英美概况（第二版）UKchapter8LiteratureandArts.ppt

1、Chapter 8,Literature and Arts,Contents,Warming-up,Do you know who are they?,Warming-up,What stories do the pictures relate to?,Warming-up,What stories do the pictures relate to?,New words and expressions,pilgrimage：n. a journey to a sacred place 朝圣 The Muslim delegation is shortly going on a pilgrim

2、age to Mecca. elusive: a. difficult to find, describe, remember, or achieve 难懂的，难以捉摸的 She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. redemption: n. the act of saving or state of being saved from the power of evil; the act of redeeming 拯救；救赎 The boy is beyond redemption.,New words and expre

3、ssions,progenitor: a. a person who starts an idea or a development 创始人；先驱 Schoenberg was a progenitor of modern music. underworld: n. the people and activities involved in crime in a particular place 黑社会；黑道 That quiet man was an underworld king-pin. courtship: n. the time when two people have a roma

4、ntic relationship before they get married; the process of developing this relationship 求爱期；求爱；追求 He won her heart after a brief courtship.,New words and expressions,fortification：n. a tower, wall, gun position, etc. built to defend a place against attack 碉堡；围墙；炮台；防御工事 These fortifications were built

5、 during the last war. blockbuster: n. something very successful, especially a very successful book or film/movie 一鸣惊人的事物；（尤指）非常成功的书（或电影） That new movie is a blockbuster. 9. lament: n. a song, poem or other expression of great sadness for sb who has died or for sth that has ended 挽歌；哀诗；悼辞 Short pleas

6、ure, long lament.,New words and expressions,acoustic: a. related to sound or to the sense of hearing 声音的；音响的；听觉的 The company has come up with a new acoustic-optical device. prolificacy: n. great fertility; producing of a large number of literary or artistic works （文学或艺术作品的）多产 He is famous for prolif

7、icacy.,literature,The Romantic Period (1785-1830),The Neo-Classical Period (1660-1785),The Old English Period and Middle English Period,20th Century Literature (1914- ),The Victorian Era (1837-1901),The Renaissance (1500-1660),Arts,E,Art Galleries,Literature The Old English Period and Middle English

8、 Period (450-1500),Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf,Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales,Thomas Malor Le morte dArthur (The Death of Arthur, 1469-1470).,Literature The Renaissance (1500-1660),During the 15th and 16th century an intellectual movement called the Renaissance swept Western Europe. The wor

9、d means “rebirth” and refers especially to the revival of ancient Greek learning. The sonnet and other Italian literary influence began to appear in English literature. Drama Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Poetry Spenser Shakespeare,Literature The Neo-Classical Perio

10、d (1660-1785),Neo-classical period in English literature refers to the years between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full development of Romanticism. In this period, there was a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as neo-classicism.

11、John Milton (1608-1674) John Dryden (1631-1700) Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Daniel Defoe (1660？-1731) Samuel Johnson (1709-1784),Literature The Romantic Period (1785-1830),Extending from about 1785 until 1830, the romantic age stressed emotion over reason. The romantic age

12、in English literature was characterized by the subordination of reason to intuition and passion, the primacy of the individual will over social norms of behavior, and the interest in what is distant in time and place. Poetry William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

13、Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Prose Charles Lamb (1775-1834),Literature The Victorian Era (1837-1901),The Victorian era, from the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 until her death in 1901, was an era of several unsettling social developments that forced writers to take positions on the immedia

14、te issues inspiring the rest of society.,Novel Charles Dickens Jane Austen the three Bronte sisters George Eliot Thomas Hardy,Drama George Bernard Shaw,Neo-Romanticism and Aestheticism Robert Louis Stevenson Oscar Wilde,Literature 20th Century Literature (1914- ),Modernism & Post-modernism. Post-Wor

15、ld War I Fiction Fiction after World War II Modern Poetry Modern Drama,Arts Architecture,Norman Architecture Gothic Architecture Anglo Saxon Architecture,Arts Movie,Arts Movie,Arts Movie,Arts Movie,Beginnings Between Wars War Aftermath Decline Re-emergence of the British Film Industry,Arts British F

16、olk Music,English Folk Music Northern Irish Music Scottish Folk Music Welsh Folk Music,Arts British Theater,Early British Theater Modern British Theater Venues,Arts - Art Galleries,Most Britain art galleries do not charge visitors a fee to view the exhibits. Both government and private art galleries exist in the country. The National Gallery in London is counted as one of the premier art display areas in the world.,Arts- British Crafts,The British crafts are known for their unique designs. Most of the crafts in Britain embo