格列佛游记的讽刺艺术.doc

【标题】 格列佛游记的讽刺艺术
【作者】任睿
【关键词】英国文学   斯威夫特  象征主义  讽刺技巧
【指导老师】白敏
【专业】英语教育
【正文】
1. Introduction
Background
  The eighteenth century in English literature was an age of prose, not because the poetry of that time was bad, but because the prose was better especially with the rise and development of the Enlightenment in Great Britain .On the base of the Enlightenment, writers continued to develop the literature to a new literary movement, which is the Sentimentalism. “As the result of a bitter discontent with social reality among the enlighteners, the representatives of sentimentalism continue to struggle against feudalism but they sensed at the same time the contradictions in the process of capitalist development.”9 Some talented sentimentalism writers soon went into the sight of person. Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift,Henry Fielding,Richard Bransley Sheridan are the representatives of sentimentalism .Among them Jonathan Swift is the greatest one.
Jonathan Swift
  Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Ireland in father died before he was born. His mother was poor, and he pelled to accept aid from relatives. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1704, his two works were published,A Tale of Tub and The Battle of Books, which criticized the corruption in religion and field of learning. They made Swift a well-known satirist. Then his articles against the war di