英美国家概况 Unit 6 BRITISH_LITERATURE.ppt

VIRGINIA WOOLF Virginia Woolf is regarded as a modernist writer and one of the most famous writers of the century. Her works are concerned with the individual consciousness, especially female consciousness. Her novels have become important to feminists for the way they show women’s personalities to be limited by society. In her writing, she uses the technique called the stream of consciousness. One of her best novels is Mrs. Dalloway.-意识流 QUOTES OF VIRGINIA WOOLF  As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. Language is wine upon the lips. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. 电影片段欣赏 时时刻刻-弗吉尼亚伍尔夫，看个开头/show/cggenARq2hh7ibWE.html Becoming Jane Austin /v_page/2222490.html Pride and prejudice /kan/movie/?id=25263url=/subject/play/87172/1 BRITISH LITERATURE FOCAL POINTS Early British literature concerned with Christianity Different versions of the Bible. The Old Testament The New Testament Beowulf(裴欧沃夫) 公元7-8世纪始流于民间的盎格鲁-撒克逊同名史诗中的主人公。曾与水怪，火龙等搏斗。 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer SOME BOOKS Canterbury Tales The stories of King Arthur and his knights KING ARTHUR He was the King of England in the 5th Century and was the central figure of many legends. History of the Kings of Britain published in 1138 well established King Arthur in literary form. The book invented material to fill the broad gaps in the historical record. The development of drama in the Renaissance William Shakespeare：Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He was an English dramatist and poet in the Elizabethan age. He is generally regarded as the greatest playwright in English literature. His plays fall into three categories: tragedies such as Hamlet, comedies such as Merchant of Venice and historical plays like Charles II. 17TH CENTURY Different translations of the bible. The essays of Francis Bacon John Milton – Paradise Lost. THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT The Romantic Movement started at the e