英国文学的PPT教案literature in the AngloSaxon and middle english period

1、 teaching outline of this semester literature in the anglo-saxon period literature in the middle english periodteaching outline1. literature in the anglo-saxon period (450-1066) poetry: beowulf 2. literature in the middle english period (1066-1500) romance (narrative verse or prose) popular ballad g

2、eoffrey chaucer: the canterbury tales 3. the renaissance period (16th century) shakespeare: poetry and drama francis bacon: essay4. the period of revolution and restoration (17th ) poetry: john milton：paradise lost, paradise regained john donne： john bunyan：the pilgrims progress5. the period of enli

3、ghtenment(启蒙运动)(18th) alexander pope daniel defoe: robinson crusoe henry fielding: the history of tom jones jonathan swift: gullivers travels richard brinsley sheridan: the school of scandal thomas gray and robert burns6. the romantic period (second half of the 18th-the first half of the 19th 1798-1

4、832) william wordsworth: i wandered lonely as a cloud george gordon byron: childe harolds pilgrimage; don juan percy bysshe shelley: ode to the west wind to a sky-lark john keats: ode to a nightingale ode on a grecian urn jane austen: pride and prejudice walter scott7. the victorian age (19th 1832-1

5、901) critical realism: charles dickens: oliver twist, great expectations, bleak house, dombay and son david copperfield, a tale of two cities william makepeace thackeray: vanity fair bronte sisters: jane eyre and wuthering heights thomas hardy: tess of the durbervilles jude the obscure far from the

6、madding crowd the mayor of casterbridge george eliot: adam bede, the mill on the floss 8. the modern period(20th) george bernard shaw: mrs. warrens profession james joyce: ulysses virginia woolf: to the lighthouse mrs. dalloway d.h. lawrence: sons and lovers women in love lady chatterleys lover rain

7、bow oscar wilde: the picture of dorian graythe anglo-saxon periodold english period (450-1066)historical background celts (celtic tribes)romans led by julius caesar in 55 b.c.germanic tribes: (jutes, angles, saxons) in around 450literature: old english poetry religious /christian secular: in oral fo

8、rm sung by bards national epic: 3182 lines beowulfnational hero subject matter: beowulf hrothgar-king of danes grendelmonster grendels mother fire-breathing dragonbeowulf before the 3 adventures hrothgarbeowulf lst one: beowulf kills grendel 2st one: beowulf kills grendels mother 3rd one: beowulf ki

9、lls a dragon and diestheme: peoples struggle with the hostile forces under a wise and heroic leaderbeowulf (alliterative verse) of men was the mildest and most beloved, to his kin the kindest, keenest for praise. then the goths people reared a mighty pile with shields and armour hung, as he had aske

10、d, and in the midst the warriors laid their lord, lamenting. then the warriors on the mound kindled a mighty bale fire; the smoke rose black from the swedish pine, the sound of flame mingled with sound of weeping;beowulf (alliterative verse) for their dead king; exalted his brave deeds, holding it f

11、it men honor their liege lord praise him and love him when his soul is fled thus the (geats) people, sharers of his hearth, mourned their chiefs fall, praised him of kings, of men the mildest and the kindest, and to all his people gentlest, yearning for their praisealliterationeg: clean and clear ro

12、und the rocks runs the river busy as a bee the repetition of the usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring wordsthe middle english period (1066-1500) historical background romance popular ballad geoffrey chaucer the canterbury talesthe middle english period(1066-1500) influence of

13、norman conquest in 1066 in politics: feudalist system was established in england in religion: catholic church had a much stronger power over the country in language: three languages co-existed french, latin, englishromanceromance: uses narrative verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or heroic d

14、eeds 1. hero: knight 2. plot: set outtest: the meeting with the evilaccomplish ones missionreturn most famous one: king arthur and his knights of the round table sir gawain and the green knight 高文爵士和高文爵士和绿色绿色骑士骑士 popular ballad(民谣) ballad: a narrative poem of no great length, without any known write

15、r （anonymous） in an oral tradition then was written down theme: romantic stories of love and friendships, of treachery and murder, supernatural tales about ghosts and spiritsrobin hood an outlaw: brave, clever, strong, loving, tender-hearted and affectionate rob the rich and help the poor and the di

16、stressed reflection of the social reality english peasants rose against their oppressors 绿林好汉ballad meter （音律，格律） stanza: four lines (quatrains) 四行诗 first and third lines contain 4 stresses second and fourth lines contain 3 stresses rhymes occur in the even-numbered linesgeoffrey chaucer (13401400)

17、geoffrey chaucerc.13401400 life writing career the canterbury tales chaucers language heroic couplet (traditional form of poem)geoffrey chaucer(1340?-1400)“father of english poetry” life: born in a wine-merchants family formal education? a variety of occupations: courtier, office holder, soldier, am

18、bassador, legislator first to be buried in the poets corner of westminster abbeyliterary career three periods 1st one: french period (1360-1372) 2nd one: italian period (1372-1385) 3rd one: english period (1385-1400) 1st one: french period (1360-1372) influenced by the french poetry translated poems

19、 into english works: romance of rose (玫瑰传奇) the book of the duchess (公爵夫人之书)2nd one: italian period (1372-1385) influenced by the early renaissance of italy italian writers: dante (divine comedy) petrarch (creation of sonnet) boccaccio (decameron) works: the house of fame(声誉之堂) the legend of good wo

20、men（贞女传奇）3rd one: english period (1385-1400) mature period: great progress and summit of his career the canterbury tales (坎特伯雷故事集) 1. it has 24 stories. 2. it is the description of the pilgrims（朝圣者（朝圣者 ）who tell stories. a pilgrim: a person who travels to a holy place for religious reasons 3. it is

21、about the life of ordinary people. 4. it gives vivid characters, with humor and satire. pilgrimage: in religion and spirituality, pilgrimage is a long journey or search of great moral significance took three days to walk sixty miles between london and canterbury to visit the shrine of saint thomas b

22、ecket at canterbury cathedral.st. thomas becket murderthe canterbury tales a general prologue+24 tales prologue: occasion: time and place people: poet + 29 pilgrims + inn owner the outline and the prologuetabard inn(泰巴客店泰巴客店)29 (30) pilgrims, to canterburyproposal of the inn owner24 stories writteno

23、utline of the storythe prologue (序诗)a framework for the talesvivid sketches of typical figures from all walks of lifethe prologue supplies a miniature( (小画像小画像) ) of the english society of the timecharacteristics: 1.deal with all sorts of people from all walks of society2.a wide range of plots and i

24、deas3.full of humor and irony4. presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual dispositionsa realistic portrayal of the english societymastery of character characters are created through:physical descriptionscharacters interacting with each otherthe tales themselves reflecting character (often specifically their personalities and motivations)chaucers la