱情诗、与旧思想脱离。2、代表人物：1)、John Donne 约翰 .多恩 “ metaphysical”poe

16、ts (玄学派诗人 ) 的代表人物 sonnet 十四行诗 Death be not proud (笔记 )2)、John Milton约翰 .弥尔顿a great poet 诗人（ poem 诗歌blank verse ）Defense for the English People 为英国人辩护 Paradise Lost失乐园 “Satan is not a villain ”撒旦不是坏人 Paradise Regained复乐园 ) 、John Bunyan 约翰 .拜扬 a great prose writer “give us the only great allegory( 寓言

17、)” Pilgrim s Progress天路历程 prose 散文六、 The Age of Enlightenment (18世纪 ) 启蒙运动prose 散文1、 Emphasized formality or correctness of style, to write prose like Addison, or verse like Pope.欢迎下载2精品文库强调正确的格式和写作规范，像艾迪生一样创作散文，和蒲柏一样创作诗歌。The Enlightenment was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class

18、of bourgeoisie against feudalism.启蒙运动实际上是当时先进的资产阶级同落后的封建主义斗争的一种形式。The enlighteners repudiate the false religious doctrines about the viciousness of human nature, and prove that man is born kind and honest, and if he becomes depraved, it is only due to the influence of corrupted social environment.启蒙

19、主义者颠覆了宗教所宣扬的人类本恶的观点； 论证了人生诚实而友善， 而腐化堕落则是后天腐败的社会环境所致。Contrary to all reasoning, social injustice still held strong, found the power of reason to be insufficient, and therefore appealed to sentiment as a means of achieving happiness and social justice.无论怎样讲究理性， 社会不平等现象仍然普遍存在， 理性的力量明显不足。 因此呼吁把情感的诉求作为一种

20、谋求幸福和社会公平的手段。2、 18th century 文学的三个方面：Classicism( 古典主义 )、 revival of romantic poetry( 新兴的浪漫主义诗歌)、 beginnings of themodern novel( 刚启萌的现代派小说) 3、代表人物：1)、 Daniel Defoe 丹尼尔 .笛福realisticnovel 现实主义小说Novel ： Robinson Crusoe鲁宾逊漂流记 Jonathan Wild乔纳森 .威尔德 Moll Flanders 摩尔 .弗兰德斯 2) 、Henry Fielding 亨利 .菲尔丁 father

21、of modern fiction( 现代小说之父 ) Joseph Andrews约瑟夫 .安德鲁斯 受到了理查森的帕美勒的启发 3)、 Jonathan Swift 乔纳森 .斯威夫特 Gulliver s Travels格列佛游记 novel 反讽作品特点： no visible sign of anger, nor raising the voice; the tone is cold, restrained, ironic, varied only by some flashes of fooling when Swift s sense of the ridiculour gets

22、 the better of him.努不动颜，骂不扬声，语调冷酷，锋芒暗藏，讽刺辛辣，仅在讽喻之情难以抑制时才偶露揶揄之态。 A Modest Proposal 一个温和的建议4)、 Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔 .理查森Pamela帕美勒The method of psychological analysis心理分析的方法In the form of letters书信体小说5)、Richard B. Sheridan理查德 .B.谢尔丹School for Scandal 造谣学校，喜剧 comedy6)、Oliver Goldsmith s 奥利佛 .哥尔德斯密斯散文作家

23、essayist The Vicar ofWakefield 威克菲尔德的牧师，小说 novel She Stoops to Conquer委曲求全，欢乐喜剧 rollicking comedy The Deserted Village 荒村，诗歌 poems 4、Sentimentalism 感伤主义 no belief 没有信仰 The representatives of sentimentalism continued to struggle against feudalism but they vaguely sensed at the same time the contradic

24、tions of bourgeois progress that brought with it enslavement and ruin to the people. 感伤主义的代表人物在继续反对封建主义的同时又模糊的感觉到资本主义进程中出现的种种矛盾，感觉到资本主义制度对人性的奴役和破坏。 代表人物： Thomas Gray 托马斯 .格雷 Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard 墓园挽歌七、 the Romantic Period (1798-1832) 浪漫主义散文prose 1、前浪漫主义代表人物：William Blake威廉 .布莱克诗人po

25、et Robert Burns 罗伯特 .彭斯苏格兰诗人poetPre-Romanticism was greatly influenced by the IndustrialRevolution and the French Revolution2、教育意义Educational ： liberty, equality and fraternity自由，平等，博爱3、开始的标志：beginning with the publication of William Wordsworth s Lyrical Ballads 4、 lake poets(湖畔诗人 )： Coleridge South

26、ey Wordsworth5、代表人物：1)、WilliamWordsworth威廉 .华兹华斯poet-laureate (桂冠诗人 )欢迎下载3精品文库The Prelude序曲 自传性诗歌 Autobiographical poetry With S.T.coleridge, they jointly published the “ Lyrical Ballads ”. 与 s.t.coleridge 一起 ,联合发表了“抒情民谣”作品特点： simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional

27、forms of the 18th century poetry简单而纯洁的语言,反传统形式的18 世纪诗歌2) 、Lord Byron拜伦 Childe HaroldPilgrimage 查尔德 ?哈罗德游记cantos 诗章成名作 Don Juan唐璜poem 诗 satiricmasterpiece 讽刺的杰作 Hours of Idleness 闲散时刻poem 诗 the first volume of poem首卷诗 3)、 Percy Bysshe Shelley 雪莱 Prometheus Unbound解放的普罗米修斯 drama 戏剧 Ode to the West Win

28、d 西风颂 poem 诗 4) 、John Keats 济慈 poet 诗人 The Eve of St.Agnes圣阿格良斯之夜poem On a Greeian Urn 希腊古瓮颂poem To a Nightingale 致夜莺poem “ Beauty is truth, truth beauty ”美学原则5)、Walter Scott 沃特 .斯科特He is thecreator and a great master of the historical novel.他是创造者和历史小说大师6)、 Jane Austen简.奥斯丁 女 Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏

29、见 Sense and Sensibility理智与情感 Emma爱玛 写作特点： the love-making of her young people, though serious and sympathetic, issubdued by humor to the ordinary plane of emotion on which most of us live. She was the founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middleclass people. 她是中产阶级小说的发起人。7)、Charles Lamb

30、查尔斯 .兰伯 essayist 散文家 6、十九世纪散文的特点： In the first of these two periods Addison and Steele socialized the essay, so to speak; they brought it into everyday life and made it familiar and delightful to the multitude. 在这两个时期的开始，艾迪生和斯蒂尔的社会散文把散文带入日常生活,并使其熟悉和并令人愉快。Early in the nineteenth century itbecame more

31、 definitely a means of intimate self-expression. 在十九世纪前期，散文变得对自我的表达越来越肯定八、 Critical Realism批判现实主义， Victorian Period维多利亚时期humanism 人文主义1、意义： Chartism signified the first great political movement of the proletariat in English history.在英国的历史中，宪章运动是伟大的无产阶级政治运动。2、代表人物：1)、Charles Dickens狄更斯 Hard Times 艰难时

32、刻 Pickwick Papers 匹克威克外传 Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿 A Tale of Two Cities 双城记 (描述了法国大革命 French Revolution) 特点： describing themisery and sufferings of common people. 描述苦难和苦难的群众。2)、 Charlotte Bronte夏洛特.勃郎特 女 Shirley 雪利 Jane Eyre简 .爱 Emily Bronte 艾米丽 .勃郎特 Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄（主人公： Mr. Heathcliff ） 特点： brought

33、to the novel an introspection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion which before them had been the province ofpoetry alone. 3)、Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton, North and South 玛丽 .巴顿，北方和南方 4)、 William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair 名利场 this title was borrowed by Thackerayfrom The Pilgr

34、im s Progress by Bunyan. Thackeray draws a broad panorama of social life in his novel, ruthlessly criticizing money worship, cruelty and unscrupulousness. 在他的小说中描绘了广阔的社会生活，无情抨击了残酷和不择手段的拜金主义人物： Rebecca Sharp a perfectembodiment of the spirit of Vanity Fair as her only aspiration in life is to gain we

35、alth and positionby and means.唯一的愿望人生就是在名利场中，完美的获取财富和地位的手段。特点：novels mainly contain a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society 。小说是一个含有讽刺意味的上流社会写照。 5) 、George Eliot 乔治 .艾略特 女 Adam Bede novel The mill on the flossMiddlemarch Her preoccupation was always with the serious consideration of the moral position of the individual i