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关于调整全国统考课程《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》和《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》两门课程的考核目标的通知高等教育自学考试《英语国家概况》(2005版)自学考试大纲修订施试行以来,考生及有关方面反映意见较多,认为现行大纲中的个别考核目标不够明确,容易对大纲考核目标的理解产生疑义,经组织全国考委外语类专业委员会研究论证,全国考办决定对现行考核目标进行调整,调整后的大纲考核目标以章节形式出现,见附件1。经组织全国考委外语类专业委员会研究论证,全国考办决定对《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点与考核要求作部分调整,见附件2。调整后的《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》和《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》将于2009年4月考试试行。附件1:《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》的考核目标附件2:《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点和考核要求贵州省招生考试中心二〇〇八年十一月五日附件1:《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》的考核目标Part One The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandChapter 1 Land and PeopleI:Different Names for Britain and its PartsChapter 2 The Origins of a NationⅠ.Early Settlers 3.The CeltsⅡ.Roman BritainⅢ.The Anglo-SaxonsⅣ.The Viking and Danish InvasionsⅤ.The Norman ConquestChapter 3 The Shaping of the NationⅠ.Norman Rule 1.William′s RuleⅡ.The Great Charter and the Beginning of Parliament1.The Great CharterⅢ.The Hundred Years′War with FranceⅣ.The Black Death and the Peasant UprisingChapter 4 Transition to the Modern AgeⅠ.Transition to the Modern Age Ⅱ.The English Reformation Ⅲ.Elizabeth I1.Elizabeth and Parliament2.Elizabeth′s Religious Reform3. Elizabeth′s Religiou PolicyⅣ.The English RenaissanceⅦ.The Civil WarsⅧ.The CommonwealthⅨ.The Restoration and the Glorious Revolution of 1688Chapter 5 The Rise and Fall of the British EmpireⅠ.Whigs and Tories Ⅱ.Agricultural Changes in the Late 18th Century Ⅲ.The Industrial RevolutionⅣ.The Chartist MovementⅦ.Twentieth Century1.Britain and the First World War3.Britain and First World War4.Postwar BritainChapter 7 Goveernment and AdministrationⅠ.The Monarchy Ⅱ.Parliament1.The House of Lords 2.The House of ConnonsⅢ.The Cabinet and MinistryⅣ.The Privy Council Chapter 8 Justice and the LawⅥ.The JudiciaryⅤ.PoliceChapter 9 Social Affairs Ⅰ.Health and Social Services1.The National Health ServiceⅢ.Religion1.Established churchesⅣ.Festivals and Public Holidays 1.Christian festivals 2.Other festivals 3.Public holidays Chapter 10 Cultural Affairs Ⅰ.Education 3.Higher educationⅡ.The Media 1.NewspapersⅢ.SportsⅣ.The Arts 3.DramaPart Two The Republic of IrelandChapter 14 Population, Race and Ethnic Groups Ⅰ.Introduction Ⅳ.Racial and Ethnic Minorities 1. BlacksChapter 15 American History (Ⅰ)Ⅰ.Discovery of the New WorldⅡ.The Colonial PeriodⅢ.The War of IndependenceⅣ.A New Form of GovernmentⅥ.Territorial Expansion and Westward MovementⅦ.The Civil WarⅧ.Rapid Growth of Capitalism after the Civil WarChapter 16 American History (Ⅱ)Ⅰ.Economic DevelopmentⅡ.ProgressivismⅢ.World War I and the United StatesⅣ.The United States in the 1920sⅤ. The Great Depression and the New DealⅥ.World War Ⅱ and the United StatesChapter 17 American History (Ⅲ)Ⅰ.The Origins of the Cold WarⅡ.The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall PlanⅤ.McCarthyismⅦ.American Society During the Postwar Boom:1945-1960sⅧ.The Cuban Missile CrisisⅨ.The Vietnam WarⅩ.United States′Relations with ChinaⅫ.Watergate ScandalChapter 18 The Economy(Two paragraphs)Ⅰ.The Economic System of the United StatesⅤ.Foreign TradeⅥ.Problems in the U.S.EconomyChapter 19 Political InstitutionsⅠ.The U.S.Constitution 1.The Federal system 2.Separation of powers:checks and balances 3.Provisions for amendmentⅡ.The Executive Branch 1.The Presidency 2.Presidential PowersⅢ.The Legislative Branch 2.Powers of the House and Senate 3.Officers of the Congress 4.Functions of the CongressⅤ.Political Parties (two-party system)Chapter 20 EducationⅠ.Characteristics of American EducationⅡ.Elementary and Secondary EducationⅢ.Higher EducationⅤ.Education ReformsChapter 21 Literature,Architecture and MusicⅠ.American Literature 1.Washington Irving 2.Emerson and Hawthorne 3.Mark Twain 4.Whitman and Dickinson 5.Theodore Dreiser 6.T.S.Eliot 7.Emest Hemingway 8.Hughes and WrightChapter 22 Holidays and FestivalsⅠ.New Year′s DayⅣ.Valentine′s DayⅥ.Easter DayⅧ.Independence DayⅨ.HalloweenⅪ.Thanksgiving DayⅫ.Christmas DayPart Four CanadaChapter 23 Geography and HistoryⅠ.Geographic Features 4.Geographic regionsⅡ.The making of Canada1.The European discovery3.Self-government and Confederation4.The Canadian nationChapter 26 Society and CultureⅠ.Canadian Society 1.Population 2.Immigration 3.Bilingualism 4.MulticulturalismPart Five AustraliaChapter 27 Land and peopleⅠ.The Geographical Structure 1.The Great Western Plateau 2.The Eastern Highlands 3.The Central Eastern LowlandsⅡ.Climate 3.Causes and effects of the hot and dry climateⅣ.People 1.Population 2.Population density and distributionⅤ.Australia′s Built Environment 1.Sprawling cities 2.Rural areasⅥ.Political Divisions 1.New South Wales 2.Victoria 3.Queensland 4.South Australia 5.West Australia 6.TasmaniaChapter 32 Society and CultureⅣ.Australian Culture 1.Aboriginal culture 2.Modern Australian culturePart Six New ZealandChapter 33 The Making of New Zealand Ⅰ.GeographyⅡ.ClimateⅢ.Plants and AnimalsⅣ.Historical Background 2.The Treaty of Waitangi 1840Ⅵ.Maoritanga 5.Race relations附件2:《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点和考核要求一、关于考核知识点的调整考核知识点中的各章概述内容仍为考核内容;对只是点中的作家只保留对如下主要作家的考核。英国文学:Chapter 1 Ⅲ. Willliam Shakespeare Ⅵ. John MiltonChapter 2 Ⅲ. Saniel Defoe Ⅳ. Jonathan Swift Ⅴ. Henry FieldingChapter 3 Ⅰ. Willian Blake Ⅱ. William Wordsworth Ⅴ. Percy Bysshe Shelley Ⅶ. Jane Austen Chapter 4 Ⅰ. Charles Dickens Ⅱ. Charlotte Dickens Ⅵ. Thomas HardyChapter 5 Ⅰ. George Bernard Shaw Ⅳ. T.S Eliot Ⅴ. D.H.Lawrence美国文学:Chapter 1 Ⅲ. Nathanidl Hawthorne Ⅳ. Walt Whitman Ⅴ. Herman MelvilleChapter 2 Ⅰ. Mark Twain Ⅱ. Henry James Ⅲ. Emily Dickinson Ⅳ. Theodore DreiserChapter 3 Ⅱ. Robert Lee Frost Ⅴ. Percy Bysshe Shelley Ⅳ. F.Scott Fitzgerald Ⅴ. Emest Hemingway Ⅵ. Willianm Faulkner二、关于考核要求的调整 考核要求中每章概述内容不作调整:“该时期的重要作家”只包含对考核知识点中保留的重要作家的相关内容的考核。

是的,英美文学书上的已经够多的了,你也没有过多的时间和精力去看别的了。如果你能扎根于教材,保证你能过,我就是的

新大纲规定的英语专业自考英美文学重点要记的作家有:William Shakespeare威廉.莎士比亚1564-1616 John Milton约翰.弥尔顿1608-1674 Daniel Defoe丹尼尔.笛弗1660-1731 Jonathan Swift乔纳森.斯威夫特1667-1745 Henry Fielding亨利.菲尔丁1707-1754 William Blake威廉.布莱克1757-1827 William Wordsworth威廉.华兹华斯1770-1850 Percy Bysshe Shelley铂.比.雪莱1792-1822 Jane Austen简.奥斯汀1775-1817 Charles Dickens查尔斯.狄更斯1812-1870The Brontë Sisters Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), Emily Brontë (1818-1848), Anne Brontë (1820-2849) 布郎帝姐妹 Thomas Hardy托马斯.哈代137240324481840-1928 George Bernard Shaw萧伯纳1856-1950 T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特1888-1965 D. H. Lawrence戴维.赫伯特.劳伦斯1885-1930 Nathaniel Hawthorne纳萨尼尔.霍桑1804-1864 Walt Whitman华尔特.惠特曼1819-1892 Herman Melville赫尔曼.麦尔维尔1819-1891 Mark Twain马克.吐温1835-1910 Henry James亨利.詹姆斯1843-1916 Emily Dickinson艾米莉.狄金森1830-1886 Theodore Dreiser西奥多.德莱塞1871-1945 Robert Lee Frost罗伯特.弗罗斯特1874-1963 F. Scott Fitzgerald弗.斯科特.菲茨杰拉德1896-1940 Ernest Hemingway厄内斯特.海明威1899-1961 William Faulkner威廉.福克纳1897-1962祝你考试成功!

英美文学自学考试知识点

关于调整全国统考课程《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》和《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》两门课程的考核目标的通知高等教育自学考试《英语国家概况》(2005版)自学考试大纲修订施试行以来,考生及有关方面反映意见较多,认为现行大纲中的个别考核目标不够明确,容易对大纲考核目标的理解产生疑义,经组织全国考委外语类专业委员会研究论证,全国考办决定对现行考核目标进行调整,调整后的大纲考核目标以章节形式出现,见附件1。经组织全国考委外语类专业委员会研究论证,全国考办决定对《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点与考核要求作部分调整,见附件2。调整后的《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》和《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》将于2009年4月考试试行。附件1:《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》的考核目标附件2:《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点和考核要求贵州省招生考试中心二〇〇八年十一月五日附件1:《英语国家概况自学考试大纲》的考核目标Part One The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandChapter 1 Land and PeopleI:Different Names for Britain and its PartsChapter 2 The Origins of a NationⅠ.Early Settlers 3.The CeltsⅡ.Roman BritainⅢ.The Anglo-SaxonsⅣ.The Viking and Danish InvasionsⅤ.The Norman ConquestChapter 3 The Shaping of the NationⅠ.Norman Rule 1.William′s RuleⅡ.The Great Charter and the Beginning of Parliament1.The Great CharterⅢ.The Hundred Years′War with FranceⅣ.The Black Death and the Peasant UprisingChapter 4 Transition to the Modern AgeⅠ.Transition to the Modern Age Ⅱ.The English Reformation Ⅲ.Elizabeth I1.Elizabeth and Parliament2.Elizabeth′s Religious Reform3. Elizabeth′s Religiou PolicyⅣ.The English RenaissanceⅦ.The Civil WarsⅧ.The CommonwealthⅨ.The Restoration and the Glorious Revolution of 1688Chapter 5 The Rise and Fall of the British EmpireⅠ.Whigs and Tories Ⅱ.Agricultural Changes in the Late 18th Century Ⅲ.The Industrial RevolutionⅣ.The Chartist MovementⅦ.Twentieth Century1.Britain and the First World War3.Britain and First World War4.Postwar BritainChapter 7 Goveernment and AdministrationⅠ.The Monarchy Ⅱ.Parliament1.The House of Lords 2.The House of ConnonsⅢ.The Cabinet and MinistryⅣ.The Privy Council Chapter 8 Justice and the LawⅥ.The JudiciaryⅤ.PoliceChapter 9 Social Affairs Ⅰ.Health and Social Services1.The National Health ServiceⅢ.Religion1.Established churchesⅣ.Festivals and Public Holidays 1.Christian festivals 2.Other festivals 3.Public holidays Chapter 10 Cultural Affairs Ⅰ.Education 3.Higher educationⅡ.The Media 1.NewspapersⅢ.SportsⅣ.The Arts 3.DramaPart Two The Republic of IrelandChapter 14 Population, Race and Ethnic Groups Ⅰ.Introduction Ⅳ.Racial and Ethnic Minorities 1. BlacksChapter 15 American History (Ⅰ)Ⅰ.Discovery of the New WorldⅡ.The Colonial PeriodⅢ.The War of IndependenceⅣ.A New Form of GovernmentⅥ.Territorial Expansion and Westward MovementⅦ.The Civil WarⅧ.Rapid Growth of Capitalism after the Civil WarChapter 16 American History (Ⅱ)Ⅰ.Economic DevelopmentⅡ.ProgressivismⅢ.World War I and the United StatesⅣ.The United States in the 1920sⅤ. The Great Depression and the New DealⅥ.World War Ⅱ and the United StatesChapter 17 American History (Ⅲ)Ⅰ.The Origins of the Cold WarⅡ.The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall PlanⅤ.McCarthyismⅦ.American Society During the Postwar Boom:1945-1960sⅧ.The Cuban Missile CrisisⅨ.The Vietnam WarⅩ.United States′Relations with ChinaⅫ.Watergate ScandalChapter 18 The Economy(Two paragraphs)Ⅰ.The Economic System of the United StatesⅤ.Foreign TradeⅥ.Problems in the U.S.EconomyChapter 19 Political InstitutionsⅠ.The U.S.Constitution 1.The Federal system 2.Separation of powers:checks and balances 3.Provisions for amendmentⅡ.The Executive Branch 1.The Presidency 2.Presidential PowersⅢ.The Legislative Branch 2.Powers of the House and Senate 3.Officers of the Congress 4.Functions of the CongressⅤ.Political Parties (two-party system)Chapter 20 EducationⅠ.Characteristics of American EducationⅡ.Elementary and Secondary EducationⅢ.Higher EducationⅤ.Education ReformsChapter 21 Literature,Architecture and MusicⅠ.American Literature 1.Washington Irving 2.Emerson and Hawthorne 3.Mark Twain 4.Whitman and Dickinson 5.Theodore Dreiser 6.T.S.Eliot 7.Emest Hemingway 8.Hughes and WrightChapter 22 Holidays and FestivalsⅠ.New Year′s DayⅣ.Valentine′s DayⅥ.Easter DayⅧ.Independence DayⅨ.HalloweenⅪ.Thanksgiving DayⅫ.Christmas DayPart Four CanadaChapter 23 Geography and HistoryⅠ.Geographic Features 4.Geographic regionsⅡ.The making of Canada1.The European discovery3.Self-government and Confederation4.The Canadian nationChapter 26 Society and CultureⅠ.Canadian Society 1.Population 2.Immigration 3.Bilingualism 4.MulticulturalismPart Five AustraliaChapter 27 Land and peopleⅠ.The Geographical Structure 1.The Great Western Plateau 2.The Eastern Highlands 3.The Central Eastern LowlandsⅡ.Climate 3.Causes and effects of the hot and dry climateⅣ.People 1.Population 2.Population density and distributionⅤ.Australia′s Built Environment 1.Sprawling cities 2.Rural areasⅥ.Political Divisions 1.New South Wales 2.Victoria 3.Queensland 4.South Australia 5.West Australia 6.TasmaniaChapter 32 Society and CultureⅣ.Australian Culture 1.Aboriginal culture 2.Modern Australian culturePart Six New ZealandChapter 33 The Making of New Zealand Ⅰ.GeographyⅡ.ClimateⅢ.Plants and AnimalsⅣ.Historical Background 2.The Treaty of Waitangi 1840Ⅵ.Maoritanga 5.Race relations附件2:《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点和考核要求一、关于考核知识点的调整考核知识点中的各章概述内容仍为考核内容;对只是点中的作家只保留对如下主要作家的考核。英国文学:Chapter 1 Ⅲ. Willliam Shakespeare Ⅵ. John MiltonChapter 2 Ⅲ. Saniel Defoe Ⅳ. Jonathan Swift Ⅴ. Henry FieldingChapter 3 Ⅰ. Willian Blake Ⅱ. William Wordsworth Ⅴ. Percy Bysshe Shelley Ⅶ. Jane Austen Chapter 4 Ⅰ. Charles Dickens Ⅱ. Charlotte Dickens Ⅵ. Thomas HardyChapter 5 Ⅰ. George Bernard Shaw Ⅳ. T.S Eliot Ⅴ. D.H.Lawrence美国文学:Chapter 1 Ⅲ. Nathanidl Hawthorne Ⅳ. Walt Whitman Ⅴ. Herman MelvilleChapter 2 Ⅰ. Mark Twain Ⅱ. Henry James Ⅲ. Emily Dickinson Ⅳ. Theodore DreiserChapter 3 Ⅱ. Robert Lee Frost Ⅴ. Percy Bysshe Shelley Ⅳ. F.Scott Fitzgerald Ⅴ. Emest Hemingway Ⅵ. Willianm Faulkner二、关于考核要求的调整 考核要求中每章概述内容不作调整:“该时期的重要作家”只包含对考核知识点中保留的重要作家的相关内容的考核。

《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点与考核要求 (一)关于考核知识点的调整 考核知识点中的各章概述内容仍为考核内容;对知识点中的作家只保留对如下主要作家的考核。 英国文学: Chapter 1 III. William Shakespeare John Milton Chapter 2 III. Daniel Defoe IV. Jonathan Swift V. Henry Fielding Chapter 3 I. William Blake II. William Wordsworth V. Percy Bysshe Shelley VII. Jane Austen Chapter 4 I. Charles Dickens II. Charlotte Bronte VI. Thomas Hardy Chapter 5 I. George Bernard Shaw IV. T. S. Eliot V. D. H. Lawrence 美国文学: Chapter 1 III. Nathaniel Hawthorne IV. Walt Whitman V. Herman Melville Chapter 2 I. Mark Twain II. Henry James III. Emily Dickinson IV. Theodore Dreiser Chapter 3 II. Robert Lee Frost IV. F. Scott Fitzgerald V. Ernest Hemingway VI. William Faulkner (二)关于考核要求的调整 考核要求中每章概述内容不作调整:“该时期的重要作家”只包含对考核知识点中保留的重要作家的相关内容的考核。

选读嘛,不必非得看完。每看完一篇文章能够掌握主旨即可。对一些知名作家的背景及代表作需要了解。

英美文学选读不难的,只考26个作家,看看以前的真题就明白怎么考了。把重要的知识点整理一下,准备好笔记本和错题集,错题集用来记录自己做错的题,笔记本记录一些容易忽略细节和重点。 做题不一定要做难题,基础是根本,每次考试不要着重在一个题目上,要放宽心态,不要急,总之,要自信,相信自己一定可以的。

英美文学自考知识点

是有点难,我第一次考了50多分,伤心啊(但我只看了1个多月).但方法好的话,还是可以拿到不错的分数的.经过我近一年的复习,发现一些不错的方法,你就参考一下吧. 1.英美文学中有48位作者和他们将近100篇选读,你要把这48位作者和这些选读作品,一一对号,识记一下,这是最基本的 2.概括作者的写作手法和写作风格,你可以先独立地去认识每一位作家的特点,但不要忘记要总结,哪些作家的风格相似,但区别又在哪里?(历年考卷中都出现过这种题型,而且分值都很大) 3.每一位作者的代表作品的主题,主人公的名字. 4.每一段选读前都有一段小字是简述故事或总结概要的,要熟记(去年的考试里就有考过) 5.选读文章的最后都或多或少有一些文字的注释,最好熟悉一下,因为往年的考题中也有涉及. 6.不要去做所谓的模拟考卷,根本就没有用!因为考试根本就不会出模拟里题.

如果时间允许建议你自己把内容先做个笔记整理一下,如果来不及的话,还是多做题来加深印象吧,那种辅导练习,或者是历年考题,都可以的,多做题自然就知道什么是重点了,祝你好运!

我的方法是建立一个树枝结构。复习开始时面对的最大困惑是东西太多,无从下手,而且更糟是前背后忘记,忘得比背得快,简直是没天理,花下去的时间精力似乎打了水漂。当然要让每个作家都能象对Shakespeare一样一听就有个大概印象,没有充足广泛阅读量是无法做到的。既然太深一下子沉不到海底,我索性浮起来从面上抓,我的树枝结构应运而生。可以说书前的目录就是主树杆,每个时期是树枝,每个作家便是树叉,单是这样还是很抽像很难记,加上不同的"色彩形状的叶子",开始不用很多,节选作品,称号(e.g. the father of ..... or the Poet's Poet),相关术语(Whitman-free verse, Emerson-trascandentalism),正是这些"叶子"使树叉有其独特之处,成为记忆的载体。这样我一下子把英美文学浓缩成二张卡片,在回家上班路上忙里偷闲时看一下,记一下,背一下。嗨,各位,这真得很有效噢,在很短时间内,我可以做出60%的选择题了,并将茫然无序的思路理清。Though my tree is still in winter, "if winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"。这也许可作为根基吧,但其巩固是在这棵树枝繁叶茂的过程中,基础巩固与细节化是相辅相承的。然后我准备了一份小册子,一页一位作家,每页再加上作家主要作品,风格,特点,作品情节,语言,人物描写,功献,第一或最后本作品,最成功作品,最....,通过你不断从课本中汲取,你的树会茁壮成长,并且由重点到细节,从记忆,熟悉,理解整个过程基本附合考纲要求,完美状态是直至差不多等于课本知识的涵盖量(这是共产主义状态,说实在的我没达到,真是革命尚未成功,同志还需努力)。英美文学是综合学科,要通过或考好,是需要日常对英美历史背景熟悉,对大量著作的阅读,研究体会的。死记硬背真的只是应付考试的,原始而无意义手段,而且对来年的考题是没办法应付的噢!以下还有一些小窍门,希望有帮助:1.先复习美国文学,后英国文学;2.美国文学可先从现实主义阶段开始,英国文学可先从维多利亚阶段开始;3.去年考过题还会再考;4.诗中解释较多的话,找那些能反映主题的解释多背背;明年多半是课本没有的解释了,考你的对诗理解程度了,5。对各阶段时期特征多花功夫复习;6.明年的理解题,综合题,比较题必然多,例如:1.二个阶段思想,风格比较,举例说明;2.描述一个阶段思想,风格特点,举例说明;3.比较二个同一,不同阶段诗人,剧作家,小说家,举其作品说明;刁钻复杂的题人人都可猜,我并非想例出一点希奇古怪的题扰乱你们的思路。这次四月考试,我是充满信心拿高分,对每位作家或诗人我都仔细复习到了,但题目仍是出乎我意料之外,我觉得不公平是题型已不是去年直白而水平的出题方式,是一种纵向综合题型。我想提醒明年要参加考试的同学,决不要把每个作家或时期独立复习,如果可能的话,在对每位作家或时期有一定熟悉的程度,作一点纵向的比较,不但能加深理解,对你们明年考试决对有帮助,不,是贡献。坦白的说,这次考试当天上午,我脑海种几次想到应看一下各个时期的异同点,这是我的薄弱环节,但我仍按常理将重点放在几位重要作家写作风格的复习上了。如果明年你是第一次考英美文学,那就别满足于对各位作家的了解,如果明年你又要参加考试,也许猜一点比今年更难的题目,才能应付自如。在英美文学上我真花很大功夫和精力(与其它的十几门课相比),开始时期我确实感到无从下手,复习得很慢很仔细但效率不高。我在这里介绍我的学习方法,只想给以后考试的同学一些提示吧!必竟是我亲身感受和经历的,希望大家能少走一些弯路。在我开始自己的树枝结构的复习方法后,我的学习效率大大提高,那是一种直接,明确,层次分明,直达中心的感觉,我不知谁是否有过同感--课本变薄--确实一种美妙感觉,那天起我便有信心通过英美文学。树枝结构如同将不同时期分成几格抽屉,复习每位作家时就象理衣服一样将它们各就其位,而每格抽屉与其中的衣服都有其共有的独特风格,(eg. English romantic period is an age of poetry, so there are 6 poets introduced here, and natue and freedom are main concerns of theirs)。 这样就不会象一开始,对每件衣服都细细打理,一旦回头发觉身后堆了一地衣服,仍然茫然不知所措。(我曾将英国文学前二个时期来回复习二遍,恼火是进度极慢而能熟记住的东西不多,后然发觉这二个时期是最次要两个阶段。)这也是我为什么建议大家先看维多利亚时期的原因之一,将头脑清醒比较有耐心的阶段留给重点。

自学考试英美文学

下篇:美国文学 第一章美国浪漫主义时期 一、美国浪漫主义时期概述 Ⅰ。本章学习目的和要求 通过本章学习,了解19世纪初期至中叶美国文学产生的历史、文化背景;认识该时期文学创作的基本待征、基本主张,及其对同时代和后期美国文学的影响;了解该时期主要作家的文学创作生涯、创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题思想、人物刻画、语言风格等;同时结合注释,读懂所选作品并了解其思想内容和艺术特色,培养理解和欣赏文学作品的能力。 Ⅱ。本章重点及难点: 1.浪漫主义时期美国文学的特点 2.主要作家的创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格、思想意义。 3.分析讨论选读作品 Ⅲ。本章考核知识点和考核要求: 1.美国浪漫主义时期概述 (1)“识记”内容:美国浪漫主义文学产生的社会历史及文化背景 (2)“领会”内容: 美国浪漫主义在文学上的表现 a.欧洲浪漫主义文学的影响 b.美国本土文学的崛起及其待证 (3)“应用”内容:清教主义、超验主义、象征主义、自由诗等名词的解释 2.美国浪漫主义时期的主要作家 A.华盛顿。欧文 1.一般识记:欧文的生平及创作主涯 2.识记:《纽约外史》《见闻札记》 3.领会:欧文的创作领域、创作思想,及其作品的艺术风格 4.应用:选读《瑞普。凡。温可尔》的主题及其艺术特色 B.拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生 1.一般识记:爱默生的生平及创作生涯 2.识记:爱默生的超验主义思想 3.领会: (1)爱默生的散文:《论自然》《论自助》《论美国学者》等 (2)爱默生与梭罗:梭罗的超验主义思想和他的《沃尔登》 4. 应用:《论自然》节选:爱默生的基本哲 学思想及自然观 C.纳撒尼尔。霍桑 1.一般识记:霍桑的生平及创作主涯 2.识记:霍桑的长短篇小说 3.领会: (1)《红字》的主题、心理描写、象征手法和、小说结构 (2)霍桑的清教主义思想及加尔文教条中的“原罪”对霍桑的影响(人性本恶的观点) (3)霍桑对浪漫主义小说的贡献 4.应用:选读《小伙子布朗》的主题结构、象征手法及语言特色 D.华尔特。惠特曼 1.一般识记:惠特曼的生平及其创作生涯 2.识记:惠特曼的民主思想 3.领会: (1)惠特曼的《草叶集》的主创意图、思想感情及诗体形式、语言风格 (2)惠特曼的个人主义 4.应用:选读《草叶集》诗选:“一个孩子的成长”、“涉水的骑兵”、“自己之歌”的主题结构、诗歌的艺术特色、语言风格 E.赫尔曼。麦尔维尔 1.一般识记:麦尔维尔的生平及创作生涯 2.识记:麦尔维尔的早期作品:《玛地》《雷得本》《白外衣》,后期作品《皮埃尔》《的化装表演》《比利伯德》等 3.领会:《白鲸》的 (1)主题:表层及深层意义 (2)小说结构:浪漫主义和现实主义的统一 (3)象征手法和寓言的运用 (4)语言特色 4.应用:选读《白鲸》最后一章的节选:主题思想、人物刻画、象征手法、语言特色 Chapter l The Romantic Period (一)“识记”内容: 1.The origin of Romantic American literature The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in thehistory of American literature, stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War. It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. 2.The American Renaissance or New England Renaissance is a period of the great flowering of American literature, from the i830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War. It came of age as an expression of a national spirit. One of the most important influences in the period was that of the Transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau. The Transcendentalists contributed to the founding of a new national culture based on native elements. Apart from the Transcendentalists, there emerged during this period great imaginative writers ——Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman——whose novels and poetry left a permanent imprint on American literature. 3.Its social historical and cultural background The development of the American society nurtured "the literature of a great nation." America was flourishing into a politically, economically and culturally independent country. Historically, it was the time of westward expansion in America economically, the whole nation was experiencing an industrial transformation. Politically, democracy and equa1ity became the ideal of the new nation, and the two-party system came into being. Worthy of mention is the literary and cultural life of the country. With the founding of the American Independent Government, the nation felt an urge to have its own literary expression, to make known its new experience that other nations did not have: the early Puritan settlement, the confrontation with the Indians, the frontiersmen''''''''s life, and the wild west. Besides, the nation’s literary milieu was ready for the Romantic movement as we11. Thus, with a strong sense of optimism, a spectacular outburst of romantic feeling was brought about in the first ha1f of the 19th century. 4.Major writers of this period There emerged a great host of men of letters during this period, among whom the better-known are poets such as Philip Freneau, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wordsworth Long Fellow, James Russel Lowell, John Greenleaf Whitter, Edgar Ellen Poe, and, especially, Walt Whitman, whose Leaves Of Grass established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century. The fiction of the American Romantic period is an original and diverse body of work. It ranges from the comic fables of Washington Irving to the The Gothic tales of Edgar Allen Poe, from the frontier adventures of James Fenimore Cooper to the narrative quests of Herman Melville, from the psycho1ogical romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne to the social realism of Rebecca Harding Davis. (二)领会内容 1.The impact of European Romanticism on American Romanticism Foreign literary masters, especially the English counterparts exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the new world. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American writers shared some common features with the English Romanticists. They revolted against the literary forms and ideas of the period of classicism by developing some relatively new forms of fiction or poetry. (1) They put emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature, which included a liking for the picturesque, the exotic, the sensuous, the sensational, and the supernatural. (2) The Americans also placed an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions and disp1ayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. Heroes and heroines exhibited extremes of sensitivity and excitement. (3) The strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man was almost a national religion in America. Writers like Freneau, Bryant, and Cooper showed a great interest in external nature in their respective works. (4) The literary use of the more colorfu1 aspects of the past was also to be found in Irving’s effort to exploit the legends of the Hudson River region, and in Cooper’s long series of historical tales. (5) In short, American Romanticism is, in a certain way, derivative. 2.The unique characteristics of American Romanticism Although greatly influenced by their English counterparts, the American romantic writers revealed unique characteristics of their own in their works and they grew on the native lands. For examp1e,(1) the American national experience of "pioneering into the west" proved to be a rich source of material for American writers to draw upon. They celebrated America''''''''s landscape with its virgin forests, meadows, groves, endless prairies, streams, and vast oceans. The wilderness came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral 1aw. (2)The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. Such a desire is particularly evident in Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales, in Thoreau''''''''s Walden and, later, in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (3) With the growth of American national consciousness, American character types speaking local dialects appeared in poetry and fiction with increasing frequency. (4) Then the American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values and American Romanticism. One of the manifestations is the fact that American romantic writers tended more to moralize than their English and European counterparts. (5) Besides, a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of origina1 sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers. (三)应用内容 1. The American Puritanism and its great influence over American moral values, as is shown in American romantic writings. (1) American Puritanism Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans. (The Puritans were originally members of a division of the Protestant Church, who came into existence in the reigns Queen Elizabeth and King James Ⅰ。The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them Puritans. They came to America out of various reasons, but it should be remembered that they were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles. As the word itself hints, Puritans wanted to purify their religious beliefs and practices. They felt that the Church of England was too close to the Church of Rome in doctrine form of worship, and organization of authority.) The American Puritans, like their brothers back in England, were idealists, believing that the church should be restored to complete "purity". They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God. But in the grim struggle for survival that followed immediately after their arrival in America, they became more and more practical, as indeed they had to be. Puritans were noted for a spirit of moral and religious earnestness that determinated their whole way of life. Puritans'''''''' lives were extremely disciplined and hard. They drove out of their settlements all those opinions that seemed dangerous to them, and history has criticized their actions. Yet in the persecution of what they considered error, the Puritans were no worse than many other movements in history. As a culture heritage, Puritanism did have a profound influence on the early American mind and American values. American Puritanism also had a conspicuously noticeable and an enduring influence on American literature. It had become, to some extent, so much a state of mind, so much a part of the national cultural atmosphere, rather than a set of tenets. (2) One of the manifestations is the fact that American romantic writers tended more to moralize than their English and European counterparts. Besides, a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of origina1 sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers. 2. New England Transcendentalism New England Transcendentalism is the mot clearly defined Romantic literary movement in this period. It was started in the area around Concord, Mass. by a group of intellectual and the literary men of the United States such as Emerson, Henry David Thoreau who were members of an informal club, i. e. the Transcendental Club in New England in the l830s. The transcendentalists reacted against the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism in Boston. They adhered to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation , the innate goodness of man, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths. The writings of the transcendentalists prepared the ground of their contemporaries such as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The main issues involved in the debate were generally philosophical, concerning nature, man and the universe. Basically, Transcendentalism has been defined philosophical1y as "the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the senses." Emerson once proclaimed in a speech, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." Other concepts that accompanied Transcendentalism inc1ude the idea that nature is ennobling and the idea that the individual is divine and, therefore, self-re1iant. 3. American Romanticists differed in their understanding of human nature. To the transcendentalists such as Emerson and Thoreau, man is divine in nature and therefore forever perfectible; but to Hawthorne and Melville, everybody is potentially a sinner, and great moral courage is therefore indispensab1e for the improvement of human nature, as is shown in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

Chapter II The Neoclassical Period 一。新古典主义时期概述 1. 识记:(1)新古典主义时期的界定 (2)政治经济背景 (3)启蒙运动的意义与影响 2. 领会:(1)启蒙运动的主张与文学的特点 (2)新古典主义时期文学的艺术特点 3. 应用:启蒙运动,新古典主义,英雄双行诗,英国现实主义小说等名词的解释 1. 识记Definitions of literary terms 1) The Enlightenment Movement The 18th-century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France & swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th & 16th centuries. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modem philosophical & artistic ideas. The enlighteners celebrated reason or rationality, equality & science. They called for a reference to order, reason & rules & advocated universal education. Famous among the great enlighteners in England were those great writers like John Dryden, Alexander pope & so on. 2) Neoclassicism In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism. According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek & Roman writers (Homer, Virgil, & so on)& those of the contemporary French ones. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion & accuracy, & that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. This belief led them to seek proportion, unity, harmony & grace in literary expressions, in an effort to delight, instruct & correct human beings, primarily as social animals. Thus, a polite, urbane, witty, & intellectual art developed. 3) The heroic couplet It means a pair of lines of a type once common in English poetry, which rhyme & are written with five beats each…… 4) the Realistic Novel The mid-century was, however, predominated by a newly rising literary form, the modern English novel, which, contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. This-the most significant phenomenon in the history of the development of English literature in the eighteenth century - is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution & a symbol of the growing importance & strength of the English of the growing importance & strength of the English middle class, Among the pioneers were Daniel Defoe ,Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Creorge Smollott, & Oliver Goldsmith. 2. 领会Characteristics of Neoclassical Literature According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek & Roman writers (Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc,)& those of the contemporary French ones. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws &rules for almost every genre of literature, prose should be precise, direct, smooth & flexible. Poetry should be lyrical, epical, didactic, satiric or dramatic, & each class should be guided by its own principles. Drama should be written in the Heroic Couplets (iambic pentameter rhymed in two lines); the three unities of time, space & action should be strictly observed; regularity in construction should be adhered to & type characters rather than individuals should be represented. 二。该时期的重要作家 1,一般识记:重要作家的创作生涯 2,识记:重要作品及主要内容 3,领会:重要作家的创作思想,艺术特色其代表作的主题结构,人物刻画,语言风格,艺术特色,社会意义等。 4,应用:(1)《天路历程》中“名利场”的寓义。 (2)蒲伯的文学(诗歌)批评观及其诗歌特色。 (3)《格列佛游记》的社会讽刺。 (4)菲尔丁的“散文体史诗”。 (5)格雷诗歌的主题与意象。 I. John Bunyan 1. 一般识记His life English author & preacher, born in Elstow, England, probably Nov.28, 1628,and died in London, England, Aug, 31, 1688. 2. 识记His major works John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) is the outstanding 17th-century English religious literature. For more than 200 years this book was second in popularity only to the Bible. Bunyan did not attempt to portray the political confusion & social upheaval of 17th-century England. His concern was rather the study of man’s spiritual life. Bunyan chiefly wrote four prose works - Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666), The Life & Death of Mr. Badman (1680), The Holy War (1682) & The Pilgrim’s Progress, part II (1684)。 3. 领会Characteristics of his works Bunyan’s style was modeled after that of the English Bible. With his concrete &living language & carefully observed & vividly presented details, he made it possible for the reader of the least education to share the pleasure of reading his novel & to relive the experience of his characters. 4. 应用Selected Reading "The Vanity Fair", an excerpt from Part I of The Pilgrim’s Progress. (1) Theme: The Pilgrim’s Progress is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. Its purpose is to urge people to comply with Christian doctrines & seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weakness & all kinds of social evils. It is not only about something spiritual but also beats much relevance to the time. Its predominant metaphor-life as a journey-is simple & familiar. (2) "Vanity Fair" is the most famous part of The Pilgrim’s Progress. It tells how Christian & his friend Faithful come to Vanity Fair on their way to heaven," a fair where in should be sold all sorts of vanity & that it should last all the year long: therefore at this fair all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures & delights of all sorts as harlots, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones & what not." As they refuse to buy anything but truth, they are beaten & put in a cage & then taken out & led in chains up & down the fair. They are sentenced to death-to be put to the most cruel death that can be invented." Vanity Fair" is a satirical picture of English society, law & religion in Bunyan’s day.

是有点难,我第一次考了50多分,伤心啊(但我只看了1个多月).但方法好的话,还是可以拿到不错的分数的.经过我近一年的复习,发现一些不错的方法,你就参考一下吧. 1.英美文学中有48位作者和他们将近100篇选读,你要把这48位作者和这些选读作品,一一对号,识记一下,这是最基本的 2.概括作者的写作手法和写作风格,你可以先独立地去认识每一位作家的特点,但不要忘记要总结,哪些作家的风格相似,但区别又在哪里?(历年考卷中都出现过这种题型,而且分值都很大) 3.每一位作者的代表作品的主题,主人公的名字. 4.每一段选读前都有一段小字是简述故事或总结概要的,要熟记(去年的考试里就有考过) 5.选读文章的最后都或多或少有一些文字的注释,最好熟悉一下,因为往年的考题中也有涉及. 6.不要去做所谓的模拟考卷,根本就没有用!因为考试根本就不会出模拟里题.

英美文学自学考试

下篇:美国文学 第一章美国浪漫主义时期 一、美国浪漫主义时期概述 Ⅰ。本章学习目的和要求 通过本章学习,了解19世纪初期至中叶美国文学产生的历史、文化背景;认识该时期文学创作的基本待征、基本主张,及其对同时代和后期美国文学的影响;了解该时期主要作家的文学创作生涯、创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题思想、人物刻画、语言风格等;同时结合注释,读懂所选作品并了解其思想内容和艺术特色,培养理解和欣赏文学作品的能力。 Ⅱ。本章重点及难点: 1.浪漫主义时期美国文学的特点 2.主要作家的创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格、思想意义。 3.分析讨论选读作品 Ⅲ。本章考核知识点和考核要求: 1.美国浪漫主义时期概述 (1)“识记”内容:美国浪漫主义文学产生的社会历史及文化背景 (2)“领会”内容: 美国浪漫主义在文学上的表现 a.欧洲浪漫主义文学的影响 b.美国本土文学的崛起及其待证 (3)“应用”内容:清教主义、超验主义、象征主义、自由诗等名词的解释 2.美国浪漫主义时期的主要作家 A.华盛顿。欧文 1.一般识记:欧文的生平及创作主涯 2.识记:《纽约外史》《见闻札记》 3.领会:欧文的创作领域、创作思想,及其作品的艺术风格 4.应用:选读《瑞普。凡。温可尔》的主题及其艺术特色 B.拉尔夫.华尔多.爱默生 1.一般识记:爱默生的生平及创作生涯 2.识记:爱默生的超验主义思想 3.领会: (1)爱默生的散文:《论自然》《论自助》《论美国学者》等 (2)爱默生与梭罗:梭罗的超验主义思想和他的《沃尔登》 4. 应用:《论自然》节选:爱默生的基本哲 学思想及自然观 C.纳撒尼尔。霍桑 1.一般识记:霍桑的生平及创作主涯 2.识记:霍桑的长短篇小说 3.领会: (1)《红字》的主题、心理描写、象征手法和、小说结构 (2)霍桑的清教主义思想及加尔文教条中的“原罪”对霍桑的影响(人性本恶的观点) (3)霍桑对浪漫主义小说的贡献 4.应用:选读《小伙子布朗》的主题结构、象征手法及语言特色 D.华尔特。惠特曼 1.一般识记:惠特曼的生平及其创作生涯 2.识记:惠特曼的民主思想 3.领会: (1)惠特曼的《草叶集》的主创意图、思想感情及诗体形式、语言风格 (2)惠特曼的个人主义 4.应用:选读《草叶集》诗选:“一个孩子的成长”、“涉水的骑兵”、“自己之歌”的主题结构、诗歌的艺术特色、语言风格 E.赫尔曼。麦尔维尔 1.一般识记:麦尔维尔的生平及创作生涯 2.识记:麦尔维尔的早期作品:《玛地》《雷得本》《白外衣》,后期作品《皮埃尔》《的化装表演》《比利伯德》等 3.领会:《白鲸》的 (1)主题:表层及深层意义 (2)小说结构:浪漫主义和现实主义的统一 (3)象征手法和寓言的运用 (4)语言特色 4.应用:选读《白鲸》最后一章的节选:主题思想、人物刻画、象征手法、语言特色 Chapter l The Romantic Period (一)“识记”内容: 1.The origin of Romantic American literature The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in thehistory of American literature, stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War. It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. 2.The American Renaissance or New England Renaissance is a period of the great flowering of American literature, from the i830s roughly until the end of the American Civil War. It came of age as an expression of a national spirit. One of the most important influences in the period was that of the Transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau. The Transcendentalists contributed to the founding of a new national culture based on native elements. Apart from the Transcendentalists, there emerged during this period great imaginative writers ——Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman——whose novels and poetry left a permanent imprint on American literature. 3.Its social historical and cultural background The development of the American society nurtured "the literature of a great nation." America was flourishing into a politically, economically and culturally independent country. Historically, it was the time of westward expansion in America economically, the whole nation was experiencing an industrial transformation. Politically, democracy and equa1ity became the ideal of the new nation, and the two-party system came into being. Worthy of mention is the literary and cultural life of the country. With the founding of the American Independent Government, the nation felt an urge to have its own literary expression, to make known its new experience that other nations did not have: the early Puritan settlement, the confrontation with the Indians, the frontiersmen''''''''s life, and the wild west. Besides, the nation’s literary milieu was ready for the Romantic movement as we11. Thus, with a strong sense of optimism, a spectacular outburst of romantic feeling was brought about in the first ha1f of the 19th century. 4.Major writers of this period There emerged a great host of men of letters during this period, among whom the better-known are poets such as Philip Freneau, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wordsworth Long Fellow, James Russel Lowell, John Greenleaf Whitter, Edgar Ellen Poe, and, especially, Walt Whitman, whose Leaves Of Grass established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century. The fiction of the American Romantic period is an original and diverse body of work. It ranges from the comic fables of Washington Irving to the The Gothic tales of Edgar Allen Poe, from the frontier adventures of James Fenimore Cooper to the narrative quests of Herman Melville, from the psycho1ogical romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne to the social realism of Rebecca Harding Davis. (二)领会内容 1.The impact of European Romanticism on American Romanticism Foreign literary masters, especially the English counterparts exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the new world. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American writers shared some common features with the English Romanticists. They revolted against the literary forms and ideas of the period of classicism by developing some relatively new forms of fiction or poetry. (1) They put emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature, which included a liking for the picturesque, the exotic, the sensuous, the sensational, and the supernatural. (2) The Americans also placed an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions and disp1ayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. Heroes and heroines exhibited extremes of sensitivity and excitement. (3) The strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man was almost a national religion in America. Writers like Freneau, Bryant, and Cooper showed a great interest in external nature in their respective works. (4) The literary use of the more colorfu1 aspects of the past was also to be found in Irving’s effort to exploit the legends of the Hudson River region, and in Cooper’s long series of historical tales. (5) In short, American Romanticism is, in a certain way, derivative. 2.The unique characteristics of American Romanticism Although greatly influenced by their English counterparts, the American romantic writers revealed unique characteristics of their own in their works and they grew on the native lands. For examp1e,(1) the American national experience of "pioneering into the west" proved to be a rich source of material for American writers to draw upon. They celebrated America''''''''s landscape with its virgin forests, meadows, groves, endless prairies, streams, and vast oceans. The wilderness came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral 1aw. (2)The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. Such a desire is particularly evident in Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales, in Thoreau''''''''s Walden and, later, in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (3) With the growth of American national consciousness, American character types speaking local dialects appeared in poetry and fiction with increasing frequency. (4) Then the American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values and American Romanticism. One of the manifestations is the fact that American romantic writers tended more to moralize than their English and European counterparts. (5) Besides, a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of origina1 sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers. (三)应用内容 1. The American Puritanism and its great influence over American moral values, as is shown in American romantic writings. (1) American Puritanism Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans. (The Puritans were originally members of a division of the Protestant Church, who came into existence in the reigns Queen Elizabeth and King James Ⅰ。The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them Puritans. They came to America out of various reasons, but it should be remembered that they were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles. As the word itself hints, Puritans wanted to purify their religious beliefs and practices. They felt that the Church of England was too close to the Church of Rome in doctrine form of worship, and organization of authority.) The American Puritans, like their brothers back in England, were idealists, believing that the church should be restored to complete "purity". They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God. But in the grim struggle for survival that followed immediately after their arrival in America, they became more and more practical, as indeed they had to be. Puritans were noted for a spirit of moral and religious earnestness that determinated their whole way of life. Puritans'''''''' lives were extremely disciplined and hard. They drove out of their settlements all those opinions that seemed dangerous to them, and history has criticized their actions. Yet in the persecution of what they considered error, the Puritans were no worse than many other movements in history. As a culture heritage, Puritanism did have a profound influence on the early American mind and American values. American Puritanism also had a conspicuously noticeable and an enduring influence on American literature. It had become, to some extent, so much a state of mind, so much a part of the national cultural atmosphere, rather than a set of tenets. (2) One of the manifestations is the fact that American romantic writers tended more to moralize than their English and European counterparts. Besides, a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of origina1 sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers. 2. New England Transcendentalism New England Transcendentalism is the mot clearly defined Romantic literary movement in this period. It was started in the area around Concord, Mass. by a group of intellectual and the literary men of the United States such as Emerson, Henry David Thoreau who were members of an informal club, i. e. the Transcendental Club in New England in the l830s. The transcendentalists reacted against the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism in Boston. They adhered to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation , the innate goodness of man, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths. The writings of the transcendentalists prepared the ground of their contemporaries such as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The main issues involved in the debate were generally philosophical, concerning nature, man and the universe. Basically, Transcendentalism has been defined philosophical1y as "the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the senses." Emerson once proclaimed in a speech, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." Other concepts that accompanied Transcendentalism inc1ude the idea that nature is ennobling and the idea that the individual is divine and, therefore, self-re1iant. 3. American Romanticists differed in their understanding of human nature. To the transcendentalists such as Emerson and Thoreau, man is divine in nature and therefore forever perfectible; but to Hawthorne and Melville, everybody is potentially a sinner, and great moral courage is therefore indispensab1e for the improvement of human nature, as is shown in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

Chapter II The Neoclassical Period 一。新古典主义时期概述 1. 识记:(1)新古典主义时期的界定 (2)政治经济背景 (3)启蒙运动的意义与影响 2. 领会:(1)启蒙运动的主张与文学的特点 (2)新古典主义时期文学的艺术特点 3. 应用:启蒙运动,新古典主义,英雄双行诗,英国现实主义小说等名词的解释 1. 识记Definitions of literary terms 1) The Enlightenment Movement The 18th-century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France & swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th & 16th centuries. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modem philosophical & artistic ideas. The enlighteners celebrated reason or rationality, equality & science. They called for a reference to order, reason & rules & advocated universal education. Famous among the great enlighteners in England were those great writers like John Dryden, Alexander pope & so on. 2) Neoclassicism In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism. According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek & Roman writers (Homer, Virgil, & so on)& those of the contemporary French ones. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion & accuracy, & that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. This belief led them to seek proportion, unity, harmony & grace in literary expressions, in an effort to delight, instruct & correct human beings, primarily as social animals. Thus, a polite, urbane, witty, & intellectual art developed. 3) The heroic couplet It means a pair of lines of a type once common in English poetry, which rhyme & are written with five beats each…… 4) the Realistic Novel The mid-century was, however, predominated by a newly rising literary form, the modern English novel, which, contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. This-the most significant phenomenon in the history of the development of English literature in the eighteenth century - is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution & a symbol of the growing importance & strength of the English of the growing importance & strength of the English middle class, Among the pioneers were Daniel Defoe ,Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Creorge Smollott, & Oliver Goldsmith. 2. 领会Characteristics of Neoclassical Literature According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek & Roman writers (Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc,)& those of the contemporary French ones. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws &rules for almost every genre of literature, prose should be precise, direct, smooth & flexible. Poetry should be lyrical, epical, didactic, satiric or dramatic, & each class should be guided by its own principles. Drama should be written in the Heroic Couplets (iambic pentameter rhymed in two lines); the three unities of time, space & action should be strictly observed; regularity in construction should be adhered to & type characters rather than individuals should be represented. 二。该时期的重要作家 1,一般识记:重要作家的创作生涯 2,识记:重要作品及主要内容 3,领会:重要作家的创作思想,艺术特色其代表作的主题结构,人物刻画,语言风格,艺术特色,社会意义等。 4,应用:(1)《天路历程》中“名利场”的寓义。 (2)蒲伯的文学(诗歌)批评观及其诗歌特色。 (3)《格列佛游记》的社会讽刺。 (4)菲尔丁的“散文体史诗”。 (5)格雷诗歌的主题与意象。 I. John Bunyan 1. 一般识记His life English author & preacher, born in Elstow, England, probably Nov.28, 1628,and died in London, England, Aug, 31, 1688. 2. 识记His major works John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) is the outstanding 17th-century English religious literature. For more than 200 years this book was second in popularity only to the Bible. Bunyan did not attempt to portray the political confusion & social upheaval of 17th-century England. His concern was rather the study of man’s spiritual life. Bunyan chiefly wrote four prose works - Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666), The Life & Death of Mr. Badman (1680), The Holy War (1682) & The Pilgrim’s Progress, part II (1684)。 3. 领会Characteristics of his works Bunyan’s style was modeled after that of the English Bible. With his concrete &living language & carefully observed & vividly presented details, he made it possible for the reader of the least education to share the pleasure of reading his novel & to relive the experience of his characters. 4. 应用Selected Reading "The Vanity Fair", an excerpt from Part I of The Pilgrim’s Progress. (1) Theme: The Pilgrim’s Progress is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. Its purpose is to urge people to comply with Christian doctrines & seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weakness & all kinds of social evils. It is not only about something spiritual but also beats much relevance to the time. Its predominant metaphor-life as a journey-is simple & familiar. (2) "Vanity Fair" is the most famous part of The Pilgrim’s Progress. It tells how Christian & his friend Faithful come to Vanity Fair on their way to heaven," a fair where in should be sold all sorts of vanity & that it should last all the year long: therefore at this fair all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures & delights of all sorts as harlots, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones & what not." As they refuse to buy anything but truth, they are beaten & put in a cage & then taken out & led in chains up & down the fair. They are sentenced to death-to be put to the most cruel death that can be invented." Vanity Fair" is a satirical picture of English society, law & religion in Bunyan’s day.

Chapter 5The Modern Period Ⅰ。学习目的和要求 通过本章的学习,了解20世纪批判现实主义文学和现代主义文学产生的历史、文化背景。认识该时期文学创作的基本特征、基本主张,及其对现当代英国文学乃至文化的影响;了解该时期重要作家的文学创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格、思想意义等;同时结合注释,读懂所选作品,了解其思想内容和写作特色,培养理解和欣赏文学作品的能力。 Ⅱ。本章重点及难点 1. 英国现代文学的特征 2. 主要作家的创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物刻画和语言风格 3. 名词解释:现代主义 4. 应用:选读作品的主题结构、艺术特色、人物刻画和语言风格,如 (1)叶芝和艾略特诗歌(所选作品)的主题、意象分析 (2)小说《儿子与情人》的主题和主要人物的性格分析 (3)意识流小说的主要特色分析 (4)萧伯纳戏剧的特点与社会意义分析 Ⅲ。考核知识点和考核要求 (一)现代时期概述 1.识记: A. 20世纪英国社会的政治、经济、文化背景 B.英国20世纪批判现实主义文学 C.现代主义文学的兴起与衰落 2.领会: A. 现代主义文学创作的基本主张 B.英国现代主义文学思潮 (1)诗歌 (2)小说 (3)戏剧 3.应用: A.名词解释:现代主义 B.英国现代主义文学的特点 C.现代主义文学对当代文学的影响 (二)现代时期的主要作家 A.萧伯纳 1.一般:萧伯纳的生平与文学生涯。 2.识记: A.萧伯纳的政治改革思想和文学创作主张 B.萧伯纳的戏剧创作 (1)早期主要作品:《鳏夫的房产》、《华伦夫人的职业》、《康蒂坦》、《凯撒和克莉奥佩特拉》 (2)中期作品:《人与超人》、《巴巴拉少校》、《皮格马利翁》 (3)晚期作品:《伤心之家》、《回到麦修色拉》、《圣女贞德》、《苹果车》 3.领会: A.萧伯纳戏剧的特点与社会意义 B.萧伯纳的戏剧对20世纪英国文学的影响 4.应用: A.《华伦夫人的职业》的故事梗概、情节结构、人物塑造、语言风格、思想意义 B.选读:所选作品的主要内容、人物塑造、语言特点、艺术手法等 B.约翰。高尔斯华绥 1.一般识记:高尔斯华绥的生平与文学生涯 2.识记:高尔斯华绥的文学创作 (1)戏剧:《银盒》、《正义》、《斗争》 (2)小说:《福赛特世家》(《有产业的人》、《骑虎》、《出租》)、《现代喜剧》 3.领会: A.高尔斯华绥的创作思想 B.高尔斯华绥批判现实主义小说的主要特点及社会意义 4.应用: 选读:所选作品的主要内容、人物性格。语言特点、叙述手法等 C、威廉。勃特勒。叶芝 1.一般:叶芝的生平及文学生涯 2.识记:叶芝诗歌的代表作品 (1)早期诗歌:《茵尼斯弗利岛》、《梦见仙境的人》、《玫瑰》 (2)中期诗歌:《新的纪元》、《1916年的复活节》 (3)晚期诗歌:《驶向拜占廷》、《丽达及天鹅》、《在学童们中间》 3.领会: A.叶芝的诗歌创作思想 B.叶芝诗歌的特点及思想意义 C.叶芝诗歌的艺术成就 D.叶芝的诗歌对当代英国文学的影响 E.叶芝的戏剧创作 4.应用:选读:、所选作品的主题思想、语言风格、艺术特色等 D、T.S.艾略特 1.一般识记:艾略特的生平及创作生涯 2.识记:艾略特的主要诗歌作品 (1)《普鲁弗洛克的情歌》 (2)《荒原》 (3)《灰星期三》 (4)《四个四重奏》 3.领会: A.艾略特的文学理论与文艺批评观 B.艾略特诗歌的艺术特色及社会意义 C.艾略特的戏剧 D. 文略特的艺术成就 E.艾略特的文学创作及文艺批评思想对现当代英国文学的影响 4.应用: A.《荒原》主题、结构、神话、象征、语言特色及社会意义 B.选读:所选作品的主题结构、思想内容、语言特点、艺术手法等 E.戴维。赫伯特。劳伦斯 1.一般识记:劳伦斯的生平及文学生涯 2.识记:劳伦斯的主要小说 (1)《儿子与情人》 (2)《虹》 (3)《恋爱中的女人》 3.领会: A. 劳伦斯的创作思想 B. 劳伦斯小说的主要艺术特色及社会意义 . C. 劳伦斯的小说对现当代英国文学的影响 4.应用: A.《儿子与情人》的故事梗概、情节结构、人物塑造、语言风格、思想意义 B.选读:所选作品的主要内容、人物性格、语言特点、艺术手法等 F.詹姆斯。乔伊斯 1.一般识记:乔伊斯的生平与创作生涯 2.识记:乔伊斯的主要作品简介 (1)《都柏林人》 (2)《青年艺术家的肖像》 (3)《尤利西斯》 3.领会: A. 乔伊斯的文学创作主张与美学思想 B. 乔伊斯小说的主要艺术特色及思想意义 C.乔伊斯的艺术成就 D.乔伊斯的作品对现当代世界文学的影响 4.应用: A. 意识流小说的主要特色分析 B. 选读:所选作品的主题思想、人物塑造、语言特色、艺术手法等 Chapter 5 The Modern Period 一。识记: 1. The social, ideological background of the modern English literature: (1) The influences of the two World Wars on English literature: Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism. The First World War and the Second World War had greatly influenced the English literature. The catastrophic First World War tremendously weakened the British Empire and brought about great sufferings to its people as well. Its appalling shock severely destroyed people's faith in the Victorian values; The postwar economic dislocation and spiritual disillusion produced a profound impact upon the British people, who came to see the prevalent wretchedness in capitalism. The Second World War marked the last stage of the disintegration of the British Empire. Britain suffered heavy losses in the war: thousands of people were killed; the economy was ruined; and almost all its former colonies were lost. People were in economic, cultural, and belief crisises. (2) Ideologically, the rise of the irrational philosophy and new science greatly incited modern writers to make new explorations on human natures and human relationships. (a) In the mid-19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels put forward the theory of scientific socialism, which not only provided a guiding principle for the working people, but also inspired them to make dauntless fights for their own emancipation. (b) Darwin's theory of evolution exerted a strong influence upon the people, causing many to lose their religious faith. The social Darwinism, under the cover of "survival of the fittest," vehemently advocated colonialism or jingoism. (c) Einstein's theory of relativity provided entirely new ideas for the concepts of time and space. (d) Freud's analytical psychology drastically altered our conception of human nature. (e) Arthur Schopenhauer, a pessimistic philosopher started a rebellion against rationalism, stressing the importance of will and intuition. (f) Having inherited the basic principles from Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche went further against rationalism by advocating the doctrines of power and superman and by completely rejecting the Christian morality. (g) Based on the major ideas of his predecessors, Henry Bergson established his irrational philosophy which put the emphasis on creation, intuition, irrationality and unconsciousness. All these irrationalist philosophers exerted immense influence upon the major modernist writers in Britain. So, after the First World War, all kinds of literary trends of modernism appeared: symbolism, expressionism, surrealism, cubism, futurism, Dadaism, imagism and stream of consciousness. Towards the 1920s, these trends converged into a mighty torrent of modernist movement, which swept across the whole Europe and America. After the Second World War, a variety of modernism, or post-modernism, like existentialist literature, theater of the absurd, new novels and black humor, rose with the spur of the existentialist idea that "the world was absurd, and the human life was an agony." 2. The development of English poetry in the 20th century: The 20th century has witnessed a great achievement in English poetry. In the early years of this century, Thomas Hardy and the war poets of the younger generation were important realistic poets. Hardy expressed his strong sympathies for the suffering poor and his bitter disgusts at the social evils in his poetry as in his novels. The soldiers-poets of World War I revealed the appalling brutality of the war in a most realistic way. The early poems of Pound and Eliot and Yeats's matured poetry marked the rise of "modern poetry," which was, in some sense, a revolution against the conventional ideas and forms of the Victorian poetry. The modernist poets fought against the romantic fuzziness and self-indulged emotionalism, advocating new ideas in poetry- writing such as to use the language of common speech, to create new rhythms as the expression of a new mood, to allow absolute freedom in choosing subjects, and to use hard, clear and precise images in poems. The 1930s witnessed great economic depressions, mass unemployment, and the rise of the Nazis. Facing such a severe situation, most of the young intellects started to turn to the left. And therefore the period was known as "the red thirties." A group of young poets during this period expressed in their poetry a radical political enthusiasm and a strong protest against fascism. With the coming of the 1950s, there was a return of realistic poetry again. By advocating reason, moral discipline, and traditional forms, a new generation of poets started "The Movement," which explicitly rejected the modernist influence. There was no significant poetic movement in the 1960s. A multiplicity of choices opened to both the poet and the reader. Poets gradually moved into more individual styles. 3. Realism in the 20th century English literature: The realistic novels in the early 20th century were the continuation of the Victorian tradition, yet its exposing and criticizing power against capitalist evils had been somewhat weakened both in width and depth. The outstanding realistic novelists of this period were John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, and Arnold Eennett. The three trilogies of Galsworthy's Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century, which revealed the corrupted capitalist world. In his novels of social satire, H. G. Wells made realistic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the "Little Man;" whereas Bennett presented a vivid picture of the English life in the industrial Midlands in his best novels. Realism was, to a certain extent, eclipsed by the rapid rise of modernism in the 1920s. But with the strong swing of leftism in the 1930s, novelists began to turn their attention to the urgent social problems. They also enriched the traditional ways of creation by adopting some of the modernist techniques. However, the realistic novels of this period were more or less touched by a pessimistic mood, preoccupied with the theme of man's loneliness, and shaped in different forms: social satires by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell comic satires on the English upper class by Evelyn Waugh; and Catholic novels by Graham Greene. Another important group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working-class background in the mid-1950s and early 1960s known as "The Angry Young Man." They demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest against the outmoded social and political values in their society. Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Braine and Alan Sillitoe were the major novelists in this group. They portrayed unadorned working-class life in their novels with great freshness and vigor of the working-class language. Amis was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim (1954)。 The term "The Angry Young Man" came to be widely Having been merged and interpenetrated with modernism in the past several decades, the realistic novel of the 1960s and 1970s appeared in a new face with a richer, more vigorous and more diversified style. 二。领会: 1.Modern English poetry: It is, in some sense, a revolution against the conventional ideas and forms of the Victorian poetry. The modernist poets fought against the romantic fuzziness and self-indulged emotionalism, advocating new ideas in poetry- writing such as to use the language of common speech, to create new rhythms as the expression of a new mood, to allow absolute freedom in choosing subjects, and to use hard, clear and precise images in poems. 2. Modern English novels: The first three decades of 20th century were golden years of the modernist novel. In stimulating the technical innovations of novel creation, the theory of the Freudian and Jungian psycho-analysis played a particularly important role. With the notion that multiple levels of consciousness existed simultaneously in the human mind, that one's present was the sum of his past, present and future, and that the whole truth about human beings existed in the unique, isolated, and private world of each individual, writers like Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf concentrated all their efforts on digging into the human consciousness. They had created unprecedented stream-of-consciousness novels such as Pilgrimage by Richardson, Ulysses (1922) by Joyce, and Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Woolf. One of the remarkable features of their writings was their continuous experimentation on new and sophisticated techniques in novel writing, which made tremendous impacts on the creation of both realistic and modernist novels in this century. James Joyce is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist; in Ulysses, his encyclopedia-like masterpiece, Joyce presents a fantastic picture of the disjointed, illogical, illusory, and mental- emotional life of Leopold Bloom, who becomes the symbol of everyman in the post-World-War-ⅠEurope. In the works of E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, old traditions are still there, but their subject matter about human relationships and their symbolic or psychological presentations of the novel are entirely modern. Forster's masterpiece, A Passage to India (1924), is a novel of decidedly symbolist aspirations, in which the author set up, within a realistic story, a fable of moral significance that implies a highly mystical, symbolic view of life, death, human relationship, and the relationship of man with the infinite universe. D. H. Lawrence is regarded as revolutionary as Joyce in novel writing; but unlike Joyce, he was not concerned with technical innovations; his interest lay in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. He believed that life impulse was the primacy of man's instinct, and that any conscious repression of such an impulse would cause distortion or perversion of the individual's personality. In his best novels like The Rainbow (1915) and Women in Love (1920), Lawrence made a bold psychological exploration of various human relationships, especially those between men and women, with a great frankness Lawrence claimed that the alienation of the human relationships and the perversion of human nature in the modern society were caused by the desires for power and money, by the shams and frauds of middle-class life, and, above all, by the whole capitalist mechanical civilization, which turned men into inhuman machines. After the Second World War, modernism had another upsurge with the rise of existentialism which was reflected mainly in drama. 3. The development of 20th century English drama: The most celebrated dramatists in the last decade of the 19th century were Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, who, in a sense, pioneered the modern drama, though they did not make so many innovations in techniques and forms as modernist poets or novelists. Wilde expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper-class people by revealing their corruption, their snobbery, and their hypocrisy in his plays, especially in his masterpiece, The Importance-of Being Earnest (1895)。 Shaw is is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare whose works are examples of the plays inspired by social criticism. John Galsworthy carried on this tradition of social criticism in his plays. By dramatizing social and ethical problems, Galsworthy made considerable achievements in his plays such as The Silver Box (1906) and Strife (1910), in which Galsworthy presents not only realistic pictures of social injustice, but also the workers' heroic struggles against their employers. W. B. Yeats, a prominent poet of the 20th century, was the leader of the Irish National Theater Movement. He was a verse playwright who desired to restore lyrical drama to popularity. With the heroic portrayal of spiritual truth as his main concern, Yeats wrote a number of verse plays, introducing Irish myths and folk legends; but the plot in his plays was seldom very dramatic. The 1930s witnessed a revival of poetic drama in England. One of the early experimenters was T. S. Eliot who regarded drama as the best medium of poetry. Eliot wrote several verse plays and made a considerable success. Murder in the Cathedral (1935), with its purely dramatic power, remains the most popular of his verse plays, in spite of its primarily religious purpose. After Eliot, Christopher Fry gained considerable successes in poetic drama. His exuberant though poetically commonplace verse drama. The Lady's Not For Burning (1948), attracted delighted audience. The English dramatic revolution, which came in the 1950s under various European and American influences, developed in two directions: the working-class drama and the Theater of Absurd. The working-class drama was started by a group of young writers from the lower-middle class, or working class, who presented a new type of plays which expressed a mood of restlessness, anger and frustration, a spirit of rebelliousness, and a strong emotional protest against the existing social institutions. John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger (1956), in a fresh, unadorned working-class language, angrily, violently and unrelentingly condemned the contemporary social evils. With an entirely new sense of reality, Osborne brought vitality to the English theater and became known as the first "Angry Young Man." The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett, who wrote about human beings living a meaningless life in an alien, decaying world. His first play Waiting for Godot (1955) is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.

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