西方文化导论Unit10

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Multiple choice. (5) Ernest Hemingway’s early works like The Sun Also Rises were full of the existential disillusionment of America’s .
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Multiple choice.
(3) James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are usually associated with _________. A. the Imagist Movement B. the Feminist Movement C. the Stream of Consciousness technique D. Futurism
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Interpretation of Cultural Terms
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the Lost Generation 迷惘的一代: A term first used by Gertrude Stein to describe the post-World War I generation of American writers: men and women haunted by a sense of betrayal and emptiness brought about by the destructiveness of the war. The term is commonly applied to Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others.
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Multiple choice.
(4) Which of the following is not true about modernist techniques of expression? A. Preference for the symbolic. B. Fascination with the absurd. C. Disillusionment with the traditional. D. Representation of the outward reality.
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Fill in the blanks. 1. The early signs of Modernism emerged in the middle of the 19th century. In the arts and letters, two schools originating in France had particular impact. They were ____________ impressionism and symbolism. 2. The broadly acceptable definition of Modernism was given by Morris Bib, who stated that Modernism should contain ___________ two extremes and one middle line. 3. The artists who rebelled against the senseless slaughter of the WWI and raised the literary revolution in the 1920s were called _________________ the “lost generation” .
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Fill in the blanks. 4. In the visual arts the roots of Modernism are often traced back to painter _____________ Edouard Manet , who broke away in the 1860s from inherited notions of perspective, modeling, and subject matter. 5. The second stage of Modernism is _______________ Postmodernist era , a period with more reflection on and positive attitude towards the past.
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True of false questions. ___ T (4) The French theory in cultural studies is different from the traditional theory of Western social democracy and politics. It emphasizes more of the independence of each part of social areas. ___ F (5) As a new branch of cultural studies, mass culture originated from Foucault’s claim that culture itself is not purpose but a mechanism to transmit “governmental form”.
A. Beat Generation B. Lost Generation C. Fail Generation D. Angry Generation
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True of false questions. ___ F (1) Feminism was first put forth by American woman critic Kate Millet in her Sexual Politics. ___ T (2) The term “orientalism” was re-defined by Edward Said in his book Orientalism. Cultural materialism was extended from Stephen ___ T (3) Greenblatt’s cultural poetics and it refers to the cultural nature of a text rather than the textual historical essence.
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Multiple choice.
(2) Which of the following American novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism? A. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. B. The Sound and the Fury. C. Daisy Miller. D. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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Match the following schools of modernism with their representatives. Schools (1) symbolism (2) futurism (3) imagism (4) expressionism Representatives a. Ezra Pound b. Baudelaire c. Eugene O’Neill d. Marinetti
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Multiple choice.
(1) Ezra Pound is the leading spokesman of the _______ . A. Imagist Movement B. Chartist Movement C. Modernist Movement D. Romantic Movement