Group 3 亚历山大.ppt

Group members 叶海琴 王凯巍 郑春燕 余莹 Content Brief introduction An essay on Criticism An essay on Man Conclusion Backgrounds Society :some concepts life Alexander Pope major works quotations some concepts Enlightenment Movement Neoclassicism Neoclassical literature Enlightenment Movement a progressive intellectual movement through the Western Europe which lasted about one hundred years from 1680s to 1789 a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its purpose : enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. celebrate reasons or rationality, equality and science. Neoclassicism A revival in the 17th and 18th centuries of classical standards of order, balance and harmony in literature. Dryden and Pope were major exponents of the school. A. Meaning of neoclassicism a change of taste in the late 17th and 18th c.; a reaction against intricacy and obscurity, boldness and extravagance; in favor of simplicity, clarity, restraint, regularity and good sense Neoclassical Literature B. Chief characteristics of neoclassical literature Manifest a strong traditionalism, show immense respect for classic writers, esp. the Roman ones. Believe that literature was primarily an art which must be perfected by long study and practice. Neoclassical Literature Regard poetry was imitation of human life “a mirror up to the nature” The poet is the “maker”— the maker of representative images of human actions and of the world, and the purpose is to teach Neoclassical Literature 5. They deduced rules from the practice of early masters and invented new rules of their own: a. in drama—3 unities of time, place and action; regularity in construction b. in diction—witty artificial and stock expression c. in poetry—follow the ancient divisions d. in verse—closed heroic couplets. (two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme in i