英国文学史复习资料
2009年度文学史复习资料
一、选择题
1、Beowulf 写作特征：The national epic poem , Beowulf ,and lyrical poems of shorter length .
2、伊丽莎白时期作品特征：drama
3、john milton的作品:Paradise Lost
4、Thomas hardy小说特色：Naturism
5、Robert browning’s勃朗宁my last duchess 风格、特点dramatic monologue
6、莎士比亚
四大喜剧：《仲夏夜之梦》》A Midsummer Night's Dream、《皆大欢喜》As you like it、《第十二夜》Twelfth Night、《威尼斯商人》The merchant of Venice
四大悲剧：Hamlet（哈姆雷特）、Othello（奥瑟罗）、King Lear（李尔王）、Macbeth（马克白）
7、metaphysical poetry 指的那些人，以谁最出名：John Donne
8、批判现实主义小说家谁最出名：Charles Dickens
9、Canterbury tales 坎特伯雷故事集（英国诗人乔叟著）主要写作风格：prose and verse
１０、浪漫主义标志人物：william wordsworth; Percy Shelley: Ozymandias Ode to the west wind;
George Gordon :don juan; John keats : ode to a nightingale ode to a Grecian urn
１１、Jane Austen 最常见作品：Pride and prejudice
１２、Oscar Wilde奥斯卡·王尔德（英国作家）最优秀的作品：The picture of dorian gray １３、雪莱名诗的名称：Ozymandias Ode to the west wind
１４、Tennyson写给她朋友作品名称：break break break！！
二、连线题（横线为参考重点）
二. Matching
1. Robert Burns: 罗伯特彭斯(Robert Burns) 友情地久天长》(For Auld Lang Syne
2. James Joyce:
3. Charlotte Bronte:
4. Emily Bronte:
5. Anne Bronte:
6. Henry Fielding:亨利·菲尔丁（18世纪最杰出的英国小说家，戏剧家）
7. Alfred Tennyson:
8. John Donne:
9. Charles Dickens:
10. William Wordsworth:
11. Chaucer:
12. Lawrence:
13. Bacon:
14. John Keats:
15. Virginia Woolf:
16. Bernard Shaw:
17. Sheridan:
三、选读理解
1．莎士比亚的“to be or not to be”出自哪里部作品，这一段想要表达的是什么，写作形式？
The quotation is taken from Hamlet
What Hamlet is musing on is the comparison between the pain of life, which he sees as inevitable and the fear of the uncertainty of death and of possible damnation of suicide.
Hamlet's dilemma is that although he is dissatisfied with life and lists its many torments, he is unsure what death may bring (the dread of something after death). He can't be sure what death has in store; it may be sleep but in perchance to dream he is speculating that it is perhaps an experience worse than life. Death is called the undiscover'd country from which no traveller returns.
写作形式―――dramatic form
2、希腊古墓颂的主题，“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.”分析
The theme is: Human life is transient, but the art is immortal. It shows the contrast between the transience of human passion and the permance of art. The poet has adsorbed himself into the timeless beautiful scenery on the antique Grecian Urn: the lover, musicians and wordshippers on the Urn exist simultaneously and forever in their intensity of joy. They are unaffected by time, stilled in expectation. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," ----that is all we know on earth, and all we need to know.
3、Bernard Shaw的一不作品涉及到Mrs. Warren. 介绍Mrs. Warren的人物特点。
答：Mrs. Warren’s profession is keeping brothels.What she did is just for living. She was a poor girl living under the discrimination and humiliation. She watched the poor girl being afflicted to die so that she had only to be a bitch in order to survive. During her live, she knew that the only way which can make her be exempt form baiting was that she had to become strong. So that she worked harder and become a strong woman. She didn’t want her daughter to follow her steps so that she set her daughter to a noble school. But because her daughter looked down upon her and at last chose to live far away form her.
4、Tess主题：
Tess, the heroine, is depicted as a victim of the society. On one hand, her fate is personal. Her misfortunes and tragedy are inevitably linked up with her own personality and the poverty of her poor family. On the other hand, Tess’s fate can be the fate of any country girl like her. It can be the fate of all the poor peasants who are driven out of their land and home.
5、Sonnet 18 of Shakespeare 分析
主题：Sonnet 18 expresses that beautiful things can rely on the force of literature to reach eternity. Literature is created by man, thus it declares man’s eternity. The poem shows the mighty self-confidence of the newly class. The vivid, variable and rich images reflect the lively and adventurous spirits of those who were opening new world.
6、A MODEST PROPOSAL
FOR PREVENTING THE CHILDREN OF POOR PEOPLE IN IRELAND FROM BEING A BURDEN TO THEIR PARENTS OR COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING THEM BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC
7、Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice 开头经典对白，主要人物名称
经典对白：it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
主要人物名称：Elizabeth Darcy
8.
Figures of the poem: "My Last Duchess." indirect allusions to the death of his wife the reader might easily think that the speaker committed a vengeful 复仇的crime out of jealousy. His flowery speech confuses and disguises any possible motives, however, and the mystery is left unsolved. Based on the poem's style, structure, and historical
references, it becomes evident that even if the speaker did not directly
kill his wife, he certainly had something to hide.
The style and structure of this poem play a significant role in the
effect of the poem. As is typical of Browning's poems, "My Last
Duchess" is written as a dramatic monologue: one speaker relates the
entire poem as if to another person present with him. This format suits
this poem particularly well because the speaker, taken to be the Duke of
Ferrara, comes across as being very controlling, especially in
conversation. For example, he seems jealous that he was not able to
monopolize独占his former duchess' smiles for himself. He also seems to
direct the actions of the person he is addressing with comments such as
"Will't please you rise?" (line 47) and "Nay, we'll go / Together down,
sir" (lines 53-54).
Browning uses many techniques, including a simple rhyme scheme,押韵格式
enjambment跨行连续, and caesura节律的停顿to convey various characteristics and qualities about the speaker and the situation. Browning uses an AA BB rhyme scheme, which is very common to ballads and songs. It also enhances the irony of the speaker's later comment that he does not have "skill / In speech" (lines 35-36). The enjambed lines indicate the control that the speaker is exerting on the conversation and give the feeling that the speaker is rushing through parts of the poem. When the Duke is speaking of the death of his wife, for example, the lines running over suggest that he is nervous about the subject. The caesuras also suggest to the reader that he is hiding something or that he is pausing to think.
When discussing the poem's content, there are many things we know for certain and many others that are questionable. We know that the Duchess died suspiciously and that the Duke is in the process of looking for a new wife. He is speaking to a messenger报信者，about a painting of his now deceased wife. The Duke, of course, is casting himself in a favorable light and is presenting his best side. He wants to make it look as if his wife was cheating on him and was unfaithful to him. He is very controlling, and could not control her and her smiles. This smile was what the Duke likes the most about the painting of the Duchess--he feels that the painter accurately captured the smile and the vivacity of the Duchess. Now that the Duke owns this painting and has placed it behind a curtain, he can at last control who is graced with her smile.
When the Duchess was alive, the Duke could not control her smile and love for life and he considered her unfaithful. It is thought that he poisoned her because of these suspicions. Other aspects of the Duke that remain unclear include his true character. As mentioned, he is presenting his best side, but through his speech the reader sees how he is very jealous and controlling, which leads one to believe that he may have many dishonorable qualities.(identity of the Duke) Another ambiguous quality about the Duke is his historical character. The poem clearly references the historical Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara (a city in northeast Italy), whose first wife died suspiciously within two years of their marriage.
四、简答题
1、Chaucer对英国文学的贡献。
答：Chaucer is an English poet best loved after Shakespeare for his wisdom, humor, and humanity. He greatly increased the prestige 威望，声望of English as a literary language and extended the range of its poetic vocabulary and meters. He was the first English poet to use the seven-line stanza in iambic pentameter known as rhyme royal and the couplet later called heroic.
2、什么是抑扬格五音步，素体诗
“iambic pentameter”（抑扬格五音步）is a meter in poetry ，means five feet (10 syllables) with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable，Iambic means the stress is on the second syllable, an example is the word good-bye.
Blank Verse(素体诗）is any verse comprised of unrhymed lines all in the same meter, usually iambic pentameter.
3、莎士比亚的戏剧有多少个？分析其中一部
William Shakespeare during his life he produced 38 plays.
Hamlet is generally regarded as the greatest of all tragedies.
It is the first work of literature to show an ordinary person looking at the futility and wrongs in life, asking the toughest questions and coming up with honest semi-answers like most people do today.
The 'To be or not to be' soliloquy is often felt to be central to Hamlet's personality. It provides an excellent example of Hamlet not doing anything.
4、Counterbury tales 有多少个故事，试分析斯宾塞式以及意大利式
答：There are only 24 tales were written in
意大利十四行诗
The Italian sonnet is divided into two parts: the first part consists of two stanzas, and each consists of four lines; the second part also consists of two stanzas, but with three lines each. The rhyme scheme is ABBA , ABBA, CDE, CDE or ABBA，ABBA，CDC，CDC. Each line has 11 syllables and is written in iambic form. 斯宾塞诗体Spenserian stanza:A stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc cThe Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene
5. 14行诗的种类
Spenserian sonnet:
Edmund Spenser invented the Spenserian stanza. It’s a stanza of nine lines, with the first eight line s in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter, rhyming ababbcbcc.
The Italian sonnet: Shakespeare
The Italian sonnet is a form that originated in Italy in the thirteenth century. The Italian sonnet has parts, an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines). Its rhyme scheme is usually abbaabba cdecde. The two parts of the Italian sonnet play off each other in a variety of ways. Sometimes the octave raises a question that the sestet answers. Sometimes the sestet opposes what the octave says, or extends it. The Italian sonnet is often called the Petrarchan sonnet.
The Shakespearean Sonnet:
The Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, with the rhyme abab cdcd efef gg.
十四行诗(sonnet)：过去也曾音译为《商籁诗》。十四行，抑扬格，五音步用作全诗的形式。首先出现于意大利，16世纪中传入英国，为伊丽莎白时代(伊丽莎白一世在位时期为1558一1603)文人所宠爱，莎士比亚、斯宾塞及西德尼(sidney)全都写下过著名的十四行诗。18世纪十四行诗曾受到冷落。但后又被浪漫派诗人济慈、沃兹沃斯等人所复兴，以后许多诗人也多所采用。英国十四行诗有两种类型：意大利式(Petrarvhan)及莎士比业式(Shakesperoan)(英国式)。A．意大利式十四行诗：模仿意大利诗人皮特拉克(Petrarch)所创的样式，由两部分组成：第一部分八行(TheOctave)，由的个四行诗体(Quatrains)组成，韵脚是abbaabba；第二部分六行(The Sestet)，韵脚可有不同形式。按严格的意大利十四行诗体，在前八行结尾诗意应告一段落，而后六行又转入新的诗意。B．莎士比亚式十四行诗：由三个四行诗体组成，韵脚交替进行。最后是押韵的双行诗体。整个韵脚是ababcdcdefefgg。在莎士比亚式十四行诗中意境一气呵成，直到最后双行体，为全诗高潮。
6、John Donne 的玄学诗Go and Catch a Falling Star 主题以及特征conceit
John Donne (1572-1631) - First and greatest of the English metaphysical poets. He is a thoroughly characteristic figure of the early 17th century. Born of a family with a strong Roman Catholic tradition, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. Donne’s work was popular upon its initial publication, but it was not until the early 20th century that he was first considered a major poet. His poems are admired for their wit, beauty, and perception.
Donne’s religious poems and his magnificent sermons reached astounding heights of subtlety and intensity. His prose style, involuted and ornate, is one of the more glorious monuments to the spirit of the early 17th century.
Go and Catch a Falling Star (1633) –主题和特征
Number of impossible feats which are easier than finding a woman “true, and fair.” In this poem he is telling us about the inconstancy of women. He uses mythological characters and situations that suggest a constant woman is also just a figment of the imagination. He is also saying that as you get older you still can’t find a woman true and fair. He said that even if you did find one. Her true colors will show evetua lly. In this poem he is telling us about the inconstancy of women. He uses mythological characters and situations that suggest a constant woman is also just a figment of the imagination. He is also saying that as you get older you still can’t find a woman true and fair. He said that even if you did find one. Her true colors will show evetualy.
“Conceits”, as these extravagant figures are called, are so odd that we lose sight of the thing to be illustrated, in the startling nature of the illustration. The fashion of conceitful writing, somewhat like euphuism in prose, appeared in Italy and Spain also. Its imaginative exuberance has its parallel in baroque architecure and painting
五、论述题
1、Something about Jane Austen and her work—Pride and Prejudice
There are four main characters in Austen’s works.
1.She is interested in personal relations of human beings with their family and neighbors. She is
particularly preoccupied with the relation between men and women. And women always take the major characters in her works.
2.she writes in a narrow sphere范围, this is because she was living in a limited environment at her time.
But she can offer a closer analysis of characters and recurring situations.
3.she portrays 描绘；扮演her characters just like real living persons. Her plot情节appear natural,
unfored, and straight-forward.
her works shows a wealth of humor, wit and delicate satire微妙讽刺
4..
Pride and Prejudice: this book mainly tells of the ove story between a rich proud man Darcy and the beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth,one of the daughters in Bennet’s family. There are three kinds of attitudes towards marriage are presented: marriage merely for forturn, money and social rank: marriage for beauty, passion regardless of economic conditions or personal merits优点. The novel is noted for its vivid depiction of characters of almost all kinds of people of the landed gentry贵族们；class with peculiar ；独特的；奇怪的personalities and particular ways of thinking. Austen presents the characters mainly through assimilation同化and contrast.
2、Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens was one of the three greatest novelists in Victorian times. His industry was tremendous 巨大的. His first true novel, Oliver Twist, which began to appear in a monthly magazine, has a carefully worked out plot. Its picture of the workhouses created under the New Poor Law and the descriptions of the criminal slums of London in which young Oliver lived brought Dickens a new class of serious reader interested in social reform.
Oliver Twist, one of Dickens's best-known novels, is a grimly comic indictment of the effects of industrialism upon 19th century England.Oliver Twist is the story of a young orphan boy who reflects the life of poverty in England in the 1830's. The story illustrates the evils of the Poor House's of the time and the corruption of the people who work there. It also shows the depths of London's crime with an emphasis on petty robbery and pick pocketing.
Oliver Twist is a story about the battles of good versus evil, with the evil continually trying to corrupt and exploit the good. It portrays the power of Love, Hate, Greed, and Revenge and how each can affect the people involved. The love between Rose and Harry in the end conquers all the obstacles between them. The hate that Monks feels for Oliver and the greed he feels towards his inheritance eventually
destroys him. The revenge that Sikes inflicts on Nancy drives him almost insane and eventually to accidental suicide. Dickens' wide array of touching characters emphasizes the virtues of sacrifice, compromise, charity, and loyalty. Most importantly, though the system for the poor is not changed, the good in Dickens' novel outweighs the evil, and the main characters that are part of this good live happily ever after.
Charity and love - and the lack thereof - are important motifs in Oliver Twist. Ambivalence矛盾情绪is a notable theme in the novel
In a style that would become characteristic, Dickens makes considerable use of symbolism. The "merry old gentleman" Fagin, for example, has satanic characteristics Food, too, has symbolic value; Oliver's odyssey begins with a simple request for more gruel
England's class system is another important part of the novel's dynamics. Dickens shows how the Poor Law Amendment of 1834 influenced society: a middle class developed and began to exploit the lower classes。
The world of Oliver Twist is indeed a grim one. Dickens manages to contrive happy endings for most of the deserving characters, however; and although Oliver's escape from the slums is more or less miraculous, he clearly hopes to improve the chances of orphans like Oliver by opening the public's eyes to their vulnerability and suffering.
3、Jonathan Swift’ Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift: Irish author and journalist, dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral (Dublin) from 1713, the foremost prose散文的；平凡的satirist in English language. His most famous works include The Battle of the Books (1697)，exploring the merits of the ancients and the moderns in literature. The authors of renowned books take sides in the battle. A Tale of a Tub (1704) was a religious satire. It has at its core a simple narrative of a father who has triplets and, upon his death，leaves them each a coat which will grow with them. Gulliver's Travels (1726).
Gulliver's Travels:
The theme:Gulliver's Travels comprises the extraordinary adventures of Doctor Lemuel Gulliver, descriptions of fantastic lands visited by him, their social systems, ways and customs of their inhabitants .It is a topical social satire, a work of propaganda, in which Swift wanted to show the consequences of humanity's refusal to be reasonable.
The content: four voyages
4、John Bunyan’s Vanity Fair 主题简介写作特征
英国文学史及选读 复习要点总结概要
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I、Multiple Choice. (40%) There are 15 questions in this part. Choose A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet. A 1. Beowulf is a ___ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society. A. pagan B. Christain C. romantic D. lyric B 2.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely___. A. William Langland’s Piers the Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales C. John Gower’s Confessio Amantis D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C 3. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ，Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of __C___ and the eternal __________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves . A. death/ life B. time / beauty C. death/ love D. hate / love C. 4. Which of the following poetic forms is the principle form of Shakespeare’s drama? A. lyric B. sonnet C. blank verse D. quatrain C 5. Which of the following statements best illustrate the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18? A. The speaker eulogizes the power of nature. B. The speaker satirizes human vanity. C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation. A 6. Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gulliver’s Travels? A. Lilliput B. Brobdingnag C. Laputa D. Houyhnhnms B 7. Which of the following is NOT true about Robinson Crusoe? A.It is written in the autobiographical form. B.It is a record of Defoe’s own experiences. C.Robinson spends 28 years of isolated life on the island. D.It is set in the middle of the 17th century. B.8.Many of Burn s’ songs deal with friendship.____ has long become a universal parting-song of all the English speaking countries. A. A Red, Red Rose B. Auld Lang Syne C. My Heart’s in the Highlands D. John Anderson, My Jo A 9.The Tiger was written by___. A. William Blake B. John Keats C. William Wordsworth D. Percy Shelley B 10.“One short sleep past, we wake eternally” is taken from___ A. The Solitary Reaper B. Death be not proud C. To Autumn D. Song to the Man of England A 11. _____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance. A. Thomas North B. Thomas Wyatt
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