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英国文学史及选读 第一册 课后作业
1.What are the main characteristics of Anglo-Saxon literature?
2.Read Beowulf and comment on its position in the history of English literature. 3.It is said Chinese people have no epic, what do you think of it ?
4.Literature can be read for pleasure or examination. What about your view? Terms: Old English, Middle English, Epic…
1. Discussion: characteristics of medieval romance.
2. Brief Comment on the theme of test in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 3. Brief Comment on Chaucer’s historical position in British Literature.
4. Choose one ballad from the textbook and make a brief comment on the style of it. Terms: Romance, Ballads, Heroic couplet…
1.Brief comment on the Renaissance in England.
2.What’s the theme of Hamlet? Read Hamlet Act III and Act V, and analyze the tragic flaws of Hamlet.
3.Brief comment on the historical development and change of sonnets. 4.Analyze Sonnet 29, 106.
Terms: Renaissance, the Church of England, blank verse, tragedy, sonnet…
1.What are the different aspects between the literature of Elizabethan period and the literature of the Revolution period?
2.Briefly comment on the influence of KJV Bible on English literature. 3.Discuss the theme of Paradise Lost.
4.To some extent, we can say, Samson is Milton, Why? 5.Analyze Christian Allegory in The Pilgrim's Progress. Terms: Puritan, the KJV Bible, allegory…
1.What is the Enlightenment? 2.What is Gothic Novel?
3.Identify the themes of Robinson Crusoe.
4.Brief comment on the theme of Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard. 5.Brief comment on the theme of London. 6.What are the features of Burns’ poetry?
Terms: Enlightenment, Gothic Novel, elegy, sentimentalism…
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