课程简介
本课程旨在使学生对英国文学形成与发展的全貌有基本的了解，掌握英国文学发展的基本脉络，掌握各个时期主要作家以及主要文学流派的创作特色及创作主张。通过阅读和分析部分主要作品，促进学生语言基本功、综合人文素质及文艺鉴赏水平的提高。通过文学的阅读，提高运用正规书面英语写作与翻译的能力。文学是语言的载体, 通过文学的学习能使学生把语言与文学有机地结合起来, 使学生在学习语言与文学的过程中更好地了解英国的社会时尚、风土人情及人文思想等。
课程大纲
Basic knowledge concerning literature
1.1 Variations of the definition of literature and Four literary factors
1.2 Functions of literature and Genres
1.3 What's poetry?
1.4 Meter, rhyme and rhyme scheme
1.5 How to Analyze and Approach an English Poem?
Anglo-Saxon Period -- Old English Period
1.1 History of early Britain--Formation of England
1.2 Beowulf
1.3 Anglo-Saxon Prose: Bede, Alfred the Great
1.4 Features of early British literature
Anglo-Norman and Medieval Period -- Middle English Period
1.1 Norman Conquest and its influence
1.2 Definition and characteristics of Romance
1.3 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1.4 Chaucer and Canterbury Tales
1.5 Ballad meter
Renaissance Age – Prose
1.1 Historical background and Renaissance humanism
1.2 Outline introduction of Renaissance Literature
1.3 Four-step reading method of essay analysis
1.4 Thomas More and Utopia
1.5 Francis Bacon’s essay: Of Studies
Renaissance Age – Poetry
1.1 Elizabethan poetry and its characteristics
1.2 Edmund Spenser and his poetic works
1.3 Sir Philip Sidney and his poetic works
1.4 Sonnet and its rhyme schemes
1.5 William Shakespeare and his sonnets
Renaissance Age – Drama
1.1 History and playwrights of English Drama
1.2 University wits and Christopher Marlowe
1.3 William Shakespeare -- the Summit of English drama
The 17th Century -- Revolution and Restoration Period
1.1 Historical background of Revolution and Restoration Period
1.2 Outline Introduction of the 17th Literature
1.3 Metaphysical poets and John Dryden
1.4 John Milton and his Paradise Lost
Enlightenment Period -- Outline introduction and Neo-classicism
1.1 Social and cultural background of Enlightenment period
1.2 Outline introduction of Enlightenment literature
1.3 Addison and Steele
1.4 Alexander Pope and his poems
Enlightenment Period -- Novel Writing
1.1 Basic knowledge of novel appreciation
1.2 Novel writing of the 18th century England: Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding
1.3 Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels
Enlightenment Period -- Sentimentalism and Preromanticism
1.1 Knowledge concerning Sentimentalism and its novelists
1.2 Richardson and his Pamela
1.3 Sterne and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
1.4 Knowledge about Pre-romanticism, Robert Burns’ A Red, Red Rose
1.5 William Blake’s The Lamb
Romantic Age – Lake Poets
1.1 Romantic Age and Romantic literature
1.2 William Wordsworth and his poetic theory
1.3 Wordsworth’s poems and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Romantic Age – 2nd Generation of Romantic Poets
1.1 Ideas and ideal of 2nd Generation of Romantic Poets
1.2 Byron and his poems
1.3 Shelley and his poems
Romantic Age – Essay and Novel
1.1 Charles Lamb and familiar essay
1.2 Jane Austen and her novels
1.3 Walter Scott and historical novel
Victorian Age – Novel
1.1 Victorian Age and Victorian literature
1.2 Charles Dickens and his novels
1.3 William Makepeace Thackeray and his novels
1.4 Bronte sisters and their works
1.5 George Eliot and her novels
Victorian Age – Poetry
1.1 Victorian poetry and poets
1.2 Tennyson and his poetic works
1.3 The Brownings and their poems
1.4 Matthew Arnold and his poems
1.1 Variations of the definition of literature and Four literary factors
1.2 Functions of literature and Genres
1.3 What's poetry?
1.4 Meter, rhyme and rhyme scheme
1.5 How to Analyze and Approach an English Poem?
Anglo-Saxon Period -- Old English Period
1.1 History of early Britain--Formation of England
1.2 Beowulf
1.3 Anglo-Saxon Prose: Bede, Alfred the Great
1.4 Features of early British literature
Anglo-Norman and Medieval Period -- Middle English Period
1.1 Norman Conquest and its influence
1.2 Definition and characteristics of Romance
1.3 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1.4 Chaucer and Canterbury Tales
1.5 Ballad meter
Renaissance Age – Prose
1.1 Historical background and Renaissance humanism
1.2 Outline introduction of Renaissance Literature
1.3 Four-step reading method of essay analysis
1.4 Thomas More and Utopia
1.5 Francis Bacon’s essay: Of Studies
Renaissance Age – Poetry
1.1 Elizabethan poetry and its characteristics
1.2 Edmund Spenser and his poetic works
1.3 Sir Philip Sidney and his poetic works
1.4 Sonnet and its rhyme schemes
1.5 William Shakespeare and his sonnets
Renaissance Age – Drama
1.1 History and playwrights of English Drama
1.2 University wits and Christopher Marlowe
1.3 William Shakespeare -- the Summit of English drama
The 17th Century -- Revolution and Restoration Period
1.1 Historical background of Revolution and Restoration Period
1.2 Outline Introduction of the 17th Literature
1.3 Metaphysical poets and John Dryden
1.4 John Milton and his Paradise Lost
Enlightenment Period -- Outline introduction and Neo-classicism
1.1 Social and cultural background of Enlightenment period
1.2 Outline introduction of Enlightenment literature
1.3 Addison and Steele
1.4 Alexander Pope and his poems
Enlightenment Period -- Novel Writing
1.1 Basic knowledge of novel appreciation
1.2 Novel writing of the 18th century England: Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding
1.3 Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels
Enlightenment Period -- Sentimentalism and Preromanticism
1.1 Knowledge concerning Sentimentalism and its novelists
1.2 Richardson and his Pamela
1.3 Sterne and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
1.4 Knowledge about Pre-romanticism, Robert Burns’ A Red, Red Rose
1.5 William Blake’s The Lamb
Romantic Age – Lake Poets
1.1 Romantic Age and Romantic literature
1.2 William Wordsworth and his poetic theory
1.3 Wordsworth’s poems and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Romantic Age – 2nd Generation of Romantic Poets
1.1 Ideas and ideal of 2nd Generation of Romantic Poets
1.2 Byron and his poems
1.3 Shelley and his poems
Romantic Age – Essay and Novel
1.1 Charles Lamb and familiar essay
1.2 Jane Austen and her novels
1.3 Walter Scott and historical novel
Victorian Age – Novel
1.1 Victorian Age and Victorian literature
1.2 Charles Dickens and his novels
1.3 William Makepeace Thackeray and his novels
1.4 Bronte sisters and their works
1.5 George Eliot and her novels
Victorian Age – Poetry
1.1 Victorian poetry and poets
1.2 Tennyson and his poetic works
1.3 The Brownings and their poems
1.4 Matthew Arnold and his poems