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Jonathan Bate 出版社: Oxford University Press, USA 副标题: A Very Short Introduction 出版年: 2010-10-28 页数: 144 定价: USD 11.95 装帧: Paperback 丛书:Very Short Introductions ISBN: 9780199569267
Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to prov...
Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader. The narrative embraces not only the major literary movements such as Romanticism and Modernism, together with the most influential authors including Chaucer, Donne, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens and Woolf, but also little-known stories such as the identity of the first English woman poet to be honoured with a collected edition of her works. Written with the flair and passion for which Jonathan Bate has become renowned, this book is the perfect Very Short Introduction for all readers and students of the incomparable literary heritage of these islands.
1: Once upon a time
2: What it is
3: When it began
4: The study of English
5: Periods and movements
6: Among the English Poets
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1: Once upon a time
2: What it is
3: When it began
4: The study of English
5: Periods and movements
6: Among the English Poets
7: Shakespeare and dramatic literature
8: Aspects of the English novel
9: The Englishness of English literature
Further Reading
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【 序言 】
在有“英国”之前，“英国历史上”有凯尔特人和他们的定居点（铁器时代），有罗马人的入侵（公元前55年），有盎格鲁一撒克逊人和他们的王国（大约公元450年），有诺曼人的征服（1060）等等。
作为名词也作为一个民族国家，“英国”最早对应的是英格兰联邦和自由邦”（ The Commonwealth and Free State ofEngland，1649），这是一个松散的联邦，包括英格兰、威尔士和爱尔兰，后来改称“大不列颠联邦”（ The Commonwealth of GreatBritain，1654）。1707年，苏格兰成为英国的一部分，于是有了
大不列颠联合王国”（ United Kingdom of Great Britain）；1801年，爱尔兰正式并入，于是有了“大不列颠和爱尔兰联合王国”1922年，因为有了独立的爱尔兰共和国，所以就剩下了“大不列颠和北爱尔兰联合王国”，并一直延续至今。今天的“英国”所对应的名词只有一个，但历史上的“英国”所对应的名词却要复杂得多。
在最伟大的作品里，自己和他者是可以转化的。
这也是（西方）文学的主要特点：文学具有公共性（人物秘密外泄给读者，甚至连人物本身也蒙在鼓里）、宗教性（有关人生的意义，但在终极意义的层面，又超出一般人类道德之外）、叙事性（以故事来组织人生、组织社会关系、组织终极世界）等。在西方，文学阐释学也来自圣经阐释学；文学与《圣经》一样，需要个庞大的阐释系统来不断地建构一一本书便是一次极好的阐释实践。 (查看原文)
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0 有用 扔掉的一年 2020-11-25 15:09:11
比较喜欢第一章
4 有用 王敖 2012-01-19 13:14:51
Jonathan Bate 的一本小杰作
0 有用 LTYoung 2017-01-06 04:45:04
说来惭愧借了一堆VSI，这个假期也只囫囵读完这一本
0 有用 搬卜澪 2018-11-27 23:28:52
清晰快速的梳理，读来很有趣，最后一章里介绍的几首诗好喜欢，耳目一新。further reading很棒。
0 有用 小仙班候选人 2021-03-24 09:39:16
Children's literature frequently imagines animals behaving like humans, whereas adult literature frequently shows humans behaving like animals. The literature of anthropomorphized animals is called fa... Children's literature frequently imagines animals behaving like humans, whereas adult literature frequently shows humans behaving like animals. The literature of anthropomorphized animals is called fable. (展开)