名词解释
1. American Romanticism
The Romantic Period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War. I t is a period of the great flowering of American literature.
浪漫主义两大主题：爱和大自然的力量
The social and cultural background of Romanticism：
The young Republic was flourishing into a politically, economically and culturally independent co untry.
The Romantic writings revealed unique characteristics of their own in their works and they grew o n the native lands.
The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of A merican literature.
The American Puritanism as a caultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral val ues.
Romantics frequently shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith invalue of ind ividualism and intuitive perception, and a presumption that the natural world was a source of good ness and man’s societies as a source of corruption
1. American Transcendentalism ---Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生—Self-Reliance
As a philosophical and literary movement, American Transcendentalism (also known as “America n Renaissance”) flourshed in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. It is the high tide of American romanticism and its doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in Emerson and Th oreau. Transcendentalists spoke for the cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of Ameri can society.
The major features of Transcendentalism:
① The Transcendentalists placed emphasis on spirit, or the Oversoul, as the most important thing i n the universe. 思想超灵宇宙
② The Transcendentalists stressed the importance of the individual. To them, the individual is the most important element of Society. 个体+社会
③ The Transcendentalists offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the Spirit or God. Na ture was not purely matter. It was alive, filled with God’s overwhelming presence.自然+上帝Transcendentalism(超验主义)---美国文学史p90
2.自由体----Walt Whitman
Free Verse---without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
Free Verse(自由体诗歌)
1>Free verse means the rhymed or unrhymed poetry composed without paying attention to conven tional rules of meter.
2> free verse was originated by a group of French poets of the late 19th century.
3>their purpose was to free themselves from the restrictions of formal metrical patterns and to recr eate instead the free rhythms of natural speech.
4>Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is, perhaps, the most notable example.
3. Local colorism---Mark Twain
Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular c oncern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism” a unique variation of American literary realism.
1) Generally speaking, the writings of local colorists are concerned with the life of a
small, well-defined region or province. The characteristic setting is the isolated small
town.
2) Local colorists were consciously nostalgic historians of a vanishing way of life, recorders of a p resent that faded before their eyes. Yet for all their sentimentality, they dedicated themselves to mi nutely accurate descriptions of the life of their regions, they
worked from personal experience to record the facts of a local environment and suggested that the native life was shaped by the curious conditions of the local.
3) major local colorists is Mark Twain.
2. What is Local Colorism?
Post-Civil War America was large and diverse(various enough to sense its own local difference. Regional voices had emerged from newly settled territories in the South and to the west of the Appalachan. Local colorism is a unique variation of the American literary realism. Generally, the works by local colorists are concerned with the life of a small, well-defined region. This kind of fiction depicts the characters from a specified setting or of an era, which are marked by its customs, dialects, landscape, or other peculiarities that have escaped standardizing cultural influence.
4.Psychological Realism 心理现实主义 --- Henry James
It is the realistic writing that probes deeply into the complexities of characters’ thoughts and motiv ations. And Henry James is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reali ty lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator, and not in any facts of which the spectator is unaware. Such realism is therefore merely the obligation that the artist assumes to represent life as he sees it.
5. What is the Lost Generation?
The Lost Generation refers to the disillusioned(awaken) intellectuals and artists of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values but could replace them only by despair of a cynical bedonism. The remark of Gertrude Stein, “You are a lost generation,” addressed to Hemingway, was used as a preface to the latter’s novel The Sun also Rises, which brilliantly describes those expatriates(yimin) who had cut themselves off from their past in America in order to create new types of writing.
American Dream
In the United States’ Declaration of Independence, our founding fathers:held certain
truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, Liberty and
the Pursuit of Happiness.
6.Iceberg Principle (Theory):冰山法则 --- Ernest Hemingway
The dignity of movement of the iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above
water.
Typical of this "iceberg" analogy is Hemingway's style, which he had been trying hard to get. Acc ording to Hemingway, good literary writing should be able to make readers feel the emotion of the characters directly and the best way to produce the effect is
to set down exactly every particular kind of feeling without any authorial comments,
without conventionally emotive language, and with a bare minimum of adjectives and adverbs. Seemingly simple and natural, Hemingway's style is actually polished and tightly controlled, but h ighly suggestive and connotative. While rendering vividly the outward physical events and sensati ons Hemingway expresses the meaning of the story and conveys the complex emotions of his char acters with a considerable range and astonishing intensity of feeling.
8.What is “stream-of-consciousness”?
Stream of consciousness is a term coined by William James to describe the flow of thoughts of the waking mind. Now it is widely used in a literary context to describe the unspoken thoughts and feelings of the characters, without resorting to objective description or conventional dialogue. It was adapted and developed by Joyce, V. Woolf, and others. The ability to represent the flux of a character’s thought, impressions, emotions, or reminiscences, often without logical sequence or syntax, marked a revolution in the form of novel at that time.
8. What are the thematic concerns and the artistic characteristics of Emily Dickinson’s po etry? Emily Dickinson is America’s best-known female poet. Her poetry covers the issues vital to humanity, which include religion, death, immortality, love, and nature. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines. In her poetry, there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis. A master of imagery that makes the spiritual materialize in surprising ways, Dickinson managed manifold variations within her simple form. Due to her deliberate seclusion, her poems tend to be very personal and meditative. Dickinson’s poetry, despite its ostensible obvious formal simplicity, is remarkable for its variety, subtlety and richness; and her limited private world have never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.
11. What are the stylistic features of Hemingway’s novels?
Hemingway’s novels are mainly concerned with “tough” people, known for the
Hemingway hero of athletic prowess (weili) and masculinity (male) and unyielding (never give up) heroism, whose essential courage and honesty are implicitly (implied) contrasted with the brutality of civilized society. He deals with a limited range of chatacters in quite similar circumstance and measures them against an unvarying code, known as “grace under pressure”, which is actually an attitude towards life that Hemingway had been trying to demonstrate in his works. In the general situation of his novels, life is but a losing battle; however, it is also a struggle man can demonstrate in such a way that loss becomes dignity; man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.
Hemingway once said, “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” Typical of this “iceberg” analogy is Hemingway’s style: Hemingway’s economical writing style often seems simple, but his method is calculated. In his writing, Hemingway provided detached descriptions of action, using simple nouns and verbs to capture scenes precisely. By doing so he avoided describing his character’s emotions and thoughts directly. Hemingway was deeply concerned with authenticity in writing. Besides, Hemingway develops the
style of colloquialism initiatied by Mark Twain. The accents and mannerisms (special habit) of human speech are well presented, and the use of short, simple words and sentences has an effect of clearness, terseness and great care.
12. What is the theme and the major character in F.S. Fitzgerald’s Th e Great Gatsby? Considered as Fitzgerald’s finest work, The Great Gatsby, written in crisp, concise prose and told by Nick Carraway, a satiric yet sympathetic narrator, it is the story of Jay Gatsby, a young American from the Midwest. Gatsby becomes a bootlegger in order to attain the wealth and lavish way of life he feels are necessary to win the love of Daisy, a married, upper-class woman who had once rejected him. The story ends tragically with Gatsby’s destruction. The book deals with the bankruptcy of the protagonists’ personal dreams due to the clashes between their romantic vision of life and the sordid reality. The hero of the novel, Gatsby, is the last of romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment takes him in search of his person grail. Gatsby’s failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American dream. The protagonist’s pursuit of his dream only proves to be nothing but an illusion. Nevertheless, the affirmation of hope and expectation is self-asserted in the characters.
13. Wh at is Robert Frost’s nature poem?
Robert Frost, American poet, known for his verse concerning New England life. He learned the familiar conventions of nature poetry from his predecessors, and made the colloquial New England speech into a poetic expression.
A poem so conceived thus becomes a symbol or metaphor, a careful, loving exploration of reality. Images or symbols in his poems are drawn from the simple country life. However, profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form, for what Frost did is to take symbols from the limited human world and the pastoral landscape to refer to the great world beyond the rustic scene. These thematic concerns include the terror and tragedy in nature, as well as its beauty, and the loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being. In short, the nature poems demonstrate Frost’s love of life and his belief in a serenity that comes from the common experience.
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The Colonial Period and the Revolution Period
American Puritanism
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Edward Taylor
Philip Freneau
Benjamin Franklin
美国文学选读第三版课后习题答案陶洁(部分) Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin Questions 1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography? Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like to repeat it 2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom he had been apprenticed? His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to him through his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left his brother. 3.How did he arrive in Philadephia? First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a
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1、The Colonial Period（1607-1765） American Puritanism ( in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th) 北美第一位女诗人Anne Bradstreet(宗教气息，夫妻恩爱) Edward Taylor 都受英国玄学派影响（metaphysical） 2、The Enlightenment and Revolution Period Benjamin Franklin:Poor Richard's Almanac The Autobiography---“美国梦”的根源 3、American Romanticism（end of 18th to the civil war） American writers emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature. 早期浪漫主义Washington Irving father of American Literature
1.Puritanism: Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans. 1.simply speaking , American Puritanism just refers to the spirit and ideal of puritans,who settled in the North American continent in the early part of the seventeenth century because of religious persecutions. 2.In content it means scrupulous ,moral rigor ,especially hostility to social pleasure and religion . 3.with time passing it became a dominant factor in American life , one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and literature.to some extent it is a state of mind,a part of the national cultural atmosphere that the American breathes ,rather than a set of tenets. 4.Actually it is a code of values,a philosophy of life and a point of view in American minds,also a two-faceted tradition of religious idealism and level -headed in common sense . 2.The American Romanticism(浪漫主义):a literary movement flourished as a cultural force the early period and the late period. associated with imagination and boundlessness, as an historical movement it arose in the 18th and 19th centuries.(Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe.) II.Features of American romanticism (1) It was the expression of “a real new experience(全新体验)”. (2) American Puritanism was a cultural heritage. Many American romantic writings intended to edify(启发) more than they entertained. (3) American Romanticism is full of “newness(新奇)” . Ideals：Individualism; political equality Dream：America: a new Garden of Eden (4)American romanticism was both imitative and independent. 3.Transcendentalism 超验主义 The major features of Transcendentalism: ① The Transcendentalists placed emphasis on spirit, or the Oversoul, as the most important thing in the universe. 思想超灵宇宙 ② The Transcendentalists stressed the importance of the individual. To them, the individual is the most important element of Society. ③ The Transcendentalists offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the Spirit or God. Nature was not purely matter. It was alive, filled with God’s ove rwhelming presence. 自然+上帝 Ralph Waldo Emerson. American Transcendentalism:As a philosophical and literary
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第24单元索尔?贝娄 24.1复习笔记 I.Introduction to author（作者简介） 1.Life（生平） Saul Bellow was about the best-known writer of his generation.He was born into a Russian Jewish family in Canada,he grew up in Chicago.His first book, Dangling Man,was published in1944,and for over a half a century,he wrote a good number of novels,short stories and plays,and won a good number of awards. His career reached its exciting climax in1976when he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. 索尔·贝娄(1915—2005)是当代美国最著名的小说家。他出生于加拿大一个俄国犹太移民家庭。他在芝加哥长大。他的第一部小说《摇来晃去的人》发表于1944年。在接下来的半个多世纪，他创作了大量的长篇小说、短篇小说和剧本，赢得了众多的奖项。1976年他的创作事业到达巅峰，他同时被授予普利策奖和诺贝尔文学奖。 2.His Themes（主题） Saul Bellow’s basic themes are essentially Three-fold:first,he views contemporary society as a threat to human life and human integrity.Then living in such an environment,people tend to become paranoid,high-strung,and impotent, and so lose their sanity.Finally,there is the quest motif,a quest for truth and values,
浙江省2018年7月高等教育自学考试 美国文学选读试题 课程代码：10055 Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each) Group 1 Column A Column B ( ) 1. F. S Fitzgerald a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( ) 2. Henry David Thoreau b. An American Tragedy ( ) 3. Theodore Dreiser c. The Portrait of a Lady ( ) 4. Henry James d. Walden ( ) 5. Mark Twain e. This Side of Paradise Group 2 Column A Column B ( ) 1. Huck a. A Rose for Emily ( ) 2. Carrie Meeber b. The Hairy Ape ( ) 3. Yank c. The Great Gatsby ( ) 4. Nick Carraway d. Sister Carrie ( ) 5. Emily Grierson e. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Part Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each) 1. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _____.【】 A. rationality B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism 2. The famous 20 years in Rip Van Winkle helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving’s _____.【】 A. concern with the passage of time B. expression of transient beauty 1
美国文学选读期末复习资料 The Colonial Period or The Enlightenment and Revolution Period American Puritanism ( roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th) 一、Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林 作品：1、Poor Richard's Almanac 《格言历书》--- A Collection of maxims, or proverbs, on the value of work and savings for success. 2、The Autobiography 《自传》---“美国梦”的根源 3、参与起草《独立宣言》 American Romanticism The Romantic Period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War. It is a period of the great flowering of American literature. 浪漫主义两大主题：爱和大自然的力量 The social and cultural background of Romanticism： ---The young Republic was flourishing into a politically, economically and culturally independent country. ---The Romantic writings revealed unique characteristics of their own in their works and they grew on the native lands. ---The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. ---The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values. Romantics frequently shared certain general characteristics: moral enthusiasm, faith in value of individualism and intuitive perception, and a presumption that the natural world was a source of goodness and man’s societies as a source of corruption.
2020年自考《美国文学选读》练习试题 Multiple choice; 1._________ works are marked by a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil. A.Emerson’s B. Hawthorne’s C. Thoreau’s D. Allan Poe’s 2. Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”got ideas from _______ legends. A.B ritish B. German C. Italian D. French 3. “Rip Van Winkle”reveals the theme of ______ the past. A. nostalgia for B. rejectionn to C. detachment from D. dislike for 4. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter , “A”may stand for ____________. A. Angel B. Adultery C. Able D.all the above 4. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A”which originally stood for “____”finally obtained the meaning of “able”or “angel”through Hester’s efforts. A. adultery B. arrogance C. accomplishment D. agony 5. Which one is not the characteristics of the puritan style? A. Fresh B. Simple C. Grand D. Direct 6. In his ______, Benjamin Franklin creates the image of a boy’s rise from rags to riches and demonstrates his belief that the new world America was a land of opportunities which might be met through hard work and wise management.
北京大学 英语语言文学 考研真题经验参考书
目录 第一章考前知识浏览 1.1北京大学招生简章...................... 1.2北京大学专业目录........................ 1.3北京大学英语语言文学专业历年报录比....... 1.4北京大学英语语言文学初试科目解析...... 第二章英语语言文学专业就业前景解读 2.1北京大学专业综合介绍................. 2.2北京大学专业就业解析................. 2.3北京大学各方向对比分析....... 第三章北京大学英语语言文学专业内部信息传递 3.1报考数据分析.............. 3.2复试信息分析.............. 3.3导师信息了解........ 第四章北京大学英语语言文学初试专业课考研知识点4.1参考书目分析.......... 4.2真题分析................ 4.3重点知识点汇总分析（大纲）.... 第五章北京大学英语语言文学初试复习计划分享 5.1政治英语复习技巧 5.2专业课复习全程详细攻略 5.3时间管理策略及习题使用 第六章北京大学英语语言文学复试 6.1复试公共部分的注意事项 6.2复试专业课部分的小Tips
“天高云淡，望断南飞雁，不到长城非好汉”，考研之路亦是如此! 一直想写一篇关于考研经验的文章。一是希望能够帮助接下来的考研的学弟学妹们；二是希望给自己过去的一年做个总结。如果能和一些人产生共鸣，甚至能帮到一些人，那就再好不过了。 北大外国语学院的英语语言文学不区分研究方向，考试科目如下： 【参考书目】 李赋宁主编：《欧洲文学史》4卷本，古希腊罗马，西欧，俄国 部分，商务印书馆，1999年。 罗经国：《新编英国文学选读》2卷本，北京大学出版社，1996年。 陈嘉：《英国文学作品选读》2卷本，商务印书馆，1982年。 李宜燮、常耀信主编：《美国文学选读》2卷本，南开大学出版社，1991年。
浙江省 2018 年 7 月高等教育自学考试 美国文学选读试题 课程代码： 10055 Part Ⅰ : Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each) Group 1 Column A Column B () 1. F. S Fitzgerald a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer () 2. Henry David Thoreau b. An American Tragedy () 3. Theodore Dreiser c. The Portrait of a Lady () 4. Henry James d. Walden () 5. Mark Twain e. This Side of Paradise Group 2 Column A Column B () 1. Huck a. A Rose for Emily () 2. Carrie Meeber b. The Hairy Ape () 3. Yank c. The Great Gatsby () 4. Nick Carraway d. Sister Carrie () 5. Emily Grierson e. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Part Ⅱ : Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each) 1. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _____. 【】 A. rationality B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism 2. The famous 20 years in Rip Van Winkle helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving ’s _____.【】 A. concern with the passage of time B. expression of transient beauty 1