British Literature Syllabus

《英国文学史及选读》教学大纲

一、 课程性质、目的及开课对象 （一） 课程性质：专业课 （二） 目的：

通过学习本门课程，使学生初步具有英国文学史的基本常识，提高其对文学作品的理解力和鉴赏力，从而提高其运用英语语言的综合能力。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的了解英国的社会时尚、风土人情及人文思想等, 同时，还能使学生对英国文学发展各个时期的流派、作家、作品、文学常识等有较清晰的了解,并能就某一家或品写出一般性的评论文章。

（三） 开课对象：英语旅游系07级本科生，第三学年下学期开课 二、 先修课程： 基础英语课 三、 教学方式与考核方法

(一) 教学方法： 课堂面授、讨论、总结

(二) 考核方式 1． 课堂测试 2．期末考试 四、 学时数分配

总学时: 32/34

讲授： 学时 观看录像2－4学时 Part One The Middle Ages (449~1485) Chapter One The Anglo-Saxon Literature Chapter Two The Middle English Period Section One Poetry Section One Main Literary Forms I. Pagan and religious poetry I. Romance 1. Poets 1. King Arthur and His Knights of the 2. Poems Round Table II. The Song of Beowulf 2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 1. Plot II. Popular literature 2. Features Section Two Geoffrey Chaucer Section Two Prose I. Introduction I. Venerable Bede 1. Life story II. Alfred the Great 2. Works III. The main characteristics of the period 3. Contributions II. The Canterbury Tales 1.The outline of the story 2. The Prologue Part Two The English Renaissance（1485～1660） Chapter One The Early Stage II. Main works: 1. Hamlet Section One Oxford Reformers 2. Sonnet 18 I. Oxford Reformers II. Thomas More Section Three Ben Jonson 1. Introduction I. Life 2. Utopia Section Two English Bible I. John Wycliffe II. The Authorized Version Chapter Two The Elizabethan Age Section One Marlowe I. Introduction 1. Life story 2. Works 3. Contributions II. Dr. Faustus 1.The outline of the story 2. Character analysis II. Main works Chapter Three The 17th Century Section One Milton and Bunyan I. John Milton 1. Life story 2. Works 3. Contributions 4. Paradise Lost II. John Bunyan 1. Life story 2. Works 3. The Pilgrim’s Progress Section Two John Donne Section Two William Shakespeare 1. Life story I. Introduction 2. Works 1. Life story 3. Go, and Catch a Falling Star 2. Literary achievements Part Three The Restoration and the 18th Century (1660～1798) Chapter One Neo-classicism II. Jonathan Swift Section One John Dryden 1. Life story I. Life story 2. Gilliver’s Travels II. Works Section Two Richardson and Fielding Section Two Alexander Pope I. Samuel Richardson I. Life story 1. Life story II Works 2. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded III Contributions II. Henry Fielding 1. Life story Chapter Two The Rise of English Novel 2. Contributions 3. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Section One Defoe and Swift I. Daniel Defoe 1. Life story 2. Robinson Crusoe Part Four The Age of Romanticism（1798～1830s） Chapter One Blake and Burns II. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Section One William Blake 1. Background I. Introduction 2. The analysis of the poem 1. Life story Section Two Byron and Shelley 2. Works I. George Gordon Byron II. The Chimney Sweeper 1. Life story 1. Background 2. Themes Section Two Robert Burns I. Introduction 1. Life 2. Works II. A Red Red Rose Chapter Two The Romantic Poets Section One William Wordsworth 2. She Walks in Beauty II. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1. Life story 2. Ozymandias Section Three Walter Scot and Jane Austen I. Walter Scott 1. Life story 2. Historical Novels II. Jane Austen 1. Life story 2. Pride and Prejudice I. Introduction 1. Life story 2. Works Part Five The Victorian Literature (1832～1901) Chapter One Novel Section Four Thomas Hardy Section One Charles Dickens I. Introduction I. Introduction 1. Life story 1. Life story 2. Works 2. Works II. Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. David Copperfield 1. The outline of the story 1. The outline of the story 2. The analysis of the work 2. Character analysis Chapter Two Poetry Section Two William Makepeace Section One Tennyson Thackeray I. Introduction I. Introduction 1. Life story 1. Life story 2. Works 2. Works II. Break Break Break II. Vanity Fair 1. Background 1. The outline of the story 2. The analysis of the poem 2. Character analysis Section Two Robert Browning Section Three The Bronte Sisters I. Life story I. Life story II. Contributions II. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights Part Six The 20th Century Literature（1901～ ） Chapter One Drama Chapter Two The realistic Novels and the Section One Bernard Shaw Modernist Writers I. Introduction 1. Life story 2. Works II. The Widower’s Houses Section One The Realistic Novels John Galsworthy 1. Life story 1. The outline of the story 2. The analysis of the work Section Two William B. Yeats I. Introduction 1. Life story 2. Works II. Abbey Theatre 2. The Forsyte Saga Section Two The Modernist Writers I. James Joyce 1. Life story 2. The Araby II. D. H. Lawrence 1. Life story 2. Sons and Lovers 五、 教材与教参：

（一）教材 《英国文学史选读》 吴伟仁 （二）教参目录 《英国文学简史》 刘炳善 《英国文学史及作品选读》 王佩兰 等 《英国文学史》 陈嘉 《英国文学简史》 哈里?布拉迈尔斯 《英国文学史新编》 郭群英 《新编简明英国文学史》 张定铨 吴刚 《新编英国文学教程》 申富英 公丽艳 《英国文学选读》 杨岂深 孙銖 《英国文学选读》 王守仁 《英国文学名篇选注》 王佐良 等 《新编英国文学选读》 罗经国 《英国文学史纲》 阿尼克斯特 《剑桥文学指南系列》 《英国文学名家导读丛书》 《世界经典文学作品欣赏系列》 《世界文学名著百部》 《英国文学学习指南》 李正栓 李翠亭 《英国文学史选读学习指南》 张鑫友 《英国文学史选读学习指南》 吴伟仁 印 冰 《英国文学指南》 王莎烈 《牛津英国文学辞典》

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