英国文学课件chaucer.ppt

1. The Division
Class3 (周三1-2):
31 students=4*7+3*1 (8 groups)

Class1(周四1-2):
31 students=4*7+3*1 (8 groups)

Class2(周四3-4):
32 students=4*8 (8 groups)
2. Corresponding Writers (Donne — Dickens )
The Tasks of the Whole Class
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Group1 (4th Week)
Donne—A Valediction; Milton—Paradise Lost
Group2 (5th Week)
Swift—Gulliver’s Travels
Group3 (6th Week)
Defoe—Robinson Crusoe; Fielding—Tom Jones
Group4 (7th Week)
Gray—Elegy; Blake—The Tiger
Group5 (10th Week)
Wordsworth—She Dwelt…
Group6 (11th Week)
Byron—Don Juan; Shelley—Ode to the West Wind
Keats—Ode on a Grecian Urn
Group7 (12th Week)
Jane Austen—Pride and Prejudice
Group8 (13th Week)
Dickens—Oliver Twist
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2. The Development of English Literature
From the academic angle, English literature can be divided into seven periods:
and Medieval English literature;
English Renaissance;
17th C. – The Period of Revolution and Restoration;
18th Century –The Age of Enlightenment
5. Romanticism in England in the 1st half of the 19th century;
6. The Victorian Age;
7. The 20th Century Literature –Modernism
and Post-Modernism.
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Early and Medieval English literature(中古文学)
1) Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)
The main literary contribution of this period is the Epic, and its masterpiece is the national epic The Song of Beowulf, which is a long poem of 3182 lines about the deeds of the Teutonic (条顿)hero Beowulf in the 6th century. It is the oldest poem on the English language and the oldest surviving epic in Anglo-Saxon literature
Epic: A long narrative poem on the adventures and great deeds of
heroes.
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2) The Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1350)
The literature of this period is greatly influenced by the Norman conquest. After the conquest, the customs and ideals known as chivalry was introduced by the Normans into England and can be reflected in literature, such as the knightly code, the romantic interest in women , tenderness