英国文学

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英国文学
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江苏技术师范学院
自学进度表
总学时:80 面授学时:24 自学学时:56 教材名称:英美文学选读

周次
周学时
自学内容(章,节)
完成作业
备注
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Daniel Dafoe, Robinson Crusoe
见自学指导
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4
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
见自学指导
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4
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
见自学指导
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Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose"
见自学指导
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2
William Blake, "L ondon"
见自学指导
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5
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
见自学指导
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4
John Keats, "To Autumn"; "On Grasshopper and Cricket"
见自学指导
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Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
见自学指导
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William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
见自学指导
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5
T. Hardy, Tess of the D' Urbervilles
见自学指导
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4
John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
见自学指导
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George B.Shaw, Pygmalion
见自学指导
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4
W. S. Maugham, "A Friend in Need"
见自学指导
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4
John B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls
见自学指导
一.教学目的
通过本课程学习,使学生掌握英国文学概况,培养其文学作品分析,理解和鉴赏能力,培养学生较高层次的语言应用能力.
二.课程内容
系统介绍英国文学各个发展阶段的背景文化,作家以及作品,包括诗歌,散文和小说等分析与欣赏.
三.课程要求
1. 应了解英国文学发展的大致脉络:主要发展阶段,主要文学流派,代表作家及其作品等.
2. 应结合英国文学史的发展阶段阅读英国文学作品.
3. 掌握基本的文学术语和一些基本的文艺理论,并能将之应用到欣赏文学作品当中去.
4. 掌握做文学的论文方法,步骤及要求.
5. 凡修本课程的学生,均要求课前预习,课堂上积极参加讨论,课后广泛阅读相关文学作品及书籍.本课程结束要求学生写出1篇论文.
四.教材说明
本课程以桂清扬,吴翔林编注的《英美文学选读》(中国对外翻译出版公司出版)为主教材,同时配之以辅助材料.辅助材料主要英国文学史主要发展阶段,主要文学流派,代表作家及其作品等.
五.自学指导
有关英国文学史部分将在面授期间讲授.学生在自学期间应认真阅读相关作品,完成规定的作业,并在课程结束时完成一篇英国文学的论文.
(一)文学选读部分练习
下面是阅读完每部作品后应完成的作业(思考题).回答问题可以采用简答,读后感或小论文等形式.
1. Daniel Dafoe, Robinson Crusoe
What qualities in Robinson Crusoe's character strike you most during his first months on the island Make a list and cite instances to illustrate them.
2. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Swift is a master satirist in English literature. Pay attention to his techniques of satire in this novel, such as frontal (direct, overt) attack and oblique (indirect, veiled) attack, innuendo, irony, sarcasm, etc. Give instances to illustrate these techniques.
3. Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Through the event of the rescue of Joseph, Fielding creates a series of life-like characters of different social positions. Which of these people does he satirize and which does he sympathize with
4. Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose"
What is the theme of this poem What rhetorical devices does the poet employ to state this theme Can you find some Chinese poems dealing with the same theme
5. William Blake, "London"
1) Explain the following phrases coined by the poet:
charter'd street; the mind-forg'd manacles; the marriage hearse
2) What is the theme of this poem
6. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
1) What methods does the author use in the first two chapters to depict the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their daughters
2) Of the characters in this novel, which one is your favorite Why
7. John Keats, "On Grasshopper and Cricket"; "To Autumn"
1) Why of all creatures are the grasshopper and the cricket singled out to represent the poetry of earth
2) The poem "To Autumn" consists of three stanzas. What specific aspect of autumn is described in each of them
8. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Dickens is a master at creating life-like and unforgettable characters, for instance, Mr. Micawber. How does Dickens portray Mr. Micawber in this chapter What qualities of his character strike you most
9. William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
1) Make a list to show what qualities you know about Rebecca's character, as is revealed in this chapter.
2) Give instances to show the author's use of : a) humor and satire, or, a combination of the two; b) irony; c) pun; d) vulgar speech.
10. T. Hardy, Tess of the D' Urbervilles
1) All things considered, was Tess a pure woman Why or why not
2) What has caused the destruction of Tess Was it fate, or some other forces
11. John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
1) Why did Soames finally decide not to operate
2) What was Soames's reaction when he learned that Annette has borne him a daughter, and could never have another child
12. George B.Shaw, Pygmalion
Shaw once said, "My way of joking is to tell the truth; it is the funniest thing in the world." What are the truths Shaw is trying to tell through his jokes in the play Or, what is the underlying social satire of the play
13. W. S. Maugham, "A Friend in Need"
What does the story reveal about Burton's character Is he a man of "inconsistent qualities"
14. John B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls
The plot of the play rests upon the coincidental fact that all the five members of the Birling family had a hand in bringing about the death of Eva Smith. Do you think this device of coincidence, which is unlikely in real life, justified and used to advantage
(二)文学史部分练习
I. Fill in the following blanks.
The enlighteners believed that reason should be the only basis of one's thinking and action; that is why the eighteenth century in England has been called ________________.
In writing plays the neo-classical writers observed the three unities of __________________.
The literary form of neo-classicism is of the strict symmetry. The prevailing genre of neo-classical literature is _______________, which consists of two rimed lines of iambic pentameter, and the second line completes the thoughts expressed by the couplet.
As a poet, Blake's fame has been chiefly resting upon two volumes of poems, _____________________, and The Songs of Experience.
The Tatler and ______________ were Steele and Addison's chief contribution to English literature.
Thomas Gray's high-praised poem "________________________________" shows the poet's sympathy for the poor, and condemns the great ones who despise the poor and bring sufferings to the common people.
In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, the hero Gulliver is cast upon the shore of the island of _____________.
The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Colleridge published their joint work _______________.
The greatest historical novelist in the Romantic Age was ________________, with whose death in 1832, the Romantic Age came to an end.
Scott marked the transition from Romanticism to the period of _____________in the latter part of the 19th century.
The ______________ Movement appeared in the thirties and lasted to the early fifties in the 19th century England; it was a time of great social and political upheavals.
Of all of Dickens's novels, _______________________ is regarded as his masterpiece.
In A Tale of Two Cities, the two cities refer to ____________________ in the time of French Revolution.
The sub-title of Vanity Fair is "_________________________". The writer's intention was not to portray individuals, but the bourgeois and aristocratic society as a whole.
The Bronte sisters are ____________________, ___________________, ______________.
II. Multiple choice.
1. _____________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.
A. The Renaissance B. The Enlightenment
C. The Religious Reformation D. The Chartist Movement.
2. In the 18th century, satire was much used in writing; English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such as ___________________.
A. Pope B. Swift C. Fielding D. Donne
3. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of pre-romanticism were __________.
A. Pope B. Burns C. Blake D. Swift
4. ______________ compiled The Dictionary of the English Language, which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Ben Johnson B. Samuel Johnson C. Alexander Pope D. John Dryden
5. Among the following works which are Sheridan's comedies
A. The Rivals B. The School for Scandal
C. She Stoops to Conquer D. All for Love
6. Which poets belong to the active Romantic school
A. Byron B. Wordsworth C. Shelley D. Keats
7. Which of the following were written by Wordsworth
"To the Cuckoo" B. "Lucy Poems"
C. The Solitary Reaper" D. "Kubla Khan"
8. Which of the following is Shelley's masterpiece
A. Queen Mab B. Prometheus Unbound
Prometheus Bound D. The Revolt of Islam
9. Choose the historical novels written by Scott.
A. Rob Roy B. Ivanhoe C. Lady of the Lake D. Warerly
10. In the mid-19th century English literature there appeared a new literary trend, ______________; it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.
A. Romanticism B. Naturalism C. Realism D. Critical realism
11. The greatest English critical realist novelist was ______________, who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.
William Makepeace Thackeray B. Charles Dickens
C. Charlotte Bronte D. George Eliot
12. Which of the following writers belong to English critical realists
A. George Eliot B. Emily Bronte C. Mrs. Gaskell D. Charles Dickens
13. The ___________ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.
A. Enlightenment B. Renaissance C. Chartist D. Romanticist
14. Which is Thackeray's masterpiece
A. The Virginians B. Vanity Fair
C. The Books of Snobs D. The Newcomes
Which are the main characters in the novel Wuthering Heights
A. Heathcliff B. Catherine C. Hindley D. Hareton
III. Identify the following works.
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
The Essays of Elia
"On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth"
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Eyre
The Vicar of Wakefield
Life of Johnson
附:文学史部分练习答案:
I. Fill in the following blanks.
the age of reason
time, place, and action
heroic couplet
The Songs of Innocence
The Spectator
"Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard"
Lilliput
Lyrical Ballads
Walter Scott
Realism
Chartist
David Copperfield
Paris and London
A Novel Without A Hero
Charlotte, Emily, Anne
II. Multiple choice.
1. B 2. A,B,C 3. B,C 4. B 5. A,B 6. A,C,D
7. A,B,C 8. B 9. A,B,D 10. C 11. B 12. A,B,C,D
13. C 14. B 15. A,B,C,D
III. Identify the following works.
1. Henry Fielding 2. Edward Gibbon 3. George Gordon Byron
4. John Keats 5. Charles Lamb 6. Thomas De Quincey
7. Jane Austen 8.Charlotte Bronte 9. Oliver Goldsmith
10. James Boswell
五.成绩评定
本课程的学期考核采取平时考核,学期论文加书面考试的形式;平时考核以作业,课堂表现和自学情况作为依据.本课程结束时要上交一篇学期论文,并进行一次书面考试.
六.推荐书目
Charles Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare 《莎士比亚戏剧故事集》
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities 《双城记》
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca 《蝴蝶梦》
Lewis Carrol, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 《爱丽丝漫游奇境》
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure 《无名的裘德》
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island 《金银岛》
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim 《吉姆老爷》
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 《道林·格雷画像》
W. S. Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence 《月亮与六便士》
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim 《幸运的吉姆》
William Golding, Lord of the Flies 《蝇王》
H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man 《隐形人》
刘炳善:《英国文学简史》.河南人民出版社,1993.
李正栓, 李翠婷:《英国文学学习指南》.清华大学出版社,1998.
王建会:《英美文学辞典》.辽宁人民出版社,2001.
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