2011年4月
1. One of Shelley’ s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become
a rallying song of the British Communist Party.
A. “Ode to Liberty”
B. “Ode to Naples”
C. “Sonnet: England in 1819”
D. “Men of England”
2. In Charles Dickens’ w o rk ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.
A. Little Dorrit
B. Hard Times
C. Great Expectations
D. Bleak House
3. The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy’s ________, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.
A. The Return of the Native
B. The Mayor of Casterbridge
C. Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
D. Jude the Obscure
4. The typical representatives of G. B. Shaw’ s early plays are ________.
A. Man and Superman; The Apple Cart
B. Widowers’ House; Mrs. Warren’ s Profession
C. Candida; Mrs. Warren’ s Profession
D. The Apple Cart; Widowers’ House
5. As a critic of music and drama, ________ held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Oscar Wilde
C. George Bernard Shaw
D.W. B. Yeats
6. Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence’s ________, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces.
A. Women in Love; Sons and Lovers
B. The Rainbow; Women in Love
C. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D. Lady Chatterley’ s Lov er; Th e Rainbow
7. T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in ________.
A. 1945
B. 1948
C. 1952
D. 1956
8. Thomas Hardy’s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ________ writer.
A. realistic
B. naturalistic
C. romantic
D. stylistic
9. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ... And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ” The quoted lines are most probably taken from ________.
A. Great Expectations
B. Wuthering Heights
C. Jane Eyre
D. Pride and Prejudice
10. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is ________.
A. the vernacular and large vocabulary
B. his humor and wit
C. character-portrayal
D. pictures of pathos
11. G. B. Shaw’ s play ________ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.
A. Widowers’ Houses
B. Too True to Be Good
C. Mrs. Warren’ s Profe ssion
D. Candida
12. Jane Austen’ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.
A. Sense and Sensibility
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Northanger Abbey
D. Mansfield Park
13. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the q uoted line comes from
________.
A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
B. Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of Grass
C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost
D. John Keats’“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”
14. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT
________.
A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
B. “An Evening Walk”
C. “Tinter Abbey”
D. “The Solitary Reaper”
15. William Blake’s ________ marks his entry into maturity.
A. Poetical Sketches
B. Songs of Innocence
C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell
D. Songs of Experience
16. Henry Fielding’ s ________ brings him the name of “Prose Homer”.
A. The History of Jonathan Wild the Great
B. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
C. The History of Amelia
D. The History of Joseph Andrews
17. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, ________ is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.
A. Samson Agonistes
B. Paradise Lost
C. Paradise Regained
D. Areopagitica
18. T.S. Eliot’ s ________ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post- war generation.
A. The Hollow Men
B. The Waste Land
C. Murder in the Cathedral
D. Ash Wednesday
19. In ________, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism. P35
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. Macbeth
20. John Milton’s greatest poetical wo rk ________ is the only gene rally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.
A. Areopagitica
B. Paradise Lost
C. Lycidas
D. Samson Agonistes
21. The work ________ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.
A. Songs of Innocence
B. Songs of Experience
C. Poetical Sketches
D. Lyrical Ballads
22. The plays known as “the Lawrence trilogy” are all the following EXCEPT
________.
A. A Collier’ s Friday Night
B. Lady Chatterl ey’ s Lover
C. The Daughte -in -Law
D. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed
23. Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.
A. mining
B. farming
C. war
D. sailing
24. “The dignity of movement of an icebe rg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg” analogy about prose style was put forward by ________.
A. William Faulkner
B. Henry James
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. F·Scott Fitzgerald
25. In Go Down, Moses, ________ illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a close- knit destiny of blood brotherhood.
A. William Faulkner
B. Jack London
C. Herman Melville
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
26. In Death in the Afternoon ________ presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.
A. William Faulkner
B. Jack London
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. Mark Twain
27. William Faulkner once said that ________ is a story of “lost innocence,” w hich proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.
A. The Great Gatsby
B. The Sound and the Fury
C. Absalom, Absalom!
D. Go Down, Moses
38. Among the following writers ________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream - of - consciou sness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.
A. T. S. Eliot
B. James Joyce
C. William Faulkner
D. Henry James
2010年7月
1. T. S. Eliot’s ______ is a poem of dramatic monologue and a prelude to The Waste Land, helping
to point up the continuity of Eliot’s thinking.
A. “Prufrock”
B. “Gerontion”
C. The Hollow Men
D. Four Quartets
2. Defoe’s group of four novels are th e first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. They are the following EXCEPT ______.
A. Captain Singleton
B. Moll Flanders
C. Roxana
D. Robinson Crusoe
3. Charles Dickens’ novel, ______, is famous for its vivid descrip tions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.
A. The Pickwick Paper
B. Oliver Twist
C. David Copperfield
D. Nicholas Nickleby
4. D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is ______.
A. The Rainbow
B. Women in Love
C. Sons and Lovers
D. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
5. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.
A. A Tale of a Tub
B. The Battle of the Books
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. A Modest Proposal
6. Dickens’best- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT ______.
A. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child characters
B. horrible and grotesque characters
C. broadly humorous or comical characters
D. simple, innocent and faithful women characters
7. George Bernard Shaw’s ______ explored his idea of “Life Force”, the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God and to solve all the social, moral, and metaphysical problems of human society.
A. Man and Superman
B. The Apple Cart
C. Pygmalion
D. Too True to Be Good
8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been r egarded as “Father of the English Novel”.
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Henry Fielding
D. Oliver Goldsmith
9. Charlotte Bronte’s autobiograghical work ______ largely based on her exp erience in Brussels.
A. The Professor
B. Shirley
C. Villette
D. Jane Eyre
10. D. H. Lawrence’s artistic tendency is mainly ______ , which combi nes dramatic scenes with
an authoritative commentary.
A. romanticism
B. realism
C. naturalism
D. modernism
11. In ______ opinion, human nature is seriously and premanently flawed. To better human life,
enlightenment is needed, but to redress it is very hard.
A. Daniel Defoe’s
B. Charles Dickens’
C. Jonathan Swift’s
D. Henry Fielding’s
12. The major theme of Jan e Austen’s novels is ______ toward which she holds on
a practical
idealism.
A. love and money
B. marriage and money
C. love and family
D. love and marriage
13. Hardy’s ______ is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and th e
capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of the century.
A. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
B. The Mayor of Caste Bridge
C. The Return of the Native
D. Jude the Obscure
14. Henry Fielding adopted “______” to relate a story in his novel in which the author becomes
the “all- knowing God”.
A. the first- person narration
B. the epistolary form
C. the picaresque form
D. the third -person narration
15. In ______ , Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty and
regeneration.
A. “To a Skylark”
B. “The Cloud”
C. “Ode to Liberty”
D. Adonais
16. The success of ______ is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess
heroine.
A. The Professor
B. Jane Eyre
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Far from the Madding Crowd
17. John Milton’s ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since
Beowulf.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Areopagitica
18. Wordsworth’s ______ is per haps the most anthologized poem in English literature.
A. “To a Skylark”
B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”
C. “An Evening Walk”
D. “My Heart Leaps Up”
19. As th e best of Shakespeare’s final romances, ______ is a typical example of his pessimistic
view towards human life and society in his late years.
A. The Tempest
B. The Winter’s Tale
C. Cymbeline
D. The Rape of Lucrece
20. The major representatives of the poetic revolution in English Romantic period were Samuel
Taylor Coleridge and ______.
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. John Keats
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
21. Samson Agonistes by ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek
style in English.
A. John Milton
B. William Blake
C. Henry Fielding
D. William Wordsworth
22. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision,” and
t hat “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative” belongs to ______.
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. George Gordon Byron
25. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ______ for “his powerful styleforming mastery of
the art” of creating mode rn fiction.
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. William Faulkner
D. Mark Twain
35. 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
2010年4月
1. T. S. Eliot’ s ______ bea ring a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot’ s poems.
A. “Gerontion”
B. “Prufrock”
C. Murder in the Cathedral
D. The Hollow Men
2. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all wor king people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.
A. “Ode to Liberty”
B. “Ode to Naples”
C. “Ode to the West Wind”
D. “Men of England”
3. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.
A. the middle - class
B. the lower - class
C. the upper - middle - class
D. the upper - class
4. All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______.
A. The Return of the Native
B. Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
C. Jude the Obscure
D. Far from the Madding Crowd
5. Jane Austen’ s practical idea lism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.
A. reason
B. sense
C. rationality
D. sensibility
6. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final
A. The Winter’s Tale
B. The Tempest
C. The Taming of the Shrew
D. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost
7. “Wh ere intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______.
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Blake
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. John Keats
8. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of
troubles ,/And by opposing end then?” These lines are taken from ______.
A. King Lear
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. Othello
D. Hamlet
9. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Lycidas
10. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.
A. Charlotte Bronte
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Bronte
D. Henry Fielding
11. Daniel Defoe’s ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.
A. Colonel Jack
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英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末
英美文学试卷A 共9页第 I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’) 1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece The Canterbury tales contains 26 stories. 2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama. 3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urban life. 4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influences that brought about the English Romantic Movement. 5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around. 6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw. 7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”. 8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature. 9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and American consciousness.
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
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.
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
关于英语专业考研准备的几点建议来源：关玲玲的日志 关于考研准备的几点建议 主讲：武汉大学英语系学科带头人--张伯香 如何选择学校和专业 一.按招生性质，全国高校大致可分为以下几类： 1.综合类院校 比较知名的有北大、南大、复旦、武大、中大、南开、厦大等。这类院校重视科研能力，考试有一定的难度，比较适合于那些准备读博或有志于从事理论研究的人报考。 2.师范类院校 比较知名的有北师大、华东师大、华中师大、华南师大、西南师大，以及各省市的师范院校。这类院校更加重视教育专业，重视学生的基础。这类院校适合那些有志于从事教师工作的考生。 3.外语类院校 如北外、上外、天外、川外、西外等，他们重视基本功，重视语言研究。这类院校报名情况火爆，竞争也相对激烈，考生的水平都很强，适合那些既有理论又有实践能力的人报考。 4.理工类院校 如清华、北交、上交、北航、北理、武汉理工等，他们重视词汇量，基本功，以及英语在科学技术中的应用，这些院校题目出得整齐，准备起来也比较容易，但不一定好考，因为近年来报考的人数年年递增。 5.外经贸类院校 如对外经济贸易大学、外交学院、广东外语外贸等等。这类院校适合那些有志于从事外交、外贸工作的考生。 6. 民族类院校 如中央民大和各省的民大。这类院校适合那些有志于在民族地区从事教师工作的考生。二.关于选择院校，要考虑下列因素： 首先要遵从自己的兴趣、实力和发展愿望；
其次要知己知彼，百战不殆。要了解所报考的院校。一般通过两个途径：一是网络，二是目标院校的学报或该校导师、专家发表的文章。 第三，要咨询自己所在学校的老师，听取他们的参考意见。 总之，选择院校既要考虑自己的理想，又要权衡自己的能力，要将两者很好地结合起来。 有关专业和专业方向 –专业方向要选你自己擅长或者感兴趣的，这非常重要。因为你在研究生阶段选择的专业一般不会更改了，而且与你以后从事的工作会密切相关。做自己喜欢的事情会更加快乐。 –如果，你的目标是到高校当老师，选择语言学、应用语言学、文化、文学、翻译等方向都可以。 –如果，你想做翻译，做同声传译，那么最好选一个好一点的学校，北大，北外，上外，对外经贸，南大，广外都不错。 –如果，你想从事传媒等行业，那么你可以选择文化或文学，在写作、文学方面做更多的尝试和实践。 –如果你很有经商的潜质，你可以报考外经贸、广外等商务英语方向，那可是人才辈出的地方。 –如果你将来有意从事外交等工作，北外、上外、外交学院等必定是你最好的选择。 –最近几年全国招收英语专业硕士研究生的学校不断增长，达到在220所到230所之间。–最近几年招生人数较多的院校排名如下： 川外250人， 上外222人， 广外209人， 西外195人， 北外168人， 中南大学135人， 西南大学120人， 湖南大学115人， 天外110人， 大连外国语学院110人， 上海外事学院110人， 上海外贸大学105人， 北二外101人， 中山大学95人，
Part One：English Poetry 1.William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 ?Why does the poet compare `thee` to a summer?s day? And who could `thee` be? Because summer?s day and thee both represent beauty . thee could be beauty, love. ?What picture have you got of English summer, and could you explain why? Warm, beautiful, sunshine. Because summer is the best season of a year ,the most beautiful season. It is like our May. ?How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line? Thee is more beautiful than summer. ?What makes the poet think that “thou” can be more fair than summer and immortal? Because humanism is more eternal than summer and immortal. ?What figures of speech are used in this poem? Simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron and so on . ?What is the theme of the poem? Love conquers all, Beauty lives on. 2. Thomas Nashe Spring ?Read the poem carefully, pay attention to those image- bearing words, and see how many images the poet created in the poem and what sense impressions you can get from those images. There is “Blooms each thing, maids dance in a ring, the pretty birds do sing, the palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk' and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes bur ears do greet!” The “Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit，”impressions me most because of the harmony of the people?s relationship. ?Can you point out and explain the sound and their musical effect in the poem? In the Poem, each section has four lines, each line has ten syllables ( five tone step ) . In order to give the reader a spring breeze , streams , flowers , winding , Song Xin texture of sound and light flavor, Naixi greater uses English word S , z , f , V , R , L , and θconsonants means. In Naixi's poem, the use of phonological is also very harmonious, very smooth , very mellow. Section I of the poetry has Three pairs [ ing ] , section II of the poem has three pairs [ ei ] and the third quarter has three pairs [ i : ]. 3.John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning ?What is a “valediction” any way? Is the speaker in the poem about to die? Why does the speaker forbid mourning? No, it is about the lover s?separation. As the poem metaphors, the poet believed he and his wife?s love is sacred, he didn?t hope they cry when separation comes, let their love be stained by the ordinary and mundane.
Old English Literature 古英语文学 （450-1066年） Beowulf （贝奥武甫）---The first English national epic 中世纪英语文学（1066-1500） Geoffrey Chaucer(乔叟，c. 1343–1400) was an English poet. He is remembered for his The Canterbury Tales《坎特伯雷故事集》, called the father of English litera ture―英国文学之父‖William Langland (朗格兰，1330?-1400?),the author of the 14th-century English long narrative poem Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》. 文艺复兴（16-17世纪） William Shakespeare (莎士比亚，1564-1616), English poet and playwright, his surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems Venus and Adonis 《维拉斯和阿多尼斯》The Rape of Lucrece.《鲁克丽丝受辱记》 Shakespeare‘s greatest works: greatest tragedies are King Lear 《李尔王》,Macbeth《麦克白》,Hamlet《哈姆雷特》, Othello 《奥赛罗》,Romeo and Juliet 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》 grea t comedies: A Midsumme r Night‘s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》,As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》,The Merchant of Venice 《威尼斯商人》, Twelfth Night 《第十二夜》 great historical plays: Richard III 《理查三世》,Henry IV 《亨利四世》, Henry V 《亨利五世》, Henry VII 《亨利八世》 John Milton (弥尔顿, 1608-1674)was an English poet and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost《失乐园》, Paradise Regained《复乐园》Samson 《力士参孙》. 18世纪文学和新古典主义 Alexander Pope (浦柏,1688-1744 ) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical epigram 讽刺隽语and heroic couplet英雄双韵体.His major works include mock epic satirical poem An Essay on Man 《人论》and An Essay on Criticism 《论批评》 Daniel Defoe ( 笛福，1660—1731)was an English writer who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》, spokesman for middle-class people Henry Fielding (菲尔丁, 1707 ---1754) ，an English novelist known for his novel:The History of Tom Jones. Jonathan Swift (斯威夫特,1667-1745), was an Anglo-Irish novelist, satirist. He is remembered for novel such as Gulliver‘s Travels《格列佛游记》. Richard Sheridan ( 谢立丹，1751—1816), Irish playwright ,known for his satirical play School of Scandal(造谣学校). He was a represntative writer of Comedies of Manners. Laurence Sterne (斯特恩,1713—1768 ), an English novelist. He is best known for his novel Tristram Shandy （《商第传》）. Oliver Goldsmith （哥尔德斯密斯，1728-1774）English novelist, known for his novel Vicar of Wakefield (《威克菲尔德牧师传记》) Thomas Gray (托马斯?格雷1716—1771 )，an English poet, author of Elegy Written in a
《英美文学选读》模拟试题（一） 一、单项选择题 1.The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother. The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother’s different views towards _____. A. Paul’s father B. art C. life D. Paul’s brother 2.The _____ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story “Araby”. A. loss of innocence 在所有有關童年故事中，孩子都是同叔叔同姨媽同住，父母則不在身邊—這便是一種象征，象征父母與孩子之間骨肉親情的隔絕和一種正常關系的缺 失. B. childish love C. awareness of harsh life D. false sentimentality 錯誤的多愁善感 3.After reading “Araby”, one more feel the story has a _____ tone. A. joyous B. harsh C. solemn D. painful 4.In “Araby”, Joyce’s diction evokes a sort of _____ quality that characterizes the boy on this otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip. A. religious B. moral C. sentimental D. vulgar 5.The major concern of _____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A. D. H. Lawrence’s B. J. Galsworthy’s C. W. Thackeray’s D. T. Hardy’s 6.The mission of _____ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth
海南师范学院本科英语专业理论课教学大纲：美国文学 课程编号：03101026 学时：36 学分：2 一、课程的性质和任务 《美国文学史及选读》是英语语言文学专业（本科）的一门专业知识必修课。它简要介绍了美国文学从十七世纪殖民时期到二十世纪的发展历史及其主要作品。本课程是英语专业的专业基础课，目标是：通过文学史的教学拓宽学生的知识面，提高学生的文学修养，使学生了解英美文学各个历史时期的文艺思潮、文学流派、主要作家和作品； 通过美国文学作品的教学，提高学生对英文原著的理解能力、鉴赏能力，培养学生发现问题、分析问题和解决问题的能力； 通过课外实践活动，激发学生的文学兴趣，培养学生的文学鉴赏和批评能力及论文写作能力 二、相关课程的衔接 本课程是为英语专业高年级学生开设的，学生必须具有良好的英语阅读和理解基本功方能顺利地学习该课程，与此同时，它与美国历史、文化、社会背景等关系密切，因此，学生先期完成英语听说读写等技能训练基本课程，相关衔接课程有《英国文学》，《英语国家概况》《跨文化交际》等课程。 三、教学的基本要求 1．了解美国文学发展史上的重要时期和阶段，包括殖民地时期、独立战争时期、浪漫主义时代、南北战争时期和两次世界大战前后文学现象及特征。 2．了解各个重要发展阶段的代表作家及作品，熟知其内容、风格和艺术价值及其在世界文学史上的重要地位。 3．了解伴随美国文学各个阶段产生的文艺批评思潮，提高学生的文艺理论水平。 四、教学方法与重点、难点 教学方法：教学方法以课堂讲授为主，辅以讨论，并要求学生在课外大量阅读参考书，撰写读书报告及评论课上充分利用网络资源及现代化教学手段，使学生能够积极主动地进行学习 本课程的重点与难点相对来说是一致的 从时段上来说，19世纪20年代以后的美国文学由于处于第二次繁荣时期，对于美国文学的历史走向曾发生了相当重要的影响，自然是本课程的重点而这一阶段的文学语言丰富、色彩各异，且与哲学、史学、艺术学等结合得比较紧密，所以这一时期的文学作品在语言上和思想上都具备一定的难度，是本课程的难点所在另外，后现代文学作品的出现也增加了学生阅读的难度，因此了解后现代作品的创作手法，写作动机也是本科的一个难点解决的办法主要是在专业基础课之外，定期安排专家讲学，题目多涉及与课程难度相关的内容，旨在拓宽
Comment on Walden In 1845, Thoreau decided to conduct an experiment of self-sufficiency by building his own house on the shores of Walden Pond and living off the food he grew on his farm. He sought to reduce his physical needs to a minimum, in order to free himself for study, thought, and observation of nature, himself. Walden can be many things and can be read on more than one level. But it is, first and foremost, a book about man, what he is, and what he should be and must be. Considered one of the all-time great books, Walden is a record of Thoreau's two year experiment of living at Walden Pond. The writer's chief emphasis is on the simplifications and enjoyment of life now. It is regarded as 1. a nature book.2. a do-it-yourself guide to simple life. 3. a satirical criticism of modern life and living. 4. a belletristic achievement 5. a spiritual book. The Scarlet Letter Symbolic meaning of the letter “A” :1.The scarlet letter “A” is the central symbol of the novel. At the beginning it symbolized the sin of Hester—“adultery”, 2.then gradually when Hester became accepted by the community, it stands for Hester’s intelligence and diligence—“able”. 3.At the end of the novel the symbol has evolved to represent the high virtues of Hester Prynne—“angel”. Comments on The Scarlet Letter:1.The theme of the story should be the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin on people. 2.Scarlet Letter is a cultural allegory, in which the author indirectly tells the future of Puritanism.3.Scarlet Letter is a sample in which American Romanticism adapted itself to American Puritanism.(Because of the strong influence of Puritanism in American society, Hawthorne only expressed his ideas on the sin indirectly by employing symbolism.) Symbolism in the novel Moby Dick A. the voyage itself is a metaphor for “search and discovery, the search for the ultimate truth of experience.” B. the Pequod is the ship of the American soul and consciousness. C. Moby Dick is a symbol of evil to some, of goodness to others, and of both to still others. D. The whiteness of Moby Dick is a paradoxical color, signifying death and corruption as well as purity, innocence and youth; it represents the final mystery of the universe. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Setting: unpopulated wildness an a dense forest along Mississippi River Characters:1.Ignorant uneducated black slave Jim2.Uneducated outcast white boy Huck Finn。Theme: Huck’s inner waving struggle between what he was taught and what he thought out of good-heart and humanity.Its Features：1.Profound portrait of Huckleberry Finn 2.Magic power with language, the use of vernacular. 3. Humor In a Station of the Metro1 by Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. Note: 1。a Paris subway station Analysis of this poem The poem’s form is similar to Japanese haiku, with considering its title as a verse-line. The word “apparition” has double meaning:1. “appearance”, something which can be clearly observed;2. something which seems real but perhaps is not real; something ghostly which cannot be clearly observed. Petals may refer to the faces in the crowd, while bough may refer to the railway in the Metro.