美国文学欣赏1 Introduction

Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the

early nineteenth century. The transcendentalists were critics of their contemporary society

for its unthinking conformity, and urged that each person find, in Emerson's words, “an

original relation to the universe”. They had faith that man is at his best when truly

"self-reliant" and independent. It is only from such real individuals that true community

could be formed. (wiki)

Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic,"

although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather, it is an international

artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people

in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.

Realism was like a sketch, it tended to portray contemporary life and society "as they

NATURALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Contents

1. introduction ........................................................................................................... 1

2. Naturalism Literature in American .................................................................... 2

2.1 Origin of Naturalism Literature ........................................................................ 2

2.2 The Development of Naturalism Literature in the USA ................................... 3

3. Stephen Crane and Naturalism ........................................................................... 4

3.1 The ―Precursors‖ Stephen Crane....................................................................... 4

3.2 The Create Background of The Open Boat ....................................................... 5

4. An analysis on American Naturalism Literature from The Open Boat ........... 6

英美文学选读-阶段测评2

成绩： 85 分

一、Multiple Choice

共 40 题

题号: 1

本题分数:2.5 分

The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to ( ).

A、William Wordsworth

B、Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C、Robert Southey

D、William Blake

(P179.para.2)华兹华斯的文学观点是：诗歌的创作没有既定的规则，诗歌素材的来源应该是感观的直接经验。题干中的陈述，是他再《抒情民谣》第二版的序言中表述的。

标准答案：A

考生答案：A

本题得分：2.5 分

题号: 2

本题分数:2.5 分

Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior,( ) has brought the English novel,as an

art of form,to its maturity.

A、Charlotte Bront?

B、Jane Austen

C、Emily Bront?

D、Ann Radcliffe

(P226.para.2)简.奥斯丁生活在英国浪漫主义文学繁荣时期，但她的小说确实现实主义风格的。她多以男女爱情作为小说的主题，并通过对真正爱情的诠释来反应人性，是英国最伟大的小说家之一。

标准答案：B

考生答案：B

本题得分：2.5 分

题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分

English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ( ).

A、the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament

英美文学赏析--美国文学部分

美国文学史复习

Colonial and Puritan literature（early American literature）

American Romanticism

Literary Naturalism

Imagism modernism

Postwar literature

一Colonial and Puritan literature

清教徒的思想：

puritan want to make up pure their religious beliefs and

practices 净化信仰和行为方式Wish to restore simplicity to church

and the authority of the Bible to the theology. 重建教堂，提供简单服务，建立神圣地位，puritan opposition to pleasure and the

arts sometimes has been exaggerated. 反对对快乐和艺术的追求到了十分荒唐的地步

American puritanism（美国清教徒特点）:

idealists

More practical tougher

Hard work thrift piety sobriety

One being religions and the other practical

Basis of American literature; contributing to the

development of symbolism; influence the style of American

literature: simple direct

英国最早移民到美国的诗人：Anne Bradstreet（女）

二Early American literature

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