《英国文学简史及作品选读》PPT课件 金陵科技学院 张国清

 
课件内容： 
Basic knowledge concerning literature 
I. To be informed of the knowledge concerning the definition of literature; II. To try to master the theory of four literary factors; III. To be informed of the definition of poetry; IV. To try to learn about meter; V. To master rhyme and rhyme schemeVI. To grasp the rules and standards of analyzing a poem 
1.1 Variations of the definition of literature and Four literary factors 
1.2 Functions of literature and Genres 
1.3 What\’s poetry? 
1.4 Meter  rhyme and rhyme scheme 
1.5 How to Analyze and Approach an English Poem? 
Anglo-Saxon Period — Old English Period 
I. To be informed of the history of early Britain; II. To try to grasp the features and social significance of Beowulf; III. To learn about Anglo-Saxon prose; IV. To grasp the characteristics of early British literature 
1.1 History of early Britain–Formation of England 
1.2 Beowulf 
1.3 Anglo-Saxon Prose: Bede  Alfred the Great 
1.4 Features of early British literature 
Anglo-Norman and Medieval Period — Middle English Period 
I. To learn the social and cultural background of Anglo-Norman period; II. To try to grasp the features and social significance of Romance; III. To appreciate Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; IV. To master Chaucer and Canterbury Tales; V. To grasp ballad meter by illustrating Robin Hood 
1.1 Norman Conquest and its influence  
1.2 Definition and characteristics of Romance  
1.3 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 
1.4 Chaucer and Canterbury Tales 
1.5 Ballad meter 
Renaissance Age – Prose 
I. To learn the social and cultural background of Renaissance period; II. To master the outline introduction of Renaissance literature; III. To grasp the skills of essay analysis; IV. To learn about Thomas More and Utopia; V. To appreciate Francis Bacon’s essay: Of StudiesVI. Bible Translation in EnglandVII. John Lyly and Euphues 
1.1 Historical background and Renaissance humanism  
1.2 Outline introduction of Renaissance Literature 
1.3 Four-step reading method of essay analysis 
1.4 Thomas More and Utopia 
1.5 Francis Bacon’s essay: Of Studies 
Renaissance Age – Poetry 
I. To learn the historical context of Renaissance poetry; II. To understand the characteristics of Renaissance poetry; III. To grasp lyrics and poetic styles of the representatives: Spenser  Sidney; IV. To master sonnet and the representative works by Shakespeare  Spenser 
1.1 Elizabethan poetry and its characteristics 
1.2 Edmund Spenser and his poetic works 
1.3 Sir Philip Sidney and his poetic works 
1.4 Sonnet and its rhyme schemes 
1.5 William Shakespeare and his sonnets 
Renaissance Age – Drama 
I. To learn the historical context of Renaissance drama; II. To understand the history of Renaissance drama; III. To learn University Wits and its representatives: Marlowe; IV. To master the Great Tragedies and Comedies written by Shakespeare 
1.1 History and playwrights of English Drama 
1.2 University wits and Christopher Marlowe 
1.3 William Shakespeare — the Summit of English drama 
The 17th Century — Revolution and Restoration Period 
I. To learn the social and cultural background of Revolution and Restoration period; II. To master the outline introduction of the 17th literature in Britain; III. To grasp the differences between Metaphysical and Cavalier Poets; IV. To appreciate John Milton’s Paradise Lost; V. To learn about Restoration Literature and John Dryden 
1.1 Historical background of Revolution and Restoration Period 
1.2 Outline Introduction of the 17th Literature 
1.3 Metaphysical poets and John Dryden 
1.4 John Milton and his Paradise Lost 
Enlightenment Period — Outline introduction and Neo-classicism 
I. To learn the social and cultural background of Enlightenment period; II. To master the outline introduction of Enlightenment literature; III. To learn about essay representatives: Addison  Steele; IV. To appreciate Alexander Pope and his poems 
1.1 Social and cultural background of Enlightenment period 
1.2 Outline introduction of Enlightenment literature 
1.3 Addison and Steele 
1.4 Alexander Pope and his poems 
Enlightenment Period — Novel Writing 
I. To learn the historical context of Enlightenment novel; II. To learn about the developing process of novel writing; III. To grasp the writing features of realistic novel writing; IV. To appreciate representative works 
1.1 Basic knowledge of novel appreciation 
1.2 Novel writing of the 18th century England: Daniel Defoe  Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding 
1.3 Robinson Crusoe  Gulliver’s Travels 
Enlightenment Period — Sentimentalism and Preromanticism 
I. To learn the historical context of Sentimentalism and Preromanticism respectively; II. To learn about the developing process of Sentimentalism and Preromanticism; III. To grasp the writing features of Sentimentalism and Preromanticism schools; IV. To appreciate representative works 
1.1 Knowledge concerning Sentimentalism and its novelists 
1.2 Richardson and his Pamela 
1.3 Sterne and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy 
1.4 Knowledge about Pre-romanticism  Robert Burns’ A Red  Red Rose 
1.5 William Blake’s The Lamb 
Romantic Age – Lake Poets 
I. To learn the social and cultural background of Romantic Age; II. To master the outline introduction of Romantic Age literature; III. To grasp the characteristics of Romanticism; IV. To appreciate Wordsworth’s poem: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 
1.1 Romantic Age and Romantic literature 
1.2 William Wordsworth and his poetic theory 
1.3 Wordsworth’s poems and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 
Romantic Age – 2nd Generation of Romantic Poets 
I. To learn the social and cultural background of Romantic Age; II. To master the outline introduction of 2nd Generation of Romantic Poets; III. To appreciate Byron’s poem: She Walks in Beauty; IV. To appreciate Shelley’s poem: Ode to the West Wind 
1.1 Ideas and ideal of 2nd Generation of Romantic Poets 
1.2 Byron and his poems 
1.3 Shelley and his poems 
Romantic Age – Essay and Novel 
I. To learn the social and cultural background of late Romantic Age; II. To learn about the life experiences of Charles Lamb and familiar essay; III. To learn about the life experiences of Walter Scott and historical novel; IV. To appreciate Jane Austen’s novel: Pride and Prejudice 
1.1 Charles Lamb and familiar essay 
1.2 Jane Austen and her novels  
1.3 Walter Scott and historical novel 
Victorian Age – Novel 
I. To learn the social and cultural background of Victorian Age; II. To master the outline introduction of Victorian literature; III. To grasp the characteristics of Victorian novel writings; IV. To appreciate Oliver Twist  David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; V. To appreciate Jane Eyre  Wuthering Heights  and other novels by women novelists 
1.1 Victorian Age and Victorian literature 
1.2 Charles Dickens and his novels 
1.3 William Makepeace Thackeray and his novels 
1.4 Bronte sisters and their works 
1.5 George Eliot and her novels 
Victorian Age – Poetry 
I. To learn the historical context of Victorian poetry; II. To master the outline introduction of Victorian poetry; III. To appreciate some poems by Tennyson  the Brownings and Arnold; IV. To summarize the writing features of Victorian poetry 
1.1 Victorian poetry and poets 
1.2 Tennyson and his poetic works 
1.3 The Brownings and their poems 
1.4 Matthew Arnold and his poems