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1、英國(guó)文學(xué)——吳檣版AnoutlineofthehistoryofBritishLiterature1.TheAnglo-Saxonperiod(5thcentury-1066)2.TheAnglo-Normanperiod(1066-15thcentury)3.TheRenaissance(16thcentury-early17thcentury)4.TheperiodoftheEnglishbourgeoisrevolutionandRestoration(1625-1688)5.TheageofEnlightenmentorNeo-classicalperiod(18thcentury)
2、6.TheRomanticperiod(1798-1832)7.TheVictorianperiod(1837-1901)8.TheModernperiod(1901-1945)9.ThePostmodernperiod(1945topresent)TheearlyhistoryofBritishAhistoryofinvasionCelts:thenativepeopleRomans:invadedandoccupiedBritainin43A.D.Anglo-Saxon:inthemid-5thcenturymigratedtoEnglandfromwesternDenmarkandno
3、rtherncoastofGermany,theysettleddownthereandsoonruledoverthewholeofEnglandNormans:fromNormandyinnorthernFrancecametoinvadeEnglandin1066.ChristianizationofEnglandAheathenpeopleInA.D.597thefirstmissionariesledbySt.AugustinecametoEnglandfromRomeandconvertedKingEthelbertofKent.WithinacenturythewholeofE
4、nglandwasChristianized.TheheathenmythologywasgraduallyreplacedbytheChristianreligion.TheheathenconceptifnatureandthesupernaturalpersistedforaconsiderableoftimeandoftenwerecuriouslymixedwithChristianviewsandexpressions.ThismixtureofpagantraditionandChristiantraditionfindsitsexpressionintherepresenta
5、tiveworkofthisperiodBeowulf,theonlyimportantsinglepoemofandoraltraditionthathasbeen[reservedtothisdaymoreorlessitsentirely.Anglo-SaxonPeriod(OldEnglishPeriod)“OldEnglish”literarywork:1)Beowulf—thenationalepicoftheEnglishpeople;2)Anonymous3)Oralform:6thcentury,writtenform:7thor8thcentury;4)Theextant
6、manuscript:10thcentury,writtenintheWessextongue;preservedintheBritishLibrary5)Consistingof3183linesofalliterativeverse;1)Itsstorybasedonpart-historical,part-legendarymaterialhomesontheEuropeanbytheAngle-SaxonsfromtheiroriginalhomesontheEuropeanContinent.SoBeowulftheheroofthepoemandhisadventuresarep
7、lacedonDenmarkandsouthernSwedenratherthaninEngland.2)PlotandCharacters,KingHrothgar,KingHygelac,Beowulf.Grendel,Grendel’smother.EpicAlongnarrativepoemcelebratingthegreatdeedsofoneormorelegendaryheroes,inagr