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Chapter7Literature PartOneBritishLiterature AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture LearningFocus BeowulfTheCanterburyTalesWilliamShakespeareDanielDefoeBront Sisters CharlesDickens ThomasHardyJosephConrad VirginiaWoolf AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture BeforeYouRead Warm up1 WhoisthewinnerofNobelPrizeinLiteraturein2007 2 HaveyoueverwatchedanymoviethatisadaptedfromBritishliteraryworks 3 DirectorFengXiaogang sfilm TheBanquet hasbeencalledtheChineseversionofHamlet HowmuchdoyouknowabouttheplayHamlet AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture Beowulf Beowulf alongpoemfromAnglo SaxontimesItisthenationalepicoftheEnglishpeople Thispoemhasmorethan3 000lines AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture Beowulf Ittellsthestoryofthe6thcenturySwedishwarriorBeowulfandhisconflictwithaterriblemonsterGrendelandhismother AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture DeathofArthur Medievalromancesbecameapopularformofliteratureduringthemedievalage ThestoriesofKingArthurandhisknightsreflectthespiritofknighthood AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture DeathofArthur ThebestknownversionofthisstoryisThomasMalory s MorteD Arthur DeathofArthur AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture TheCanterburyTales GeoffreyChauceristhefatherofmodernEnglishpoetry CanterburyisanimportantChristianchurch TheCanterburyTalesismadeupofaseriesofstories AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture TheCanterburyTales Theprologueofthispoemprovidesaframeworkforthetales ThestoryofthewifeofBathisthemostwellknowninallthesetales AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture ChristopherMarlow 1564 1593 Threefamousplays 1 Tamburlaine 1587 帖木耳大帝 2 TheJewOfMalta 1592 马耳它的犹太人 3 TheTragicalHistoryofDr Faustus 1588 浮士德博士的悲剧 AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture WilliamShakespeare 1564 1616 Heisregardedasoneofthefoundersofrealisminworldliterature Hamletisthemostperformedplayintheworld AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture WilliamShakespeare 1564 1616 TheothergreattragediesareOthello KingLear andMacbeth Ofthecomedies TheMerchantofVeniceisquitefamous AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture EnglishNovel DanielDefoe 1660 1731 RobinsonCrusoedescribeshowCrusoemakesgreateffortstoovercomethehardshipsanddifficultiesheencountersontheisland AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture EnglishNovel JonathanSwift 1667 1745 Gulliver sTravelswasafierceattackonhumanfoolishnessandsocialevils ThisnoveltellsseparatelyaboutthevoyagestoLilliput toBrobdingnag toLaputa andthevoyagetothecountryoftheHouhnhnms AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture EnglishNovel JaneAusten 1775 1817 Hernovelsrevealwomen slongingforfreedominmarriedlife HermostfamousnovelisSenseandSensibility AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture JaneAusten 1775 1817 佳句赏析 Itisatruthuniversallyacknowledged thatasinglemaninprofessionofagoodfortunemustbeinwantofawife 凡是有财产的单身汉 必定需要娶位太太 这已经成了一条举世公认的真理 AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture EnglishNovel TheBront SistersCharlotteBront sJaneEyreandEmily sWutheringHeightsarethemostsuccessful JaneEyretellsthestoryofanorphan whohasalovelesschildhoodataterribleboardingschool AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture EnglishNovel CharlesDickens 1812 1870 HedescribedhismiserableexperienceinhisnovelDavidCopperfield OliverTwisttellsthestoryofanorphanchilddrawnintocrimeintheLondonunderworld AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture CharlesDickens 1812 1870 佳句赏析 Itwasthebestoftimes itwastheworstoftimes itwastheageofwisdom itwastheageoffoolishness itwastheepochofbelief itwastheepochofincredulity 这是最好的时代 这是最坏的时代 这是智慧的时代 这是愚蠢的时代 这是信仰的时期 这是怀疑的时期 AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture EnglishNovel ThomasHardy 1840 1928 TessoftheD UrbervillesisHardy smostmovingstory ThisstorytellsthetragicfateofTess abeautifulcountrygirl Characters Tess AlecD urbervilles AngelClare AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture TheTwentiethCenturyLiterature JosephConrad 1857 1924 JosephConradisoneofthemostfamousEnglishmodernistwriters JosephConradadoptedacriticalattitudetowardscolonialism AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture JosephConrad HismostfamousstoryisTheHeartofDarkness It sastoryofariverboatjourneyincentralAfricatoinvestigateanexploitativeEuropeanivorytradercalledMr Kurtz AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture TheTwentiethCenturyLiterature VirginiaWoolf 1882 1941 Herworkwasconcernedwiththefemaleconsciousness Hernovelpenetratedintothemindofthecharacter Mrs Dalloway TotheLighthouse andTheWaves The streamofconsciousness technique theunorganizedflowofthoughtontothepage AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture TheTwentiethCenturyLiterature GeorgeOrwell 1903 1950 AnimalFarmand1984werehismostpopularnovels 1984isapowerfulsatireonthetotalitariantendencyinmodernstates Thisnovelarousesthereader sawarenessofthedangeroftotalitarianism AnIntroductiontoBritishandAmericanCulture TheTwentiethCenturyLiterature DorisLessing 1919 DorisLessingwasannouncedasthewinneroftheNobelPrizeforLiteratureonOctober11 2007 Hernovelsandstorie