班揚(yáng)
John Bunyan
A. 作品風(fēng)格
a. Bunyan's style was modeled after that of the English Bible.
b. He used concrete and living language and vivid details.
c. He made it possible for the reader of the least education to share the pleasure of reading his novel.
B. 代表作
a. The Pilgrim's Progress is the most successful religious allegory in the English language
b. Its predominant metaphor- life as a journey- is simple and familiar.
蒲柏
Alexander Pope
A. 現(xiàn)實批評觀
a. He upheld the existing social system as an ideal one, but he was not entirely blind to the rapid moral, political and cultural deterioration.
b. He published The Rape of the Lock and use the mock epic form to retell the cutting of the lock, to ridicule the trivial incident and to satirize the foolish, meaningless life of the lords and ladies in the aristocratic bourgeois society of the eighteenth century England.
B. 文學(xué)觀He strongly advocated neoclassicism.
C. 代表作品
An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad,An Essay on Man.
The translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
The edition of Shakespeare's plays.
笛福
Daniel Defoe
A. 主要作品
a. The first novel: Robinson Crusoe.
b. four other novels: Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack and Roxana.
c. The pseudo-factual account of Great Plague: A Journal the Plague Year.
B. 代表作
a. Robinson Crusoe, an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time, is universally considered his masterpiece.
b. Robinson is here a real her a typical eighteenth-century English middle-class man.
c. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. In describing Robinson's life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor and the Puritan fortitude.
斯威夫特
Jonathan Swift
A. 創(chuàng)作:
a. The works to establish his name:
A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books established his name as a satirist.
b. The Drapier's letters
He published, under the pseudonym of Drapier, a series of letters. Even today Swift is still respected as a national hero in Ireland.
c. The greatest satiric work:
He wrote and published his greatest satiric work, Gulliver's Travels.
B. 代表作
a. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan's best fictional work. The book contains four parts: His experience in Lilliput, Alone in Brobdingnag, Visit to the Flying Island and Account of his discoveries in the Houyhnhnm land. In structure, the four parts make an organic whole.
b. Gulliver gives an account of some aspects of Lilliputian life and obviously alludes to the similar ridiculous practices or tricks of the English government.
費(fèi)爾丁
Henry Fielding
A. 戲劇創(chuàng)作
The best known are The coffee-House Politician, The Tragedy of Tragedies, Pasquin, and The Historical Register for the Year1736.
B. 小說創(chuàng)作
a. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams, the book quickly turns into a great novel of the open road, a "comic epic in prose".
b. The History of Jonathan Wild the Great, points out the Great Man is no better than a great gangster.
c. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling and The History of Amelia. The former is a masterpiece on the subject of human nature and the latter the story of the unfortunate life of an idealized woman.
John Bunyan
A. 作品風(fēng)格
a. Bunyan's style was modeled after that of the English Bible.
b. He used concrete and living language and vivid details.
c. He made it possible for the reader of the least education to share the pleasure of reading his novel.
B. 代表作
a. The Pilgrim's Progress is the most successful religious allegory in the English language
b. Its predominant metaphor- life as a journey- is simple and familiar.
蒲柏
Alexander Pope
A. 現(xiàn)實批評觀
a. He upheld the existing social system as an ideal one, but he was not entirely blind to the rapid moral, political and cultural deterioration.
b. He published The Rape of the Lock and use the mock epic form to retell the cutting of the lock, to ridicule the trivial incident and to satirize the foolish, meaningless life of the lords and ladies in the aristocratic bourgeois society of the eighteenth century England.
B. 文學(xué)觀He strongly advocated neoclassicism.
C. 代表作品
An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad,An Essay on Man.
The translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
The edition of Shakespeare's plays.
笛福
Daniel Defoe
A. 主要作品
a. The first novel: Robinson Crusoe.
b. four other novels: Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack and Roxana.
c. The pseudo-factual account of Great Plague: A Journal the Plague Year.
B. 代表作
a. Robinson Crusoe, an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time, is universally considered his masterpiece.
b. Robinson is here a real her a typical eighteenth-century English middle-class man.
c. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. In describing Robinson's life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor and the Puritan fortitude.
斯威夫特
Jonathan Swift
A. 創(chuàng)作:
a. The works to establish his name:
A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books established his name as a satirist.
b. The Drapier's letters
He published, under the pseudonym of Drapier, a series of letters. Even today Swift is still respected as a national hero in Ireland.
c. The greatest satiric work:
He wrote and published his greatest satiric work, Gulliver's Travels.
B. 代表作
a. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan's best fictional work. The book contains four parts: His experience in Lilliput, Alone in Brobdingnag, Visit to the Flying Island and Account of his discoveries in the Houyhnhnm land. In structure, the four parts make an organic whole.
b. Gulliver gives an account of some aspects of Lilliputian life and obviously alludes to the similar ridiculous practices or tricks of the English government.
費(fèi)爾丁
Henry Fielding
A. 戲劇創(chuàng)作
The best known are The coffee-House Politician, The Tragedy of Tragedies, Pasquin, and The Historical Register for the Year1736.
B. 小說創(chuàng)作
a. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams, the book quickly turns into a great novel of the open road, a "comic epic in prose".
b. The History of Jonathan Wild the Great, points out the Great Man is no better than a great gangster.
c. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling and The History of Amelia. The former is a masterpiece on the subject of human nature and the latter the story of the unfortunate life of an idealized woman.