英美文学史复习资料(共17页).doc
精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上英美文学史复习资料英国文学史资料I. Old English Literature & The Late Medieval Ages <Beowulf>贝奥武夫 Artistic features:1. Using alliteration头韵 2. Using metaphor暗喻 and understatement含蓄陈述 Geoffery Chaucer 杰弗里乔叟The founder of English poetry. 三个阶段：1 <The Romaunt of the Rose>玫瑰传奇2<Troilus and Criseyde>特罗伊拉斯和克莱希德longest complete poem3 <The Canterbury Tales>坎特伯雷故事集：Significance :first time to use heroic couplet(英雄双韵体) by middle English II The Renaissance PeriodA period of drama and poetry. The Elizabethan drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.Renaissance: the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world. Humanism is the key-note of the Renaissance.1. 1. Edmund Spenser埃德蒙斯宾塞15521599（后人称之为“诗人的诗人”。） The poets poet. The first to be buried in the Poets corner of Westerminster Abbey. <The Faerie Queene>仙后(for Queen Elizabeth) The theme is not “Arms and the man”, but something more romantic “Fierce wars and faithfull loves”. <The Shepherds Calendar>牧人日历 The theme is to lament over the loss of Rosalinism Morel2. Thomas托马斯莫尔14781535 One of the greatest English humanists<Utopia>乌托邦nTwo books:1.on the social conditions of English 2.on an ideal communist society Baconl3. Francis弗兰西斯培根15611626n The first English essayist.father of english eassy.1<The Advancement of Learning>学术的推进2.<New Instrument>3<Essays>随笔58 essaysn 4. Marlowe柯里斯托弗马洛<The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus>浮士德博士的悲剧（根据德国民间故事书写成）<Tamburlaine>帖木耳大帝n <The Jew of Malta>马耳他岛的犹太人5. William Shakespeare威廉莎士比亚l15641616共37plays Historical plays: Henry VI ; Henry IV : Richard III ; Henry V ；Richard II；Henry VIII四大喜剧:第二阶段 <As You Like It>皆大欢喜; <Twelfth Night>第十二夜; <A Midsummer NightS Dream>仲夏夜之梦; <Merchant Of Venice>威尼斯商人四大悲剧: <Hamlet>哈姆莱特; <Othello>奥赛罗; <King Lear>李尔王; <Macbeth>麦克白Shakespeare Sonnet :154 <The Sonnets>III The 17th Century 1. John Milton约翰弥尔顿16081674（失明后写 失乐园、复乐园、力士参孙。）Epics: <Paradise Lost>失乐园（亚当Adam夏娃Eve受魔鬼撒旦Satan诱惑偷尝禁果，被God逐出伊甸园Eden）n < RegainednParadise>复乐园 Dramatic poem: < Samson Agonistes>力士参孙.2. John Bunyan约翰班扬16281688（代表作天路历程，宗教寓言，被誉为“具有永恒意义的百科全书”，是英国文学史上里程碑式著作。与但丁的神曲、奥古斯丁的忏悔录并列为世界三大宗教题材文学杰作。）Puritan poet(清教徒派诗人)Religionary Allegory:<The Pilgrims Progress>天路历程n3. John Donnethe Metaphysical poet(玄学派诗人).Metaphysical Poetry(玄学诗)：（用语）the diction is simple, the imagery is from the actual, (形式)the form is frequently an argument with the poets beloved, with god, or with himself.（主题：love, religious, thought）4. John Dryden:革命时期的保皇派代表royalist IV The 18th Century 1Enlightment 3位代表Addison,Steele,Pope Johnsonl2. Samuel塞缪尔约翰逊17091784 Dictionary =<A Dictionary of English Language>英语大词典n3. Jonathan Swift乔纳森斯威夫特16671745 <Gullivers Travels>格列佛游记(fictional work) Four parts: Lilliput 小人国 Brobdingnag 大人国 Flying Island 飞岛 Houyhnhnm 马岛<A Modest Proposal>一个小小的建议n <The Battle of Books>书战 <A Tale of a Tub>木桶的故事n <The Drappers Letters>一个麻布商的书信4. Daniel Defoe丹尼尔笛福l16601731< CrusoenRobinson>鲁宾逊漂流记5. Oliver Goldsmith奥利弗格尔德斯密斯17301774 poems: <The Deserted Village>荒村 novel: <The Vicar of Wakefield>威克菲尔德牧师传n 6.感伤主义sentimentalism and pre-romanticism: Blake& Burns7 William Blake威廉布莱克17571827 <Songs of Innocence>天真之歌. <Songs of Experience>经验之歌 <The Marriage of Heaven and Hell>天堂与地狱的婚姻n 8 Robert Burns罗伯特彭斯17591796 The greatest Scottish poet in the late 18th century.Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect主要用苏格兰方言写的诗 <John Anderson, My Jo>约翰安德生，我的爱人 <A Red, Red Rose>一朵红红的玫瑰n < SynenAuld Long>友谊地久天长 <A Mans a Man for AThat>不管那一套n < HighlandsnMy Hearts in the>我的心在那高原上V The Romantic Period The romantic period began in 1798 the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridges <Lyrical Ballads>, and end in 1832 with Sir Walter Scotts death. “The Lake Poets”湖畔诗人，who lived in the lake district. William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Robert Southey1. William Wordsworth威廉华兹华斯17701850（与柯尔律治、骚塞同被称为“”诗人。 The Lake Poets） <Lyrical Ballads>抒情歌谣集(with Samuel Taylor Coleridge) <I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud> Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey The Solitary Reaper孤独的割麦女 <The Prelude>序曲 2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge塞缪尔泰勒科尔律治17721834 The Lake Poets <The Rime of the Ancient Mariner>古舟子颂 <Christabel>柯里斯塔贝尔 <Kubla Khan>忽必烈汗 <Frost at Night>半夜冰霜 <Dejection, an Ode>忧郁颂 <Lyrical Ballads>抒情歌谣集(with William Wordsworth) 3. George Gordon Byron乔治戈登拜伦17881824 <Don Juan>唐璜<Childe Harolds Pilgrimage>恰尔德哈罗德尔游记<Cain>该隐 <When We Two Parted>当初我们俩分别<She Walks In Beauty> 4. Persy Bysshe Shelley波西比希雪莱17921822 Poetic Drama：<Prometheus Unbound>解放了的普罗米修斯 <Queen Mab>麦布女王<Revolt of Islam>伊斯兰的反叛<The Cenci>钦契一家<A Defence of Poetry>诗辩<The Necessity of Atheism>无神论的必要性 Lyrics: Ode to the West Wind 西风颂<To a Skylark>致云雀A Defense of Poetry -critical worksSong to Men of England-greatest political lyric Keatsl5. John约翰济慈17951821(“美即是真，真即是美”是他的著名诗句。) Four great odes: <Ode on a Grecian Urn>希腊古瓮颂<Ode to a Nightingale>夜莺颂<To Autumn>秋颂<Ode On Melancholy> 忧郁颂 Five long poems:nEndymion, Isabella, The eve of St.Agnes ,Lamia, Hyperion Scottl6 Walter沃尔特斯科特17711832 (历史小说之父”)Father of history novels <Rob Roy> 罗伯罗伊 <Ivanhoe> 艾凡赫 VI The Victorian PeriodCommon sense and moral propreity, again became the predominant preoccupation. Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common people and everyday events. 1. Charles Dickens查尔斯狄更斯18121870（批判现实主义小说家）critical realist writer 第一阶段： 1.Sketches by Boz 特写集2<The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club>匹克威克外传3<Oliver Twist>奥利弗特维斯特（雾都孤儿）4Nicholas Nickleby5.<The Old Curiosity Shop>老古玩店6.Barnaby Rudge第二阶段：1Amercian Notes美国札记 2，Martin Chuzzlewit宗教色彩，圣诞小说： . 3<A Christmas Carol>圣诞颂歌 4 The Chimes 圣诞颂歌 5The Cricket on the Earth 灶上蟋蟀6<Dombey and Son>董贝父子7 <David Copperfield>大卫科波菲尔 自传体第三阶段1 <Bleak House>荒凉山庄2.<Hard Times>艰难时世3.little dorrit4<A Tale of Two Cities>双城记(London & Paris)5 <Great Expectations>远大前程6 <Our Mutual Friend>我们共同的朋友 7未完成：Edwin Drood 2. William Makepeace Thackeray威廉麦克匹斯萨克雷18111863<Vanity Fair> or a Novel without a Hero名利场(the name is an excerpt from <The Pilgrims Progress>by John Bunyan)<The Book Of Snobs> 3 Jane Austen简奥斯丁l17751817浪漫主义时期的批判现实主义. <Sense and Sensibility>理智与感情<Pride and Prejudic> 傲慢与偏见(chapter I)<Emma>爱玛<Mansfield Park>曼斯菲尔德庄园<Northanger Abbey>诺桑觉寺<Persuasion>劝导 3. Charlotte Bronte夏洛蒂勃朗特18161855 <Jane Eyre>简爱 <Shirley>雪莉 <Professor>教师 4. Emily Bronte艾米莉勃朗特18181854 < HeightsnWuthering>呼啸山庄 < Old Stoic> 5.Anne Bronte安妮。勃朗特 Agnes Grey The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall 6. Robert Louis Stevenson <Treasure Island>金银岛 7. Oscar Wilde奥斯卡王尔德18561900 4 Comedies:<The Importance Of Being Earnest>认真的重要 <Lady Windermeres Fan>温德米尔夫人的扇子 <A Woman Of No Importance>一个无足轻重的女人<An Ideal Husband>理想的丈夫 Novel:<The Picture Of Dorian Gray>多利安格雷的画像 Fairy Stories:<The Happy Prince And Other Tales>快乐王子故事集 Hardyl1 Thomas托马斯哈代18401928（小说多以农村生活为背景；自然主义小说家。Wessex novels; novels of character and environment） Novels < Tess Of The DUrbervilles>德伯家的苔丝 人物：Angel Clare,Alec < Jude The Obscure>无名的裘德 人物：Fawley, Arabella Donnm,(all body) Sue Bridehead(all mind) < Under The Greenwood Tree>绿荫下 < The Madding CrowdnFar From>远离尘嚣 < The Mayor Of Casterbridge>卡斯特桥市长 < The Return of the Native>还乡 PoemsWessex Poems And Other VersesPoems Of The Past And PresentThe Dynasts 列国 2. George Bernard Shaw乔治伯纳萧18561950(英国杰出的批判现实主义剧作家）critical realistic dramatist Plays Plays Unpleasant<Mrs WarrenS Profession>华伦夫人的职业<Widowers Houses>鳏夫的房产 Plays Pleasant<Arms And Man>武器与人<The Man Of Destiny>左右命运的人Plays<Man And Superman>人与超人<Pygmalion>匹格玛利翁<The Apple Cart>苹果车< JoannSaint>圣女贞德 1. David Herbert Lawrence劳伦斯 男女关系 <Sons And Lovers>儿子与情人(autobiographical)<The Rainbow>虹n<Women In Love>恋爱中的女人 <Lady Chatterleys Lover>查特莱夫人的情人 Joycel2. James詹姆斯乔伊斯18821941（爱尔兰小说家，意识流小说的代表人物）stream-of-consciousness<Ulysses>尤利西斯(S_O_C)<A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man>一个青年艺术家的肖像<Finnegans Wake>芬尼根的苏醒<Dubliners>都柏林人 3. Virginia Woolf弗吉尼娅沃尔芙18821941（意识流小说的代表人物）stream-of-consciousness Novels< DallowaynMrs>达洛维夫人<To The Lighthouse>到灯塔去<The Waves>浪<The Lighthouse><Jacobs Room> 雅各布的房间<Orlando> 奥兰朵<Between The Acts>幕间 Yeats l1. 叶芝18651939（爱尔兰诗人，剧作家； The Irish nationalist movement 爱尔兰独立运动； The Irish Literary Revival 爱尔兰文艺复兴； The Irish Literary Theater, or the Abbey Theater 爱尔兰民族剧团） collections <The Wind Among The Reeds> 苇风 <Responsibilities> 责任 <The Tower> 塔 <The Winding Stair> 旋转的楼梯 Poems<Easter 1916>复活节，1916<The Second Coming> 第二次来临/再世<Sailing To Byzantium> 到拜占庭航行 2. Thomas Sterns Eliot（诗人，剧作家，批评家） Poems <The Waste Land> <Four Quartets>四个四重奏 <The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock> Plays <Murder In The Cathedral> 大教堂谋杀案 美国文学史复习1、Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林 1）"Poor Richard's Almanac" 穷人查理德的年鉴 2）“The Way to Wealth” 致富之道 “The Autobiography”自传 18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传2、Washington Irving华盛顿.欧文 the first great belletrist 第一个纯文学作家，the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. 美国第一位浪漫主义散文文体作家 “Sketch Book”见闻札记, the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.现代文学史上第一部短篇小说和美国第一部伟大的青少年文学读物。“Legends of the Conquest of Spain”西班牙征服记 A History of New York 纽约的历史-美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作；The Sketch Book见闻札记The Legend of Sleepy Hollow睡谷的传说-使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家；Bracebridge Hall布雷斯布里奇田庄；Talks of Travellers旅客谈；The Alhambra阿尔罕伯拉3.James Fenimore Cooper 詹姆斯.芬尼莫.库珀 “Leatherstocking Tales”皮袜子故事集，包括“The Deerslayer”杀鹿者、“The Last of the Mohicans”最后的莫希干人、“The Pathfinder”探路人、“The Pioneers”拓荒者、“The Prairie”大草原, regard as “the nearest approach yet to an American epic.” 被认为是迄今为止美国最接近史诗的作品。The Spy 间谍 The Pilot 领航者 The Littlepage Manuscripts 利特佩奇的手稿4、Ralph Waldo Emersion 拉尔夫.沃尔多.爱默生be responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New England, 是把超验主义引入新英格兰的先驱。Emerson believed above all in individualism个人主义, independence of mind思想独立, and self-reliance自强.作品：“Nature”论自然、“Essays”随笔录 “The American Scholar”美国学者, our intellectual Declaration of Independence.我们知识分子的独立宣言。his most important works are “Representative Men ”代表and “English Traits”英国人、“Poems”诗集。5、Henry David Thoreau 亨利.戴维.梭罗 “In Walden”沃尔登成名作“Civil Disobedience”平民反抗essay 随笔。非暴力不合作6、Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳萨尼尔.霍桑 “Mosses from an Old Manse”古厦青苔、“The Marble Faun”玉石神像“The Scarlet Letter”红字人物：Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale, Pearl7、Herman Melville 赫尔曼.麦尔维尔 “Moby Dick”白鲸人物：Captain Ahab.船长阿哈比；Queequeg，捕鲸人奎因奎格 Ishmael讲故事的人，Starkbuck 星巴克8、Walt Whitman 沃尔特.惠特曼 free verse (自由诗体) 无固定节奏，无有规律的韵脚 “Leaves of Grass”草叶集 1870 the first genuine epic poem. 美国历史上第一部真正的史诗 Poems 特点：most of the poems in “Leaves of Grass”are about man and nature. 9、Emily Dickinson 爱米丽.狄金森 “I died for Beauty” 我为美而死（诗歌） Beauty / Truth / Goodness are ultimate(终极) the same “Because I could not stop for Death”我不能等候死神Theme：死亡是实现永恒Immortality的途径 “my life closed twice before its close” “mineby the right of the white election”10.Edgar Allan Poe 埃德加.阿伦.坡“The Fall of the House of Usher”鄂谢府崩溃记、“The Raven”乌鸦the title poem of a collection“Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque”述异集first collection of short stories. 第一部短篇小说集。11.Howells“A modern instance一个现代的例证“The rise of Silas Lapham”塞拉斯。拉帕姆的发迹12.James“The Amercian”美国人“Daisy Miller”黛西，米勒“The portrait of a lady”贵妇人画像“The ambassador”奉使记“The Wings of the Dove”鸽翼“the golden bowl”金碗13.Mark Twain 马克.吐温 美国现实主义文学的代表作“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”哈克贝里.费恩历险记(马克最有名的作品) 特点：local colorist 地方特色:a unique variation of American literary realism, it refers to the particular concern about the local character of a region. 代表作：“The Gilded Age”70-90年代，镀金时代，贫富分化，财富积累。 “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”用词简单、幽默、使用当地语言编写 “Life on the Mississippi” 14、Theodore Dreiser 西奥多.德莱塞 代表作：“Sister Carrie”嘉莉妹妹 the first novel, which traces the material rise of Carrie Meeber and the tragic decline of G. W. Hurstwood. “The Financier”、“The Titan”、“The Stoic”Trilogy of Desire 欲望三部曲 “An American Tragedy”美国悲剧，The identification of potency with money is at the heart of Dreisers greatest and most successful novel,德莱塞最恢宏、最成功的小说，表达了金钱万能的主题。15、Thomas Stearns Eliot 托马斯.斯特恩斯.爱略特 现代主义代言人 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”poems，holds its place in the development of Eliots poetry as a whole. “Tradition and the Individual Talent”essay,随笔传统和个人天才, the earliest statement of his aesthetics第一次阐释了自己的审美观点. “The Waste Land”荒原现代主义的标志 “Four Quartets”四个四重奏poem “Murder in the Cathedral”，poetic tragedy, 诗歌悲诗, a drama(戏剧) of impressive spiritual power.极富感染力的戏剧16.Robert Frost 罗伯特.弗洛斯特 自然主义诗人 poet “The Road Not Taken”、“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”向往大自然，想逃避社会；死亡、迷惑 17、Ernest Hemingway 厄恩斯特.海明威 novelist 小说家 诺贝尔 代表作：“The Sun Also Rises” Hemingway became the spokesman for “a lost generation” “A Farewell to Arms”、“For Whom the Bell Tolls”、“The Old Man and the Sea” 18、William Faulkner 威廉.福克纳 诺贝尔作品的主题：the universal theme of “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself”人类心灵与自己冲突是宇宙永恒的主题。 作品：“The Sound and the Fury”喧嚣与骚动成名作、“Absalom, Absalom!”、“Go Down, Moses”19.John Steinbeck 约翰.斯坦贝克 诺贝尔“Of Mice and Men”人鼠之间 portrayed the tragic friendship between two migrant workers“The Grapes of Wrath”愤怒的葡萄regarded as masterpiece 视为杰作。20. Eugene ONeill 诺贝尔“The Emperor Jones”琼斯国王、“Anna Christie”安娜.克里斯蒂、“The Hairy Ape”毛猿 “Long daysJourney”自传21. Saul Bellow 犹太人 诺贝尔从1941年到1987年的4O余年间，贝娄共出版了9部。早期创作有结构优美的挂起来的人“Danglin Man” （1944）、 受害者“The victim” （1947），颇为评论界注目。 （1953）的出版，一举成名，奠定了他的文学地位。由于把“丰富多彩的流浪汉小说与当代文化的精妙分析结合在一起”，这部小说成为当代美国文学中描写自意识和个人自由的典型之作。陆续出版了 雨王汉德逊“Hederson the Rain King” （1959）、 “Herzog” 获得4项奖（1964） 、赛姆勒先生的行星Mr Sammlers Plannet”（1970）、 洪堡的礼物 （1975）、 系主任的十二月 （1981）、 而今更见伤心死 （1987）、偷窃（1989）等。这些作品袒露了中产阶级知识分子的苦闷，从反映了美国当代“丰裕社会”的精神危机。成为美国轰动一时的畅销书。此外，贝娄还出版
