Unit6
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MuchearlyBritishliteraturewasconcernedwithChristianity,andAnglo-SaxonsproducedmanyversionsoftheBible.
BeowulfwasaseamonsterkilledbyaSwedishwarrior.BeowulfslaysGrendel---afrightfulseamonster
“TheWifeofBath”isoneofthetalescontainedinTheCanterburyTales.
TherewasageneralfloweringofcultureandintellectuallifeinEuropeduringthe17thand18thcenturieswhichisknownas“TheRenaissance”.The15thand16thcenturies
WilliamShakespeareisagreatpoetandmuchisknownofhislife.Little
Keats,ShelleyandByronbroughttheRomanticMovementtoitsheight.
RobinsonCrusoetellsthestoryofashipwreckandsolitarysurvival.
Writersofromanticliteraturearemoreconcernedwithimaginationandfeelingthanwiththepowerofreason.
DonJuan唐璜isanepicpoem史诗composedbyJohnMilton.Byron
ThomasHardy,theauthorofTessoftheD’Urbervilles德伯家的苔丝,wasalsoafirst-classpoet.
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WhichofthefollowingbooksiswrittenbyGeoffreyChaucer?杰弗里·乔叟
A.TheCanterburyTales
WhichliteraryformflourishedinElizabethanagemorethananyotherformofLiterature?
C.Drama
Amongthefollowingwriters,whowasNOToneofthegreattrio?
C.ThomasMalory
WhichofthefollowingdidNOTbelongtoRomanticism(19thcentury)?
Keats
Shelley
Wordsworth
Defoe笛福（18thcentury）
WhichofthefollowingisatragedywrittenbyShakespeare?
B.Macbeth
WhichofthefollowingwriterswasthemostfamousScottishnovelist?
D.SirWalterScott
Severalgiftedwomenplayedasignificantpartinthe19th-centuryliterature.Whichofthefollowingisanexception?
A.VirginiaWoolf弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫（20thcentury）
WhichofthefollowingwriterswasNOTassociatedwithModernism(20thcentury)?
C.CharlesDickens(19thcentury)
WhichofthefollowingisgenerallyconsideredtobethemasterpiecebyJosephConrad?约瑟夫康拉德
B．TheHeartofDarkness
Whichofthefollowingwriterswrotethebook1984thatbegan“Postmodernism”inBritishliterature?
GeorgeOrwell乔治·奥威尔
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WhyisGeoffreyChaucer,whowroteinMiddleEnglish,stillreadandstudiedtoday?
ChaucerwasthefirstcourtpoettowriteinEnglishandhewroteinamorerecognizableversionofEnglish.AndhisworkTheCanterburyTalesisnotableforitsdiversity,bothintherangeofsocialtypesofthe31pilgrimsandtherangeinstyleofstoriestheytell.
DoyouthinkElizabethanDramaoccupiesasignificantpositioninBritishliterature?WhoisthemostimportantfigureinElizabethanDrama?Whataresomeofhiswell-knownplays?
Yes.WilliamShakespeare.Tragedies:RomeoandJuliet,Hamlet,Othello,KingLear,Macbeth.Comedies:AMidsummerNight’sDream,TwelfthNight.HistoryPlay:RichardⅢ
WhataresomeofthefeaturesofRomanticLiterature?
Moreconcernedwithimaginationandfeelingwiththepowerofreasonwhichmarkedthe18thcentury.
WhatisModernismandwhatisPostmodernism?Canyouillustrateyourpointswithspecificwritersortheirbooksasexamples?
Modernismisareactionagainstthe19thcenturyformwhichcanbethoughtofasassumingunderstandingbetweenwritersandreadersresultinginthesimplecommunicationofanagreedversionofthe"world".Modernistexpressesthedifficultytheyseeinunderstandingandcommunicatinghowtheworldworks.Theyportraytheviewofaconfusedindividualratherthanstandingfromtheviewpointofanall-knowingimpersonalnarratoroutsidetheaction.LikeJosephConrad"theheartofdarkness",thestoryofariverboatjourneyincentralAfricatoinvestigateanexploitiveEuropeanivorytrader.Init,aboutthemoral,hedoubtedlegitimacyofrightandwrongandasked:whatisright?Totheacceptedfacts,hedoubted:whatistrue?
Whilemoderniststryhardtolookinsidetheworldtofindmeaningundertheconfusedsurface.Post-modernistabandonedthisresearchanddon''trecognizetheexistenceofmeaningexceptinsidepeople''shead.Theyfocusmoreonhowreadersreadintothecontextandreconstructthestory.Theysoughttocommunicatewithreadersviathecontextintheprocessofmakingsenseofthecontextbybothsides.Like"TheFrenchLieutenant''sWomen"byJohnFowlesinwhichthereadercanconstructthestorybythemselvesandhaveachoiceofendingstheybelievein.
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