英国文学史学生笔记

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1、Partone:EarlyandMedievalEnglishLiteratureHistoricalBackground1.Whendoesearlyandmedievalperiodreferto?“Early”heremeansEnglishliteratureinprimitiveandslaverysociety.“Medieval”meansEnglishliteratureinfeudalEnglandbeforetheRenaissance.2.Whatmaineventshappenedduringthisperiod?Romanconques

2、tEnglishconquestNormanconquestLiteratureAchievementsinoldEnglishperiod1.twogroupsofEnglishpoetryinAnglo-Saxonperiod.Thefirstgroupwasthepagan（异教徒）poetryrepresentedbyBeowulf,thesecondwasthereligiouspoetryrepresentedbytheworksofCaedmonandCynewulf.2.Inthe8thcentury,Anglo-Saxonproseappear

3、ed.ThefamousprosewritersofthatperiodwereVenerableBedeandAlfredtheGreat.VenerableBede:isthefirstscholarandchronicler（年代史编者）inEngland.Themostimportantworks:TheEcclesiasticalHistoryoftheEnglishPeople.AlfredtheGreat:startedtheAnglo-SaxonChronicle.BeowulfI.Definitionofepic（史诗）:anextendedn

4、arrativepoem（叙事诗）inelevatedordignifiedlanguage,celebratingthefeatsofalegendaryortraditionalhero.II.StoryofBeowulf:P3-4Questions:1.setting:2.characters:3.plotIII.Someimportantpoints“Beowulf”isafolklegendbroughttoEnglandbyAnglo-Saxonsfromtheircontinentalhomes.Howeveritalsoreflectedthef

5、eaturesofthetribalsociety（部落社会）inBritain.OriginallyBeowulf,thegreatepic,wasinoralformanditmustbeacollectivecreation.Beowulfintheepicisalegendaryfigure.InformalhistoryyoucannotfindamannamedBeowulf.IV.Artisticfeaturesof“Beowulf’’1.UsingalliterationDefinitionofalliteration:Wordsbeginnin

6、gwiththesameconsonantsalliteratewitheachotherwithineachline.Eachlineofversemaycontainanindefinitenumberofwordsorsyllablesbutgenerallyhasfourstresses,withapausebetweenthesecondandthethirdstresses.2.·UsingmetaphorandunderstatementDefinitionofunderstatement:expressingsomethinginacontrol

7、ledwayUnderstatementisatypicalwayforEnglishmentoexpresstheirideas.LiteraryFeaturesoftheAnglo-SaxonPeriod1)secular(非宗教的)poetry,nonreligiouspoemsbutwithChristiancoloring;2)createdcollectivelyandorally;3)basedonhistory,legendoreventsofthetime;4)forentertainment;215)unknownwriters,writte

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