英國文學(xué)主要名詞解釋

2024年3月25日發(fā)(作者：皇家馬戲團)

1. Enlightenment:

a. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout

western Europe in the 18

th

century.進步的智力運動

b. The Enlightenment on the whole, was an expression of struggle of the then

progressive class of bourgeois against feudalism. The social inequality, stagnation,

prejudices and other survivals of feudalism. They attempted to place all branches

of science at the rvice of mankind by connecting them with the actual deeds and

requirements of the people.

總體上，啟蒙主義是當(dāng)時的資產(chǎn)階級對封建主義，社會的不平等、死寂、偏見和其他

的封建殘余的一種反對。通過將科學(xué)的各個分支與人民的日常生活和需要聯(lián)系起來，啟蒙

主義者們努力將他們變成為人民大眾服務(wù)的工具

c. English enlighteners differed in some way from tho of France “cleared

the minds of men for the coming revolution,” the English enlighteners t no

revolutionary aims before them. They strove to bring it to an end by clearing away

the feudal ideas with the bourgeois ideology.

英國和法國的資產(chǎn)階級啟蒙主義者觀念上存在一定差異。法國的啟蒙哲學(xué)家和作家聲

稱，“清除人么頭腦中的陳腐觀念是為將來的革命做準(zhǔn)備”而英國的啟蒙認(rèn)識則沒有革命的

目標(biāo)。他們努力使其終結(jié)通過消除封建思想與資產(chǎn)階級意識形態(tài)。

d. The reprentatives are Joph Addison, Richard Steele (essayists), Daniel

Defoe, Jonathan Swift (novelists), and Alexander Pope

2. Renaissance

a. The Renaissance refers to the period between 14

th

-17

th

century, it first

started in Italy.

b. The Renaissance means rebirth and revival, the discovery of ancient Roman

and Greek culture.

c. Humanism is the esnce of Renaissance, Man is the measure of all things.

The humanism praid human nature and emphasized the dignity of human

beings and the prent life.

d. They thought man had the right to enjoy the beauty of life and had the

ability to perfect himlf and made wonders, which got ready for the appearance

of the great Elizabethan writers in Britain. Poetry and drama were the most

outstanding literary forms.

e. Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, etc. were the remarkable reprentatives.

3. Romanticism

a. A movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in

Western culture during most of the19th century, beginning as a revolt against起義

classicism.