29). Charles Dickens?s best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, helpless ______ characters such as Oliver Twist, Little Nell, David Copperfield and Little Dorrit.
30). The novel “Jane Eyre” mainly tells a story about the love affair of Jane Eyre and Mr. ______. 31). The story of “Wuthering Heights” is told mainly by Nelly, ______?s old nurse, to Mr. Lockood, a temporary tenant of Grange. The latter gives an account of what he sees at Wuthering Heights. 32). The short lyric “Break, Break, Break” is written in memory of ______?s old friend, Alfred Hallam, whose death has a lifelong influence on the poet.
33). Reading ______?s “Crossing the Bar”, we can feel his fearlessness towards death, his faith in God and an afterlife.
34). In Alfred Tennyson?s poem “Ulysses”, he depicts ______ who, old as he is, persuades his old followers to go with him and to set sail again to pursue a new world and new knowledge.
35). The publication of “______”, Robert Browning ?s masterpiece, in 1869, finally established the poet?s position as one of the greatest English poets.
36). In the description of sun-rise in “Parting at Morning”, Robert Browning unconsciously expresses his helplessness in having to face up his duty as a ______.
37). Thomas Hardy?s novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates. 38). The title of the novel “Vanity Fair” was taken from John Bunyan?s masterpiece ______. 39). George Eliot was the pseudonym of ______.
40). In “My Last Duchess”, the ______, as he talks about the portrait of his last Duchess, reveals bit by bit his cruelty and possessiveness.
2. Answer the following questions.
1). What are the characteristics of Charles Dickens?s early and later novels? 2). What are the best-depicted characters of Charles Dickens? 3). Tell the story of “Jane Eyre” and make a comment on it. 4). Tell the story of “Wuthering Heights”.
5). What are the characteristics of Robert Browning?s poetry? 6). Why is Thomas Hardy often regarded as a transitional writer? 7). Tell the story of “Tess of the D?Urbervilles” and make a comment on it.
8). Make a comment on George Eliot?s creative tendency and her view of women.
Chapter 5 The Modern Period 一．重点
1. 现代主义文学创作的基本主张 2．名词解释：现代主义 3．现代主义文学的主要特点 4．意识流小说的主要特点
5．萧伯纳戏剧的特点与社会意识分析
二． 主要作家及代表作一览表
George Benard Shaw Mrs. Warren?s Profession Widows? House
John Galsworthy Forsyte trilogies The Man of Property In Chancery To Let
William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree T. S .Eliot The Waste Land
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers The Rainbow Women in Love
James Joyce
Araby (from Dubliners)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ulysses
三．Some important points. 1. Modernism:
1) The French Symbolism in the late 19c heralded modernism.
2) Modernists took irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis.
3) Modernism concerns with the psychological rather than the realistic, the abnormal, the spiritual rather than the material, and chaos rather than order.
2. George Bernard Shaw
1) Our Theaters in the Nineties (drama critic)
2) “Widow?s House”, his first play, a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism. 3) “Mrs. Warren?s Profession” is about the economic oppression of women. 4) The major characteristics of Shaw?s drama. ( 书 P323 )
3. John Galsworthy: The Man of Property
The main idea and theme (书P338-339)
4． Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (书P355)
5． T.S.Eliot
Poem: The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock (书P363) The Waste Land (theme and symbolism 参考书P375-376)
6． D. H. Lawrence
1. Sons and Lovers (Pawl, Mrs. Morel P381 P375-376) 2. The Rainbow and Women in Love (his masterpiece)
7. James Joyce
1. P385 same setting: Ireland, same subject: the Irish people and their life 2. Dubliners (P390)
A portrait of the Artist as a Young Many Ulysses
3. stream of consciousness (书P389) 4. his contribution to British literature 1) P 385
2) stream of consciousness 练习：
1.Fill in the following blanks.
1). The early poems of Ezra Pound and ______ and ______?s matured poetry marked the rise of “modern poetry”, which was, in some sense, a revolution against the conventional ideas and forms of the Victorian poetry.
2). In Britain, in the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower middle-class or working-class background, who were known as “the ______.”
3). Writers like Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and Virginia Wolf concentrated all their efforts on digging into human consciousness, and they created unprecedented ______ novels such as
“Pilgrimage”, “Ulysses” and” Mrs. Dalloway”.
4). The most celebrated dramatists in the last decade of the 19th century England were Oscar Wild and ______, who, in a sense, pioneered the modern drama.
5). With their joint efforts, the Irish playwrights like W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J. M. Synge brought about the Irish ______ Movement in the early 20th century, thus starting as Irish dramatic revival.
6). John Osborne brought vitality to the English theater and became known as the ______ “Angry Young Man”.
7). The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is ______, who wrote about human beings living a meaningless life in an alien, decaying world.
8). In “______”, his encyclopedia-like masterpiece, James Joyce presents a fantastic picture of the disjoined, illogical, illusory, and mental-emotional life of Leopold Bloom, who becomes the symbol of everyman in the post-world-war-I Europe.
9). George Bernard Shaw?s plays have one passion, and one only, lie ______.
10). Most of George Bernard Shaw?s plays are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems, and this, can be termed as ______ play.
11). “Mrs. Warren?s Profession”, written by G. B. Shaw in 1893 but published 5 years later, is a play about the economic ______ of women.
12). “The Man of Property” is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogy written by ______.
13). In his short lyric “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, W. B. Yeats presents to us a picture of an ideal “_______” where he could live calmly as a hermit and enjoy the beauty of nature.
14). “______”, T. S. Eliot?s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry, comparable to William Wordsworth?s “Lyrical Ballads”. 15). James Joyce chose Dublin as the scene of the stories in his “Dubliners”, for, as he took it, Dublin was “the centre of ______”.
16). “Sons and Lovers ” is a novel written by ______. 17). D, H. Lawrence?s autobiographical novel is “______”.
18). D. H. Lawrence?s novel “______” is positively taken as a typical example of Oedipus Complex in fiction.
19). The French _______, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.
20). D. H. Lawrence is regarded as revolutionary as James Joyce in novel-writing; but unlike Joyce,
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