11级英语二专《英美文学》期末复习指南(AB卷)
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一、Identification. (1%×10=10%)(考其中一组) (答案参考教材)
Identify the author with his or her work.
(1)Charles Dickens A. A Passage to India
(2) E.M. Foster B. Paradise Regained
(3)James Joyce C. The Color Purple
(4)John Milton D. The Road Not Taken
(5)Shelley E. For Whom the Bell Tolls
(6)Robert Frost F. Jude the Obscure
(7)Alice Walker G. The Waste Land
(8)Ernest Hemingway H. Hard Times
(9)T.S. Eliot I. Ulysses
(10)T homas Hardy J. Prometheus Unbound
(1)Henry James
(2)Francis Bacon
(3)George Bernard Shaw
(4)Emily Bronte
(5)William Golding
(6)Shelley
(7)Dylan Thomas
(8)William Blake
(9)Oscar Wilde
(10)J ames Joyce A.Lord of the Flies
B.Wuthering Heights
C.“The Tyger”
D.Queen Mab
E.The Portrait of a Lady
F.The Dubliners
G.The Importance of Being Earnest
H.Pygmalion
I.Novum Organum
J.Deaths and Entrances
二、Fill in the blanks. (1%×10=10%)(考其中10题)
1.Beowulf is regarded as the oldest poem in English literature.
2.The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the Romance.
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3.In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is the story of an idealist who is
destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.
4.The greatest and most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is drama.
5.In 1925, Virginia Woolf published her masterpieces Mrs. Dalloway, in which she used the
technique of “stream of consciousness” to denote the flow of inner experiences.
6.William Faulkner wrote about the society in the south by inventing families which represents
different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious unscrupulous class of the “Poor Whites”; and the Negroes who labor for both of them.
7.The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are Jane Austen and Walter Scott.
8.J. D. Salinger is regarded as a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The
Catcher in the Rye is referred to as a students’ classic.
9.Jane Eyre is one that introduces to the English novel the first governess heroine.
10.John Dryden wrote his famous prose com position “an Essay of Dramatic Poesy” in 1668, which
established his position as the leading critic of the day.
11.Beowulf is regarded as the oldest poem in English literature.
12.The Rape of the Lock takes the form of a mock epic, which describes the triviality of high society
in a grand style.
13.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the dramatic monologue.
14.James Joyce is the founder of the “Stream of consciousness” school of novel writing.
15.The Rainbow and Women in Love are generally regarded as D. H. Lawrence’s masterpieces.
16.The Grapes of Wrath is written by John Steinbeck who won the Pulitzer Prize.
17.Carl Sandburg was associated with the imagists and wrote well-known imagist poems such as The
Harbor, Smoke and Steel, and Fog.
18.The two-line stanza form is called the couplet, the best-know being the heroic couplet which is
written in iambic pentameter with an end rhyme.
19.J. D. Salinger is regarded as a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The
Catcher in the Rye is referre d to as a students’ classic.
20.Stephen Crane’s novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Street, is the story of a girl who experiences the
violence and cruelty of the society almost every day.
三、Choose the best answer. (1%×20=20%)(考其中20题)
1. The hero in the romance is usually the knight.
2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the most accomplished example of medieval romance, dealing with Arthurian romance.
3. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is taken from Ode to the West Wind.
4. Most of Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex, the fictional primitive and crude region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.
5. Milton’s Paradise Los t is written in blank verse.
6. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory.
7. “He was not of an age, but for all the time.” “He” here refers to Shakespeare.
8. In The Preface to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth set forth his principles of poetry, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.
9. Transcendentalists believed that nature is ennobling and the individual is divine.
10. Keats’s poetry is always sensuous, colorful and rich in imagery, which expresses the acuteness of his senses. In his poetry, sight, sound, scent, taste and feeling are all taken in to give an entire understanding of an experience.
11. The prevailing tone in Pride and Prejudice is mild satire.
12. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.
13. The Last Leaf by the American short story writer O. Henry relates the story of a fictional painter who finally finishes his “masterpiece” of life at the cost of his life.
14. Robert Burns wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry.
15. The Rainbow is a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the Marsh farm.
16. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis is a comic novel.
17. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by Ezra Pound.
18. All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly pessimistic.
19. “Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style” are the famous words by Jonathan Swift.
20. In Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving agrees with the protagonist on the preferability of the past to the present, of a dream-like world to the real world.
21.The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.
22.The Dynasts is Thomas Hardy’s epic。
23.Treasure Island is written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
24.The girl Vivie appears in the play Mrs. Warren’s Profession.
25.In the story of Othello, Shakespeare made Iago stand for the evil and dark forces in the society.
26.Edmund Spenser’s masterpiece The Faerie Queene is a skilful Blending of religious and
historical allegory with Chivalric lyricism.
27.Harold Pinter’s major plays are thought to fail into three categories: comedies of manners,
traditional plays, and memory plays.
28.The revolutionary Romantic poet Byron went to Greece to help that country in its struggle for
liberty and died of fever there.
29.Romantic writers employ all the following EXCEPT the abstract as their poetic materials.
30.Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope is taken as a manifesto of the English Neoclassicism as
Pope put forward his aesthetic theories in it.
31.Sheridan mainly wrote comedies. He brought comedy of manners to the highest perfection.
32.Oliver Twist is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in
the 19th century London.
33.Rudyard Kipling eulogized imperialism in his works, especially in his poems.
34.Which of the following novels does NOT belong to the “stream of consciousness” school of novel
writing? (The Rainbow)
35.Modern English novel, as a product of the 18th century Enlightenment and industrialization, really
came with the rising of the bourgeois class.
36.Hemingway as a person enjoyed hunting and bullfighting. He wrote about them in his works such
as Men Without Women.
37.Richard Wright was well-known for his protest fiction and was a father figure to modern African
American writers such as James Baldwin.
38.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by highly refined language.
39.Philip Freneau’s famous poem The British Prison Ship was written about his imprisoned
experience.
40.Humbert is the narrator and character of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
四、Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (1%×10=10%) (考其中10题) (答案参考教材)
1. Daniel Defoe is regarded as “Father of English Novel” with the publication of Robinson Crusoe.
2. Sentimentalism originated in the 18th century, and was a direct reaction against the cold, hard commercialism and rationalism that had dominated people’s life since the last decades of the 17th century.
3. Iambic Pentameter refers to a poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an iamb—that is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.
4. The modernist writers concentrate more on the public than on the private, more on the objective than on the subjective.
5. As a leading Romanticist, Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic hero” a proud mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.
6. A Room of One’s Own, To the Lighthouse and Dubliners are all major works of Virginia Woolf.
7. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey are known as the “Lake Poets” and passive Romantic poets.
8. Edgar Allan Poe wrote poems which are marvels of beauty and craftsmanship such as The Fall of the House of Usher.
9. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. She was Emily Dickenson.
10. Mark Twain created, in The Gilded Age, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
11. The Canterbury Tales consists of three parts; they are: The General Prologue, 24 tales, two of which left unfinished and separated prologues to each tale.
12. The literary genre which best represents the literary achievement in Victorian Age is novel.
13. Pip is the protagonist in Hard Times.
14. Thomas Hardy is usually considered as the most controversial writer in the 20th century.
15. Gulliver’s Travels is a novel of satire and allegory.
16. In the first part of the novel Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a great admiration of the Bennet family.
17. The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is John Donne.
18. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the Revolutionism.
19. The Imagist writers followed three principles. They respectively are direct treatment, economy of expression and clear rhythm.
20. William Faulkner is one of the most important southern writers in the United States. The Sound and the Fury, As I lay Dying, Light in August are works that ambitious critics tend to admire.
五、Answer the questions according to the following passages. (20%)(考其中4篇)
Passage 1
Sonnet 18
Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Questions:
1.What is this sonnet about?
2.In what sense can the speaker make the young man eternal through poetry?
3.Identify the rhyme scheme of the sonnet.
Passage 2
Continuous as the stars that shine,
And twinkle on the milky way.
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay;
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Questions:
1. This excerpt is taken from a poem entitled _________ by _______.
2. What does “they” here refer to?
Passage 3
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be ready wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Questions:
1. This passage is taken from a famous essay _________ written by _______.
2. What does “read by deputy” mean?
3. What’s the passage about?
Passage 4
“and the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.” (Shakespeare, Hamlet)
Questions:
4.What Does the “native hue of resolution” mean?
5.What does the “pale cast of thought” stand for?
6.What idea do the two lines express?
Passage 5
Till a' the sea gang dry, my dear,
And the rock melt wi' the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
Questions:
1. These lines are taken from _________ written by _______.
2. The speaker wants to express ___________________________________.
Passage 6
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Questions:
1. The above lines are taken from a poem entitled _________ by _______.
2. The theme of the poem is ____________________________________________.
Passage 7
Lo ! in you little window-niche
How statue-like I see thee stand!
The agate lamp within thy hand!
Ah, Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy-land !
Questions:
1.This is the last stanza of a poem _________. Its writer is ________.
2.Whom is Helen associated with?
3.Who is Psyche?
Passage 8
When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her
house, which no one save an old manservant---a combined gardener and cook-had seen in at least ten years.
Questions:
1.What is the title of the story and its writer?
2.What is the identity of the narrator?
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Passage 1（答案略）
Passage 2 （答案略）
Passage 3 （答案略）
Passage 4 （答案略）
Passage 5
1. “A Red, Red Rose”; Robert Burns
2. strong passion and deep love for the beloved forever
Passage 6（答案略）
Passage 7
1. “To Helen”; Edgar Allan Poe
2. Psych
3. She is the goddess of the soul in Greek mythology.
Passage 8
1. A Rose for Emily; William Faulkner
2.The narrator is most likely to be one of the townspeople.
六、Short-answer questions. (10%)(考其中2题)
1.Analyze the image of God in Paradise Lost.
2.What is the lost generation?
3.What is your understanding of “Because I Could not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson?
4.What is the type of heroes in Hemingway’s novels?
【参考答案：】
1. （答案略）
2. （答案略）
3. This is one of Emily Dickinson’s poems about death. The poet compared death to a carter, driving the poet to her destiny. On the journey, they passed childhood and youth and finally reached a grave. To the poet, death was not dreadful at all. Instead, death was quiet and mild. A man’s life was only a short period of the journey, and death was not the end. Life and death will go on perpetually towards eternity.
4. （答案略）
七、Essay question. (20 %)
We have learned many literary works (novels, poems and essays, etc.) both in British and American literature. Please recommend ONE of your favorite
ones. (At least 150words)
【注：】请按照下面的格式进行准备！
1. [Summary] (≦50 Words)
2. [Comment](≧100 Words) （Mainly including：themes, features of writing or arts, your reasons for recommendation, etc.）(The more personal understanding or ideas, the better marks!)
3. [Good Sentences] (At least 5 ones)
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and
appropriateness!
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What’s symbolism? 1）Symbolism is a movement in literature and the visual arts that originated in France in the late 19th century. In literature, symbolism was an aesthetic movement that encouraged writers to express their ideas, feelings, and values by means of symbols or suggestions rather than by direct statements. Hawthorne and Melville are masters of symbolism in America in the 19th century. 2）举例。
48. “Young Goodman Brown ”is one of Hawthorne ’s most profound tales. What is the allegorical meaning of Brown, the protagonist? What does Hawthorne set out to prove in this tale? How does Melville comment on Hawthorne ’s manner of concerning with guilt and evil?
**ELIZABETH **4. A comparison of the three giants: William Dean Howells; Mark Twain; and Henry James They are the three dominant figures of the realistic period. The forerunner of American Realism is Howells. Though the three writers wrote more or less at the same time, they differed in their understanding of the “truth.”While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life”of the Americans, Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world”of man. Though Twain and Howells both shared the same concern in presenting the truth of the American society, they had each of them different emphasis. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived, while Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism,”a unique variation (变体) of American literary realism.
Romantic period Came from two great shapers of thought 1.rousseau’s du contrat social and emile 2.thomas paine’s declaration of right of man Time: from1798 the publication of wordsworth and coleridge’s lyrical ballads to 1832 scott’s death and the passage of first reform bill in the parliament The romantic focus on following things: Stong imagnationg Individual feelings Return to nature Being nationalistic 文学思想： 1.constitudes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of human spirit.社会文明的外部世界与人类精神的内部世界的转变 2.litery and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.文学和哲学理论倾向于把个人思想作为所有生活和经历的中心。 3.poetry writing, the writers employed new theories and innovated new techniques.preface acts as a manifesto for the new school.强调新理论和创作新手法，序言作为新学派的里程碑。 4.not only extol the faculty of imagination, but also elevate the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration.不仅要称颂想象的作用，也要重视自发和联想的概念。 5.regarded nature as the major source of poetic imagery and the dominant subject.自然是诗歌想象的主要资源也是永恒的主题 6.romantics also tend to the nationalistic.大多具有民族主义 Poems Balke,wordsworth,coleridge,byron,shelley and keats are the major romatic poets.
英美文学相关论文优秀范文 浅谈英美文学中的爱情婚姻观 摘要英美文学中描绘爱情和婚姻的小说众多，为世人展示了不同时期、不同地域、 不同阶层的人们丰富多彩的爱情和婚姻观。这些不同的爱情婚姻观既是作品主人公性格的 集中体现，也是对人物所处的社会环境和历史背景的深刻剖析。论文以描写几对不同人物 之间波澜不惊的爱情故事闻名于世的经典爱情小说――《傲慢与偏见》为例，来分析作品 中倡导的独特的西方爱情婚姻观。 关键词：英美文学《傲慢与偏见》简?奥斯丁爱情婚姻观 梁山伯与祝英台凄美的爱情悲剧让我们唏嘘不已，崔莺莺和张生冲破重重障碍最终有 情人终成眷属让人为之欣慰，这是中国古典文学名著中的经典爱情故事。当我们把目光转 向英美文学，罗密欧与朱丽叶的忠贞爱情深刻地为我们诠释了爱情的真谛;于连?索雷尔 两段截然不同的爱情经历和其最终悲剧性的结局却告诉我们当爱情被虚荣占据后，结果唯 有悲剧。 英美文学名著中描写爱情的名家之作非常之多，众多的爱情经典让我们回味无穷，为 我们展示了各式各样、色彩纷呈的爱情婚姻观。正如有多少个读者，就会有多少个不同的 哈姆雷特一样，每个读者都会在这些名作中找到自己的影子，产生共鸣。以下就以《傲慢 与偏见》为例，来分析英美文学中各式各样、与众不同的爱情婚姻观。 一《傲慢与偏见》简介及主旨分析 英国知名女作家简?奥斯丁Jane Austen的代表作《傲慢与偏见》，以日常琐事为事 件出发点，运用非常考究的语言，通过对不同人物性格的详实刻画，以及当时处于社会压 迫与反抗不同地位的各个阶层间复杂关系的深刻剖析，以现实主义的手法形象、生动地描 述了18世纪末-19世纪初饱受封闭守旧思想禁锢下英国乡村的风土人情。 作品中，奥斯丁以其独特的观察力、诙谐幽默的语言，通过对班纳特家的五个女儿及 其密友在对待婚姻时的不同抉择，真实地描述了中小地主及资产阶级“绅士”和“淑女” 之间荒诞的婚姻与爱情，展现了女主人公们在爱情婚姻观方面不断学习、探索和前进的心 路历程，继而提出了自己主张“既不赞同为了金钱而结婚，也不认同将婚姻当做儿戏而草 率对待”这一鲜明的爱情婚姻立场。纵然时过境迁，我们依然能从中体会到不同凡响的艺 术效果。 二一段相互吸引至真至纯的爱情故事 简是班纳特家中的大女儿，属于那种漂亮大方、温柔可爱的大家闺秀式的女孩子，她 看待任何的人和事物都总会往好的一面去联想。她身上散发出的与众不同的独特气质深深 地吸引了年轻英俊且极度富有的宾利。但两人身份地位的悬殊预示着二者结合的不可能性，达西也曾因简的家庭背景差而极力反对宾利与其结婚。但随着剧情的发展，两人终因相互
英美文学选读-阶段测评4 成绩：30分 一、Multiple Choice 共40 题 题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分 ( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism. A、Theodore Dreiser B、William Faulkner C、Henry James D、Mark Twain (P498.para.2)亨利.詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师，他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题，其作品的风格是“心理活动”。被誉为20世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。 标准答案：C 考生答案：D 本题得分：0 分 题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分 Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death. A、love and nature B、death and universe C、death and immortality D、family and happiness （P518para2）迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面，而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的，所以答案是C。 标准答案：C 考生答案：A
Part One The Age of Romanticism I．Multiple-choices: 1.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ________. A. Anne Bradstreet B. Jane Austen C. Katherie Anne Porter D. Emily Dickinson 2.In the middle of the 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “______”. A. the English Renaissance B. the American Renaissance C. the Second Renaissance D. the Salem Renaissance 3.The main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally philosophical, concerning ______. A. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism B. the relationship between man and woman C. the development of Romanticism in America D. nature, man and the universe 4.______ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism in the history of American literature. A. New England Transcendentalism B. England Transcendentalism C. the Harlem Renaissance D. New Transcendentalism 5.Moby-Dick is usually considered ______. A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe B. a spiritual exploration into man's deep reality and psychology C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure D. both A and B 6.Dickinson's poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys. But many of her little lyrics concern ______. A. the whole human beings, which include religion, death, immortality, love, and nature B. the lower-class working people who live a life of poverty and sordidness C. the middle-class people who live in confusion and in void of faith D. the upper-class people who live in comfort and idleness 7.As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called ______, that is ______. A. hymn…poetry with chanting refrains B. blank verse…poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat C. free verse…poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme
浅谈英语系下英美文学对比与分析 英国文学与美国文学是当今社会影响范围最为深广的两类文学，对于英美文学的研究屡见不鲜。英美两国的文化具有一定的差异性，但是美国曾经是英国的殖民地，文化之间又有一定的共通性。英国文学历史悠久，文学体系完备，文学发展依照历史的发展而逐渐变化，文艺复兴时期的莎士比亚是英国文学与文化的象征，十七世纪的革命诗人弥尔顿，十八世纪启蒙主义思想引导下的各个散文作家，十九世纪的浪漫主义与现实主义的思潮影响下的诗人与剧作家，二十世纪现代主义思潮影响下的艾略特、乔伊斯……而美国文学与本土文化息息相关，体现着多元化与复杂性。在殖民时期，美国作家的作品受到英国文学的深刻影响，例如泰勒的诗得益于约翰?多恩和乔治?赫伯特的影响。在独立革命时期，美国文学逐渐形成了具有特色的民族文学，在浪漫主义思潮影响下的超验主义，极具本土特色的废奴小说。在南北战争时期，美国的现实主义文学逐渐开始发展，马克?吐温的乡土文学，詹姆斯的心理分析小说，以及黑人小说。在两战期间，现代主义思潮影响了以海明威为代表的“迷惘的一代”。二战后期，后现代主义思潮影响下的“垮掉的一代”，“黑色幽默”。英美文学的对比与分析范围比较广泛，本篇将以三大文学思潮：浪漫主义、现实主义、现代主义在英美的发展来进行对比。 一、浪漫主义思潮时期
浪漫主义是在现实生活的基础之上，以热情奔放的语言，绚丽多彩的想象，直白夸张的表现形式，抒发对理想世界的追求。浪漫主义思潮比较注重个人情感的表达与抒发，具有浓烈的主观色彩。一是英美文学都是以诗歌为奠基石，但所占的立场不同。浪漫主义文学分为积极与消极，英国浪漫主义代表作家“湖畔诗人”就是消极派的代表，他们对资本主义的工业与文明十分的排斥，大力歌颂宗法制的自然与社会生活。《抒情歌谣集》是华兹华斯与柯勒律治共同出版的，是英国浪漫主义文学的奠基之作，他们的理论与实践结束了英文古典诗歌的统治。美国浪漫主义文学是以惠特曼的《草叶集》为开端的，开创了美国民族诗歌的新时代，作者是站在激进的民主主义立场上进行歌颂的。二是美国的浪漫主义文学师承英国，但却富有美国色彩。美国作家受到英国作家的影响，同样喜欢抒发个人的情感，以及喜欢描绘异国的风光。但是在美国文学中突出表现的“西部开拓”却是一个极具特色的素材。在库伯《皮袜子的故事里》美国本土的自然风光与景物成为了人物品格的象征，形成了美国文学离开尘世，心向自然的传统。三是英国浪漫主义作品以诗歌为主，而美国的作品更加丰富独特。英国文学中第二代作家与“湖畔诗人”消极态度相反，主张争取民主与自由，雪莱的《西风颂》、济慈的《夜莺颂》。英文文学中也有具有代表性的历史小说、哥特小说。美国文学中有喜剧性寓言体小说、歌德式的惊险故事，边疆历险故事，社会现实小说。超验主义也是美国文学的一大特色。．
1.Charles Dickens is a great writer in the ___ A__. ? A. Victorian Age B. Renaissance ? C. Romantic period D. 20th century 2.The early inhabitants in the island we now call England were _B __. ? A. Celts B. Britons ? C. Britain D. English 3. In 55 B. C., Roman troops led by _A__ invaded Britain. ? A. Julius Caesar B. Claudius ? C. King Alfred the Great D. William 4.The Roman occupation in Britain lasted for about __C___ years. ? A. 200 B. 300 ? C. 400 D. 500 5.Old English came into being by the _D___ century. ? A. 4th B. 5th ? C. 6th D. 7th 6. In __B__ Britain became a Roman province. ? A. 55 B. C. B. 43 A. D. ? C. 410 A. D. D. 787 A. D. 7.The Anglo-Saxon period ended in _D___. ? A. 1017 B. 1042 ? C. 1016 D. 1066 8. _A__ is an early English poem about the life of the gleeman. ? A. “Deor’s Lament” B. “The Wife’s Complaint” ? C. “The Husband’s Message” D. “The Seafarer” 9. __C__ is an early English poem about love. ? A. “Deor’s Lament” B. “Widsith” ? C. “The Husband’s Message” D. “The Seafarer” 10. __B__ is an early English poem about the adventures of the sea. ? A. “Deor’s Lament” B. “The Wanderer” ? C. “The Husband’s Message” D. “Beowulf” 11. __D__ is the representative work of the early English literature. ? A. “Deor’s Lament” B. “The Wanderer” ? C. “The Husband’s Message” D. “Beowulf” 12. Grendel is a monster described in __C____. ? A. “Deor’s Lament” B. “Widsith” ? C. Beowulf D. “The Seafarer” 13.The Roman occupation lasted for about 400 years in Britain, and in __D___, all the Roman troops went back to their continent and never returned. ? A. 55 B. C. B. 78 A. D. ? C. 400 A. D. D. 410 A. D. 14.__C__ is the first important religious poet in English literature. ? A. John Donne B. George Herbert ? C. CaedmonD. Milton 15.When we speak of the old English prose, the first name that comes into our minds is
英美文学 玄学派：是指17世纪英国文坛出现的一个独特的诗歌流派。英国诗人约翰·邓恩是这个流派的代表人物，他因在诗歌中精妙地运用“奇喻”的比喻手法而蜚声文坛。它们往往以精致典雅的形式表现情感与观念的矛盾，把古典主义的性情与浪漫主义的风骨很好地融合到了一起。骑士文学盛行于西欧，反映了骑士阶层的生活理想。骑士精神和道德是上层社会的贵族文化精神，它是以个人身份的优越感为基础的道德与人格精神，但它也积淀这西欧民族远古尚武精神的某些积极因素。 三联剧：在古希腊悲剧创作中，有一类悲剧均由三部分组成，每部分即能独立存在，各部之间又有紧密联系。这种剧合则为一，分则为三，代表作家为埃斯库罗斯。 文艺复兴：是指13世纪末在意大利各城市兴起，以后扩展到西欧各国，于16世纪在欧洲盛行的一场思想文化运动，带来一段科学与艺术革命时期，揭开了近代欧洲历史的序幕，被认为是中古时代和近代的分界。 人文主义：是文艺复兴核心思想，是新兴资产阶级反封建的社会思潮，也是资产阶级人道主义的最初形式。它肯定人性和人的价值，要求享受人世的欢乐，要求人的个性解放和自由平等，推崇人的感性经验和理性思维。 七星诗社：是16世纪中期法国的一个文学团体，是由七位人文主义诗人组成的文学团体。他们中以龙沙和杜贝莱最著名。七星诗社的诗人们从事过各种创作，他们的诗声望很高，但他们的主要贡献却是对于法语改革的主张。 狂飙突进运动：是18世纪德国文学界的运动，是文艺形式从古典主义向浪漫主义过渡时的阶段，也可以说是幼稚时期的浪漫主义。但其中心代表人物是歌德和席勒，歌德的《少年维特的烦恼》是其典型代表作品，表达的是人类内心感情的冲突和奋进精神。 伤感主义：１８世纪后期欧洲资产阶级启蒙运动中的一种文艺思潮，也称为“主情主义”。该派的得名，源与英国作家斯特恩的小说《在法国和意大利的感伤的旅行》。该派作家崇尚感情，把感情看的高于“理性”，因而强调文学的主要任务是细致刻画任务的心理动态和描写人物的不幸遭遇，以便唤起读者在感情上的同情和共鸣，表达出对当时贵族阶级的理性主义和古典主义的反抗。伤感主义把个人主义和主观幻想的因素带进文艺，代表作家有英国的斯特恩，理查逊，法国的卢梭（如《忏悔录》《遐想录》），伏尔泰，德国的歌德，里希特，海涅等等。 “梅塘集团”是十九世纪法国文坛由以左拉为核心的六位作家组成的文学创作团体。因在巴黎郊外左拉的梅塘别墅为主要活动场所而得名。一八七O年开始的普法战争，法国战败，被
1.现实主义、批判现实主义（代表人物、作品，以及每部作品讲了什么故事）P276—比如《匹克威克外传》主要讲什么？P281 《双城记》主要讲什么？P298 《大卫科波菲尔》主要讲什么？P292 2.其中自传体形式的作品有哪些？ 3.傲慢与偏见的第一个名字：first impression(Pride and prejudice现) 4.三姐妹指的是？ 5.19世纪有名小说名利场副标题：“A Novel Without a Hero”作者：William Makepeace Thackeray P303 6.18th浪漫主义作家、代表作P211 反对什么,反抗什么思想？ 7.Pop代表作有哪些？P134 剪发记？ 8.玄学诗派有哪些人物组成？Leading Feature? P116 9.乌托邦is written in form of ?P33 10.Universal Wicks大学才子是谁？P50 11.中世纪文学流行的是? 主题特征骑马精神P8？ 12.最著名作家：乔叟P19 13.对于三次征服的概念（1）罗马征服P1 （2）英国人征服P2（3）诺曼征服P5 14.人民大宪章什么时候出现？时间：1837年
1.John Milton He was born in London in 1608. He is a master of the blank verse, and a great stylist. And he is famous for his grand style.But his style is never exactly natural. He devoted almost twenty years of his best life to the fight for political, religious and personal liberty as a writer. His famous works are Paradise lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. 2.Romance Romance was the most prevailing kind of literature of the upper class in feudal England in the Medieval Ages. It is a long composition in verse or in prose which describes the life and chivalric adventures of a noble hero. The central character of romances is the knight, a man of noble birth skilled in the use of weapon. The theme of loyalty to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances. 3.the Enlightenment It is the philosophical and artistic movement growing out of the Renaissance and continuing until the nineteenth century. It was an optimistic belief that humanity could improve itself by applying logic and reasons to all things. Typically, these enlightenment writers would use satire to ridicule what they felt illogical errors in government, social
Network Education College, BLCU 《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一 注意： 1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。 2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。 3.本试卷满分100分，答题时间为90分钟。 4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。 I.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points) Directions:There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet. 1. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of_______. [A] Piers Plowman [B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [C] Confessio Amantis [D] The Canterbury Tales 2. In "After Apple- Picking," Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much / Of apple -picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired." From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is_______. [A] happy about the harvest [B] still very much interested in apple-picking [C] expecting a greater harvest [D] indifferent to what he once desired 3.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,_______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century. [A] Sentimentalism [B] romanticism [C] realism [D] naturalism 4. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______. [A] Robert Frost [B] Allen Ginsberg [C] Ezra Pound [D] Cummings 5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history. [A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma [C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch 6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______. [A] indestructible spirit [B] pessimistic view of life [C] war experiences [D] masculinity 7. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale? _______
英美文学专业开题报告 引导语：各民族的文学中都有许多惊险、恐怖的故事,但似乎没有哪一种文学像英美文学那样不仅创作出数量众多、质量优秀的恐怖文学作品,而且还形成了一个持续发展、影响广泛的哥特传统。以下 是的为大家找到的英美文学专业开题报告。希望能够帮助到大家! 论文题目theApplicationandInnovation 一、选题的意义和研究现状 1.选题的目的、理论意义和现实意义长时期以来,人们视艾米莉?勃朗特为英国文学中的“斯芬克斯”。关于她本人和她的作品都有很多难解之谜,许多评论家从不同的角度、采用不同的方法去研究,得出了不同的结论,因而往往是旧谜刚解,新谜又出,解谜热潮似永无休止。 本文立足于欧美文学中的哥特传统研究《呼啸山庄》的创作源泉,指出艾米莉?勃朗特在主题、人物形象、环境刻画、意象及情节构造等方面都借鉴了哥特传统,同时凭借其超乎寻常的想象力,将现实 与超现实融为一体,给陈旧的形式注入了激烈情感、心理深度和新鲜 活力,达到了哥特形式与激情内容的完美统一,使《呼啸山庄》既超越了哥特体裁的“黑色浪漫主义”,又超越了维多利亚时代的“现实主义”,从而展现出独具一格、经久不衰的艺术魅力。 2.与选题相关的国内外研究和发展概况 各民族的文学中都有许多惊险、恐怖的故事,但似乎没有哪一种文学像英美文学那样不仅创作出数量众多、质量优秀的恐怖文学作品,而且还形成了一个持续发展、影响广泛的哥特传统
(Gothictradition)。哥特文学现在已经成为英美文学研究中的一个重要领域。对哥特文学的认真研究开始于20世纪二三十年代,到70年代以后,由于新的学术思潮和文学批评观念的影响,该研究出现了前所未有而且日趋高涨的热潮。 根据在国际互联网上的搜索,到2000年9月为止,英美等国的学者除发表了大量关于哥特文学的论文外,还至少出版专著达184部,其中1970年以后为126部,仅90年代就达59部,几乎占总数的三分之一。当然,近年来哥特文学研究的状况不仅在于研究成果迅速增加,更重要的是它在深度和广度方面都大为拓展,并且把哥特传统同英美乃至欧洲的历史、社会、文化和文学的总体发展结合起来。 二、研究方案 1.研究的基本内容及预期的结果(大纲)研究的基本内容:本文立足于欧美文学中的哥特传统研究《呼啸山庄》的创作源泉,指出艾米莉?勃朗特在主题、人物形象、环境刻画、意象及情节构造等方面都借鉴了哥特传统,同时凭借其超乎寻常的想象力,将现实与超现实融为一体,给陈旧的形式注入了激烈情感、心理深度和新鲜活力,达到了哥特形式与激情内容的完美统一,使《呼啸山庄》既超越了哥特体裁的“黑色浪漫主义”,又超越了维多利亚时代的“现实主义”,从而展现出独具一格、经久不衰的艺术魅力。 预期的结果(大纲): 1.ASurveyofGothic1.1DefinitionofGothic 1.2theOriginofGothicNovels
一、The Anglo-Saxon period (449-1066) 1、这个时期的文学作品分类：pagan(异教徒) Christian(基督徒) 2、代表作:The Song of Beowulf(national epic民族史诗)metaphor alliteration。 3、Angles, Saxons and Jutes. 二、The Anglo-Norman period (1066-1350) 1、The Roman Conquest: In 1066, the Duke of Normandy William led the Norman army to invade England. The result of this war was William became the king of England. After the conquest, feudal system was established in English society.Chivalry was introduced by the Normans into England. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight头韵 2、传奇ramances：描写骑士的冒险精神和典雅爱情文学。seek adventures , fighting for his lord in battle,humility,honor,sacrifice,brave,honesty,love with women 三、Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)（反封建、反教会、追求个性自由） 1、the father of English poetry 英国诗歌之父 2、purely English(the London dialect伦敦方言) 3、heroic couplet英雄双韵体
1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period. A.Christian B.knightly C.Greek D.primitive 2. In The song of Beowulf , Beowulf fought against _______. A. Grendel B. a knight C. Hrothgar D. Sir Gawain 3. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___. A.Piers Plowman B.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C.Confessio Amantis D.The Canterbury Tales 4. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18? A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature. B.The speaker satirizes human vanity. C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation. 5. John Milton was the writer of ______ A. Paradise lost B. The Pilgrims progress C. Tess D. Emma 6. The greatest of all English authors is _______ A. William Shakespeare B. Charles Dickens C, Thomas Hardy D. Robert Frost 7. Of all the 18thcentury novelists, _______ and Tobias Gorge Smollet may be regard as the real founders of the genre of the bourgeois realistic novel in England and Europe. A. Henry Fielding B. Daniel Defoe C. Joseph Addison D. Richard Steel 8. The most outstanding figure of English sentimentalism was _____ A. Henry Fielding B. Daniel Defoe C. Joseph Addison https://www.doczj.com/doc/4b5530898.html,urence Sterne 9. The most outstanding figure of the epoch of Enlightenment in England was ______. A. Oliver Goldsmith B. Jonathan Swift c. Thomas Grey D. Richard Steel 10. Daniel Defoe was the writer of ______ A. Gulliver’s Travels B. Robinson Crusoe C. Jane Eyre D. A Modest Proposal 11. Gulliver’s Travels was written by ______. A. Laurence Sterne B. Daniel Defoe C. Jonathan Swift D. Oliver Goldsmith 12. Tom Jones was written by _____ A. Oliver Goldsmith B. Jonathan Swift c. Thomas Grey D. Henry Feilding 13. The songs of Innocence was written by ____ A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake C. Robert Burns D. J.Keats 14. With the publication of William Wordsworth’s _____ in collaboration with S.T. Colerige, romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature. A. The Cloud B. To a Sky-lark C. to Autumn D. Lyrical Ballads 15.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __. A.J.Keats B.W.Blake C.W.Wordsworth D.P.B.Shelley 16. ______ was Byron’s greatest work. A. Don Juan B.She Walks in Beauty C. Cain D. Manfred. 17.Ulysses (1922) is generally acknowledged to be ______’s masterpiece and a typical example of stream of consciousness technique. A. James Joyce B. Virginia Woolf C. D. h. Lawrence D. Charles Dickens 18. The Title Vanity Fair was borrowed by Thackeray from the_____ by Bunyan. A. Pilgrim’s Progress B. Canterbury Tales C. Paradise Lost D. Beowulf