英国文学名词解释

Aliteration:In alliterative verse,certain accented words in a line begin with the same consonant sound. the romance:it was a long composition,sometimes in prose,describing the life and adventures of a noble hero.The central of romances was the knight.the romance cycles:1 matters of Britain 2 the matters of France 3 matters of Rome . The Renaissance:it refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries,it first started in Italy with the flowering of painting,sculpture and literature .From Italy the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe country.The Renaissance ,in essence,is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie ,and to recover the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. Gothic novel:principal elements are violence horror and the supernatural,which strongly appeal to the reader’s emotion.With its descriptions of the darks.irrational side of human nature,the Gothic form has exerted a great influence over the writers of the romantic period. Byronic hero:a proud,mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.With immense superiority in his passions and power. Sonnet:A lyric of fourteen lines usually in iambic pentameter.Shakespearean sonnet:Also called English sonnet or Elizabethan Sonnet.This sonnot is a poem in 14 lines with one or the other rhyme scheme,a form much in vogue in Renaissance Europe,especially in Italy,France and England. Metaphysical:indicates a common poetic style,use of figurative language ,and way of organizing the meditative process or the poetic argument. Romanticism:it is the modern term applied to the profound shift in western attitude to art and human creativity that dominated much of 19th century.Its chief emphasis was on freedom or individual self-expression,sincerity, spontaneity. Lake poets:Wordsworth,Coleridge and Southey have often been mentioned as the lake poets,because they lived in the lake district in the northwest part of England.the three traversed the same path in politic and in politics and in poetry,beginning as radicals and closing as conservatives. Epic:is a long verse narravtive on a serious subject,told in a formal and elevated style and centered on a herioic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe ,a nation or the huaman race. Paradise lost is a literary epic. The Psychological fiction:Modernist fiction put emphasis on the description of the characters’ psychological activities,and so has sometimes been called modern psychological fiction. Stream of consiciousness :the “stream of consiciousness” is a psychological term indicating “the flux of conscious and subconsicious thoughts and impressions moving in the mind at any given time independently of the person’s will. English Critical Realism:flourshed in the forties and in the early fifties of the 19th century. the critical realists described with much vividness and great artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system form a democratic viewpoint.