欧洲文化入门

图书信息

作者	王佐良
出版社	外语教学与研究出版社
ISBN	9787560005713
出版时间	2005-08-01
字数	127.0万
分类	人文社科,文化,地域文化

读书简介

《欧洲文化门》是为中国英语专业学生编写的一部经典教材，旨在系统介绍欧洲文化背景，以克服语言学习中的文化障碍。 在学习英语的过程中，学生常因不熟悉源自希腊罗马神话、文艺复兴及重要历史事件的典故、人名与名言，而影响阅读与交流的深度与流畅度。本书正是为解决这一核心问题而生。它突破了过去零散讲座的模式，创了一门有组织、有系统的课程，引导学生通过文化来更有效地学习语言。

目录

Introduction

1. Uses of the Subject

2. Two Major Elements in European Culture

DIVISION ONE GREEK CULTURE AND ROMAN CULTURE

Ⅰ. Greek Culture

1. The Historical Context

2. Social and Political Structure

3. Homer

4. Lyric Poetry

5. Drama

6. History

7. Philosophy and Science

8. Art, Architecture, Sculpture and Pottery

9. Impact

Questions for Revision

Ⅱ. Roman Culture

1. Romans and Greeks

2. Roman History

3. Latin Literature

4. Architecture, Painting and Sculpture

Questions for Revision

DIVISION TWO THE BIBLE AND CHRISTIANITY

Ⅰ. General Introduction

Ⅱ. The Old Testament

1. The Pentateuch

2. The Historical Books

3. The Poetical Books

4. The Prophets

Ⅲ. Rise of Christianity

1. The Life of Jesus

2. The Spread of Christianity

Ⅳ. The New Testament

1. The Birth of Jesus

2. Jesus Is Tempted by the Devil

3. The Sermon on the Mount

4. The Last Supper

5. The Crucifixion

Ⅴ. Translations of the Bible

Questions for Revision

DIVISION THREE THE MIDDLE AGES

Ⅰ. General Introduction

Ⅱ. Manor and Church

1. Feudalism

2. The Church

3. The Crusades

Ⅲ. Learning and Science

1. Charlemagne and Carolingian Renaissance

2. Alfred the Great and Wessex Centre of Learning

3. St. Thomas Aquinas and Scholasticism

4. Roger Bacon and Experimental Science

Ⅳ. Literature

1. National Epics

2. Dante Alighieri and The Divine Comedy

3. Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

Ⅴ. Art and Architecture

1. Romanesque

2. Gothic

Questions for Revision

DIVISION FOUR RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION

Ⅰ. General Introduction

Ⅱ. Renaissance in Italy

1. Historical Background

2. The Rise of Humanism

3. New literature

4. Renaissance Art

5. Decline of the Italian Renaissance

Ⅲ. Reformation and Counter-Reformation

1. Pre-Luther Religious Reformers

2. Martin Luther (1483—1546) and His Doctrines

3. John Calvin (1509—1564) and Calvinism

4. Reformation in England

5. Counter-Reformation

6. Protestantism and the Rise of Capitalism

7. Conclusion

Ⅳ. Renaissance in Other Countries

1. Renaissance in France

2. Renaissance in Spain

3. Renaissance in the North

4. Renaissance in England

Ⅴ. Science and Technology during the Renaissance

1. Geographical Discoveries

2. Astronomy Nicolaus Copernicus (1473—1543)

3. Anatomy

4. Printing Aldus Manutius (1450—1515)

5. Political Science and Historiography

Ⅵ. Summing-up

Questions for Revision

DIVISION FIVE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Ⅰ. General Introduction

Ⅱ. Science

1. From Copernicus to Kepler

2. Galileo Galilei (1564—1642)

3. Sir Isaac Newton (1642—1727)

4. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646—1716)

5. Invention of New Instruments

6. Two Merits Shared by the Great Scientists of the 17th Century

Ⅲ. Philosophy, Politics and Literature in England

1. Francis Bacon (1561—1626)

2. Thomas Hobbes (1588—1679)

3. John Locke (1632—1704)

4. John Milton and the English Revolution

Ⅳ. Descartes; French Classicism

1. René Descartes (1596—1650)

2. French Classicism

Ⅴ. Art

1. Baroque Art

2. Dutch Protestant Art

3. Art and Architecture in France

4. Music

Questions for Revision

DIVISION SIX THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Ⅰ. General Introduction

1. Enlightenment

2. Historical Context

Ⅱ. French Philosophy and Literature

1. Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu (1689—1755)

2. Voltaire (pseudonym of Jean François Arouet, 1694—1778)

3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778)

4. Denis Diderot (1713—1784)

Ⅲ. English Literature

1. Alexander Pope (1688—1744)

2. Daniel Defoe (1660—1731)

3. JonathanSwift (1667—1745)

4. Samuel Richardson (1689—1761)

6. Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)

7. Journalism and the Periodical Essay

Ⅳ. German Literature and Philosophy

1. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729—1781)

2. Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)

3. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759—1805)

4. Immanuel Kant (1724—1804)

Ⅴ. Art

1. Rococo Art

2. Typical Works and Major Artists

Ⅵ. Music

1. The Musical Enlightenment

2. The Classical Period

Questions for Revision

DIVISION SEVEN ROMANTICISM

Ⅰ. General Introduction

1. What is Romanticism?

2. Two Revolutions

Ⅱ. Romanticism in Germany

1. Goethe (1749—1832) and Schiller (1759—1805)

2. Schlegel Brothers (the Jena School)

3. Heinrich Heine (1797—1856)

Ⅲ. Romanticism in England

1. William Blake (1757—1827)

2. The Lakers — Wordsworth and Coleridge

3. George Gordon Byron (1788—1824)

4. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)

5. John Keats (1795—1821)

6. Walter Scott (1771—1832)

Ⅳ. Romanticism in France

1. Chateaubriand (1768—1848)

2. Victor Hugo (1802—1885)

3. George Sand (1804—1876)

Ⅴ. Romanticism in Italy

1. Alessandro Manzoni (1785—1873)

2. Giacomo Leopardi (1798—1837)

Ⅵ. Romanticism in Russia

1. Aleksander Pushkin (1799—1837)

2. Mikhail Y. Lermontov (1814—1841)

Ⅶ. Romanticism in Poland

Ⅷ. Concluding Remarks — A True Movement

Ⅸ. Art and Architecture

1. Paintings

2. Architecture

Ⅹ. Music

1. The Early Romantics

2. The Later Romantics — Middle of the 19th Century

DIVISION EIGHT MARXISM AND DARWINISM

Ⅰ. The Rise of Marxism

1. General Introduction

2. Historical Background

3. The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

4. Marx and Literature

5. Summing-up

Ⅱ. Darwinism

1. General Introduction

2. Ideas of Evolution Before Darwin

3. Life of Charles Darwin (1809—1882)

4. Darwin's Works and Theories

5. Effects of Darwinism

DIVISION NINE REALISM

Ⅰ. General Introduction

1. What Is Realism?

2. The Historical Background

Ⅱ. Realism in France

1. Stendhal (pen name of Marie Henri Beyle, 1783—1842)

2. Honoré de Balzac (1799—1850)

3. Gustave Flaubert (1821—1880)

4. mile Zola (1840—1902)

5. Guy de Maupassant (1850—1893)

Ⅲ. Realism in Russia

1. Nikolai Gogol (1809—1852)

2. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818—1883)

3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821—1881)

4. Count Leo Tolstoy (1828—1910)

5. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860—1904)

Ⅳ. Realism in Northern Europe

1. Henrik Ibsen (1828—1906)

2. August Strindberg (1849—1912)

Ⅴ. Realism in England

Ⅵ. Realism in the United States

Ⅶ. Art

1. Realism in Art

3. Post-Impressionism

4. Sculpture

5. Architecture

Ⅷ. Music at the Turn of the Century

1. Antonín Dvok (1841—1904)

2. Claude Debussy (1862—1918)

Questions for Revision

DIVISION TEN MODERNISM AND OTHER TRENDS

Ⅰ. General Introduction

1. Modernism Defined

2. Historical Context

3. Progress in Science

4. New Ideas and Thoughts

Ⅱ. Contemporary Western Literature Before 1945

2. Irish Literature

3. American Literature

4. German Literature

5. French Literature

6. Russian and Soviet Literature

Ⅲ. Literature and Philosophy Since 1945

1. Angry Young Men in England

2. Beat Generation in America

3. Nouveau Roman (New Novel)

4. Existentialism

5. The Theatre of the Absurd

6. Black Humour

Ⅳ. Art and Music

1. Art

2. Sculpture

3. Music

Questions for Revision

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