英美文学选读复习要点中英文对比Part one: English LiteratureChapter1 The Renaissance period(14 世纪至十七世纪中叶)文艺复兴1
Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance
人文主义是文艺复兴的核心
the Greek and Roman civilization was based on such a conception that man is the measure of all things
人文主义作为文艺复兴的起源是因为古希腊罗马文明的基础是以“人”为中心,人是万物之灵
Renaissance humanists found in then classics a justification to exalt human nature and came to see that human beings were glorious creatures capable of individual development in the direction of perfection, and that the world they inhabited was theirs not to despise but to question, explore, and enjoy
人文主义者们却从古代文化遗产中找到充足的论据,来赞美人性,并开始注意到人类是崇高的生命,人可以不断进展完善自己,而且世界是属于他们的,供他们怀疑,探究以及享受
Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanists