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Writing's Features
English Literature
The
Renaissance Period
1. age:
1500-1660
2. background: stimulated by
the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek
classic; England's Golden Age, especially in
literature; the Church of England broke away
from the Catholic Church
3.
features:
(1)New poetical
forms introduced, e.g. blank verse and sonnet;
(2) the English drama based itself on
the models of Roman and Greek classics and the
precedents from Italy and Spain
(3)the
universal tend of humanism in emphasizing man's
dignity and his worldly happiness
William Shakespeare
The
greatest playwright and the most popular sonnet
writer; a
Sonnets
1. 154
poems; English form
威廉
.
莎士比亞
creation of
characters; skillful plot construction; irony; a
good use
十四行詩
2.
The traditional theme of the play is to praise the
of a language; skilled in various
poetic forms; of three quatrains
The
Merchant of V
enice
friendship between Antonio and
Bassanio, to
and a
couplet(
三节四行诗加一节偶句
);
national unity under a
威尼斯商人
idealize Portia as a heroine of great
beauty, wit and
mighty and just
sovereign is a necessity
—“The King?s
government
Hamlet
loyalty,
and to expose the insatiable greed and
must be carried on” (
在一个强大英明
的君主统治下的国家,
统一
哈姆雷特
brutality of the Jew. Many people today
tend to
是非常必要的
)
(Venus and
Adonis
维纳斯和安
regard the play
as a satire of the Christians'
(Each
hero has his weekness of nature: Hamlet, the
melancholic
东尼斯
; The Rape of
Lucrece
鲁
hypocrisy and their
false standards of friendship and
scholar-prince, faces the dilemma
between action and mind;
克丽斯受辱记
;romantic
love, their cunning ways of pursuing
worldliness and
Othello?s inner
weakness is made use of by the outside evil force;
tragicomedies
浪漫悲喜
their unreasoning prejudice against Jews
(Shylock).
the old king
Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power
剧
;Romeo and Juliet;
3. A man of contemplation rather than
action; has the
makes himself suffer
from treac
hery and infidelity; and
Macbeth?s
Shakespeare's greatest
tragedies
qualities of a
“blood
-and-
thunder”
thrill
er and a
lust for
power stirs up his ambition and leads him to
incessant
are : Hamlet, Othello, King
Lear,
philosophical exploration of life
and death
crimes.)
and
Macbeth)
literature should
be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth,
and should reflect nature and reality
John Milton
A versatile
writer; fight for freedom in all aspects as a
Christian
Paradise Lost
Satan, after being defeated in his
rebel against God,
約翰
.
彌爾頓
humanist
失樂園
tempts Adam and Eve to eat the apples
from the
Forbidden Tree, and causes the
Fall of Man
The Neoclassical Period
1
1. age: 1660-1798
2. background: The English society of
the neoclassical period was a turbulent one. Fast
development of England as a nation; the Age of
Enlightenment or the Age of
Reason
3. features:
(1)a furtherance of the Renaissance
–
the Enlightenment
Movement, advocated universal education
(2)reason,
(3)reviving the
interest in old classical works (neoclassicism)
(4)keep to order, logic, restrained
emotion and accuracy
(5)had specific
rules for almost every genre of literature
Daniel Defoe
A
very good story-teller; his sentences are
sometimes short, crisp
Robinson Crusoe
Adventure on a deserted island; depicts
a hero grows
丹尼爾
.
笛弗
and plain, and sometimes long and
rambling, which leave on the
鲁宾逊漂流记
from an
inexperienced youth onto a shrewd and
reader an impression of casual
narration
hardened man; a song of
courage, wisdom, struggle
Smootheasycolloquialmostly vernacular
against the hostile natural environment
Jonathan Swift
Is almost
unsurpassed in the writing of simple, direct,
precise
Gulliver
’
s
Travels
Four places: Lilliput,
Brobdingnag, the flying island;
喬納森
.
斯威特
prose; “proper words in proper
places”
格列佛遊記
Houyhnhnm
Clearsimpleconcrete
dictionuncomplicated sentence
structureeconomy and conciseness of
language
Henry Fielding
First of all the 18th century English
novelist to write the
Tom Jones
亨利
.
菲爾丁
epic in prose
湯姆
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琼
斯
style; use the third-person narration;
“
Father of the English
Novel
”; “the just copies of
human manners”
Easyunlabouredfamiliarextremely vivid
and vigorous logic and
rhythm
The Romantic Period
1. age: 1798-1870
2. background: coming along with the
French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
3. features:
(1)contrary
with the neoclassicism: emphasize that man have in
common, focuses on the special qualities of
individual mind
(2)tend to probe into
the inner world of the human spirit rather narrate
daily happenings of the human world
(3)employ rural scenery, legendary and
mythological, stories of ancient times, figures
from country and Orientals
(4)produce a
number of great poets, the Romantic period is an
age of poetry
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