01 British Literature 英国文学简介英文.ppt

1、British Literature,Lecturer: Shi Meifang (Tina): tina-,Some questions,What is literature in your mind? How many literary books have you read in the past two years (novels or poems)? Why do you read novels or poems? Is it necessary for English majors to study literature?,Score and Refere

2、nces,Attendance and test: 20%; Essay: 20%; Final Exam: 60% 1. 英国文学简史（新增订本），刘炳善，河南人民出版社 2. 简明英国文学史， 刘意青，外语教学与研究出版社 3. The Longman Anthology, Longman 4. 英国文学选读，孙建 等主编， 复旦大学出版社 5. 五卷本英国文学史（修订版），北京大学出版社,Old (450-1066) and Middle English Periods (1066-1485),The making of English People and language; Old

3、English poetry and the Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Beowulf; Historical situation and language forming of Middle English Period; Chief literary genres and achievements: Romances, Ballads, Poetry; Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) and his The Canterbury Tales.,The English Renaissance (1485-1616)Part I,Humanism a

4、nd the Renaissance: Thomas More (1478-1535) and his Utopia; Great literary achievement in poetry: Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) and his The Faerie Queene; other writers (the university wits),The most glorious achievement: drama Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), Ben Johnson (1572-1637) and their plays. E

5、ndless Shakespeare: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)and his works,The English Renaissance (1485-1616)Part II,The Seventh Century Literature (Bourgeois Revolution)(1616-1688) part 1,Background introduction John Bunyan (1573-1631), The Pilgrims Progress. John Milton (1608-1674) and his Paradise Lost, P

6、aradise Regained;,The Seventh Century Literature (Bourgeois Revolution) part II,The metaphysical poets: other poets and their poems; John Donne (1573-1631) and his brilliant achievements; The Restoration Drama (comedy): introductions and major playwrights; John Dryden (1631-1700), poetry, drama and

7、literary criticism,The Eighteenth Century Literature (1688-1780),The Classicism and Enlightenment: Joseph Adddison (1672-1717) and Richard Steele (1672-1729) and their newspapers The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-1712) Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and heroic couplet (An Essay on Criticism, T

8、he Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, and The Dunciad) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), The Tale of a Tub, Guillivers Travels, A Modest Proposal,The Eighteenth Century Literature (1688-1780)The Rise of the English Novel,Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) and his Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders Samuel Richardson (16

9、89-1761) and his Pamela and Clarissa Henry Fielding (1707-1754), Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones; Laurence Sterne (1713-1768): Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey Other literary achievements in this period: drama, poetry, prose,The Romantic Period (1780-1830) Part I Poetry,Pre-romantic poetry: Ro

10、bert Burns (1759-1796) and William Blake (1757-1827) William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Talor Coleridge (1772-1834) George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) Childe Harolds Pilgrimage Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Prometheus Unbound; some short lyrics John Keats (1795-1821) Endymion, some odes,The R

11、omantic Period (1780-1830) Part II Novels,General introduction to the novels in the Romantic Period; Walter Scott (1771-1832) as a poet and a novelist;the historical novel Ivanhoe, Rob Roy Jane Austen ( 1775-1817) and her novels of social manners: Pride and Prejudice, Emma,The Victorian Literature (

12、1830-1880) Part I Novel,Major literary achievements in the Victorian Age; Charles Dickens(1812-1870), A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectation William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), Vanity Fair The Bronte Sisters: Charlotte and her Jane Eyre, Emily and her Wuthering Height George Eliot (1819-1880),

13、 The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch,The Victorian Literature (1830-1880) Part II Poetry and Prose,Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), Idylls of the King, In Memoriam Robert Browning (1812-1889), My Last Duchess, The Ring and the Book Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Sister Helen, The House of Life Matth

14、ew Arnold (1822-1888), The Scgikar Gyosy Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), The Past and Present Thomas Macaulay (1800-1859); John Stuart Mill (1806-1873); John Ruskin (1819-1900); Matthew Arnold as a prose writer,Late 19th and early 20th Century Literature (1880-1930),Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Tess of the

15、 D Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure Henry James (1843-1916), The Wings of Dove; The Golden Bowl Bernald Shaw (1856-1950) and his plays,Modernist Literature: Mid-Twentieth Century (1930-1990),Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), A Room of Her Own D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow James Joy

16、ce (1882-1941), Ulysses T. S Eliot ( 1888-1965) as a poet, The Waste Land William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) and his poetry,When You are Old William Butler Yeats,When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your

17、eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moment of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled A

18、nd paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.,A Prayer for My Daughter（节选）,. May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a strangers eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, consider beauty as a sufficient end, L

19、ose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.,Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills and fields, Woods or steepy mountains yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepher

20、ds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;,A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair-li

21、ned slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold; A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love. The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning; If these delights thy mind m

22、ay move, Then live with me and be my love.,Shall I/ compare/ thee to/ a sum/mers day? aThou art more lovely and more temperate: bRough winds do shake the darling buds of May, aAnd summers lease hath all too short a date: b Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, cAnd often is his gold complexion

23、dimmd; dAnd every fair from fair sometime declines, cBy chance or natures changing course untrimmd; d But thy eternal summer shall not fade e Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; fNor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade, eWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest: f So long as men c

24、an breathe or eyes can see, gSo long lives this and this gives life to thee g,THE FLEA by John Donne,MARK but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is ; It suckd me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be. Thou knowst that this cannot be sai

25、d A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead ; Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pamperd swells with one blood made of two ; And this, alas ! is more than we would do. O stay, three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, yea, more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this,Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is. Though parents grudge, and you, were met, And cloisterd in these living walls of jet. Though use make you apt to kill me, Let not to that self-murder added be, And sacri