英國(guó)文學(xué)必掌握的名詞解釋及作品

1、Literary T erms1. Alliteration:alliteration is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby words. The term is usually applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent sound begins a word ora stressed syllable within a word.2. Romance:It is a literary genre(類(lèi)型,風(fēng)格popular in the Mid

2、dle Ages (5th century to 15th century, dealing, in verse or prose, with legendary(傳奇的. 著名的, supernatural, or amorous subjects and characters. The name refers to Romance languages and originally denoted any lengthy composition in one of those languages. Later the term was applied to tales specificall

3、y concerned with knights, chivalry, and courtly love.3.Renaissance:R enaissance (“rebirth” is the name commonly applied to the period of European history following the Middle Ages; it is usually said to have begun in Italy in the late fourteenth century and to have continued, both in Italy and other

4、 countries.4.Sonnet:a lyric poem(抒情詩(shī)consisting of a single stanza(節(jié),段of fourteen iambic pentameter(五音步抑揚(yáng)格lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme.5.Morality play:the miracle play had as its subject either a story from the bible, or else the life and martyrdom(殉難of a saint.6. Metaphysical poetry:A t

5、erm that can be applied to any poetry that deals with philosophical or spiritual matters but that is generally limited to works written by a specific group of 17th century poets are linked by style and modes of poetic organization.7.Neoclassicism:A style of Western literature that flourished from th

6、e mid-seventeenth until the end of the eighteenth century and the rise of Romanticism.8.Gothic novel:An alternative term is Gothic romance. It is a story of terror and suspense, usually set in a gloomy old castle of monastery.9.English Romanticism:A term applied to literary and artistic movements of

7、 the late18th and early19th century.10.Byronic Hero:A stereotyped character created by Byron. This kind of hero is usually a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.11. Negative capacity:The phrase used by the English poet John Keats to describe the quality of self lesser captivity necessary

8、to a true poet.12.the Oxford Movement (1833-1845:It was a movement of High Church Anglicans, eventually developing into Anglo-Catholicism.13. the Aesthetic Movement:It places art above life, and holds that life should imitate art, not art imitate life. According to the aesthetes, all artistic creati

9、on is absolutely subjective as opposed to objective. Only when art is for arts sake, can it be immortal.14. Utilitarianism:It is an ethical theory holding that the proper course of action is the one that maximizes the overall "happiness", by whatever means necessary. It is thus a form of c

10、onsequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined only by its resulting outcome, and that one can only weigh the morality of an action after knowing all its consequences.15.W essex novels:These novels describe the unexpected and huge changes in fields of society, economy, poli

11、tics, ethics, and customs in England after the invasion of Capitalism, and the miserable fate of the broken farmers, and discover the potential crisis of the society in England which is under the mask of the V ictorian thrive.16.Modernism:A general term applied retrospectively to the wide range of e

12、xperimental and avant-garde trends in literature of the early 20th century, including Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Imagism, V orticism, Dada, and Surrealism, along with the innovations of theunaffiliated writers.17.Bloomsbury Group:(找不到、18.Postmodernism:A term referring to certain radically e

13、xperimental works of literature and art produced after World War II.Selected Readings1. The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue in the Selected Readings Book2. Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1 in the Selected Readings Book3. Sonnet 18 in the Selected Readings Book3. Of Studies in the Selected Readings Book4. Of

14、 Marriage and Single Life in the Selected Readings Book5. Holy Sonnet 10 in the Selected Readings Book6. Paradise Lost (Book 1, Lines 111-179 in the Selected Readings Book7. Robison Crusoe (An Excerpt from Chapter IV in the Selected Readings Book8. Gullivers Travels (Chapter VII in the Selected Read

15、ings Book9. The Chimney Sweeper in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience10. London by William Blake11. A Red, Red, Rose in the Selected Readings Book12. Auld Lang Syne in the Selected Readings Book13. William Wordsworth: The Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a CloudSamuel Taylor Coleridge: Ku

16、bla KhanGeorge Gordon Byron: She Walks in BeautyPercy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West WindJohn Keats: Ode on a Grecian UrnAlfred Tennyson: The Eagle; Break, Break, BreakRobert Browning: My Last DuchessMatthew Arnold: Dover BeachWilliam Butler Y eats: The Second ComingJane Austen: Pride and PrejudiceCharlotte Bronte: Jane EyreCharles Dickens: G