考研英国文学复习要点解析.docx

Part One: Early and Medieval English Literature Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements （此处可能会有填空，选择等小题） Romance （名词解释） “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story Ballad（名词解释） Character of Robin Hood Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet) Heroic couplet (名词解释) Part Two: The English Renaissance The Authorized Version of English Bible and its significance（填空选择） Renaissance（名词解释） 10.Thomas More——Utopia Sonnet（名词解释） Blank verse（名词解释） Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene”; Amoretti (collection of his sonnets) Spenserian Stanza（名词解释） Francis Bacon “essays” esp. “Of Studies” （推荐阅读，学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参 照，本文用词正式优雅，多排比句和长句，语言造诣非常高，里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句，非常值得一读） Christopher Marlowe (“Doctor Faustus” and his achievements) William Shakespeare 可以说是英国文学史中最重要的作家，一定要看熟了。四大喜剧， 四大悲剧比较重要，此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了，这些剧的主题，背景，情节，人物形象都要熟悉，当然他最重要的喜剧作品是 Hamlet 这是肯定的。他的 sonnet 也很重要，最重要属sonnet18。（其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读） Lecture 1 Part 1 Early and Medieval English Literature “Early” here means English literature in primitive and slavery society. “Medieval period” is a quite special period in English history. In Chinese “Medieval” or “The Middle Age” means “ 中 世 纪 ”. You may hear something about this period. It was called “The Middle Age” because it was considered as the time between ancie nt world and the modern world. Here “Medieval” means English literature in feudal England before the Renaissance. I. Early English Literature (Anglo-Saxon Literature) 1, Historical Background The earliest inhabitants of the British Isles were Britons, a tribe of Celts. Today most Celts lived in Scotland and Wales. From 55 B.C. to 410 A. D. Romans conquered the Great Britain. The Roman army was led by Julius Caesar, who was a very famous figure in ancient Rome. He was a famous general and conquered