cathy什么意思英国文学简史术语解释总结(英文)

2021年1月19日发(作者：gia)
1.

Beowulf
:
national
epic
of
the
English
people;
Denmark
story;
alliteration,
metaphors and understatements.
2. Romance
（
名词解释）
a story of adventure-- fictitious, frequently marvelous or
supernatural--in verse or prose.


3
，
Ballad
民谣
（名词解释）

Popular Ballads
大众民谣

：
a story hold in 4-line stanzas with second and fourth line rhymed(
笔
记
)

Ballads are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission(
书上
).
4
，

4
，
Heroic couplet
(
名词解释
)
heroic
couplet
英雄双韵体：
a
verse
unit
consisting
of
two
rhymed(
押韵
)
lines
in
iambic
pentameter(
五步抑扬格
)
5
. Renaissance
（名词解释）

Renaissance
: the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature,
and learning in
Europe
beginning in
the 14th
century and
extending to
the 17th
century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
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humanism
人文主义：

admire human beauty and human achievement
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The
Enlightenment
was
an
expression
of
struggle
of
the
then
progressive
class
of
bourgeoisie against feudalism

6
，
. Sonnet
（名词解释）

The sonnet is a poem in 14 lines with one or the other rhyme schme,a form much in
vogue in Renaissance Europe, expecially in Italy ,France and England.
7
，
Blank verse
（名词解释）
:
written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
8
，
Spenserian Stanza
（名词解释）

Stanza form developed by Edmund Spenser and almost certainly influenced by rhyme
royal and ottava rima
.
Spenser's stanza has nine lines and is rhymed a-b-a-b-b-c-b- c-c.
The first eight lines of the stanza are in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic
hexameter.
He
used
this
form
in
his
epic

poem
The
Faerie
Queene.
John

Keats,
a
great admirer of Spenser, used this stanza in his poem
The Eve of St. Agnes.
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Enlightenment (1650-1800)
（名词解释）
A revival of interest in the old classical
works, order, logic, restrained emotion(
抑制情感
) and accuracy
Individualism
--emphasized the importance of the individual and his inborn rights
Rationalism
-- the conviction that with the power of reason, humans could arrive at
truth and improve the world.
Relativism
-- was the concept that different cultures, beliefs, ideas, and value systems
had equal merit.

Gothic novel
(
哥特式小说
)
：
mystery, horror, castles(from middle part to the end of
century)
10
，
Classicism
（名词解释）

In the arts
, historical tradition or aesthetic attitudes based on the art of Greece and
Rome in antiquity.
In the context of the tradition, Classicism refers either to the
art
produced
in
antiquity
or
to
later
art
inspired
by
that
of
antiquity;
Neoclassicism always refers to the art produced later but inspired by antiquity.
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Sentimentalism
（名词解释）
Sentimentalism
感伤主义
no belief
没有信仰