自考英美文学选读笔记 精简版(2)

4 great odes - <Ode on Melancholy>, <Ode on a Grecian Urn>, <Ode to a

Nightingale>, <Ode to Psyche>

<Ode on a Grecian Urn> the contrast between the permanence of art and the

transience 短暂of human passion, 'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter', 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'

Jane Austen

<Pride and Prejudice>

The Victorian Period

Darwin's <The Origin of Species> and <The Descent of Man> shook the traditional faith, everything is created by GodUtilitarianism 功利主义 was widely accepted and practiced Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common people Charles Dickens - one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age Character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his worksA mingling of humor and pathos 悲伤

<A Tale of Two Cities>

<Oliver Twist>

The Bronte Sisters - Charlotte, Emily & AnneEmily, a rather reserved and simple girl, was very much a child of nature.

<Jane Eyre>

<Wuthering Heights>

Alfred Tennyson - invents dramatic monologue, Poet Laureate 桂冠诗人, a real artist

自考英语专业 文学选读精简版笔记

<Break, Break, Break> the death of his best friend, his sadness feeling are contrasted with the carefree, innocent joys of the children and the unfeeling movement of the ship and the sea waves

<Crossing the Bar> we can feel his fearlessness towards death, his faith in God and an afterlife. 'Crossing the bar' means leaving this world and entering the next world <Ulysses> not endure the peaceful commonplace everyday life, old as he is, he

persuades his old followers to go with him and to set sail again to pursue a new world and new knowledge, dramatic monologue, 'Myself not least, but honour'd of them all' means I am not the least important, but

honoured by all of them

Robert Browning - the most original poet, who improve and mature the dramatic monologue

<The Ring and the Book> his masterpiece

<My Last Duchess> this dramatic monologue is the duke's speech addressed to the agent who comes to negotiate the marriage, the duke is a self-conceited, cruel and tyrannical man

<Meeting at Night>

<Parting at Morning>

George Eliot:As a woman of exceptional 特有的intelligence and life experience, she shows a particular concern for the destiny of women

<Middlemarch> a sharp contrast is set between the cold, lifeless, dull house and Dorothea who is full of youthful life and vigor

Thomas Hardy - both a naturalistic and a critical realist writerLocal-colored, Wessex, 'novels of character and environment'

<Tess of the D'Urbervilles> experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration American Romantic Period

Started with Washington Irving's <The Sketch Book> and ended with Whitman's

<Leaves of Grass>, also called 'the American Renaissance'Free expression of emotion, escapes from society, and return to nature New England Transcendentalism

Washington Irving - father of the American short stories, the American Goldsmith

自考英语专业 文学选读精简版笔记

Perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced

First novel <A History of New York>

<The Sketch Book> contains German folk tales <Rip Van >, <The Legend of Sleepy Hollow>

Ralph Waldo Emerson - the spokesman of New England Transcendentalism movement

<The American Scholar>, <Self - Reliance>, <The Over-Soul>

<The Poet> a reflection upon the aesthetic problems in terms of the present state of literature in America

<Experience> a discussion about the conflict between idealism and ordinary

lifeAmerican Puritanism, European Romanticism, intuitive knowledge, over-soul, individual, nature

<Nature> is regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Interior of the heart, there is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life, but circumstances may rouse it to activity <The Scarlet Letter>

<Young Goodman Brown>

Walt Whitman

Openness, freedom, individualism

I - me, my nation (society), Free verse, Envelope structure, Catalogue (Listing)

A new ideal, a new world, a new life-style

<There Was a Child Went Forth> how a child is greatly influenced by his growing environments

<Cavalry Crossing a Ford> a scene of the American Civil War, all the movements described in this picture are frozen.

<Song of Myself> Whitman is a man bubbling with energy and laden with ideas, spontaneous expression of his original ideas

自考英语专业 文学选读精简版笔记

Herman Melville - a master of allegory and symbolism, like Hawthorne<Moby-Dick> the first American prose epic, Ishmael both as a character and a narrator, the captain, Ahab is a monomaniac

Realistic period - the Gilded Age, the poor poorer and the rich richer, people's attention was now directed to the interesting features of everyday existence Local colorism, social Darwinism, bestiality, beyond man's control

Mark Twain - the true father of American literature

Local colorist, vernacular, simple sentence, 'the damned human race' The Gilded Age 3 boyhood books <Life on the Mississippi>, <The Adventures of Tom Sawyer>, <Adventures of Huckleberry Finn>

<Adventures of Huckleberry Finn> Huck's inner conflict about whether or not he should write a letter to tell Miss Watson where Jim is.

Henry James - international theme, psychological realistStream of consciousness, interior monologue, free association

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