英国文学的教案literatureintheAnglo-Saxonandmiddleenglishperiod

1、,Teaching outline of this semester Literature in the Anglo-Saxon period Literature in the Middle English period,Teaching outline,1. 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

2、 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales,3. The Renaissance period (16th century) Shakespeare: poetry and drama Francis Bacon: essay 4. The period of revolution and restoration (17th ) poetry: John Milton：Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained John Donne： John Bunyan：The Pilgrims Progress,5. The period of

3、Enlightenment(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 Burns,6. The romantic period (second half of the 18th-the first half of the 19th 1

4、798-1832) 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 Scott,7. The Victorian Age (19th

5、1832-1901) 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 Fro

6、m the 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 Love

7、r Rainbow Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray,The 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 450 Literature: Old English poetry religious /Christian secular:

8、 in oral form sung by bards,The Song of Beowulf (Beowulf)贝奥武夫,National epic: 3182 lines Beowulfnational hero Subject matter: Beowulf Hrothgar-King of Danes Grendelmonster Grendels mother fire-breathing dragon,Beowulf,Before the 3 adventures Hrothgar,Beowulf,lst one: Beowulf kills Grendel,2st one: Be

9、owulf kills Grendels mother,3rd one: Beowulf kills a dragon and dies,Theme: peoples struggle with the hostile forces under a wise and heroic leader,Beowulf (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

10、pile With shields and armour hung, as he had asked, 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 thei

11、r dead king; exalted his brave deeds, Holding it fit 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

12、for their praise,alliteration,Eg: clean and clear Round the rocks runs the river busy as a bee The repetition of the usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words,The Middle English Period (1066-1500),Historical background Romance Popular Ballad Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Ta

13、les,The Middle English Period(1066-1500),Influence of 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, English,romance,Romance: uses narrativ

14、e verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or heroic deeds 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 高文爵士和绿色骑士,Popular ballad(民谣),Ballad: a narrative p

15、oem of no great length, without any known writer （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 spirits,Robin Hood,An outlaw: brave, clever, strong, loving, tender-hearted and affect

16、ionate Rob the rich and help the poor and the distressed 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 th

17、e even-numbered lines,Geoffrey Chaucer (13401400),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 o

18、f occupations: courtier, office holder, soldier, ambassador, legislator first to be buried in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey,Literary 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 (1360-13

19、72),Influenced by the French poetry Translated poems 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)

20、 Works: The House of Fame(声誉之堂) The Legend of Good Women（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),The Canterbury Tales,1. It has 24 stories. 2. It is the description of the pilgrims（朝圣者 ）who tell stories. A pilgri

21、m: a person who travels to a holy place for religious reasons 3. It is about the life of ordinary people. 4. It gives vivid characters, with humor and satire.,World of Chaucer and his Pilgrims,Pilgrimage: In religion and spirituality, pilgrimage is a long journey or search of great moral significanc

22、e Took three days to walk sixty miles between London and Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.,St. Thomas Becket murder,The Canterbury Tales,A general prologue+24 tales Prologue: occasion: time and place People: poet + 29 pilgrims + inn owner,The Outline and

23、the Prologue,Tabard Inn(泰巴客店),29 (30) pilgrims, to Canterbury,Proposal of the inn owner 24 stories written,Outline of the Story,The Prologue (序诗),a framework for the tales,vivid sketches of typical figures from all walks of life,The Prologue supplies a miniature(小画像) of the English society of the ti

24、me,The Canterbury Tales,Characteristics: 1.deal with all sorts of people from all walks of society 2.a wide range of plots and ideas 3.full of humor and irony 4. Presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual dispositions A realistic portrayal of the English society,Mastery of Character,Characters are created through: Physical descriptions Characters interacting with each other The tales themselves reflecting character (often specifically their personalities and motivations),Chau