Noun1.British Empire- a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Aus...
B. World Literature相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 【小题1】E【小题2】C【小题3】D【小题4】F【小题5】A 试题分析:小题1:E Lucy想成为著名的记者,想学习与记者有关的课程,E项中的Journalism;It's a course for seniors, in which we will cover how 10 gather, write and report the news。说明E...
Assignments and Questions: 1. How does Old English come into being? 2. Comment on Beowulf. 3. What are the features of Anglo-Saxon literature? Part II The Middle / Medieval English Period (1066-1400) (Anglo-Norman Period) ★★1. The Norman Conquest: In 1066, Duke William the Conqueror...
Chaucer is regarded as the first short story teller and the first modern poet in English literature. He innovate the heroic couplet and he is regarded as “Father of English Poetry” 首创英雄诗行,即五步抑扬格双韵体(the heroic couplet),被誉为“英国诗歌之父”。乔叟翻译过法国诗歌,其早期的文学...
English literature has sometimes been stigmatized as insular. It can be argued that no single English novel attains the universality of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace or the French writer Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. Yet in the Middle Ages the Old English literature of th...
Romantic Globalism: British Literature and Modern World Order, 1750–1830 by Evan Gottlieb, and: Global Romanticism: Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760–1820 ed by Evan Gottlieb (review) In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The subject of a major ...
Worldwide Photograph: Time Out The 100 best British movies We spoke to over 150 movie experts and writers to put together this definitive list of British films Tuesday 15 October 2024 Share Written by Phil de Semlyen Global film editor British cinema is as diverse and ever-shifting as the cou...
When World War II broke out in 1939, the dominions made their own declarations of war. The rest of the British Empire consisted for the most part of colonies and other dependencies whose predominant indigenous populations had no such experience. For them a variety of administrative techniques was...
The creative work of giving textual, visual, or plastic form to First World War experiences would go on into the 1930s and after. Even as Britain neared the fearful prospect of a second major international conflict, the Great War continued to haunt those who had lived through it. ...
British literature since world war II : a selected bibliography of secundary sources with special reference to drama/theatre and narrative prose (period covered : mid-1940 to 2000). Part I: Integrated alphabetical index. Part II: Specific bibliographies (as to author and subject) 年份: 2005 收...