自考00604《英美文学选读》复习要点—中英文对照（8）

知识点4 亨利.菲尔丁(“散文荷马”, “英国小说之父”)

知识点概览：

1.菲尔丁的写作风格，主要作品及地位

2.菲尔丁的“散文体史诗”

3.杰作《汤姆.琼斯》的地位，社会意义及语言风格

知识点：

1.The Coffee-House Politician, Rasquin ,The Tragedy of Tragedies are written by Henry Fielding.亨利.菲尔丁的主要作品有《咖啡屋的政治家》，《巴斯昆》，《悲剧中的悲剧》，《1736历史年鉴》。

2.Henry Fielding’ s The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling brings him the name of “Prose Homer”. The panoramic view it provides is of the 18th-century English country.《弃儿汤姆.琼斯》为费尔丁赢得了“散文荷马”的盛名。小说为读者提供了一幅英国18 世纪乡村与城市的宏伟的全景图。

3. Henry Fielding’s novel The History of Amelia is a masterpiece on the subject of the story of the unfortunate life of an idealized woman, a maudlin picture of the social life at the time.《阿米亚的故事》是以一个理想化的女人的不幸生活为题材的故事，反映了当时社会生活的伤感图景。

4. Henry Fielding adopted the third-person narration to relate a story in a novel, in which the author becomes the “all- knowing God”.亨利·菲尔丁采用“第三人称叙述”，来讲述小说中的故事，其中作者成为“全知的上帝”。

5.Of all the eighteenth - century novelists, Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.在十八世纪所有小说家中，亨利.菲尔丁第一个在理论与实践上创造了“散文体喜剧史诗”，并第一个为现代小说确立了结构和风格。

6.For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, Henry Fielding has been regarded as “Father of the English Novel”.菲尔丁被一些人尊为“英国小说之父”，因为他为现代小说模式的创立作出很大贡献。

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