1、1英美文学重点 English to suffer or to take action Francis Bacon philosopher, scientist, essayist, lay the foundation for modern scienceHis Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature.Bacons essays are famous for their brevity, compactness Shaw, is considered to be the best-known Englis
2、h dramatist since Shakespeare. Yeats, the leader of the Irish National Theater Movement.George Bernard shaw -dramatist (leading playwright)早期 鳏夫的房产 康蒂坦 华伦夫人的职业 凯撒和克莉奥佩特拉中期 人与超人 晚期 回到麦修色拉 苹果车Feature: 1.he makes the trick of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another.2. Shaws character
3、s are the representatives of ideas, points of view, that shift and alter, for he is interested in doctrines.3 he inversion（倒装）, a device found in Shaw form beginning to end.4. Action is reduced to a minimum, while the dialogue and the interplay of the minds maintain the interest of the audience.READ
4、ING: excerpt from Mrs. Warrens Profession about the economic oppression of womenJohn GalsworthyA conventional writer, having inherited the traditions of Victorian novelists of the critical realismPlay: 银盒Novels: 福赛特世家(trilogy 三部曲:有产业的人骑虎出租) 现代喜剧READING: excerpt from The Man of PropertySoames Forsyte
5、, wealth is the sole aim of life. Irene, his wife, loves art and cherishes. Aoames asks Bosinney, a young architect, to build a country house for them. Later, Irene and Bosinney fall in love with each other.15The novel show the human relationships of the contemporary English society are merely an ex
6、tension of property relationships.William Butler Yeats - poet茵尼斯弗利岛 梦见仙境的人 驶向拜古廷 explored the problems of death, love, old age and art.READING: 1. The Lake Isle of Innisfree 2. Down by the Salley GardensTired of life of his day, Yeats sought to escape into an ideal “fairyland” where he could love ca
7、lmly as a hermit(隐士) and enjoy the beauty of nature. Here Innisfree is referring to a place for hermitage.reconstruct an old song from 3 lines imperfectly(不完整地) remembered by an old peasant womanT.S.Eliot one of the important verse dramatists普鲁弗洛克的情歌荒原 the most famous poem，is a poem concerned with t
8、he spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.灰星期三 四个四重奏READING: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockdramatic monologue, an ironic contrast Prufrock, is neurotic, self-important, illogical and incapable of action. The setting in which
9、 a tea party is a significant event and a game of cards is the only way to stave off boredom.D. H. LawrenceAutobiographical(自传的) novel 儿子与情人Masterpieces: 虹 恋爱中的女人 rich symbolism and complex narrative the mechanical civilization is responsible for the unhealthy development of human personalities（诽谤）,
10、 the perversion(歪曲) of love and the failure of human fulfillment in marital（婚姻） relationships.about two lovers. Birkin and Ursula, Gudrun and Gerald, rich symbolic, Gerald is a symbolic figure of spiritual death, representing the whole set of bourgeois ethics. Birkin, as a symbolic figure of human w
11、armth.READING: excerpt from Sons and Lovers16Mrs. Morel, daughter of a middle-class family, is a strong-willed, intelligent and ambitious woman who is fascinated by a coal miner, Walter Morel. After marriage, she determines that her sons should never become miners. Paul depends heavily on his mother
12、s love and help to make sense of the world around him. He struggle to free from his mothers influence, but he failed. After his mother has died and he is left alone, in despair.James JoyceAll have the same setting: Ireland, especially Dublin, and the same subject: the Irish people and their life.都柏林
13、人: childhood, adolescence（青春期）, maturity and public life青年艺术家的肖像 a middle-class Irish boy, Stephen Dedaluss bitter experiences and his final artistic and spiritual liberation(解放).尤利西斯 his masterpiece, below the surface of the events, the natural flow of mental reflections, the shifting moods and imp
14、ulses in the characters inner world are richly presented in an unprecedentedly frank and penetrating(尖锐的) way.“stream of consciousness” literary approach to the presentation of psychological aspects of charactersREADING: “Araby” from DublinersThe child lives not with his parents but with an uncle and aunt a symbol of that isolation and lack of proper relation between “consubstantial”（同质的） parents and children which is a major theme in Joyces work.
