英美文学简史Lecture 1(Revised)

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Lecture 1Old and Medieval Literature(约5世纪—1485)

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Teaching Objectives: 1. Let the students know something about literature; 2. Let the students know something about British Literature; 3. Tell the students something about literature learning and research methods.

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Part 1: General IntroductionI. Literature: is a subject of man, for man, and by man. Man is a product of social relations, in which we can see the relations between man and man, man and nature, man and society, and finally man and God. All these relations can be found in literary works. Literary works, however, are different from works of history and philosophy. Literary works represent the relations by employing language tools. History records facts which actually occurred, and philosophy does its exploitation in abstract terms.

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Literature is the art of language, whose major genres are poetry, fiction, and drama. Literature is closely connected with history. If we know nothing of history, it is impossible for us really to understand a literary work.

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II. Learning Method sources of work and genre contents of the work (plot, theme, position in literary history) author’s attitude style

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We should analyze a literary work from the following three aspects:

(1) theme (2) writing (artistic) features (3) character portrayal

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III. Teaching Plan for This Term: 1. Old and Medieval English Literature, 2. Geoffrey Chaucer, The English Renaissance, 3. William Shakespeare 4. Bacon 5. The 17th Century Literature, John Milton, John Donne 6. The English Enlightenment Literature, Swift, Defoe

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7.Fielding, Johnson, Sheridan 8. Blake, Burns 9.The Age of Romanticism, Wordsworth, Coleridge 10. Byron, Shelley, Keats 11. The Victorian Age, Dickens, Thackeray 12. The Bronte Sisters 13. Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning 14. Hardy 15. Modern English Literature, T. S. Eliot

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16. Laurence, Woolf, Joyce 17. Revision IV. Different Historical Periods of British Literature 1. Old and Medieval English Literature (约5 世纪—1485) 2. The English Renaissance (15世纪后期— 17世纪初) 3. The 17th Century English Literature

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4. The English Enlightenment Literature (17世 纪后期—18世纪中期) 5. The Age of Romanticism (1798-1832)

6. The Age of Realism (19世纪30年代— 1918) 7. Modern English Literature (1918-1945) 8. Contemporary English Literature (1945- )

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V. Reference Books for This Course:1. 陈嘉、宋文林 著 《大学英国文学史》(2卷 本),商务印书馆，1996年。 2. 陈嘉 编《英国文学作品选读》(3卷本), 商务印书馆，1981年版，2003年重印。 3. Margaret Drabble, ed.《牛津英国文学词典》 (第6版),外语教学与研究出版社，2005 年。 4. 罗经国 编注《新编英国文学选读》(2卷 本),北京大学出版社，2005年。 5.M. H. Abrams, gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York and London: Norton, 1993, 2005. (The best reference book)

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6.李正栓等

主编 《英国文学学习指南》,清华大 学出版社，2006年。 7. 赵红英主编 《英国文学简史学习指南》,中 国传媒大学出版社。

VI. Requirements for This Course: 1. Class attendance; 2. A wide reading before and after class; 3. Remembering some important facts; 4. Class discussion.

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Part 2A Survey of Old and Medieval Literature(约5世纪—1485)演示文稿1

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The Making of the Nation The early inhabitants---Britons, a tribe of Celts. mixed blood. “Britain”, the land of Britons.

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Celts—the earliest settlers of the British Isles

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Cultural relics left over by the Celts

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I. Old English Period (also called Anglo-Saxon Period, 450-1066) 1. Roman Conquest (前55年-410年) From 55 B. C. to 410 A.D. the British isles were under the rule of Roman empire. Julius Caesar (102-44 B.C.) crossed the Dover Strait in 55 B. C., but Caesar himself only stayed there for a few weeks. Though the Romans built temples, roads, walls, and military camps, they made little influence on the cultural life of Celts.