英美文学复习.doc

英美文学复****资料
Unit1
The Forms of Literature
Fiction:(novel、short story、play、poem)
Non-fiction:(description、narration、exposition、argumentation )
The History of English Literature and Some Important Novelists
William Shakespeare、Daniel Defoe、Jonathan Swift、Robert Burns、Jane Austen、Percy Bysshe Shelly、Charles Dickens、Emily Bronte、Thomas Hardy、D H Lawrence、Virginia Woolf
The History of American Literature and Some Important Novelists
Nathaniel Hawthorne、Walt Whitman、Emily Dickinson、Mark Twain、F Scott Fitzgerald、Robert Lee Frost、Ernest Hemingway、William Faulkner
关于小说的一些知识
The novel is a new genreor form differs from poetry, drama, ballad .
.The content of a novel is of fictitious nature differs from the stories of tell made-up stories, but the stories of the historians tell truth.
what 's the novel ?
function of novel:Novelists and Readers .
5. Why are there the novelists writing novel? (to express、to share、to be understood)
What do they want to share? (anything from their personal feelings such as their sufferings, happiness, sorrows, etc to their experiences and thoughts)
Why do they want to express, to share, to be understood? (There are many reasons why novelist write, but they all have one thing mon —— a need to create an alternative world.”John Fowler
6. The Characteristics of Novel:Lengthiness冗长、Thoroughness完全、Profundity深度、openness公开、Truth
7. How many kinds can novel be divided by length?
Full-length Novel、Short Novel、Trilogy 三部曲、Tetra-logy(A sequence of four novels )
:Story、Character、plot 、Theme、Setting、Narrative Point of View
Technique of Short Story :
Symbolism、Imagery、Style、Tone 、Irony 、Point of View
Poetry
is an oldest form of art, and is reputed as the most democratic art. Poetry is the ultimate care to people’s lives.
uses every dimension尺寸 of language, so it must be very intense pact. Poetry uses multi-dimensional多重的 language municate experience.
grew out of music, so s