英美文学
英美文学复习题
题型：
一、选择，判断20分
二、名词解释6道30分
三、简答2道
四、论述2道
Multiple Choice and True or Flase Questions
1. The first National epic of the Anglo-Saxon 第一部史诗
Old English poets produced the national epic poem: Beowulf 贝尔武夫
2．The name of Chaucer’s masterpie ce杰作：The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯特故事集
3．Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter. 第一次用五步抑扬格写的押韵诗What is this couplet to be called in the future?
对句后来叫什么？P5
The heroic couplet 英雄对句
4．What is the real mainstream 主流of the English Renaissance文艺复兴?
The Elizabethan drama
5. What is the source of Dr. Fanstus 浮士德博士的悲剧P21
浮士德的来源是the German legend 传说of a magician魔术师aspiring渴望for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic悲剧的end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil. (P21)
6. What is Christopher Marlowe’s first achievement?P22第一大成就是
Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the blank verse and made it the principal 最重要的medium手段，方法of English drama戏剧.马洛的艺术成就在于他完善了无韵体诗，并使之成为英国戏剧中最重要的文体形式。
7. What is Christopher Marlowe’s second achievement? P22
Marlowe’s second achievement is his creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama.创造了文艺复兴时期的英雄形象。
8.Which play is the most widely read among shakespeare’s history plays?P31
The first and second parts of Henry IV are undoubtedly the most widely read among his history plays.
9.Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies悲剧?P33
Hamlet , Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
10. What is source of Hamlet ?P33
哈姆雷特的来源based on widespread legend传说in northern Europe (P33)
11. Name the best of Shakespeare’s final romances.P35
The Tempest暴风雪,an elaborate复杂的and fantastic荒诞的story, is known as the best of his final romances.
https://www.360docs.net/doc/fc18098565.html, the author of the Essays散文? P58
Francis Bacon
13.Who is the leading figure of the metaphysical school?玄学P63
John Donne
14. Name the generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf P71
Paradise Lost 失乐园
15.Who introduced printing to England ?
William Caxton (P10)
https://www.360docs.net/doc/fc18098565.html, the author of “The P assionate Shepherd His Love.”
Christopher Marlowe
https://www.360docs.net/doc/fc18098565.html, the works of William Shakespeare？P30
History plays: Henry VI,IV,V,VIII（亨利*世）, Richard II,III（理查*世）, Titus Andronicus（泰托斯.安东尼）, King John（约翰王）, The Two Noble Kinsmen（鲁克里斯受辱记）;
Comedies喜剧: The Comedy of Errors（错误的喜剧）；The Two Gentlemen of Verona（维洛那二绅士）；The Taming of the Shrew（驯悍记）；Love's Labour's Lost（爱的徒劳）；A Midsummer Night's Dream（仲夏夜之梦）；The Merchant Of Venice（威尼斯商人）；Much Ado About Nothing（无事生非）；As You like it（皆大欢喜）；Twelfth Night（第十二夜）；The Merry Wives of Windsor（温莎的风流娘儿们）；All's Well That Ends Well （终成眷属）and Measure for Measure（一报还一报）; Tragedies悲剧: Romeo and Juliet; Julius Caesar（裘力斯.凯撒）; Hamlet; Othello（奥赛罗）; King Lear （李尔王）; Macbeth（麦克白）; Antony and Cleopatra（安东尼与克利奥佩特拉）; Troilus and Cressida （特洛伊勒斯与克里西达）; Coriolanus（克利奥拉那斯）
Tragicomedies:悲喜剧Pericles（伯里克利）; Cymbeline（辛白林）; The Winter’s Tale（冬天的故事）and The Tempest（暴风雨）
Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece
https://www.360docs.net/doc/fc18098565.html, the four great tragedies of William Shakespeare P33
Hamlet , Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
19.Who is the most gifted of the “Un
iversity Wits”
Christopher Marlowe (P20)
https://www.360docs.net/doc/fc18098565.html, William Shakespeare’s poetic works.P31
Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece , and his sequence of 154sonnets
21.The setting of Beowulf ？
Scandinavia . (P2)
22.Importance of English Renaissance ？
The Renaissance, therefore, in essence, is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.
英国文艺复兴时期的重要性是it marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world. (P7)
23. Characteristics of Shakesp eare’s major characters
Shakespeare's major characters are neither merely individual ones nor type ones.
They are individuals representing certain types. (P36)
24.is Milton a great prose writer?
Yes.P70
25.Source of Milton’s Paradise L ost. P71
The original story is taken from Genesis 3:1-24 of the Bible.
26．W hat marked the beginning of the medieval period in English literature?
The Norman Conquest (P3)-----1066
27．N ame the important stories in The Canterbury Tales
the Wife of Bath
28．What are the basic themes in John Donne's The Song and Sonnets?
Love (P65)
29．W hat influences John Milton's epic?P73
the Old Testament and the new Testament
30．Position the play Romeo and Juliet in the works of William Shakespeare
The successful romantic tragedy (P32)
Note :
1) John Milton P69
2) Samson Agnistes is tragedy .
3) Paradise Lost base on old Testament ; Paradise Regained base on New Testament .
Terms and Essay Question
1. Beowulf (P2)
It is the first long poem in English, which is considered the national all epic of the English people.
Beowulf, a typical example of old English poetry, is regarded as the greatest national epic of t he Anglo-Saxons. 2> the epic describes the exploits of a Scandinavian hero, Beowulf, in fighting against the monster Grendel, his revengeful nother, and a fire-breathing dragon in his declining years. While fight against the dragon, Beowulf was mortally wounded, however, he killed the dragon at the cost of his life, Beowulf is shown not only as a glorious hero but also as a protector of the people.
2. Iambic pentameter 抑扬格五音步P5
Iambic pentameter is the most common English meter, in which each foot contains an
unaccented syllable and an accented syllable.
Iamb抑扬格: It is the most commonly used foot in English poetry, in which an unstressed syllable comes first, followed by a stressed syllable.
Iambic pentameter: A poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an iamb—that is, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Iambic pentameter is the most common verse line in
English poetry.
3.Heroic couplet 英雄对偶诗P5
The Heroic Couplet means a pair of lines of a type once common in English poetry, in other words, it means iambic pentameter rhymed in two lines.
It means a pair of lines of a type once common in English poetry, which rhyme & are written with five beats each..
4.Hamlet (P33)
Hamlet is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage, for it has the qu alities of a "blood-and-thunder" thriller & a philosophical exploration of life & death. And the timele ss appeal of this mighty drama lies in its combination of intrigue, emotional conflict & searching p hilosophic melancholy.
The play opens with Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, appearing in a mood of world-weariness occasioned by his father's recent death & by his mother's hasty remarriage with Claudius, his father's brother. While encountering his father's ghost, Hamlet is informed that Claudius has murdered his father & then taken over both his father's throne & widow. This, Hamlet, is urged by the ghost to seek revenge for his father's "foul & most unnatural murder." Trapped in a nightmare world of spying, testing & plotting, & apparently bearing the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father's death, Hamlet is obliged to inhabit a shadow world, to live suspended between fact & fiction, language & action. His life is one of constant role-playing, examining the nature of action only to deny its possibility, for he is too sophisticated to degrade his nature to the conventional role of a stage revenger. By characterizing Hamlet, Shakespeare successfully makes a philosophical exploration of life & death.
5.Sonnet 十四行诗P31
It is a lyric poem of 14 lines with a formal or recited and characterized by its presentation of a dramatic or exciting episode in simple narrative form.
2>it is one of the most conventional and influential forms of poetry in Europe.
3>Sha kespeare’s sonnets are well-known.
Shakespearean sonnet (莎士比亚十四行诗) consisting of three quatrains and a couplet.
Italian or petranrchan sonnet (意大利十四行诗) composed of an octave and s sestet.
6.Blank Verse(无韵诗或素体广义地说)
Blank verse is unrhymed poetry. Typically in iambic pentameter, and as such, the dominant verse forms of English dramatic and narrative poetry since the mid-16th century.
It was first used by Henry Howard. Earl of Surrey, and soon became a popular form for narrative and dramatic poetry. Marlowe, Shakespeare and so on, are fond of this form.
7.Francis Bacon 培根(P57)
Francis Bacon is regarded “Father of English Essays”
He lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than as a basis for obtaining knowledge \.
His works : Advancement of learning , The great Instauration , New Atlantics, Essays
8.The Fairy Queen (P13)
1) It is a long, allegorical poem. In the poem, Spenser dramatized political, religious, & moral t hemes by personifying them, or making them characters.
2)Plot: The story, which is set against a background of Arthur & medieval legend, deals with th
e adventures o
f six knights of the court of the fairy queen named Gloriana, who represents Quee n Elizabeth Ⅰof English.
9..How do you think about Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost?P71
The poet points out at the beginning of the poem that the purpose of the epic is to “assert eternal Providence and justify the ways of God to man. ” However ,the main idea of the poem shown by the image of Satan, is a revol t against the tyranny’s authority. The defiant spirit of Sat an simply shows the proud and somber political passions or the persecuted revolutionaries after Restoration .
Though the purpose of this poem is, in Milton words, to “justify the ways of God to man”,yet as Satan tries to justify himself by posing as a rebel against tyranny . Milton apparently unconsciously makes the devil serves as his own mouthpiece . In this part Satan tells his followers never to submit, but to fight for the bright future. The fiery utterance of Satan to his followers expose Satan as a revolutionary who is against depression and tyranny in the capacity of a bourgeois revolutionary. To Milton, the proud and sobre Satan represented the rebellious spirit against unjust authority.
简答：
1）How do you think about “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ”, a famous lyric written by Christopher Marlowe?
This short poem is considered to be one of the most beautiful lyrics in English literature. 这首短诗是英国文学诗中最优美的抒情诗。
The shepherd(牧羊人) enjoy an ideal country life, cherishing(珍爱) a pastoral(田园的) and pure affection for his love. Strong emotion is conveyed through the beauty of nature.
2） Read again the ballad from Much Ado about Nothing and give your response.节选。。。读后感
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero.
William Shakespeare creates an obvious description of each character in Much Ado about Nothing by the style of writing he does. Each word spoken by each character often times gives off an image to the reader, on what type of person he/she is. In this story of deceit, Shakespeare makes characters fall into love, out of love, and back into love. Much Ado about Nothing is a play that involves an elaborate network of schemes, tricks, and deceit to achieve a satirical “true love” effect. The “true love” effect is partially created with the help of distinctive character istics of Claudio, a young man in the Prince Leonato’s command. Claudio is a fine compassionate man, whose character traits are ideal to a woman’s eyes and mind. In addition to Shakespeare style of writing, the actions of Claudio contribute to the choleric personality he possesses, his gentle heart is at times transformed into an angry and bad tempered type
3） The flea 跳蚤
A poem by the metaphysical poet John Donne.
John Donne’s The Flea is a love song bordering on the absurd, This flea is used to assist the poet in making his case for sex. The poem alternates metrically between lines in iambic tetrameter and lines in iambic pentameter, a four and five stress line, respectively. The poem ends with two pentameter line at the close of each stanza. Each stanza consists of nine lines. The rhyme scheme is in couplets with the final in each stanza rhyming with the final couplet.
The poet expresses pity, grief and sorrow for this flea. The poet exclaims this flea has sinned more than us if we should be so incline to engage in the act of sax.
论述
1）Name the four great tragedies of William Shakespeare and tell the reasons of their being great according to our analysis in class. P33
Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Mabeth.
They have some characteristics特点in common普遍. Each portrays描述some noble高尚的hero，who faces the injustice冤枉of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate命运is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation。Each hero has his weakness of nature.: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar学者-prince王子, faces the dilemma左右为难between action and m ind; Othello’s inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil邪恶的force; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power stir 搅动up his ambition雄心and leads him to incessant不停的crimes. With the concentration专心on the tragic悲剧的hero, Shakespeare dramatizes the wholes world around the hero. Along with the portrayal of the weakness or bias偏见of the hero , we see the sharp conflicts冲突between the individual and the evil force in the society, which shows that Shakespeare is a great realist in the true sense.
2）.Read the excerpted part of Hamlet’s “to be or not to be ” monologue carefully and comment on it.读。。。作出结论
"To be, or not to be" is the opening line of a soliloquy from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet (written about
1600), act three, scene one. It is one of the most famous quotations in world literature and the best-known of this particular play.
In the play, this is a soliloquy because when Hamlet speaks it, he is alone onstage speaking to himself. All others leave the room with the king, Claudius, and the queen, Gertrude. In some versions Ophelia, Claudius and Gertrude remain and spy on Hamlet during this, making it a monologue. In this soliloquy, Hamlet struggles with his internal conflict of whether or not to kill himself because of the recent events that have happened which have depressed him so greatly.
3) How do you understand the statement that Chaucer is one of the earliest humanist in the history of English literature ?
Italian Period
Also among the works of this period are the unfinished Legend of Good Women, a poem telling of nine classical heroines, which introduced the heroic couplet (two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter) into English verse; the prose fragment The Treatise on the Astrolabe, written for his son Lewis; and Troilus and Criseyde, based on Boccaccio's Filostrato, one of the great love poems in the English language (see Troilus and Cressida). In Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer perfected the seven-line stanza later called rhyme royal.
The Canterbury Tales
To Chaucer's final period, in which he achieved his fullest artistic power, belongs his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales (written mostly after 1387). This unfinished poem, about 17,000 lines, is one of the most brilliant works in all literature. The poem introduces a group of pilgrims journeying from London to the shrine of St. Thomas àBecket at Canterbury. To help pass the time they decide to tell stories. Together, the pilgrims represent a wide cross section of 14th-century English life.
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e to order, reason and rules.启蒙者主张理性是任何人思想与行动的唯一缘由。他们大力提倡秩序，理性及法律。 5. As a matter of fact, literature at the time, heavily didactic and moralizi ng, became a very popular means of public education.其实，当时的文学作品种充满了说教与道德理念，就已经成为大众教育的良好工具。 6. Famous among the great enlighteners in England were those great wr iters like John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele, the two pioneers of familiar essays, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defo e, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Henry Fielding and Samuel Johnson.英国著名的启蒙主义文学家有约翰.德莱顿，亚历山大.蒲柏，约瑟夫.艾迪森与理查.斯蒂尔（这两位是现代散文的先驱），乔纳森.斯威夫特，丹尼尔.迪福，理查.B.谢立丹，亨利.费尔丁和塞缪尔.约翰逊。 7. In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works.在文学领域，启蒙主义运动还使人们重新对古典时代的著作产生兴趣。 8. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity.他们认为理想的艺术应基于秩序，逻辑，确切及情感控制的基础上，而文学作品的价值评判标准应该看它是否为人文主义服务。 9. Thus a polite, urbane, witty, and intellectual art developed.由此一种温文尔雅，充满灵性的知识分子文学艺术发展起来。 10. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for almost every genre of literature.在几乎所有的文学形式中，新古典主义者们都设定了创作的规矩与条框。 11. Drama should be written in the heroic Couplets (iambic pentameter r hymed in two lines); the three unities of time, space and action should b e strictly observed; regularity in construction should be adhered to, and t ype characters rather than individuals should be represented.戏剧必须用英雄体偶剧（抑扬五音步的押韵双行诗）写就；时间，地点，事件三要素必须要
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浅析大学英美文学课程教学 随着经济的快速发展，我们国家大学教育发生了翻天覆地的变化。英美文学作为大学英语专业的一个主要核心组成部分，其课程教学显得极为重要。英美文学是一门特殊的学科，在英语专业中占有着重要地位，它不仅可以培养大学生提高文学赏析能力，还能陶冶性情，提高其自身的整体综合素养，因此，一直以来，大学英美文学取得的教学成果一直呈现着一片繁荣景象。但是，随之而来的问题也同时出现了。很多大学生在上这门课程的过程中感到兴趣不足，甚至对其反感、枯燥乏味等。学生为什会有这样的表现，究其原因是教师的教学方法有问题，还是学生自身出现问题。是的，在当今的大学英美文学课程教学中很多教师采用的教学方式一直采用老套的教学模式，填鸭式、满堂灌等这样的教学方式，教师自己累的是满头大汗，学生学的是枯燥、乏味，不仅没有提高学生的学习效率，还影响了教学成果的提升。在英美文学课程教学中，教师也要改变教学模式，将传统的教学方式与崭新的教学理念融合到一起，才能调动学生学习的积极性，同时也更激发学生的学习潜能。新的教学理念要求教师在教学中用各种不同的教学模式来调动学生的学习兴趣，培养学生提高分析问题、解决问题能力。在英美文学课程教学中，教师也要采用新的教学理融合新的教学方式运用到实际的教学当中，培养大学生英语文学析能力，提高综合整体素质。另外用各种不同的教学模式唤起学生对英美文学的求知欲望，在教学中以学生为该课程的教学主人，帮助学生提高学习兴趣，以最大的限度激发学生的学习潜能。相信，这样的课程教学对于学生来说一定是轻松、愉悦的，从满激情的，对于教师来讲，在教学中不会感到吃累、疲倦。为此，文章根据目前大学英美文学课程教学中存在的缺陷，对其课程教学做了几点简单的分析论述。同时也给出了提高大学英美文学课程教学质量的建议出路，并分别对其进行了如下分析研究，以下是具体分析： 一、大学英美文学课程教学中存在的缺陷问题 1、教学手法比较单一 目前的大学英美文学师资队伍中，有的教师是刚毕业的学生，他们只是有着深厚的英美文学功底，在教学手法上比较落后、单一，给学生传授英美文学知识的过程中，一直采用着度独角戏、满堂灌以及填鸭式等教学模式，教师在教学的时候侧重于文本的语法和篇章的分析以及单一的独白式地对文本进行讲解，没有给学生时间让学生对原著进行阅读、体验及欣赏，使学生欣赏及批评文学作品的能力得不到培养，这样的教学模式造成了学生在英美文学课程学习中，没有更多的时间来进行对文学赏析的思考与分析，尤其是对于低年级的大学生来说，由于刚接触到这些文学术语和作品中的一些生词以及表达法会产生抵触心理，这根本就不利于英美文学课程教学，最终导致学生对着门课程产生反感，不愿意主动参与到英美文学学习中来。可想而知，有教学手法的单一，导致学生在英美文学课程教学中感到无法呼吸，主观能动性受到压抑，使得整个课堂教学氛围死气沉沉。另外，有教师在这门课程教学中，缺少语言魅力，就是按照教材中的知识内容来按部就班的宣读给学生讲解，导致学生的大脑思维没有得到很好的开发和利用，学生一直在被动的教学模式中进行学习，可想而知，学生的积极性受到了制约。
却最简洁最重点的英美文学考试重点
一、The Anglo-Saxon period (449-1066) 1、这个时期的文学作品分类：pagan(异教徒) Christian(基督徒) 2、代表作:The Song of Beowulf(national epic民族史诗)metaphor alliteration。 3、Angles, Saxons and Jutes. 二、The Anglo-Norman period (1066-1350) 1、The Roman Conquest: In 1066, the Duke of Normandy William led the Norman army to invade England. The result of this war was William became the king of England. After the conquest, feudal system was established in English society.Chivalry was introduced by the Normans into England. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight头韵 2、传奇ramances：描写骑士的冒险精神和典雅爱情文学。seek adventures , fighting for his lord in battle,humility,honor,sacrifice,brave,honesty,love with women 三、Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)（反封建、反教会、追求个性自由） 1、the father of English poetry 英国诗歌之父 2、purely English(the London dialect伦敦方言) 3、heroic couplet英雄双韵体
英美文学选读笔记整理版英国Romantic
Chapter 3 ------------The Romantic Period(英国） Romanticism refers to an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions. Historical background: Rousseau’s ideas provided guiding principles for the French Revolution (1789-1794) The primarily agricultural society had been replaced by a modern industrialized one. Political reforms and mass demonstrations shook the foundation of aristocratic rule in Britain. Cultural background 1.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought, French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau and German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Rousseau established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit. Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit as manifested in German folk songs, Gothic architecture, and the plays of English playwright William Wordsworth. 2. The Romantics saw man essentially as an individual in the solitary state and emphasized the special qualities of each individual’s mind. Romanticism actually constitutes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of the human spirit. 3. In the works of the sentimental writers, we note a new interest in literatures and legends other than those of Greece and Rome. It was in effect a revolt of the English imagination against the neoclassical reason. Features of the romantic literature 1.Expressiveness: Instead of regarding poetry as “a mirror to nature”, the romantics hold that the object of the artist should be the expression of the artist’s emotions, impressions, or beliefs 2. Imagination: Romantic literature puts great emphasis on the creative function of the imagination, seeing art as a formulation of intuitive, imaginative perceptions that tend to speak a nobler truth than that of fact, logic, or the here and now. 3.Singularity: Romantic poets have a strong love for the remote, the unusual, the strange, the supernatural, the mysterious, the splendid, the picturesque, and the illogical. 4. Worship of nature: Romantic poets see in nature a revelation of Truth, the “living garment of God”. 5.Simplicity: Romantic poets tend to turn to the humble people and the everyday life for subjects, employing the commonplace, the natural and the simple as their materials 6.The Romantic period is an age of poetry. The Romantic period is also a great age of prose. The major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen and Walter Scott. Gothic novel was one phase of the Romantic Movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror, and the supernatural Willam Blake Points of view: 1. Politically Blake was a rebel, mixing a good deal with the radicals like Thomas Paine. He strongly criticized the capitalists’cruel exploitation. He cherished great expectations and enthusiasm for the French Revolution and regarded it as a necessary stage leading to the millennium predicted by the biblical prophets. 2. Literarily Blake was the first important Romantic poet, showing a contempt for the rule of reason, opposing the classical tradition of the 18th century, and treasuring the individual’s imagination. His works: Poetical Sketches (1783) Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) Songs of Innocence (1809) Songs of Experience (1794) 1. Songs of Innocence (1809)