完整版吴伟仁美国文学第一册学习指南填空题集合
吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》(重排版)笔记和考研真题详解
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第26章埃 兹拉·庞德
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第1章约翰·史密斯
第2章威廉·布拉德 福德和约翰·温思罗
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第3章约翰·科顿和 罗杰·威廉姆斯
第4章安妮·布雷兹 特里特和爱德华·泰 勒
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第5章本杰明·富兰 克林
第6章托马斯·佩恩
第7章托马斯·杰斐 逊
第8章菲利普·弗瑞 诺
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第9章华盛
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顿·欧文
第10章詹姆
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Part I. The Literature of Colonial America1. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was American Puritanism11. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the Puritan values that dominated much of the early American writing.Part II. The Literature of Reason and Revolution3. Benjamin Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called the General Magazine.4. Benjamin Franklin's best writing is found in his masterpiece Autobiography9. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was Philip Freneau10. Philip Freneau's famous poem The British Prison Ship was written about his imprisoned experience.11. Philip Freneau was considered as the " poet of the American Revolution. "12. Philip Freneau has been called the "Father of American Poetry."14. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of Reason and Revolution.Part III. The Literature of Romanticism1. In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote The Sketch Book which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.2. In 1828, Noah Webster published his An American Dictionary of the English Language.3. In 1755, Samuel Johnson published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the English Language.4. The Civil War of 1861—1865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of Slavery5. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called the Transcendental Club.6. The Transcendental Club often met at Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord home.7.Washington Irving was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.8. At nineteen, Washington Irving published in his brother's newspaper, his "Jonathan Old style" satires of New York life.9. In Washington Irving's work The Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.10. In Paris, Washington Irving met John Howard Payne, the American dramatist and actor, with whom Irving wrote his brilliant social comedy Charles the Second, or The Merry Monarch.11. The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irving's work named The Sketch Book.12.Washington Irving was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War.13. Washington Irving' s first book appeared in 1809. It was entitled The History of New York.14. Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Gold¬smith, and the other is Life of Washington.15. The first important American novelist was James Fenimore Cooper16. James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Spy was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.17. The best of James Fenimore Cooper's sea romances was The Pilot. The hero of the novel represents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.18. The central figure in the Leather stocking Tales is Natty Bumppo , who goes by the various names of Leather stocking,Deer slayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.19. To a Waterfowl" is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant ' s work, it has been called by an eminent English critic " the most perfect brief poem in the language. "20.William Cullen Bryant was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world literature.21. Among William Cullen Bryant's most important later works are his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey into English blank verse.22. Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Bells is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language.23. Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven was published in 1845 as the title poem of a collection.24. Ralph Waldo Emerson was responsible for bringing transcendentalism to New England.25. Ralph Waldo Emerson's truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson's theories, was Henry David Thoreau26. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at Walden Pond.27. A superb book entitled Walden came out of Henry David Thoreau's two-year experiment at Walden Pond.28. From Henry David Thoreau's Concord jail experience, came his famous essay Civil Disobedience.29. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter.30. Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.31. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first collection of poems entitled Voices of the Night appeared in 1838.32. The most scholarly of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's writings is his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.33. Besides lyrics and longer poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote dramatic works, among which Michael Angelo is the most conspicuous.34. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Lowell are the only two American poets commemorated in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.35. After his death, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.36. The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century through the outburst of the Civil War.37. The English author named Sir Walter Scott was, in a way, responsible for the romantic description of landscape in American literature and the development of American Indian romance. His Waverley novels were models for American historical romances.38. Published in 1823, The Pioneers was the first of the Leather stocking Tales, in their order of publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.39. In The Pioneers, Natty Bumppo represents the ideal American, living a virtuous and free life in God' s world.40. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson41. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay The American Scholar has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.42. Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was Henry David Thoreau a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson' s and his junior by some fourteen years.43. The way in which Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.44. Herman Melville's world classic novel Moby Dick was dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne a novelist.45. It is said that in his late years, Herman Melville stopped writing novels and stories and turned to poetry, Clarel is his most famous poetic work.46. Herman Melville is best known as the author of one book named Moby Dick which is, critics have agreed, one of theworld's greatest masterpieces.Part IV. The Literature of Realism1. Realism had originated in the country France as a literary doctrine that called for "reality and truth" in the depiction of ordinary life.2. The arbiter of nineteenth century literary realism in America was William Dean Howells.3. Henry James probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.4. Mark Twain, breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since.5. Darwinism had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.6. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called free verse, that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.7. In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman gave America its first genuine epic poem.8. There is no doubt that the solitary Emily Dickinson of Amherst, Massachusetts, is a poet of great power and beauty.9. There was only one female prose writer in the nineteenth century. That was Harriet Beecher Stowe10. Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece is Uncle Tom's Cabin.11. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name Mark Twain .12. One of Samuel Langhorne Clemens' best books Life on the Mississippi is built around his experiences as a steamboat pilot.13. The result of Mark Twain's European trip was a series of newspaper articles, later published as a book called Innocents Abroad.14. Mark Twain was the first literary giant born west of the Mississippi.15. Mark Twain's work The Mysterious Stranger tells of the visits of an angel to the village of Eseldorf in Austria in 1590.16. William Sidney Porter, whose pen name was O. Henry, was the author of The Cop and the Anthem.17. Many of O. Henry's stories tell about the life of poor people in New York.18. 0. Henry sympathized with the poor's lot and hated those rich who exploited and despised them. This is especially seen in his story entitled An Unfinished story.19. It is said that O. Henry imitated a French author named De Maupassant as a model, and there is indeed much in common between these two writers.20. The title of one of O. Henry's books The Four Millions indicates that he considered all the people of New York City worth writing about, instead of only the upper class.21. Henry James' first novel is Watch and Ward, which failed to make him famous.22. The novel which was described by an American critic as "an outrage to American girlhood" is Henry James' Daisy Miller .23. Henry James' first important fiction was A Passionate Pilgrim in which he took up for the first time the theme of The American in Europe.24. In 1881, Henry James published his novel The Portrait of a Lady, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.25. Henry James is considered the founder of Psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.26. The name of the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady is Isabel Archer.27. In 1902 Jack London published his first novel A Daughter of the Snows .28. Martin Eden is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.29. The first novel of Theodore Dreiser was Sister Carrie.30. The identification of potency with money is at the heart of Theodore Dreiser's masterpiece An American Tragedy.31. The protagonisw of Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire is Frank Cowperwood.32. Theodore Dreiser visited the Soviet Union in 1927 and published Dreiser Looks at Russia the following year.33. Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie , a commercial and critical failure when first published in 1900, was reissued in 1907 and won high praise for its grim, naturalistic portrayal of American society.34. Mark Twain's first novel, The Gilded Age was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.35. Three years' life on the Mississippi left such a fond memory with Mark Twain that he returned to the theme more than once in his writing career. His book Life on the Mississippi relates it in a vivid, moving way.36. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was Mark Twain' s masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, "all modern American literature comes. "37. The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , which was a success from its first publication in 1884, and has always been regarded as one of the great books of western literature and western civilization.38. Stephen Crane is the pioneer who wrote in the naturalistic tradition.39. Stephen Crane's novel Maggi; A Girl of the Streets relates the story of a good woman' s down¬ fall and destruction ina slum environment.40. War in the novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a plain slaughter-house. There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anything, it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to run from danger.41. Benjamin Frank Norris' novel McTe ague has been called "the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel" and "a consciously naturalistic manifesto".42. Jack London's masterwork Martin Eden is somewhat autobiographical.43. O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order to get money for a Christmas present for each other.Part V. Twentieth Century Literature (I) Before WWII1. The First World War stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth century and the contemporary American literature.2. American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a "Lost Generation " , devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.3. The most significant American poem of the twentieth century was The Waste Land.4. The publication of The Waste Land, written by Thomas Stearns Eliot, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.5. In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in Main Street .6. F. Scott Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel The Great Gatsby7. The Great Depression of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nation's self-confidence.8. An American woman writer named Gertrude Stein who had lived in Paris since 1903, welcomed the young expatriates to her literary salon, and gave them a name "the Lost Generation".9. William Faulkner wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the American Southern States, and its effecton the lives of modern people, both black and white.10. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the "Imagist" movement.11. Ezra Pound's major work of poetry is the long poem called The Cantos.12. One of Edwin Arlington Robinson's early books, Captain Craig, once came to the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt.13. Edwin Arlington Robinson produced a large body of works and was honored with the Pulitzer Prize in 1922, 1925 and 1928.14. Robert Frost' s first book A Boy's Will brought him to the attention of influential critics, such as Ezra Pound, who praised him as an authentic poet.15. Robert Frost's second volume of poems was North of Boston16. "After Apple-Picking" is a well-known poem written by Robert Frost17. New Hampshire, one of Robert Frost's longest poems, is a very witty and wise anecdotal discussion about the values of life and character.18. At one time, Sandburg's reputation mainly rested on a multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln including "The Prairie Years" and "The War Years".19. Carl Sandburg' s love of folklore developed in time into a rather modern tendency to represent it in literature such as in his The People,Yes .20. Wallace Stevens was successful in two fields of activity which did not seem compatible with one another; he was a very successful businessman and a very re¬markable contemporary poet at the same time.21. At the age of 44, Wallace Stevens was finally persuaded to publish a book of poems, entitled Harmonium.22. The Necessary Angel is a collection of Wallace Stevens' s occasional lectures on poetry.23. For the publication of his Collected Poems, Wallace Stevens received the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.24. After his death, Wallace Stevens' s previously uncollected works appeared under the title Opus Posthumous.25. In 1915, Thomas Stearns Eliot published his Prufrock and Other Observations.26. In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot published his The Sacred Wood, containing, among other essays, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", the earliest statement of his aesthetics.27. In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot began to write his masterpiece The Waste Land, one of the major works of modern literature.28. As Thomas Stearns Eliot declared, he followed strictly the advice of his close friend Ezra Pound in cutting and concentrating The Waste Land.29. Thomas Stearns Eliot's later poetry took a positive turn toward faith in life. This was demonstrated by Ash-Wednesday,a poem of mystical conflict between faith and doubt.30. In his work The Hollow Men, Thomas Stearns Eliot satirized the straw men, the Guy Fawkles men, whose world would end "not with a bang, but a whimper."31. Few men of letters have been more fully honored in their own day than Thomas Stearns Eliot, and even those who strongly disagree with him seemed content with his selection for the Nobel Prize in 1948.32. Thomas Steams Eliot wrote seven plays, the best of which is Murder in the Cathedral, a verse play on an ancient historical subject, written in 1935.33. Thomas Stearns Eliot's last important work was Four Quartets, a profound meditation on time and timelessness, written in four parts.34. F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel This Side of Paradise, with its portrayal of casual dissipations of "flaming youth" , was an immediate commercial success.35. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.36. F. Scott Fitzgerald' s second novel The Beautiful and the Damned describes a handsome young man and his beautiful wife, undoubtedly modelled after himself and Zelda.37. The hero in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender is the Night is a psychiatrist who marries a rich patient. The author condemns the wasted energy of misguided youth.38. F. Scott Fitzgerald's last novel The Last Tycoon remained unfinished.39. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway became the spokes¬ man for what Gertrude Stein had called "a Lost Generation".40. Emest Hemingway's stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel A Farewell to Arms in 1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.41. Set in Spain during the Civil War, the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls stated again Hemingway ' s view of love found and lost, and described the indomitable spirit of the common people.42. In the story The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named Santiago, who shows triumphant even in defeat.43. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded a Nobel Prize for his "mastery of the art of modem narration".44. Numerous parallels exist between the events of Ernest Hemingway's life and those of his characters, but fewer were closer than those of Richard Cantwell, the hero of the work Across the River and into the Trees.45. In 1952, Ernest Hemingway published a successful novel entitled The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and occasioned the award of the Nobel Prize in 1954.46. In the same way that F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age became the symbol for an age, Ernest Hemingway' s novel The Sun also Rises painted the image of a whole generation, the Lost Generation.47. Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms can be read as a footnote to The Sun Also Rises in that it explains how people, like Jake Barnes, come to behave the way they do.48. The Spanish war was conductive to Ernest Hemingway's writing The Fifth Column, a play which was universally deplored.49. John Steinbeck was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.50. In the short novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck portrayed the tragic friendship between two migrant workers.51. In the work The Long Valley John Steinbeck described the fate of the lowly whose instinctive responses to life led only to destruction.52. The Grapes of Wrath is generally regarded as John Steinbeck's masterpiece.53. In 1935, John Steinbeck published Tortilla Flat, a collection of short stories which vividly described the life of poor Mexican-Americans with affection and humor.54. John Steinbeck's post-war novel The Pearl reflected his bitter feelings against those greedy, rapacious elements of society which made the war possible.55. Quentin is a character in William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury56. Joe Christmas is a character in William Faulkner's novel Light in August.57. The works written by William Faulkner may be viewed as a culmination of the development of twentieth-century southern fiction.58. Katherine Ann Porter's novel Ship of Fools consists of three parts, "Embarkation", "High Sea" , "The Harbors"59. In her essay "Place in Fiction" , Eudora Welty emphasizes the importance of for literary creations. She is noted for her fidelity to the American South, so her major theme relate to place, traditional southern family relationships.60. Carson McCullers was said to touch William Faulkner in writing, and her well-known novels are and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe61. One of the important figures in the 1930s who tried to adapt European avantgardism to American writing is Nathanael West62. The New Criticism first emerged in 1920s as a reaction against the prevailing time-honored critical tendency to focus on thetheme often in disregard of the form of the work. The name is given by John Crowe Ransom's collection of critical essays The New Criticism .Part VI. Twentieth Century Literature (II) After WWII2. In poetry, Postmodernism strives to go against the vogue of the New Critical poem and its parent style, the High Modernism of the previous decades.4. Allen Ginsberg is the spokesman of postwar Beat Generation in American literary history.17. J. D. Salinger is probably best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye26. Joseph Heller's Catch-22is one of the most famous novels dealing with the subject of absurdity in typical "obscure" techniques.Part VII. American Drama1. Eugene O' Neill is the first master in the American history of drama.2. In 1916, Eugene O' Neill's first play Bound East for Cardiff was put on by the Province-town Players, which was significant not only for him but for American Drama.5. Eugene O' Neill received the Pulitzer Prize for his Beyond the Horizon and Anna Christie between 1920 and 1922, and Nobel Prize in 1936.10. The Theater of the Absurd in the 1950s and 1960s refers to some plays, some of which center on the meaninglessness of life with its pain and suffering that seems funny, even ridiculous. Edward Albee is one of the representatives.Part VIII. Multi-ethnic Literature1. African American literature centers on a myth, though also biblical, quite different from that on which mainstream American literature is based.2. African American literature is patterned on a myth of_deliverance from slavery, that of the Hebrew prophet Moses leading the Jews in their flight from the bondage in Egypt.3. African American literature has undergone a long process of evolution. Its early form was oral, including songs, ballads and spirituals, in short, folk literature in its various manifestations.6. In the 1940 Richard Wright's Native Son came out as a watershed in the tradition of the African American novel.7. Toni Morrison and Alice Walker are two of the most important female African American novelists.14. By far the most important person in the Harlem Renaissance was Langston Hughes known as African Americans' poet laureate, who ultimately outgrew the movement, and developed into one of the major African American authors to help make African American culture.15. Langston Hughes was one of the founders of the black theater in the Federal Theater Project during the Depression. 18. Native Son by Richard Wright is a story about an African American adolescent's growth of awareness. It consists of three sections, namely "Fear", "Right" and "Fate".19. African American literature attained a higher degree of maturity in 1952 when Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man appeared in print.21. Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon is seen as another milestone in African American literature after Native Son and Invisible Man. It tells the story of an African American trying to recover his family roots.29. Another important Asian American writer is Amy Tan, whose first novel, The Joy Luck Club, made quite a stir on the contemporary American literary scene and brought Asian American literature to the intensive scrutiny of readers and critics alike.。
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第二章理性时代和革命时期文学填空题1. In Philadelphia, ______ edited the Pennsylvania Magazine, and contributed to the Pennsylvania Journal.【答案】Thomas Paine2. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet ______ appeared.【答案】Common Sense【解析】1776年美国独立的风潮开始，托马斯·潘恩支持美国独立，反对英国的殖民专政，撰写了他的成名小册子《常识》，为美国从英国殖民中独立出来辩论，批评英国国王残暴无能，认为独立后的美国应该建立共和国。
3. Except Common Sense, Paine’s the other two famous works were______ and ______.【答案】The Rights of Man，The Age of Reason【解析】潘恩著名的作品包括，《常识》、《人的权利》、《理性的时代》。
4. Thomas Paine’s second most important work ______ was an impassioned plea against hereditary monarchy.【答案】The Rights of Man【解析】1791年3月，托马斯·潘恩在伦敦出版《人权论》，激烈抨击埃德蒙·伯克（Edmund Burke，1729-1797）的《法国革命感言录》（Reflections on the Revolution in France）（1790）。
《人权论》的可贵之处还在于，它冲破了当时笼罩于整个西方思想界对英国君主立宪政体的迷信，深入骨髓地批判了这一政体，给当时还处于摸索状态的法国革命指明了共和主义的崭新方向。
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Y美国文学吴伟仁版_模拟练习与答案第三章模拟练习与答案Blank Filling1. In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote .which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.2. The Romantic period in the American literary history covers the time between the end of the century to the outbreak of the . It started with the publication of Irving's and ended with Whitman's . This period is also called.3. Irving's The Sketch Book is a collection of essays, sketches and tales, of which the most famous and frequently anthologized are and .4. The Transcendental Club often met at 's Concord home.5. Emersonian Transcendentalism is actually a philosophical school which absorbed some ideological concerns of American and Euro pean Romanticism.6. was regarded as Father of the American short stories.7. Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, andthe other is .8. Cooper's novel was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.9. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is. , who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.10. In , Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln's death.11. The great work not only demonstrates Emersonian ideas of self-reliance but also develops and tests Thoreau's owntranscendental philosophy.12. In , Whitman's own early experience may well be identifiedwith the childhood of a young growing America.13. "Imbued with an inquiring imagination, an intensely meditative mind, and unceasing interest in the ntenor of the heart' of man's being" is used to describe .14. by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage.15. A superb book came out of Thoreau's two-year experiment at Walden Pond.16. From Thoreau's Concord jail experience, came his famous essay17. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne's novel .18. Melville's novel is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.19. The best of Cooper's sea romances was .The hero of the novel represents John Pall Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.20. is the narrator in Moby-Dick.21. Transcendentalism was put forward by the people from .22. has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence."23. Published in 1823, was the first of the Leatherstocldng Tales, in their publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.24. The way in which wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.25. can somewhat be called "the Father of the Americandetective story".II. Multiple Choice1. Statement is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.A. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellectB. Hawthorne is a realistic writerC. Hawthorne is also a great allegoristD. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism2. In Walt Whitman's "There was a Child Went Forth," the child refers to .A. the poet himself as a childB. any American childC. the young AmericaD. one of the poet's neighbor3. In Moby-Dick, the voyage symbolizes .A. the microcosm of human societyB. a search for truthC. the unknown worldD. nature4. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with .A. natureB. transcendentalist ideasC. human beingsD. celestial beings5. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and .A. Henry David ThoreauB. Washington IrvingC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Wait Whitman6. tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.A. Twice-Told TalesB. The Scarlet LetterC. The House of the Seven GablesD. The Marble Faun7. is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-Dick8. The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD. A history of New York9. Washington Irving's social conservation and literary for the past isrevealed, to some extent, in his famous story, .A. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"B. "Rip Van Winkle"C. "The Custom-House'D. "The Birthmark"10. Which of the following comments on the writings by Herman Melville is not true?A. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is a short story.B. "Benito Cereno" is a novella.C. The Confidence -Man has something to do with the sea and sailors.D. Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American Prose epic.11. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT .A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whaleC. power of the Great NatureD. evil of the world12. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is particularly evident in .A. Cooper's Leatherstocking TalesB. Hawthorne's The Scarlet LetterC. Whitman's Leaves of GrassD. Irving's Rip Van Winkle13. As a philosophical and literary movement, flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism14. In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stands for .A. AdulteryB. AngelC. AmiableD. All the above15. is not the member of Transcendental Club.A. EmersonB. ThoreauC. WhitmanD. Fuller16. Poe's first collection of short stories is .A. Tales of a TravellerB. Leatherstocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque17. For Melville, as well as for the reader and , the narrator, MobyDick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. StarbuckB. StubbC. IshmaelD. Arab18. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter.A. Hester PrynneB. Atthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Pearl19. was a romanticized account of Melville's stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville become known as the" man who lived among cannibals".A. Moby DickB. TypeeC. OmooD. Billy Budd20. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as .A. the Naturalist PeriodB. the Modern PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Realistic Period21. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except .A. The House of the Seven GablesB. White JacketC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance22. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?A. The Sketch Book.B. Leaves of Grass.C. Leatherstocking Tales.D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.23. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except .A. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace24. Emily Dickinson's poetic idiom is noted for the following except .A. brevityB. directnessC. plainest wordsD. obscure25. "There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity." The thoughtis reflected in .A. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman BrownB. Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Walt Whitman's Leaves of GrassD. Herman Melville's Moby Dick26. It is on his that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested.A. tales about AmericaB. early poetryC. childhood recollectionsD. sketches about his European tours27. is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Walt WhitmanC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Mark Twain28. In Hawthorne's novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as .A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers29. Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle is famous for .A. Rip's escape into a mysterious placeB. The srory's German legendary source materialC. Rip's seeking for happinessD. Rip's 20-year sleep30. The publication of established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Over-Soul31. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinson's?A. This is my letter to the world.B. I heard a Fly buzz-when I died.C. The Road Not T aken.D. I like to see it lap the Miles.32. In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as .A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experienceB. the thought that designates man as a social animalC. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in commonD. the modes of thinking33. Which three novels drew from Melville's adventures among the people of the South Pacific islands?A. Typee.B. Omoo.C. Mardi.D. Redburn.34. In the poem "Song of Myself", Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of .A. the theory of universalityB. singularity and equality of all beings in valueC. both A and BD. none above35. Most of the poems in Whitman's Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass"and the as well.A. natureB. lifeC. selfD. self-reliance36. Emily Dickinson's poems (441) "This is my letter to the World" expresses the poet's about her communication with the outside world.A. indignationB. joyC. anxietyD. indifference37. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?A. Lyrical and well-structured.B. Free-flowing.C. Simple and rather crude.D. Conversational and casual.38. Which of the following writings is not finished by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Nature.B. Essays.C. The Over-Soul.D. Of Studies.39. In "I heard a Fly buzz-when I died", Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death .A. passionatelyB. pessimisticallyC. in despairD. peacefully40. Which book is not written by Emerson?A. Representative Men.B. English Traits.C. Nature.D. The Rhodora.III.Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in EnglishPassage 1"I like to see it lap the Miles...and lick the Valleys up...And stop to feed itself at Tanks...And then...prodigious step"Questions:A. Please give the name of the author.B. What does "it" in this poem refer to?C. What idea does this poem express?Passage 2"I celebrated myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume.For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. Whom does "you" refer to?C. What are the two principle beliefs that the poet set forth on this poem?Passage 3"The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting velocity the line ran through the grooves;...ran foul. Arab stopped to clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turn caught him round the neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew thewas gone."A. Identify the author and the work.B. Who is Ahab?C. What happens to Ahab in the end?Passage 4"It was with some difficulty he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay -- the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half starved dog, that looked like Wolf, was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed -- 'My very dog,' sighed poor Rip, 'has forgotten me!'Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. Whom does Dame Van Winkle refer to?C. Why was it difficult for him to find his house?Passage 5"From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, andits rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country. Drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Some say that the place was bewitched by a high German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the product or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson."Questions:A. Who is the writer of this short story from which the passage is taken?B. What is the title of this short story?C. Give a definition of" short story"."To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. Give a brief comment on this passage.Passage 7Hester Prynne's term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast. Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison, than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which allmankind was summoned to point its finger. Then, she was supposed by an unnatural tension of the nerves, and by all the combative energy of her character, which enabled her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph.Questions:A. Which novel is this selection taken from?B. What is the name of the novelist?C. What do you think is the symbolic meanings of the scarlet letter onHester's breast?Passage 8"Arms and the clarion for the battle, but the song of thanksgiving to the victory!" answered the liberated David. "Friend," he added, thrusting forth his lean, delicate hand forwards Hawkeye, in kindness, while his eyes twinkled and grew moist, "I thank thee the hairs of my head still grow where they were first rooted by Providence for, though those of other men may be more glossy and curling, I have ever found mine own well suited to the brain they shelter. That I did not join myself to the battle, was less owing to disinclination, than to the bonds of the heathen. Valiant and skillful hast thou proved thyself in the conflict, and I hereby thank thee, before proceeding to discharge other and more important duties, because thou hast proved thyself well worthy of a Christian's praise."...Questions:A. This novel was written by the American novelist. What is his name?B. What is the name of the novel?C. The central figure in this novel appeared in this passage. It is .Passage 9I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not Ii'red. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a comer, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a tree account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.A. This passage is taken from a famous work entitledB. The author of the work isC. List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going go live in the woods.Passage 10Lo! In you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!Questions:A. This is the last stanza of a poem "T o Hellen". Its writer is .B. With whom is Hellen associated in line 4?C. Who is Psyche?IV.Give brief answers to each of the following questions inEnglish1. Emily Dickinson is now recognized not only as a great poetess on her ownright but as a poetess of considerable influence upon American poetry of the present century. What are the qualities of her poems?2. Emerson is generally known as an essayist. What is the style of his proses?3. In American literature history, the Romantic Period, during which many amous writers and their masterpieces came into being, played an impor-tant role. Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman,etc., all of whom are not ignored by us. According to their writings, dis-cuss the features of American literature in this period.4. Nathaniei Hawthorne is one of the most interesting, yet most ambivalent riters in the American literary history. According to him, "There is evil in very human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole ife; but circumstances may rouse it to activity." Based on this thought, he ompleted Young Goodman Brown. Try to discuss the theme of this work.5. Moby Dick by Herman Melville is one of the few books in American litera-ure that has produced an exciting effect upon readers. Try to discuss the ymbolism in the book.第一章模拟练习与答案I．Blank Filling1. Hard work , thrift, piety and sobriety, thses were the values that dominated much of the early American writing.2. The American poets who emerged in the seventeenth century adapted the style of established European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strange, new environment.Bradstreet was one such poet.3. wrote his most impressive work The Magnalia Christi America.4. The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colonial period was .5. The Puritan philosophy known as was important in New England during the colonial time, and had a profound influence on the early American mind for several generations.6. Before his death, Jonathan . had gained a position as America's first systematic philosopher.7. Jonathan Edwards' masterpiece is .8. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems composed by .II. Multiple Choice1. The Puritan dominating values were .A. hard workB. thriftC. pietyD. sobriety2. Which statement about Cotton Mather is not true?A. He was a great Puritan historian.B. He was an inexhaustible'writer.C. He was a skillful preacher and an eminent theologian.D. He was a graduate of Oxford College.3. Jonathan Edwards' best and most representative sermon was .A. A True Sight of SinB. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodC. A Model of Christian CharityD. God's Determinations4. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the .A. RevolutionismB. ReasonC. IndividualismD. Rationalism5. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made sucha stir in England that she became known as the“” who appeared in America.A. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First MuseIII. Identification of FragmentsI heard the merry grasshopper then sing,The black-clad cricket bear a second part;They kept one tune and played on the same stringSeeming to glory in their little art.Small creatures abject thus their voices raise,And in their kind resound their Maker's praise,Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays?Questions:1. This is the ninth of the Contemplations written by an early Americanwoman writer. What is her name?2. Make a brief comment on this short poem.。
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第二章吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》模拟试题及详解（二）I. Fill in the blanks1. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s masterpiece is ______.【答案】Uncle Tom’s Cabin【解析】比彻·斯托夫人（Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896）的名作长篇小说《汤姆叔叔的小屋》（Uncle Tom’s Cabin）是19世纪最畅销的小说（以及第二畅销的书，仅次于最畅销的书《圣经》）并被认为是刺激废奴主义于1850年代兴起的一大原因。
2. The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as “_______”.【答案】The Gilded Age【解析】现实主义时期被马克吐温看作“镀金时代”。
3. Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “______”movement.【答案】imagism【解析】庞德是意象主义运动的领军人物。
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote ______, which has been called “the Manifesto ofA merican Transcendentalism,”and ______, which has been regarded as A merica’s “Declaration of Intellectual Independence.”【答案】Nature；“The A merican Scholar”【解析】爱默生的《论自然》被称为“美国超验主义的宣言”，其《美国学者》则被誉为美国知识分子的独立宣言。
5. William Bradford’s work ______ consists of two books. The first book deals with the persecutions of the Separatists in Scrooby, England, and the second book describes the signing of the “Compact”.【答案】MayflowerII. Multiple Choice1. Which ONE of the following is the author of The Leather-Stocking Tales?A. Henry David ThoreauB. Washington IrvingC. Edgar Allan PoeD. James Fennimore Cooper【答案】D【解析】James Fenimore Cooper（库柏），美国早期作家，The Leather-Stocking Tales （《皮裹腿故事集》）是他的经典之作。
吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》配套题库【章节题库(含考研真题)】-第一~二章【圣才出品】
第一章殖民地时期的美国文学填空题1. The term “Puritan” was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of ______.【答案】England【解析】清教徒（Puritan），是指要求清除英国国教Church of England中天主教残余的改革派。
其字词于16世纪60年代开始使用，源于拉丁文的Purus，意为“清洁”。
2. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was ______.【答案】American Puritanism【解析】美国文化源于清教文化，由清教徒移民时传入北美。
美国主流价值观都可以追溯到殖民地时期一统天下的清教主义，并且清教思想对美国文学有着根深蒂固的影响。
3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the ______ values that dominated much of the early American writing.【答案】Puritan【解析】清教主义，起源于英国，在北美殖民地得以实践与发展。
清教徒强调艰苦奋斗、勤俭节约、虔诚和淡泊。
这些价值观也影响了早期的美国文学。
4. Many Puritans wrote verse, but the works of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and______, rose to the level of real poetry.【答案】Edward T aylor【解析】美国殖民时期最著名的诗人是安·布莱德斯特和爱德华·泰勒。
5. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems composed by ______.【答案】Anne Bradstreet【解析】安·布莱德斯特律是美国殖民时期著名的诗人。
《美国文学史及选读》考研吴伟仁版考研复习笔记和真题
《美国文学史及选读》考研吴伟仁版考研复习笔记和真题第一部分殖民地时期的美国文学第1章约翰·史密斯1.1 复习笔记I. Historical Introduction (历史背景)(1) At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the vast continental area that was to become the United States had been probed only slightly by English and European explorers. At last early in the seventeenth century, the English settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.(2) The colonies that became the first United States were for the most part sustained by English traditions, ruled by English laws, supported by English commerce, and named after English monarchs and English lands.(3) The first writings that we call American were the narratives and journals of the settlements. They wrote about their voyage to the new land, about adapting to new life and dealing with Indians; they wrote letters, contracts, government charters, religious and political statements.(4) The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was Captain John Smith, an English soldier of fortune.His reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctly American literature written in English. (1) 直到17世纪初，美国所在的广袤大陆才被英国及少数几个欧洲国家的探险家涉足。
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Part I. The Literature of Colonial America1. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was American Puritanism11. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the Puritan values that dominated much of the early American writing.Part II. The Literature of Reason and Revolution3. Benjamin Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called the General Magazine.4. Benjamin Franklin's best writing is found in his masterpiece Autobiography9. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was Philip Freneau10. Philip Freneau's famous poem The British Prison Ship was written about his imprisoned experience.11. Philip Freneau was considered as the " poet of the American Revolution. "12. Philip Freneau has been called the "Father of American Poetry."14. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of Reason and Revolution.Part III. The Literature of Romanticism1. In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote The Sketch Book which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.2. In 1828, Noah Webster published his An American Dictionary of the English Language.3. In 1755, Samuel Johnson published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the English Language.4. The Civil War of 1861—1865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of Slavery5. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called the Transcendental Club.6. The Transcendental Club often met at Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord home.7. Washington Irving was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.8. At nineteen,Washington Irving published in his brother's newspaper, his "Jonathan Old style" satires of New York life.9. In Washington Irving's work The Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.10. In Paris, Washington Irving met John Howard Payne, the American dramatist and actor, with whom Irving wrote his brilliant social comedy Charles the Second, or The Merry Monarch.11. The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irving's work named The Sketch Book.12. Washington Irving was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War.13. Washington Irving' s first book appeared in 1809. It was entitled The History of New York.14. Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Gol d¬ smith, and the other is Life of Washington.15. The first important American novelist was James Fenimore Cooper16. James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Spy was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.17. The best of James Fenimore Cooper's sea romances was The Pilot. The hero of the novel represents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.18. The central figure in the Leather stocking Tales is Natty Bumppo , who goes by the various names of Leather stocking, Deer slayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.19. To a Waterfowl" is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant' s work, it has been called by an eminent English critic " the most perfect brief poem in the language. "20. William Cullen Bryant was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world literature.21. Among William Cullen Bryant's most important later works are his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey into English blank verse.22. Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Bells is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language.23. Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven was published in 1845 as the title poem of a collection.24. Ralph Waldo Emerson was responsible for bringing transcendentalism to New England.25. Ralph Waldo Emerson's truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson's theories, was Henry David Thoreau26. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at Walden Pond.27. A superb book entitled Walden came out of Henry David Thoreau's two-year experiment at Walden Pond.28. From Henry David Thoreau's Concord jail experience, came his famous essay Civil Disobedience.29. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter.30. Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.31. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first collection of poems entitled Voices of the Night appeared in 1838.32. The most scholarly of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's writings is his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.33. Besides lyrics and longer poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote dramatic works, among which Michael Angelo is the most conspicuous.34. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Lowell are the only two American poets commemorated in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.35. After his death, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.36. The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century through the outburst of the Civil War.37. The English author named Sir Walter Scott was, in a way, responsible for the romantic description of landscape in American literature and the development of American Indian romance. His Waverley novels were models for American historical romances.38. Published in 1823, The Pioneers was the first of the Leather stocking Tales, in their order of publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.39. In The Pioneers, Natty Bumppo represents the ideal American, living a virtuous and free life in God' s world.40. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson41. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay The American Scholar has been regarded as "America's Declaration ofIntellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.42. Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was Henry David Thoreau a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson' s and his junior by some fourteen years.43. The way in which Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.44. Herman Melville's world classic novel Moby Dick was dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne a novelist.45. It is said that in his late years, Herman Melville stopped writing novels and stories and turned to poetry, Clarel is his most famous poetic work.46. Herman Melville is best known as the author of one book named Moby Dick which is, critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces.Part IV. The Literature of Realism1. Realism had originated in the country France as a literary doctrine that called for "reality and truth" in the depiction of ordinary life.2. The arbiter of nineteenth century literary realism in America was William Dean Howells.3. Henry James probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.4. Mark Twain, breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since.5. Darwinism had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.6. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called free verse , that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.7. In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman gave America its first genuine epic poem.8. There is no doubt that the solitary Emily Dickinson of Amherst, Massachusetts, is a poet of great power and beauty.9. There was only one female prose writer in the nineteenth century. That was Harriet Beecher Stowe10. Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece is Uncle Tom's Cabin.11. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name Mark Twain .12. One of Samuel Langhorne Clemens' best books Life on the Mississippi is built around his experiences as a steamboat pilot.13. The result of Mark Twain's European trip was a series of newspaper articles, later published as a book called Innocents Abroad.14. Mark Twain was the first literary giant born west of the Mississippi.15. Mark Twain's work The Mysterious Stranger tells of the visits of an angel to the village of Eseldorf in Austria in 1590.16. William Sidney Porter, whose pen name was O. Henry, was the author of The Cop and the Anthem.17. Many of O. Henry's stories tell about the life of poor people in New York.18. 0. Henry sympathized with the poor's lot and hated those rich who exploited and despised them. This is especially seen in his story entitled An Unfinished story.19. It is said that O. Henry imitated a French author named De Maupassant as a model, and there is indeed much in common between these two writers.20. The title of one of O. Henry's books The Four Millions indicates that he considered all the people of New York City worth writing about, instead of only the upper class.21. Henry James' first novel is Watch and Ward, which failed to make him famous.22. The novel which was described by an American critic as "an outrage to American girlhood" is Henry James' Daisy Miller .23. Henry James' first important fiction was A Passionate Pilgrim in which he took up for the first time the theme of The American in Europe.24. In 1881, Henry James published his novel The Portrait of a Lady, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.25. Henry James is considered the founder of Psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.26. The name of the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady is Isabel Archer.27. In 1902 Jack London published his first novel A Daughter of the Snows .28. Martin Eden is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.29. The first novel of Theodore Dreiser was Sister Carrie.30. The identification of potency with money is at the heart of Theodore Dreiser's masterpiece An American Tragedy.31. The protagonisw of Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire is Frank Cowperwood.32. Theodore Dreiser visited the Soviet Union in 1927 and published Dreiser Looks at Russia the following year.33. Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie , a commercial and critical failure when first published in 1900, was reissued in 1907 and won high praise for its grim, naturalistic portrayal of American society.34. Mark Twain's first novel,The Gilded Age was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.35. Three years' life on the Mississippi left such a fond memory with Mark Twain that he returned to the theme more than once in his writing career. His book Life on the Mississippi relates it in a vivid, moving way.36. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was Mark Twain' s masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, "all modern American literature comes. "37. The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , which wasa success from its first publication in 1884, and has always been regarded as one of the great books of western literature and western civilization.38. Stephen Crane is the pioneer who wrote in the naturalistic tradition.39. Stephen Crane's novel Maggi; A Girl of the Streets relates the story of a good woman' s down¬ fall and destruction in a slum environment.40. War in the novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a plain slaughter-house. There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anything, it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to run from danger.41. Benjamin Frank Norris' novel McTe ague has been called "the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel" and "a consciously naturalistic manifesto".42. Jack London's masterwork Martin Eden is somewhat autobiographical.43. O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessionsin order to get money for a Christmas present for each other.Part V. Twentieth Century Literature (I) Before WWII1. The First World War stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth century and the contemporary American literature.2. American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a "Lost Generation " , devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.3. The most significant American poem of the twentieth century was The Waste Land.4. The publication of The Waste Land, written by Thomas Stearns Eliot, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.5. In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in Main Street .6. F. Scott Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel The Great Gatsby7. The Great Depression of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nation's self-confidence.8. An American woman writer named Gertrude Stein who had lived in Paris since 1903, welcomed the young expatriates to her literary salon, and gave them a name "the Lost Generation".9. William Faulkner wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the American Southern States, and its effect on the lives of modern people, both black and white.10. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the "Imagist" movement.11. Ezra Pound's major work of poetry is the long poem called The Cantos.12. One of Edwin Arlington Robinson's early books, Captain Craig, once came to the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt.13. Edwin Arlington Robinson produced a large body of works and was honored with the Pulitzer Prize in 1922, 1925 and 1928.14. Robert Frost' s first book A Boy's Will brought him to the attention of influential critics, such as Ezra Pound, who praised him as an authentic poet.15. Robert Frost's second volume of poems was North of Boston16. "After Apple-Picking" is a well-known poem written by Robert Frost17. New Hampshire, one of Robert Frost's longest poems, is a very witty and wise anecdotal discussion about the values of life and character.18. At one time, Sandburg's reputation mainly rested on a multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln including "The Prairie Years" and "The War Years".19. Carl Sandburg' s love of folklore developed in time into a rather modern tendency to represent it in literature such as in his The People,Yes .20. Wallace Stevens was successful in two fields of activity which did not seem compatible with one another; he was a very successful businessman and a very re¬markable contemporary poet at the same t ime.21. At the age of 44, Wallace Stevens was finally persuaded to publish a book of poems, entitled Harmonium.22. The Necessary Angel is a collection of Wallace Stevens' s occasional lectures on poetry.23. For the publication of his Collected Poems, Wallace Stevens received the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.24. After his death, Wallace Stevens' s previously uncollected works appeared under the title Opus Posthumous.25. In 1915, Thomas Stearns Eliot published his Prufrock and Other Observations.26. In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot published his The Sacred Wood, containing, among other essays, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", the earliest statement of his aesthetics.27. In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot began to write his masterpiece The Waste Land, one of the major works of modern literature.28. As Thomas Stearns Eliot declared, he followed strictly the advice of his close friend Ezra Pound in cutting and concentrating The Waste Land.29. Thomas Stearns Eliot's later poetry took a positive turn toward faith in life. This was demonstrated by Ash-Wednesday, a poem of mystical conflict between faith and doubt.30. In his work The Hollow Men, Thomas Stearns Eliot satirized the straw men, the Guy Fawkles men, whose world would end "not with a bang, but a whimper."31. Few men of letters have been more fully honored in their own day than Thomas Stearns Eliot, and even those who strongly disagree with him seemed content with his selection for the Nobel Prize in 1948.32. Thomas Steams Eliot wrote seven plays, the best of which is Murder in the Cathedral, a verse play on an ancient historical subject, written in 1935.33. Thomas Stearns Eliot's last important work was Four Quartets, a profound meditation on time and timelessness, written in four parts.34. F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel This Side of Paradise, with its portrayal of casual dissipations of "flaming youth" , was an immediate commercial success.35. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.36. F. Scott Fitzgerald' s second novel The Beautiful and the Damned describes a handsome young man and his beautiful wife, undoubtedly modelled after himself and Zelda.37. The hero in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender is the Night is a psychiatrist who marries a rich patient. The author condemns the wasted energy of misguided youth.38. F. Scott Fitzgerald's last novel The Last Tycoon remained unfinished.39. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises,Ernest Hemingway became the spokes¬ man for what Gertrude Stein had called "a Lost Generation".40. Emest Hemingway's stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel A Farewell to Arms in 1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.41. Set in Spain during the Civil War, the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls stated again Hemingway ' s view of love found and lost, and described the indomitable spirit of the common people.42. In the story The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named Santiago, who shows triumphant even in defeat.43. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded a Nobel Prize for his "mastery of the art of modem narration".44. Numerous parallels exist between the events of Ernest Hemingway's life and those of his characters, but fewer were closer than those of Richard Cantwell, the hero of the work Across the River and into the Trees.45. In 1952, Ernest Hemingway published a successful novel entitled The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and occasioned the award of the Nobel Prize in 1954.46. In the same way that F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age became the symbol for an age, Ernest Hemingway' s novel The Sun also Rises painted the image of a whole generation, the Lost Generation. 47. Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms can be read as a footnote to The Sun Also Rises in that it explains how people, like Jake Barnes, come to behave the way they do.48. The Spanish war was conductive to Ernest Hemingway's writing The Fifth Column, a play which was universally deplored.49. John Steinbeck was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.50. In the short novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck portrayed the tragic friendship between two migrant workers.51. In the work The Long Valley John Steinbeck described the fate of the lowly whose instinctive responses to life led only to destruction.52. The Grapes of Wrath is generally regarded as John Steinbeck's masterpiece.53. In 1935, John Steinbeck published Tortilla Flat, a collection of short stories which vividly described the life of poor Mexican-Americans with affection and humor.54. John Steinbeck's post-war novel The Pearl reflected his bitter feelings against those greedy, rapacious elements of society which made the war possible.55. Quentin is a character in William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury56. Joe Christmas is a character in William Faulkner's novel Light in August.57. The works written by William Faulkner may be viewed as a culmination of the development of twentieth-century southern fiction.58. Katherine Ann Porter's novel Ship of Fools consists of three parts, "Embarkation", "High Sea" , "The Harbors"59. In her essay "Place in Fiction" , Eudora Welty emphasizes the importance of for literary creations. She is noted for her fidelity to the American South, so her major theme relate to place, traditional southern family relationships.60. Carson McCullers was said to touch William Faulkner in writing, and her well-known novels are and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe61. One of the important figures in the 1930s who tried to adapt European avantgardism to American writing is Nathanael West62. The New Criticism first emerged in 1920s as a reaction against the prevailing time-honored critical tendency to focus on the theme often in disregard of the form of the work. The name is given by John Crowe Ransom's collection of critical essays The New Criticism .Part VI. Twentieth Century Literature (II) After WWII2. In poetry, Postmodernism strives to go against the vogue of the New Critical poem and its parent style, the High Modernism of the previous decades.4. Allen Ginsberg is the spokesman of postwar Beat Generation in American literary history.17. J. D. Salinger is probably best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye26. Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is one of the most famous novels dealing with the subject of absurdity in typical "obscure" techniques.Part VII. American Drama1. Eugene O' Neill is the first master in the American history of drama.2. In 1916, Eugene O' Neill's first play Bound East for Cardiff was put on by the Province-town Players, which was significant not only for him but for American Drama.5. Eugene O' Neill received the Pulitzer Prize for his Beyond the Horizon and Anna Christie between 1920 and 1922, and Nobel Prize in 1936.10. The Theater of the Absurd in the 1950s and 1960s refers to some plays, some of which center on the meaninglessness of life with its pain and suffering that seems funny, even ridiculous. Edward Albee is one of the representatives.Part VIII. Multi-ethnic Literature1. African American literature centers on a myth, though also biblical, quite different from that on which mainstream American literature is based.2. African American literature is patterned on a myth of_ deliverance from slavery, that of the Hebrew prophet Moses leading the Jews in their flight from the bondage in Egypt.3. African American literature has undergone a long process of evolution. Its early form was oral, including songs, ballads and spirituals, in short, folk literature in its various manifestations.6. In the 1940 Richard Wright's Native Son came out as a watershed in the tradition of the African American novel.7. Toni Morrison and Alice Walker are two of the most important female African American novelists.14. By far the most important person in the Harlem Renaissance was Langston Hughes known as African Americans' poet laureate, who ultimately outgrew the movement, and developed into one of the major African American authors to help make African American culture.15. Langston Hughes was one of the founders of the black theater in the Federal Theater Project during the Depression.18. Native Son by Richard Wright is a story about an African American adolescent's growth of awareness. It consists of three sections, namely "Fear", "Right" and "Fate".19. African American literature attained a higher degree of maturity in 1952 when Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man appeared in print.21. Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon is seen as another milestone in African American literature after Native Son and Invisible Man. It tells the story of an African American trying to recover his family roots.29. Another important Asian American writer is Amy Tan, whose first novel,The Joy Luck Club, made quitea stir on the contemporary American literary scene and brought Asian American literature to the intensive scrutiny of readers and critics alike.。
吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》配套题库【章节题库(含考研真题)】-第四章【圣才出品】
第四章现实主义文学填空题1. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, that is poetry withouta fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.【答案】free verse【解析】沃尔特·惠特曼（Walt Whitman，1810-1892）是美国著名诗人、人文主义者，他创造性地运用了诗歌的自由体（Free Verse），其代表作品是诗集《草叶集》（Leaves of Grass）。
自由诗是诗体的一种，其结构自由﹐段数、行数、字数没有一定规格，语言有自然节奏而不用韵。
2. O. Henry’s ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order to get money for a Christmas present for each other.【答案】The Gift of the Magi【解析】《麦琪的礼物》（The Gift of the Magi）是美国著名文学家欧·亨利的一篇短篇小说，它描写了一个感人的故事：在圣诞节前一天，一对小夫妻互赠礼物，结果阴差阳错，两人珍贵的礼物都变成了无用的东西，而他们却得到了比任何实物都宝贵的东西——爱3. In ______, Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.【答案】Song of Myself【解析】在惠特曼的《自我之歌》中他将自己早期的经历同一个正在成长中的美国等同起来。
4. In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, ______ gave America its first genuine epic poem.【答案】Walt Whitman【解析】《草叶集》（Leaves of Grass）是十九世纪美国作家沃尔特·惠特曼（Walt Whitman）浪漫主义诗集。
美国文学填空填空题练习
Part I. The Literature of Colonial America1. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was American Puritanism11. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the Puritan values that dominated much of the early American writing.Part II. The Literature of Reason and Revolution3. Benjamin Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called the General Magazine.4. Benjamin Franklin's best writing is found in his masterpiece Autobiography9. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was Philip Freneau10. Philip Freneau's famous poem The British Prison Ship was written about his imprisoned experience.11. Philip Freneau was considered as the " poet of the American Revolution. "12. Philip Freneau has been called the "Father of American Poetry."14. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of Reason and Revolution.Part III. The Literature of Romanticism1. In the early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote The Sketch Book which became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.2. In 1828, Noah Webster published his An American Dictionary of the English Language.3. In 1755, Samuel Johnson published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the English Language.4. The Civil War of 1861—1865 ended in the defeat of the Southerners and the abolition of Slavery5. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called the Transcendental Club.6. The Transcendental Club often met at Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord home.7.Washington Irving was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism.8. At nineteen, Washington Irving published in his brother's newspaper, his "Jonathan Old style" satires of New York life.9. In Washington Irving's work The Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.10. In Paris, Washington Irving met John Howard Payne, the American dramatist and actor, with whom Irving wrote his brilliant social comedy Charles the Second, or The Merry Monarch.11. The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irving's work named The Sketch Book.12.Washington Irving was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War.13. Washington Irving' s first book appeared in 1809. It was entitled The History of New York.14. Washington Irving also wrote two biographies, one is The Life of Oliver Gold¬smith, and the other is Life of Washington.15. The first important American novelist was James Fenimore Cooper16. James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Spy was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.17. The best of James Fenimore Cooper's sea romances was The Pilot. The hero of the novel represents John Paul Jones, the great naval fighter of the Revolutionary War.18. The central figure in the Leather stocking Tales is Natty Bumppo , who goes by the various names of Leather stocking,Deer slayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.19. To a Waterfowl" is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant ' s work, it has been called by an eminent English critic " the most perfect brief poem in the language. "20.William Cullen Bryant was the first American to gain the stature of a major poet in the world literature.21. Among William Cullen Bryant's most important later works are his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey into English blank verse.22. Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Bells is perhaps the best example of onomatopoeia in the English language.23. Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven was published in 1845 as the title poem of a collection.24. Ralph Waldo Emerson was responsible for bringing transcendentalism to New England.25. Ralph Waldo Emerson's truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson's theories, was Henry David Thoreau26. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at Walden Pond.27. A superb book entitled Walden came out of Henry David Thoreau's two-year experiment at Walden Pond.28. From Henry David Thoreau's Concord jail experience, came his famous essay Civil Disobedience.29. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter.30. Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.31. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first collection of poems entitled Voices of the Night appeared in 1838.32. The most scholarly of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's writings is his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.33. Besides lyrics and longer poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote dramatic works, among which Michael Angelo is the most conspicuous.34. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Lowell are the only two American poets commemorated in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.35. After his death, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow became the only American to be honored with a bust in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.36. The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the eighteenth century through the outburst of the Civil War.37. The English author named Sir Walter Scott was, in a way, responsible for the romantic description of landscape in American literature and the development of American Indian romance. His Waverley novels were models for American historical romances.38. Published in 1823, The Pioneers was the first of the Leather stocking Tales, in their order of publication time, and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature.39. In The Pioneers, Natty Bumppo represents the ideal American, living a virtuous and free life in God' s world.40. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson41. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay The American Scholar has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.42. Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was Henry David Thoreau a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson' s and his junior by some fourteen years.43. The way in which Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.44. Herman Melville's world classic novel Moby Dick was dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne a novelist.45. It is said that in his late years, Herman Melville stopped writing novels and stories and turned to poetry, Clarel is his most famous poetic work.46. Herman Melville is best known as the author of one book named Moby Dick which is, critics have agreed, one of theworld's greatest masterpieces.Part IV. The Literature of Realism1. Realism had originated in the country France as a literary doctrine that called for "reality and truth" in the depiction of ordinary life.2. The arbiter of nineteenth century literary realism in America was William Dean Howells.3. Henry James probed deeply at the individual psychology of his characters, writing in a rich and intricate style that supported his intense scrutiny of complex human experience.4. Mark Twain, breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since.5. Darwinism had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, to suggest that he was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.6. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called free verse, that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.7. In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman gave America its first genuine epic poem.8. There is no doubt that the solitary Emily Dickinson of Amherst, Massachusetts, is a poet of great power and beauty.9. There was only one female prose writer in the nineteenth century. That was Harriet Beecher Stowe10. Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece is Uncle Tom's Cabin.11. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name Mark Twain .12. One of Samuel Langhorne Clemens' best books Life on the Mississippi is built around his experiences as a steamboat pilot.13. The result of Mark Twain's European trip was a series of newspaper articles, later published as a book called Innocents Abroad.14. Mark Twain was the first literary giant born west of the Mississippi.15. Mark Twain's work The Mysterious Stranger tells of the visits of an angel to the village of Eseldorf in Austria in 1590.16. William Sidney Porter, whose pen name was O. Henry, was the author of The Cop and the Anthem.17. Many of O. Henry's stories tell about the life of poor people in New York.18. 0. Henry sympathized with the poor's lot and hated those rich who exploited and despised them. This is especially seen in his story entitled An Unfinished story.19. It is said that O. Henry imitated a French author named De Maupassant as a model, and there is indeed much in common between these two writers.20. The title of one of O. Henry's books The Four Millions indicates that he considered all the people of New York City worth writing about, instead of only the upper class.21. Henry James' first novel is Watch and Ward, which failed to make him famous.22. The novel which was described by an American critic as "an outrage to American girlhood" is Henry James' Daisy Miller .23. Henry James' first important fiction was A Passionate Pilgrim in which he took up for the first time the theme of The American in Europe.24. In 1881, Henry James published his novel The Portrait of a Lady, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.25. Henry James is considered the founder of Psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.26. The name of the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady is Isabel Archer.27. In 1902 Jack London published his first novel A Daughter of the Snows .28. Martin Eden is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.29. The first novel of Theodore Dreiser was Sister Carrie.30. The identification of potency with money is at the heart of Theodore Dreiser's masterpiece An American Tragedy.31. The protagonisw of Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire is Frank Cowperwood.32. Theodore Dreiser visited the Soviet Union in 1927 and published Dreiser Looks at Russia the following year.33. Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie , a commercial and critical failure when first published in 1900, was reissued in 1907 and won high praise for its grim, naturalistic portrayal of American society.34. Mark Twain's first novel, The Gilded Age was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize.35. Three years' life on the Mississippi left such a fond memory with Mark Twain that he returned to the theme more than once in his writing career. His book Life on the Mississippi relates it in a vivid, moving way.36. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was Mark Twain' s masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, "all modern American literature comes. "37. The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , which was a success from its first publication in 1884, and has always been regarded as one of the great books of western literature and western civilization.38. Stephen Crane is the pioneer who wrote in the naturalistic tradition.39. Stephen Crane's novel Maggi; A Girl of the Streets relates the story of a good woman' s down¬ fall and destruction ina slum environment.40. War in the novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a plain slaughter-house. There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anything, it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to run from danger.41. Benjamin Frank Norris' novel McTe ague has been called "the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel" and "a consciously naturalistic manifesto".42. Jack London's masterwork Martin Eden is somewhat autobiographical.43. O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order to get money for a Christmas present for each other.Part V. Twentieth Century Literature (I) Before WWII1. The First World War stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth century and the contemporary American literature.2. American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a "Lost Generation " , devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.3. The most significant American poem of the twentieth century was The Waste Land.4. The publication of The Waste Land, written by Thomas Stearns Eliot, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.5. In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in Main Street .6. F. Scott Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel The Great Gatsby7. The Great Depression of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nation's self-confidence.8. An American woman writer named Gertrude Stein who had lived in Paris since 1903, welcomed the young expatriates to her literary salon, and gave them a name "the Lost Generation".9. William Faulkner wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the American Southern States, and its effecton the lives of modern people, both black and white.10. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the "Imagist" movement.11. Ezra Pound's major work of poetry is the long poem called The Cantos.12. One of Edwin Arlington Robinson's early books, Captain Craig, once came to the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt.13. Edwin Arlington Robinson produced a large body of works and was honored with the Pulitzer Prize in 1922, 1925 and 1928.14. Robert Frost' s first book A Boy's Will brought him to the attention of influential critics, such as Ezra Pound, who praised him as an authentic poet.15. Robert Frost's second volume of poems was North of Boston16. "After Apple-Picking" is a well-known poem written by Robert Frost17. New Hampshire, one of Robert Frost's longest poems, is a very witty and wise anecdotal discussion about the values of life and character.18. At one time, Sandburg's reputation mainly rested on a multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln including "The Prairie Years" and "The War Years".19. Carl Sandburg' s love of folklore developed in time into a rather modern tendency to represent it in literature such as in his The People,Yes .20. Wallace Stevens was successful in two fields of activity which did not seem compatible with one another; he was a very successful businessman and a very re¬markable contemporary poet at the same time.21. At the age of 44, Wallace Stevens was finally persuaded to publish a book of poems, entitled Harmonium.22. The Necessary Angel is a collection of Wallace Stevens' s occasional lectures on poetry.23. For the publication of his Collected Poems, Wallace Stevens received the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.24. After his death, Wallace Stevens' s previously uncollected works appeared under the title Opus Posthumous.25. In 1915, Thomas Stearns Eliot published his Prufrock and Other Observations.26. In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot published his The Sacred Wood, containing, among other essays, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", the earliest statement of his aesthetics.27. In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot began to write his masterpiece The Waste Land, one of the major works of modern literature.28. As Thomas Stearns Eliot declared, he followed strictly the advice of his close friend Ezra Pound in cutting and concentrating The Waste Land.29. Thomas Stearns Eliot's later poetry took a positive turn toward faith in life. This was demonstrated by Ash-Wednesday,a poem of mystical conflict between faith and doubt.30. In his work The Hollow Men, Thomas Stearns Eliot satirized the straw men, the Guy Fawkles men, whose world would end "not with a bang, but a whimper."31. Few men of letters have been more fully honored in their own day than Thomas Stearns Eliot, and even those who strongly disagree with him seemed content with his selection for the Nobel Prize in 1948.32. Thomas Steams Eliot wrote seven plays, the best of which is Murder in the Cathedral, a verse play on an ancient historical subject, written in 1935.33. Thomas Stearns Eliot's last important work was Four Quartets, a profound meditation on time and timelessness, written in four parts.34. F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel This Side of Paradise, with its portrayal of casual dissipations of "flaming youth" , was an immediate commercial success.35. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.36. F. Scott Fitzgerald' s second novel The Beautiful and the Damned describes a handsome young man and his beautiful wife, undoubtedly modelled after himself and Zelda.37. The hero in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender is the Night is a psychiatrist who marries a rich patient. The author condemns the wasted energy of misguided youth.38. F. Scott Fitzgerald's last novel The Last Tycoon remained unfinished.39. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway became the spokes¬ man for what Gertrude Stein had called "a Lost Generation".40. Emest Hemingway's stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel A Farewell to Arms in 1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.41. Set in Spain during the Civil War, the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls stated again Hemingway ' s view of love found and lost, and described the indomitable spirit of the common people.42. In the story The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named Santiago, who shows triumphant even in defeat.43. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded a Nobel Prize for his "mastery of the art of modem narration".44. Numerous parallels exist between the events of Ernest Hemingway's life and those of his characters, but fewer were closer than those of Richard Cantwell, the hero of the work Across the River and into the Trees.45. In 1952, Ernest Hemingway published a successful novel entitled The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and occasioned the award of the Nobel Prize in 1954.46. In the same way that F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age became the symbol for an age, Ernest Hemingway' s novel The Sun also Rises painted the image of a whole generation, the Lost Generation.47. Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms can be read as a footnote to The Sun Also Rises in that it explains how people, like Jake Barnes, come to behave the way they do.48. The Spanish war was conductive to Ernest Hemingway's writing The Fifth Column, a play which was universally deplored.49. John Steinbeck was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.50. In the short novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck portrayed the tragic friendship between two migrant workers.51. In the work The Long Valley John Steinbeck described the fate of the lowly whose instinctive responses to life led only to destruction.52. The Grapes of Wrath is generally regarded as John Steinbeck's masterpiece.53. In 1935, John Steinbeck published Tortilla Flat, a collection of short stories which vividly described the life of poor Mexican-Americans with affection and humor.54. John Steinbeck's post-war novel The Pearl reflected his bitter feelings against those greedy, rapacious elements of society which made the war possible.55. Quentin is a character in William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury56. Joe Christmas is a character in William Faulkner's novel Light in August.57. The works written by William Faulkner may be viewed as a culmination of the development of twentieth-century southern fiction.58. Katherine Ann Porter's novel Ship of Fools consists of three parts, "Embarkation", "High Sea" , "The Harbors"59. In her essay "Place in Fiction" , Eudora Welty emphasizes the importance of for literary creations. She is noted for her fidelity to the American South, so her major theme relate to place, traditional southern family relationships.60. Carson McCullers was said to touch William Faulkner in writing, and her well-known novels are and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe61. One of the important figures in the 1930s who tried to adapt European avantgardism to American writing is Nathanael West62. The New Criticism first emerged in 1920s as a reaction against the prevailing time-honored critical tendency to focus on thetheme often in disregard of the form of the work. The name is given by John Crowe Ransom's collection of critical essays The New Criticism .Part VI. Twentieth Century Literature (II) After WWII2. In poetry, Postmodernism strives to go against the vogue of the New Critical poem and its parent style, the High Modernism of the previous decades.4. Allen Ginsberg is the spokesman of postwar Beat Generation in American literary history.17. J. D. Salinger is probably best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye26. Joseph Heller's Catch-22is one of the most famous novels dealing with the subject of absurdity in typical "obscure" techniques.Part VII. American Drama1. Eugene O' Neill is the first master in the American history of drama.2. In 1916, Eugene O' Neill's first play Bound East for Cardiff was put on by the Province-town Players, which was significant not only for him but for American Drama.5. Eugene O' Neill received the Pulitzer Prize for his Beyond the Horizon and Anna Christie between 1920 and 1922, and Nobel Prize in 1936.10. The Theater of the Absurd in the 1950s and 1960s refers to some plays, some of which center on the meaninglessness of life with its pain and suffering that seems funny, even ridiculous. Edward Albee is one of the representatives.Part VIII. Multi-ethnic Literature1. African American literature centers on a myth, though also biblical, quite different from that on which mainstream American literature is based.2. African American literature is patterned on a myth of_deliverance from slavery, that of the Hebrew prophet Moses leading the Jews in their flight from the bondage in Egypt.3. African American literature has undergone a long process of evolution. Its early form was oral, including songs, ballads and spirituals, in short, folk literature in its various manifestations.6. In the 1940 Richard Wright's Native Son came out as a watershed in the tradition of the African American novel.7. Toni Morrison and Alice Walker are two of the most important female African American novelists.14. By far the most important person in the Harlem Renaissance was Langston Hughes known as African Americans' poet laureate, who ultimately outgrew the movement, and developed into one of the major African American authors to help make African American culture.15. Langston Hughes was one of the founders of the black theater in the Federal Theater Project during the Depression. 18. Native Son by Richard Wright is a story about an African American adolescent's growth of awareness. It consists of three sections, namely "Fear", "Right" and "Fate".19. African American literature attained a higher degree of maturity in 1952 when Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man appeared in print.21. Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon is seen as another milestone in African American literature after Native Son and Invisible Man. It tells the story of an African American trying to recover his family roots.29. Another important Asian American writer is Amy Tan, whose first novel, The Joy Luck Club, made quite a stir on the contemporary American literary scene and brought Asian American literature to the intensive scrutiny of readers and critics alike.。
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吴伟仁《美国⽂学史及选读》模拟试题及详解（⼀）【圣才出品】第⼀章吴伟仁《美国⽂学史及选读》模拟试题及详解（⼀）I. Fill in the blanks1. ______, by Ezra Pound, employs the complex association of scholarly lore, anthropology, modern history and personages, private history and Witticism, and obscure literary interpolations in various languages.【答案】The Cantos【解析】庞德的《诗章》包罗万象，是庞德的代表作。
2. ______ was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism. 【答案】Washington Irving【解析】华盛顿·欧⽂是美国著名作家，他被誉为美国第⼀位浪漫主义散⽂⽂体作家。
3. The protagonist of Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire is ______.【答案】Frank Cowperwood【解析】西奥多·德莱塞的《欲望三部曲》（Trilogy of Desire）包括《⾦融家》（The Financier），《巨⼈》（The Titan），《斯多葛》（The Stoic）。
《欲望三部曲》的主⼈公是法兰克·柯帕乌（Frank Cowperwood）。
4. The great work ______ not only demonstrates Emersonian ideas of self-reliance but also develops and tests Thoreau’s own transcendental philosophy.【答案】Self-Reliance【解析】富兰克林的《论⾃⽴》不仅表现了爱默⽣关于⾃⽴的思想，同时也表达了他的超验主义思想。
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填空题Part 1 Early American Literature: Colonial Period to 1815Chapter 1 The Literature of the New World1. Origin stories are those dramatizing ______of how the earth originated or of how people established relationships with plants, ______ and the cosmos.(tribal interpretations, animal)2. Trickster tales are humorous tales featuring______. (trickster characters)3. Historical narratives are diverse in kinds. Some of them are tribal records of historical events. Many other narratives feature ______ that move in recognizable historical settings. (legendary figures)4. The name of Captain John Smith is now associated with the English expedition that founded the ______ in 1607. (Jamestown colony)Chapter 2 The Literature of Colonial America: 1620-17631.The colonial period covers almost the entirety of ______ and a great portion of ______. (the 17th century,the 18th century)2.The year 1620 saw the Pilgrims settling in the tiny colony of Plymouth in Massachusetts which, due toWilliam Bradford’s influential work ______, is now regarded as a symbol for Puritan culture during colonial settlement. (Of Plymouth Plantation)3.In the earlier colonial period, much of the literature was produced by ______ and ______. (Puritan,Pilgrim writers)4.The term “Puritan” was first applied to those ______ who rejected Queen Elizabeth’s religious settlementsof 1560 because they were determined to “purify” their religion. (Protestant reformers)5.Calvinism is a specific and rather rigid brand of Puritanism. Calvinists are those who follow the teachingsof ______, a religious reformer in France. (John Calvin)6.Anne Bradstreet’s “domestic” poems and ______ are today recognized as her best literary achievement. Inthem, she conveyed her personal feelings for New England and ______. (the Contemplations, family life) 7.In general, meditative poetry is a contemplation of self and expression of hoped-for union with God orwith a ______. But Edward Taylor’s poetry also shows an anguished search for God, an intense personal struggle with his ______ and with ______. (transcendent reality, spirituality, Satan)8.Cotton Mather’s most important book is ______. (Magnalia Christi American a)9.Of the quarrels with Puritan beliefs in the 17th century, the cases of Anne Hutchinson and ______ are ofparticular significance. (Roger Williams)10.Jonathan Edward was a complex theologian in whom the fervor of the ______ and the thinking of ______converged, if not coexisted, in contradiction. (Great Awakening, Enlightenment)11.Today, Jonathan Edward is generally regarded as a pioneering philosopher and the greatest mind of the______ period. (colonial)12.The Middle colonies are ______ and ______ more diverse. (culturally, ethnically)Chapter 3 Literature and the American Revolution: 1764-18151.Literature in the period of American Revolution (before, during and after) was predominantly public and______. (utilitarian)2.The emergence of Deism in the 18th century America came directly from the ______. (Enlightenment)3.In his lifetime, Benjamin Franklin was an inventor, scientist, ______, ______, ______, an exemplaryself-made man, a revolutionary hero, and, of course, an ______. (printer, political statesman, diplomat, author)4.With his restless energy, his optimism and his innovative spirit, Franklin exemplifies the Age of ______ orwhat Franklin himself called the Age of Experiment. (Enlightenment)5.Partly because he was very good at promoting himself, Franklin established for the public the image of a______ man, and an archetypal American success story that has since become part of American popular culture. (self-made)6.Although Poor Richard’s Almanacs are not really in the vein of fiction, ______ could be the earliestcharacter of fiction created by an American author. (Poor Richard)7.Perhaps the best-known portion of Franklin’s Autobiography is where he speaks of the ______ heembraced and how he translated them into daily practices. (13 virtues)8.______, drafted in June, 1776, is at once a national symbol of liberty and a monument to Jefferson as astatesman and author. (The Declaration of Independence)9.William Hill Brown’s novel ______ followed the sentimental mode and its characteristic theme ofseduction. (The Power of Sympathy)Part 2 American Romanticism: 1815-186Chapter 1 The Age of American Romanticism1.Nationalism often goes hand in hand with ______. But the special psychological make-up of Americannationalism also gave American ______ its own particular characteristics. (romanticism, romanticism) 2.American romanticism was influenced by European romanticism, particularly German, ______ and______. While showing characteristics of European romanticism, American romantic writers differed from their European counterparts in that they did not show the kind of ______ as seen in European romanticism. (English, French, political radicalism)Chapter 2 Early Romanticism1.______ was the first American storyteller created in a literary text, and as a storyteller he resembles hisauthor, Washington Irving. (Rip)2.______ and ______ are today two of Irving’s best known stories. Both are included in ______, acollection of sketches and stories. (Rip Van Winkle, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. )3.The Leather-stocking Series consists of five novels which, in the order of publications, are: ______,______, ______, ______, and ______. (The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslaye r)4.“Leather-stocking”is the nickname for ______ who is in the habit of wearing long deerskin leggings.(Natty Bumppo)5.Natty Bumpoo is both the friend and foe of ______. He seems to respect them, but he retains his ______superiority while living with them. (American Indians, Christian)6.Starting with ______, Copper wrote 11 sea stories. Among them, ______ is a tale of the adventure ofCaptain Heidegger who gives up privacy in order to aid the Americans. (The Pilot, Red Revor)7.______, one of Bryant’s best poems, served as a bridge over which the young poet moved towards hisfather’s religious liberalism (Deism and Unitarianism) and towards Wordsworth’s nature.(“Thanatopsis”)Chapter 3 Transcendentalism and Symbolic Representation1.The transcendental Club sponsored two major activities. First, they published 16 issues of ______, aquarterly, between 1840 ad 1844. ______ was the first editor. (The Dial, Margaret Fuller)2.______ is today regarded as the “Father” of American literature. (Emerson)3.As the leading spokesman for Transcendentalism, Emerson once explained that this philosophy meant______. (a little beyond)4.“The Over-Soul” presents the more mystical side of Emerson ad the basis of ______. The “Over-Soul”refers to the profound and all-encompassing ______ to which each individual soul should lie upon.(Transcendentalism, spiritual nature)5.Today Thoreau is primarily remembered by two of his works: ______ and the essay ______. (Walden,Civil Disobedience)Chapter 4 Hawthorne, Melville and Poe1.Hawthorne wrote well over a hundred stories, essays and sketches, and is the author of four remarkablenovels: ______, ______, ______and ______. (The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun)2.In Hawthorne’s writings there is a consistent concern with the psychological currents beneath the ______.______ is a typical Hawthornian metaphor for this concern. (conscious, A dream-like journey at night) 3.Hawthorne depicts “sin” not for its own sake. He allows us to study the effects of sin on the ______ andon people related to them. (sinners)4.Many of Hawthorne’s male characters live in ______. It seems extraordinarily difficult for them to knowsomeone else and to disclose themselves to another person. (isolation)5.If there was anything in the 19th century close to being the American epic, it was ______, published oneyear after The Scarlet Letter. (Moby Dick)6.The novel Moby Dick tells the strange story of the possessed and implacable Captain ______ risking hislife, those of his crew and his ship on the rough seas in search of a monstrous ______. (Ahab, white whale)7.Poe is a critic, poet and short story writer, and he is important in all three aspects. His contribution toFrench symbolist poetry was made not primarily through his ______ but his ______. (poetry, stories andcriticism)8.“The Raven” captures the mourning of the narrator for the loss of his beloved when a raven monotonouslyrepeats the word ______. (Nevermore)Chapter 8 Whitman and Dickinson1.______ and ______ were two major poets in the late 19th century. (Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson)2.Technically speaking, Whitman’s poetry is “free verse” in that the lack of ______ and ______ is known ashis major technical innovation. (meter, rhyme)3.The speaker in many of Dickinson’s poems is in ______ and ______. Frequently, the speaker speaks of a______. (anguish, pain, recurring pain)4.______ is the longest and one of the best in Whitman’s canon. (“Song of Myself”)5.Emily Dickinson wrote nearly ______ poems, although fewer than 20 of them were printed in her lifetime.(2000)Chapter 9 A House Divided: Writing Against Slavery1.______ boosted abolitionist sentiments and shook the conscience of the South. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)2.the novel’s appeal comes from the extreme sentimentality that derives from the deaths of little Eva St.Clare and ______ as well as from melodramatic events such as ______’s escape across the ice of the Ohio River. (Uncle Tom, Eliza)3.Frederick Douglass wrote the powerful autobiography ______. (Narrative of the Life of FrederickDouglass, an American Slave)4.Harriet Ann Jacob’s first-person account, ______, is the only slave narrative written by a woman.(Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl)Part 3 American Realism: 1865-1914Chapter 1 The Age of Realism1.Realism reacts against romanticism’s emphasis on intuition, ______, a dreary (or innocent) sense ofwonder, ______, ______, and general optimistic belief in the goodness of things. (imagination, idealism, faith in nature )Chapter 2 Regional and Local Color Writings1. ______ and ______ writings may be considered the early stage of literary realism. They were instances of realism insofar as they depicted contemporary life, used the speech of ______ and avoided, in general, fantastic plotlines. (Regional, local, the common people)2.Ernest Hemingway once remarked: “All modern literature comes from on Book by Mark Twain called______.” (Huckleberry Finn)3.As an ironist, Mark Twain allows us to see the adult through the eyes of a ______, and to see the childthrough an ______’s perspective. (child, adult)4.Tom Sawyer is the story of the boy Tom Sawyer and his friends ______ and ______. (Huckleberry Finn,Joe Harper)5.“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavera County” is a “tall tale” filled with the kind of exaggerationand comedy that characterize ______life. (the frontier)6.There were many other regionalists and local colorists. Some of the prominent ones include _____ in NewEngland, ______ and ______ in the deep South, and ______ who wrote of the far West mining camps.(Sarah Orne, George Washington Cable, Kate Chopin, Brett Harte)Chapter 3 Henry James and William Dean Howells1.In Henry James’s texts, ______ and ______ are two different societies and cultural forces brought intocontact. (Europe, America)2.Henry James wrote 36 volumes of fictional works. A dozen or so are longer novels. The more completeversions of three of the best--______, ______, The Golden Bowl—were published posthumously. (The Wings of Dove, The Ambassadors)3.Henry James had a liking for the short-story form. However, his elaboration on details often led to theexpression of short story themes into short novels or novellas. The two best-known novellas are: ______ and ______. (Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw)4.While William Dean Howells was a journalist for the Ohio State Journal he wrote ______, a book whichhelped Lincoln become elected and which brought Howells recognition and an appointment as American Counsel in Venice. (The Campaign Life of Abraham Lincoln)5.In The Rise of Silas Lapham, Lapham is a sturdy country-bred man who becomes successful as a paintmanufacturer and has an opportunity to rise in ______ society. (Boston)Chapter 4 Literary Naturalism1.Under the influence of European writers such as Emile Zola, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Americanliterary ______ emerged in the 1890s as an outgrowth of American realism. (naturalism)2.In naturalist fiction, the characters are often ______ in the social stratum. (the lowest)3.The naturalist stories are often about those rendered helpless by uncontrollable forces. The mood is darkand _____. (pessimistic)4.Jack London’s masterpiece ______ is somewhat autobiographical. (Martin Eden)5.Norris’s novel ______ has been called “the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel”and “aconsciously naturalistic manifesto”. (McTeague)6.The first novel of Theodore Dreiser was ______. (Sister Carrie)7.The protagonist of Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire is ______. (Frank Cowperwood)Chapter 5 Women Writing on the “Woman Question”1.In literature, writing on the “woman question” mostly meant critiquing the Victorianist cultural code andpromoting ______. (women’s liberation)2.The Awakening presents the story of ______’s doomed attempt to find her own fulfillment through passion.(Edna Pontellier)3.The Awakening is simultaneously a ______ novel, a ______novel, a ______ novel, and a ______ novel.(local color, realist, romantic, feminist)4.Like Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Kate Chopin’s______was condemned not because it was sexy butbecause it deviates from the sexual codes of “good society.”(The Awakening)5.As a fictionalized version of “rest cure,”“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a powerful feminist indictment of thenorms in a ______ culture. (patriarchal)6.Thematically, Edith Wharton’s novels reflect the struggles of the individual members of ______in theirattempts to actualize themselves within the rigid behavioral mores of their______. (elite societies, class)Part 4 American Modernism: 1914-1945Chapter 15 Modernism in the American Grain1.In its most apparent sense, “modernism”indicates an impulse towards creating something ______.(new)2.In modern fiction, ______ point of view—representing a given perspective—is used more often. (the firstperson)3.If American Romanticism was the first flowering of American literature, American ______ was the secondflowering. (modernism)4.Freud boldly and naturalistically explained that human behavior is largely the result of instinctual drives,such as______ and ______ urges. If the individual wished to enjoy the benefits of civilization, he/ she must control these urges. (sexual, aggressive)Chapter 16 The Evolution of Modernism1.Edwin Arlington Robinson created the ______ and ______ characters who believe they have failed. Hismain theme seems to be the agony of life and a hopeless wish for ______. (alienated, disillusioned, happiness)2.______ is the most popular modern poet in America. Towards the end of his life, he received more literaryawards, government recognitions, and institutional honors than any other poet of the 20th century. (Robert Frost)3.It was in England that Robert Frost published his first collection of poetry ______ in 1913. Ezra Pound,whom he met in England, helped him publish his second volume ______ which contains some of Frost’s most stunning poems, including ______, ______, ______and ______. (A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, “Mending Wall,”“Home Burial,”“The Road Not Taken,”“Apple-Picking.”)4.Willa Cather’s major novels fall into three groups. In three of her novels--______, ______ and ______--Cather explores the pioneer experience in the landscape of Nebraska, the Midwest and Colorado. (O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark, My Antonia )5.We can get better acquainted with Cather’s literary style by reviewing ______, and it was with this novelthat Cather made craft. (My Antonia)6.Sherwood Anderson is primarily remembered as the author of ______, Gathered into a loosely connectednovel are stories of ______ or ______ characters. (Winesburg, Ohio, grotesque, twisted)Chapter 17 American Modernism in Europe1.In 1936, Gertrude Stein remarked, “America is my country and Paris is my hometown and it is as it hascome to be.” She spoke not just for herself but also for a generation of _____. (American expatriates) 2.As evidence of her originality, Stein was the first American writer to try to transcribe banal daily speechinto literature. Specifically, in ______ and in ______, she used this kind of “natural” conversation in prose narrative. (Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas)3.______ is so far the only writer in the Western culture who has been able to turn the characteristics of theChinese language into a specific and “new” component in English/ American poetry. (Pound)4.Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the ______ movement. (Imagist)5.Ezra Pound’s major work of poetry is the long poem called ______. (The Cantos)6.Hilda Doolittle always signed her name ______. (H.D.)Chapter 18 Modern Fiction between the Wars1.It is generally believed that the modernist innovativeness in American poetry was exemplified by ______,______ and a few others whose paradigmatic texts exerted a powerful influence on fiction writers. (T. S.Eliot, Wallace Stevens)2.Under Anderson’s guidance, William Faulkner published his first novel ______, but his first major successwas ______. (Soldier’s Pay, The Sound and the Fury)3.The first three sections of The Sound and the Fury are narrated by three Compson brothers: ______,______, ______. (Benjy, Quentin, Jason)4.As I Lay Dying is a comedy with a profoundly ______. The novel is also Faulkner’s attempt to translate______ in painting into a fictional form. (tragic center, cubism)5.In Light in August Faulkner makes an indictment of racism in the South by offering a profound analysis ofthe “truths”in a cultural discourse that mingles religious fanaticism, ______ and ______, a discourse shared by Southerners at various levels. (sexism, racism)6.“A Rose for Emily” seems to be a ______ story, at least initially. (detective)7.Hemingway’s trip to Africa on a hunting expedition in 1933-14 became the basis for ______. He went toSpain twice to cover the Civil War in 1936-37, which provided material for his novel ______. (Green Hills of Africa, For Whom the Bell Tolls)8.“The Big Two-Hearted River”, included in ______, shows ______who, bearing traumas of the war withinhim, has returned to a small town where he finds the river and trout as he remembers them. (In Our Time, Nick Adams)9.______ is the most important work Fitzgerald wrote. The title character, ______ is a very rich man whofought in World War I. (The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby)10.Tender is the Night is Fitzgerald’s ______ novel and it is a novel about ______. (mature, maturity)11.The best-known work by Dos Passos is ______, a trilogy consisting of ______, ______, and ______.(U.S.A. The Forty-Second Parallel, 1919, The Big Money)12.John Steinbeck is a modern writer, no doubt, but he can also be regarded as a ______ and a ______.(regionalist, naturalist)13.Today, Steinbeck is primarily remembered by three of his many novels: ______, ______, and ______.( In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath )14.Steinbeck consciously uses stylistic devices of the ______ and attempts to create his new ______.(folk tale, folklore)Chapter 19 Modern American Poetry1.The charm of Eliot’s poetry lies not only in the ______ but also in the ______ he has created. (images,mellow cadence)2.The “waste” in the title is not only a reference to the devastation and bloodshed of ______, but also to theemotional and spiritual sterility of the ______. (World War I, Western man)3.Eliot wrote seven plays, the best of which is ______, a verse play on an ancient historical subject, writtenin 1935. (Murder in the Cathedral)4.Eliot’s last important work was ______, a profound meditation on time and timelessness, written in fourparts. (Four Quartets)5.“Sunday Morning” is one of the best-known poems by Stevens. The poem introduces a woman who doesnot go to church on Sunday morning but stays at home to enjoy ______ and to contemplate ______.(the sunshine, what divinity is )6.The themes of William Carlos Williams’s poems are broad ranging, including the emergence of life,______, ______ in its many guises, sexuality and the erotic, the richness of everyday experience, and, last but not least, the realities of industrial America. (the nature of poetry, the unfortunate humanity)7.The odd appearance of E.E. Cummings’ verses on the page is meant as an aid to oral reading or, morespecifically, as a guide to timing, accentuation, syllabus stresses. To indicate stress, for example, he would ______ or _______. (break lines, capitalize key words)Chapter 20 African American Literature and Modernism1.Jean Toomer, poet and novelist, was for some time regarded as the most talented writer in the _______.(Harlem Renaissance)2.Between 1922 and 1929, Toomer wrote several plays in which he experienced with _______ techniques.(impressionist)3.The most important stage in Langston Hughes’s development was when he discovered Harlem, New York,and the cultural and literary circle of the ______ writers. (“New Negro”)4.Their Eyes were Watching God, Hurston’s best work, tells of Janie’s story, a young black woman’s searchfor ______. (self-knowledge)5.Native Son is a novel that explores the complex ______and ______ factors involved in a black boy’shorrendous crimes. (social, psychological)6.Black Boy is subtitled ______. This is an autobiographical novel that begins with ______’s Childhood andstops at the point when he leaves the South to head for the North. (“A Record of Childhood and Youth”, Wright)7.The Men Who Lived Underground appeared in its final form in a collection of short stories, ______.(Eight Men)Part 5 American Literature Diversified: 1945 to the New MillenniumChapter 21 Literature Diversified Under New Conditions1.Contemporary American literature is inclusive of ______, ______ and what is covered under the broadtitle “postmodern literature.” (ethnic literature, postcolonial literature)2.Existentialism is, strictly speaking, a philosophy formulated in the first half of the 20th century, with______, ______ and ______ being the three main representatives. (Heidegger, Sartre, Camus)3.In general, the distinction between postmodernism and modernism is perhaps less a matter of stylisticdifferences than a matter of attitude towards ______ and ______. (culture, literature)4.Derrida cites three thinkers as the precursors of deconstruction: ______, ______ and ______.(Nietzsche, Heidegger, Freud)5.The father of deconstruction is the French thinker ______ who did not specifically concern himself withliterature or literariness. (Jacques Derrida)6.Reading and writing are bound in the signifying process which is multilayered, continuous andnever-ending. For this insight, Derrida coined the word ______. (différence)Chapter 22 American Theater: Three Major Playwrights1.______ was America’s first dramatist of world renown. In the course of a long and prolific career, he wonfour Pulitzer prizes, gained international recognition, and in 1936 won the Nobel Prize. (Eugene O’Neil) 2.As an expressionist play, The Hairy Ape makes a protest against the ______ and______ in theindustrialized world. (dehumanization, alienation)3.______ was the most important dramatist that emerged after world War II. Like Arthur Miller, he adoptedmany of the experimental devices from the ______ and other avant-garde dramatists of the 1920s, but he integrated them into a entirely individualized. (Tennessee Williams, expressionists)4.Indeed, ______ is Tennessee Williams’s autobiographical play based on the family circumstances in1935-1936. (The Glass Menagerie)5.As seen in the majority of his plays, Miller’s favorite material is the conflict in the American middle-classfamily, with the tension often anchored on the father-son relationship as in ______ and ______ or, sometimes, on the strained relationship between a father and his stepdaughter, as in ______. (All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View From the Bridge)Chapter 23 Major Fiction Writers: 1945 till the 1960s1.If there was a tradition of novels that studied the waste of war and madness of war mentally, NormanMailer appeared to be a leader, with his ______ and ______ being the representative works. (The Naked and the Dead, Armies of the Night)2.Until he died in 1994, Ellison published one epic-scope novel, ______, and collections of short stories andessays. (Invisible Man)3.Baldwin is both a brilliant fiction writer and a brilliant essayist. His best-known novel is ______,published in 1953. (Go Tell It on the Mountain)4.O’Connor’s first novel Wise Blood consists of many gratuitous ad unrelated incidents. But it does have afocus on ______. (Hazel (Haze) Motes)5.The differences among Bellow’s works show the versatility of his talents. His earlier works include______, a comic and mordant existentialist tale set in wartime America, and ______, a parable of Gentile and Jew, and an unsentimental study of ______. (Dangling Man, The Victim, anti-Semitism)6.To speak of Salinger is to speak of ______. (The Catcher in the Rye)7.The phrase, “Catch-22,” is today a metaphorical expression in the English language, meaning a ______dilemma. The expression originates from ______’s novel. (self-contradictory, Heller)Chapter 24 Poetic Tendencies Since 19451.Confessional poems are conversational, bleak, brooding, showing a clear sense of alienation. Therecognized confessionals include ______, ______, W. D. Snodgrass, Anne Sexton, ______and others.(Robert Lowell, John Berryman.)2.In the term “beat generation” the word “beat” means: ______ and ______. (beat down, beatific)3.Allen Ginsberg’s best and most influential poem is ______. (Howl)4.Synder’s poetic power has much to do with his interest in ______. In Chinese and Japanese poetry, in theculture of ______, and in the natural landscape details of America. (Buddhism, American Indians) Chapter 25 Fictional Inclinations Since the 1960s1.In John Barth’s first novel, The Floating Opera, the narrator ______ spends ten years analyzing the day hecontemplated and decided against suicide. (Todd Andrew)2.American “postmodern” writers such as John Barth often write what is known as ______, namely, a pieceof fiction that is concerned with revealing the devices and conventions of making fiction and the process of making fiction. (metafiction)3.Simply speaking, meta-fiction is fiction about ______. Meta-fictional elements can also be found in suchmodernist writers as ______ and______. (Henry James, Marcel Proust)4.Pynchon wrote a short fiction titled ______ in which he used the whole range of meanings of ______.(Entropy, entropy)5.Joyce Carol Oates’s first novel ______, depicts an intense and violent love affair between a 17-year-oldgirl and a 30-year-old car racer, exposing emotional derangements, compulsive behaviors, and tragic love.(With Shuddering Fall)6.______ is perhaps the most accomplished short fiction writer since the 1960s. his fiction shows theadmired qualities of such short fiction masters as Hemingway and Anderson. (Raymond Carver) Chapter 26 Contemporary Multi-ethnic Literature and Fiction1.______’s The Woman Warrior, published in 1976, marked the beginning of Asian American writersbreaking into the mainstream. Amy Tan’s _______was another astonishing success commercially.(Maxine Hong Kingston, The Joy Luck Club)2.Morrison is praised for her powerful ______, her provocative ______, sophisticated narrative techniques,and poetic language. (fictional style, themes)3.______ is perhaps Morrison’s best novel, certainly her best-known. (Beloved)。
吴伟仁《美国文学史及选读》配套题库【章节题库(含考研真题)】-第五章【圣才出品】
第五章20世纪美国文学填空题1. “Impersonal theory” of poetry was developed by ______, a famous poet as well as a distinguished literary critic.（天津外国语学院2011研）【答案】T. S. Eliot【解析】（“非个性化”理论是艾略特诗歌理论的核心内容，包括艺术情感、传统、客观对应物三个相互影响、相互制约的核心概念，“诗不是表现情感，而是逃避情感；不是表现个性，而是逃避个性。
”）2. In his ______, Ezra Pound expresses his fascination with Chinese history and the doctrine of Confucius. （天津外国语大学2011研）【答案】Cantos【解析】Ezra Pound在长诗《诗章》中阐述孔子学说，他的另一诗集Cathay《华夏》收集并翻译了十几首中国古诗。
3. Author ______ Title ______ （南京大学2009研）The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him.【答案】Author: Ernest Hemingway Title: A Clean, Well-lighted Place【解析】题目节选自海明威的A Clean, Well-lighted Place（《一个干净明亮的地方》）。
这是海明威的一个短篇小说。
4. Author ______ Title ______ （南京大学2008研）His mother’s hand to uched his shoulder.“Does hit hurt?” she said.“Naw,” he said. “Hit don’t hurt. Lemme be.”【答案】Author: William Faulkner Title: Barn Burning【解析】题目节选自福克纳的Barn Burning（《烧牲口棚》）。
美国文学史选读第一册___练习题
美国文学史及选读第一册练习题I. Multiple Choice1. Who is different from others according to thedivision of writing period?A. Washington IrvingB. William CullenBryantC. Captain John SmithD. James FennimoreCooper2. The American Romantic Period lasted roughly from ____ to ____.A. 1798-1832B. 1810-1860C. 1860-1864D. 1776-17833. Who has been called the “Father of American Literature”?A. Walt ScottB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. Washington IrvingD. Philip Freneau4. Who is the first American prose stylist that acquired international fame?A. Captain John SmithB. Washington IrvingC. Benjamin FranklinD.E. A. Poe5. Thomas Paine is a ____?A. novelistB. dramatistC. poetD.pamphleteer6. Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes ____A. short storiesB. literary critic theoriesC. poemsD. dramas7. Which of the following is Not one of the mainideas advocated by Ralph Emerson?A. Importance of theIndividual B. Faith in ChristianityC. TheOver-Soul D.Self-Reliance8. Which of the following is Not optimistic abouthuman nature? .A. RalphEmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. NathanielHawthorne D.Henry Thoreau9. In 1837, Ralph Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver WendellHolmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”A. Declarationof Independence B. Self-Relianc eC. Divinity School AddressD. The American Scholar10. Which of the following statements about TheScarlet Letter is Not true? _____.A. It explores man’s never-ending search forthe satisfaction of materialistic desires.B. It relates the conflicts between thesociety and the individual.C. It presents a psychological analysis of theinward tensions of the characters.D. It is about the effect of sin on the peopleinvolved and the society as a whole.11. According to Hawthorne, the scarletLetter “A” which originally stands for “_____”, finally obtains the meaning of “able” or “angel”through Hester’s efforts.A.arroganceB. adulteryC.agonyD. accomplishment12. _______ is NOT a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter.A.PearlB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Santiago13. ____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. Emily BradfordB. Ann BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. John Smith14. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ____.A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist15. As a literary and philosophical movement, ____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A.modernism B. rationalismC.sentimentalismD. transcendentalism16. “The Custom-House” is an introductory note to _____.A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance17. The setting of the novel The ScarletLetter is in ____.A. England during World War IB. Paris during the French RevolutionC.Puritan AmericaD. America after the Revolutionary WarII. Identify the author of the following works1. Moby Dick2. On Self-reliance3. The Last of Mohicans4. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow5. The House of Seven Gables6. The Fall of the House of the Usher7. Billy Budd8. Twice Told Tales9. Annabel Lee10. Walden。
（完整版）吴伟仁美国文学第一册学习指南填空题集合
（完整版）吴伟仁美国⽂学第⼀册学习指南填空题集合1.Early in the seventeenth century, the English settlements in Virginia andMassachusetts began the main stream of what we recognize as the Americannational history.2.The earliest settlers in America include Dutch, Swedes, Germans,French,Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese.3.The first permanent English settlement in North America was established atJamestown, Virginia, in 1607.4.Captain John Smith’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, havebeen described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English.5.There was a little of the r eligious ferment ans zeal that inspired such a tide ofliterature to flow Puritan New England.6.The Puritans had come to New English for the sake of religious freedom, whileVirginia had been planted mainly as a commercial venture.7.Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated muchof the earliest American writing, including the sermons, books, and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather.8.William Bradford, first governor of Plymouth, and John Winthrop, who held thesame post at Boston, were superior to even the remarkable qualities thatdistinguished many of their associations. Each has left a priceless gift: the former, The History of Plymouth plantation, the latter, t he History of New England.9.The best way to learn more of the colonial Puritan mind is to meet two importantfigures, John Cotton and Roger Williams.10.Most Puritan verse was directly plodding, but the work of two writers, AnneBradstreet and Edward Taylor, rose to the level of real poetry.1.Who were the earliest settlers? Where were they then? Who was the mostinfluential group?2.What were the first American writings?3.Could you give a description of American Puritans?1.As we have seen, theology dominated the Puritan phase of American writing.Politics was the next great subject to command the attention of the best minds. 2.Freedom was won as much by the fiery rhetoric of Thomas Paine’s CommonSense and the eloquence of the Declaration of Independence as by the weapons of Washington or Lafayette.3.The British government hampered colonial economy by requiring Americans toship raw materials abroad and to import finished goods at prices higher than the lost of making them in this country.4.American Enlightenment dealt a decisive blow upon the puritan traditions andbrought to life secular education and literature.5.The secular ideals of American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life andcareer of Benjamin Franklin, who instructed his countrymen as a printer, not apriest.Noah Webster6.In 1783, the year the United States achieved its independence,declared, “America must be as independent in literature as she is in politics, as famous for the arts as for arms” .7.Born in Boston in 1706, Benjamin Franklin went to Philadelphia as a young manand began his career as a printer.8.From 1732 to 1758, Franklin wrote and published his famous Poor Richard’sAlmanac, an annual collection of proverbs.9.Thomas Paine was the “Great Commoner of Mankind”, son of a nominal Quakerof Thetford, England.10.On January 10,1776, Paine’s famous pamphlets Common Sense appeared.11.Philip Freneau is perhaps the most outstanding writer of the post-Revolutionaryperiod.12.Freneau was neoclassical b y training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit.13.For a few years, writing with sporadic fluency, Freneau earned his livingvariously as farmer, journalist and sea captain.14.As a poet, F reneau h eralded American literary independence, his closeobservation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life andother native American subjects.15.Freneau has been called the “Father of American Poetry”, and it i ultimately in ahistorical estimate that Freneau is important.1.What is your impression upon the person of Benjamin Franklin?2.What belief does the Autobiography stand for？3.What is Thomas Paine’s Common Sense about?4.What does Freneau’s poem The Wild Hony Suckle indicate?5.Say something about the style of the Autobiography1.In 1828 the election of the frontier hero A ndrew Jackson as the seventh Presidentof the United States had brought an effective end to the “Virginia Dynasty” ofAmerican President.2.The United States had been a republic of small landlords, without sharp contrastsof wealth.3.Through the first half of the century the pursuit of simplicity, utility andperfection remained an American characteristic.4.In 1837 the first college-level institution for women Mount Holyoke FemaleSeminary, opened in Massachusetts to serve the “muslin sex”.5.Washington Irving’ Sketch Book b ecame the first work by an American writer towin financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.6.The attitudes of America’s writers were sharped by their New World environmentand an array of ideas inherited from the romantic traditions of Europe.7.Romantic values were prominent in American politics, art and philosophy untilthe Civil War.8.As a moral philosophy, Transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematized.9.Romantic writers placed increasing value on the free expression of emotion anddisplayed increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.10.In 1828 Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the Englishlanguage.11.At mid-century a cultural reawakening brought a “flowering of New England”.Led by Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau and stirred by the teachings oftranscendentalism, writers of Boston and nearby towns and villages produced a New England literary renaissance. 12.Washington Irving was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism, andhis familiar style was destined to outline the formal prose of such contemporaries as Scott and Cooper, and to provide a model for the prevailing prose narrative of the future.13.Washington Irving was the first great b elletrist, writing always for pleasure, andto produce p leasure.14.The Spy b y Cooper was a rousing tale about espionage against the British duringthe Revolutionary War.15.Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories The sea adventure taleand the frontier saga.16.Cooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novelsthat comprise the L eatherstocking Tales.17.In their order of events, the novels in the Leatherstocking Tale are The Deerslayer,The last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie.18.The central figure in the novels, N atty Bumppo, goes by the various names ofLeatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder, and Hawkeye.19.In 1817, the stately poem called “ Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryantintroduced the best poet to appear in America up to that time.20.Ralph Waldo Emerson was responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to NewEngland.21.Emerson believed above all in i ndividualism, independence of mind andself-reliance.22.Two speeches The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address byEmerson made him famous.23.Emerson’s truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson’stheories, was H enry David Thoreau.24.For Thoreau, as for Emerson, self-reliance and independence of mind rankedabove all.25.The essay Civil Disobedience stated Thoreau’s belief that no man should violatehis conscience at the command of a government.26.The House of the Seven Gables deals with the effects of a curse, and though thetale itself is fiction, the germ of the story sprang from the auther’s family history.27.The book Moby-Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit ofa seemingly supernatural white whale.28.What baffled its early readers of Moby-Dick was the book’s wild extravagancesof mood and language, its effect of what the modern critic Van Wyck Brooks calls “ a shredded S hakespearean play”. 29.Irving had been notably successful in domesticating European subject matterwhile employing a British prose style: now Longfellow domesticated European meters as in his adoption of classical Greek meters to tell the story of Evangeline Bellefontaine.30.The gentleness, sweetness and purity for which his poetry was popular during hislifetime were the very quantities that caused the reaction against it afterLongfellow’s death.1.What is Irving’s style?2.What does Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” reveal?3.Read Poe’s works, and tell what Poe’s theories for the short story and poetry are?4.Read “Raven”. And use it as an example to illustrate his poetic theories.5.What Transcendentalist views did Emerson state in his Nature?6.In your opinion, how should we read Walden?7.From Walden, we can know what Thoreau’s belief is？8.what is the theme of Moby-Dick?9.What is the significance of the character, Ahab, in the history of Americanliterature?10.Say something about the symbolism in Moby-Dick.11.Give a brief analysis of Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter.12.Can you say something about the style of Walden？13.What is Hawthorn’s style？14.What is Transcendentalism?。
美国文学课程要点练习题及答案
美国文学归纳内容I Fill the Following Blanks with Appropriate Answers1 The pseudonym of Mark Twain is .Samuel Langhorne Clemens2 Twain’s writings are characterized by broad ,often irreverent humour or biting . social satire3 The pseudonym Mark Twain is a Mississippi River phrase meaning “”.two fathoms deep4 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the sequel to , is considered to mark Twain’s master piece.Tom Sawyer5 Huckleberry Finn is entirely narrated from Huck’s point of view, noted for its authentic language & for its deep .commitment to freedom6 Henry James created fictions by juxtaposing American innocence & European experience in a series of intense .psychologically complex works7 In the works The Portrait of a Lady ,the scene reflects the impact ofon Americans traveling or living abroad.European culture8 In general, the style of Henry James’later works is complex, with motives & behavior of his characters revealed by means of their conversations & through their minute observations of one another.obliquely9 The most straightforward definition of realism is probably the one given by the American realist : that is “nothing more & nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.”William Dean Howells10 The subjects of realistic fiction tended to be contemporary, ordinary &.middle-class11 Plots of realistic fictions had to be unobstrusive, made up of theincidents of everyday life.trivial12 Realism first appeared in US in the literature of ,an amalgam of romantic plots & realistic descriptions.local colour13 was unquestionably the most influential American literary realist in the last quarter of the 19th century.William Dean Howells14 By the end of 19th century, the realists & naturalists had turned from portrayal ofcharacters & events, instead sought to describe the wide range of American experience & to present subtleties of human personality.idealized15 Naturalism in literature refers to theory that literary composition should be based on an objective, presentation of human beings.empirical16 Naturalism agrees with determinism of Darwin & economical determinism of Marx.biological17 One of the first American exponents of naturalism was Frank Norris, whose novelis a classical study of the interplay between instinctual drives & environment18 Edwin Robinson is an American poet known for the poems set in Tilbury Town, anNew England village modeled after his childhood home.imaginary19 The trilogy of narrative poems created by Edwin Robinson includes Merlin,Lancelot& .Tristram20 Stephan Crane is known for his & often brutal portrayals of human conditions. pessimistic21 ,a story of young prostitute who commits suicide, was Crane’s first novel which won praise from the American writers.Maggie, a Girl of the Streets22 The second novel of Crane, ,gained international recognition as a penetrating & realistic psychological study of a young soldier in the American Civil War.The Red Badge of Courage23 ’s Sister Carrier tells the story of a small-town girl who moves to Chicago & eventually becomes a Broadway star in New York city.Theodore Dreiser24 In The Financier & , Dreiser drew harsh portraits of a type of ruthless businessman. Titan25 Frost’s poetry is based upon the life & scenery of rural New England , the language of his verse reflects the of that region.compact idiom26 Frost’s colloquialism is structured within traditional & rhythmical schemes.metrical27 American modernism is treated as rebellion against the tradition ofliterature.genteel28 Artists of modernism, esp, poets, negated poetic meter & rhyme, which were a hindrance to the creation of .perfect image29 firmly believed that poetry should express the complicated meaning of life.T.S.Eliot30 Ernest Hemingway’s style is characterized by crispness, & emotional understatement.laconic dialogue31 Hemingway is a writer of ,disappointed by war & ethic confusion in the west after the world wars.lost generation32 In 1952, Hemingway published , a novelette about an aged Cuban fisherman. The Old Man & the Sea32 Scots Fitzgerald is best known for his novels & Tender is the Night, both depicting disillusion with the American dream of self-betterment, wealth & success through hard work & perseverance.The Great Catsby34 The female protagonist in The Great Catsby is ,an upper-class woman who finally rejected Catsby.Daisy Buchanan35 John Steinbeck was a nobel laureate, who described in his works the unremitting struggle of people who depend on the for their livelihood.soil36 ,by T.S. Eliot, is an erudite work that expresses vividly his conception of the sterility of modern society.The Waste Land37 Four Quartets is considered to be Eliot’s finest work, expressing in moving verse a sense of time.transcedental38 William Faulkner is known for his epic portrayal in some 20novels of thebetween the old & new South.tragic conflict39 After returning from Europe, Faulkner began his series of novels set in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County based upon Lafayette County,Mississippi.baroque, brooding40 Faulkner experimented with writings by means of interrupted simple stories with rambling, , soliloquies.streams-of-consciousness41 As a writer of modernism, Faulkner attempted to apply in the writing.multi-narrative voices42 Eugene O’Neil’s describes the disintegration of the mind of a black dictator under the influence of fear.The Emperor Jones43 In the essay collection For Lancelot Andrews,T.S.Eliot describes his position as that of ainliterature, a royalist in politics, and an Anglo-Catholic in religion.classicistII Choose the appropriate answer in the following statements.1 The subjects of realistic fiction tended to be contemparary, ordinary and a) lower-class. b) middle-class.c) upper middle-class. d) upper-class.b)2 The words “nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material”constitute the definition of realism from a) Sherwood Anderson. b) Henry Louis Mencken. c) William Dean Howells.d) Hart Crane.c)3) The novel The Portrait of a Lady of Henry James reflects a) the impact of European culture b) influence of feminism c) puritanism upon d) all of these on Americans traveling or living abroad.a)4) In The Portrait of a Lady, Hnery James depicted in the finishing part the “the motionless seeing” of Isabell pondering over the mistakes of marriage she had made. There is a great drama in the “seeing”, which is created by the a) thoughts in her mind. b) her actions. c) her inner monologue. d) both b) &c).d)5) In realistic novels, plots had to be a) unobstrusive b) dramatic c) full of suspenses d) Gothic by nature, made up of trivial incidents of everyday life.a)6) In realistic novels, the author himself strives to make his language as invisible as possible, a neutral reflector of a) personal b) interpersonal c) impersonal d) subjective reality.c)7) The characters under the pen of realists are not rural labourers in harmony with the cycles of nature, but a) country gentries b) southern plant owners c) urban bourgeois d) poverty-stricken urban intellectuals alienated from both nature and themselves by the pressures of a scrambling, competitive, materialistic society.c)8) By the end of 19th century, the realists and naturalists began to describe the wide range of a) American experience b) Continental experience c) plots imitating those of England d) all of these and to present the subtleties of human personality.a)9 a) Ernest Hemmingway b) Longfellow c) Robert Frost Lee d) Bret Harte was the first American writer of local colour to achieve wide popularity.d)10) The Guilded Age is a novel composed by Mark Twain whose theme is the loss of a) American innocence. b) old idealism. c) frontier west. d) illusion in the materialsitic prosperity.b)11 In The celebrated Jumping Frog, there is astory about how ordinary people tirck experts or how the weak a) “hoax” b) “compete” c) “defeat” d) both a) & b) the strong.12 The Adventrues of Huckleberry Finn is a long fiction which is expected to voice the hope for a) idealism & utilitarianism. b) idealism & democracy. c) realism & utilitarianism d) freedom & anarchism.b)12 Naturalism is a term invented by the a) American b) German c) Russian d) French novelist Emile Zola.d)13 In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the moral climax comes in Chapter 31, a) when Huck thinks deeply about morality and then decides to break the law. b) when Huck follows the law although it is against the conscience to do it. c) when Huck had a good idea to mediate between morality and law. d) when Huck decides to take no action about turning in Jim.a)14) The goal of naturalism is to achieve extreme a) objectivity b) subjectivity c) both c) neiher and frankness, presenting characters of low social and economical classes who were dominated by their environment.a)15 American naturalists emphasized that world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their lives were controlled by a) heredity. b) environment. c) both. d) neither.c)16 In the story a) Uncle Tom’s Cabin b) The Man Higher Up c) The Titan d) Maggie; a Girl of Street , Stephan Crane believed that environemnt counts for a great deal in determining human fate.d)17 In a) The Pit b) Moran of the Lady Letty c) McTeague d) The Octopus, Norris described a calfornia landscape in which “A tremendous immeasurable Life pushed steadily heavenward without a sound, without a motion.”c)18 The story in The Call of the Wild is that of a dog named a) Jack, b) Jim, c) Huck, d) Buck, who is kidnapped from his home on a California ranch and taken to Yukon where he serves as a sled puller for his owner.d)19 At the end of the First World war, there was a modernistic trend in literature in which a group of writers called a) anarchists b) Beat Generation c) Lost Generation d) both b) & c) rebelled against former ideals and values, but replaced them only by despair or a cynical hedoism.c)20 In The Waste Land, the subject lies in an erudite poem that expresses vividly his conception of the a) sterility b) productivity c) adaptability d mobility of modern society.a)Explain the Following Terms in Your Own Words1 Realism 教材pp235-238 或讲授内容(注：归纳出基本内容即可)2 Modernismpp330-340(注：归纳出基本内容即可)3 Naturalism(答案：Naturalism (literature), in literature, the theory that literary composition should be based on an objective, empirical presentation of human beings. It differs from realism in adding an amoral attitude to the objective presentation of life. Naturalistic writers regard human behavior as controlledby instinct, emotion, or social and economic conditions, and reject free will, adopting instead, in large measure, the biological determinism of Charles Darwin and the economic determinism of Karl Marx.Naturalism was first prominently exhibited in the writings of 19th-century French authors, especially Edmond Louis Antoine de Goncourt, his brother Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, and Émile Zola. ) 4．Lost Generation(答案：Lost Generation, group of expatriate American writers residing primarily in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. The group never formed a cohesive literary movement, but it consisted of many influential American writers, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Carlos Williams, Thornton Wilder, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane. The group was given its name by the American writer Gertrude Stein, who, in a conversation with Hemingway, used an expression she had heard from a garage manager, une géneration perdue ("a lost generation"), to refer to expatriate Americans bitter about their World War I (1914-1918) experiences and disillusioned with American society. Hemingway later used the phrase as an epigraph for his novel The Sun Also Rises (1926).)5 Imagism(答案：This is literary movement led by Ezra Pound, held by a group called the imagists. It is an attempt on the part of Pound, Williams, and Doolittle to remake poetry. The imagist credo called for new rhythms, clear and stripped-down images, free choice of subject matter, concentrated or compressed poetic expression, and use of common speech. The poets who subscribed to this credo applied it differently: Williams found his new rhythms in everyday speech, while Pound sought his new rhythms in adaptations in English of Chinese, Greek, Provençal (southern France), and other poetic traditions.The movement continued to influence some poets for a number of years under the leadership of Amy Lowell.)6 Streams of ConsciousnessStream of consciousness, as a term, was first used by William James, in his book The Principles of Psychology Widely used in narrative fiction, the technique was perhaps brought to its highest point of development in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) by the Irish novelist and poet James Joyce. Other exponents of the form were American novelist William Faulkner and British novelist Virginia Woolf. The British writer Dorothy Richardson is considered by some actually to be the pioneer in use of the device.In literature, it is literary technique employed to evince subjective as well as objective reality. It reveals the character's feelings, thoughts, and actions, often following an associative rather than a logical sequence, without commentary by the author. It is used to record the random and apparently illogical flow of impressions passing through a character’s mind.7 Tell briefly the relationship between Streams of Consciousness & Interior Monologue. Stream of consciousness is often confused with interior monologue, but the latter technique works the sensations of the mind into a more formal pattern: a flow of thoughts inwardly expressed, similar to a soliloquy. The technique of stream of consciousness, however, attempts to portray the remote, preconscious state that exists before the mind organizes sensations. Consequently, the re-creation of a stream of consciousness frequently lacks the unity, explicit cohesion, and selectivity of direct thought. 论述题1 What are the two types of people depicted in Hemingway’s early works? And name s ome of two of early representative works based upon Europe with the one-sentence introduction of the themes respectively.(答案：Hemingway in his early works depicted the lives of two types of people. One type consisted of men and women deprived, by World War I, of faith in the moral values in which they had believed, and who lived with cynical disregard for anything but their own emotional needs. The other type were men of simple character and primitive emotions, such as prizefighters and bullfighters. Hemingway wrote of their courageous and usually futile battles against circumstances.1The Sun Also Rises (1926), is the story of a group of morally irresponsible Americans and Britons living in France and Spain, members of the so-called lost generation of the post-World War I period.2A Farewell to Arms(1929), is the story of a deeply moving love affair in wartime Italy between an American officer in the Italian ambulance service and a British nurse.)2 What is the writing style of Hemingway? How does it manifest?(答案：Hemingway's economical writing style often seems simple and almost childlike, but his method is calculated and used to complex effect. 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 characters' emotions and thoughts directly. Instead, in providing the reader with the raw material of an experience and eliminating the authorial viewpoint, Hemingway made the reading of a text approximate the actual experience as closely as possible. Hemingway was also deeply concerned with authenticity in writing. He believed that a writer could treat a subject honestly only if the writer had participated in or observed the subject closely. Without such knowledge the writer's work would be flawed because the reader would sense the author's lack of expertise. In addition, Hemingway believed that an author writing about a familiar subject is able to write sparingly(保守的) and eliminate a great deal of superfluous detail from the piece without sacrificing the voice of authority. Hemingway's stylistic influence on American writers has been enormous. The success of his plain style in expressing basic, yet deeply felt, emotions contributed to the decline of the elaborate Victorian-era prose that characterized a great deal of American writing in the early 20th century.)3.Give a brief Introduction of Biography of Edwin Robinson & his writings.(答案：American poet, best known for his poems set in Tilbury Town, an imaginary New England village modeled after Gardiner, Maine, his childhood home. Born in Head Tide, Maine, Robinson was educated at Harvard University. His first volumes of poetry, The Torrent and the Night Before (1896) and The Children of the Night (1897), contain psychological portraits of the townspeople of Tilbury, whose inner depths of character are presented with acute understanding and irony. In 1899 Robinson moved to New York City, where his volume Captain Craig and Other Poems(1902) attracted little interest. In 1905, however, this work was favorably reviewed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and thereafter Robinson's poetry received more attention.Robinson's book Town Down the River (1910) contains additional character portraits, notably that of Miniver Cheevy, a romantic in love with the past who consoles himself through drunkenness. Robinson achieved his first major success with The Man Against the Sky (1916), which was concerned with the limited nature of humanity. He also composed a trilogy of narrative poems—Merlin（隼）(1917), Lancelot{兰斯洛特（亚瑟王圆桌武士中的第一位勇士）}(1920), and Tristram(1927; Pulitzer Prize, 1928)—based on Arthurian legend. His other works include Collected Poems (1921; Pulitzer Prize, 1922), Roman Bartholow(1923), The Man Who Died Twice(1924; Pulitzer Prize, 1925), and Matthias at the Door(1931). For the last 25 years of his life ，Robinson spent his summers at the MacDowell Colony of artists and musicians in Peterborough, New Hampshire.4 How does T.S.Eliot’s complexity of theme manifest in the long poem The Waste Land? (referring to second paragraph,PP415 of the textbook )5 How does William Faulkner describe Emily in A Rose for Emily? What is the use of displaced chronology in the story?(答案：Although Emily is clearly insane and her actions grotesque, she is not portrayed as an isolated feak with no relation to human beings in general, or her community in particular. This is largely due to the narrator who unquestionably speaks for the community. Miss Emily, though a recluse, does not act in a social or moral vacumm, all that she does is observed , surmised and reacted to by the community as represented through the narrator, and therefore she is inevitably linked to it and forms part of it. In addition, we are aware of various sub-groups and generations within the community partly because of the contradictory ways in which Emily is described.Faulker’s handling of time in this story is also noteworthy. The displaced chronology undoubtedly allows the narrator to tell the story in the most dramatic way also fill in useful background details, but it is also a way in which one of the themes-the relation of the individual and his actions to the past, present and future-can be illustrated and reinforced by the structure of the storyitself.)6 What is the idea of Lost Generation? How did the writers express it in literature?(答案：referring to pp教材333-334,归纳主要要点即可)7 What are the important differences between Tom & Huck under the pen of Twain? (答案：教材，pp243, 第二段14-22行)（注：可编辑下载，若有不当之处，请指正，谢谢!）。
美国文学学习指南：填空选择题总结Part1
美国文学学习指南：填空选择题总结Part1美国文学学习指南美国文学史及选读综合练习（第二版）李正栓Exercise on American LiteraturePart 1 The Literature of Colonial America (P3)填空题1.The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and literature was______. (American Puritanism)2.Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was _____, anEnglish soldier of fortune, whose reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinct American literature written in English. (Captain John Smith)3.Almost a hundred years earlier the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, and otherparts of Central and South America were occupied by the _____. (Spanish)4.The term “Puritan” was applied to those settlers who originally were devoutmembers of the Church of ______. (England)5.______ College was established in 1636, with a printing press set up nearly in1639. (Harvard)6.Among all the settlers in the New Continent, ______ settlers were the mostinfluential. (English)7.The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at_____, Virginia. (Jamestown)8._____ was a famous explorer and colonist. He established Jamestown. (CaptainJohn Smith)9.In the book _____ John Smith wrote that “here nature and liberty afford us thatfreely which in England we want, or it costs us dearly.” (A Description of New England)10.General history of Virginia contains Smith’s most famous tale of how theIndian princess named _______ saved him from the wrath of her father.(Pocahontas)11.Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the ______ values thatdominated much of the early American writing. (Puritan)12.The American poets who emerged in the seventeenth century adapted thestyle of established European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strange, new environment. _______ Bradstreet was one such port. (Anne) 13.William Bradford himself used a word “_______” to describe the community ofbelievers who sailed from Southampton, England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. (Pilgrims)14.In 1620, ______ was elected Governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts. (WilliamBradford)15.From 1621 until his death, _____ probably possessed more power than anyother colonial governor. (William Bradford)16.William Bradford’s work _____ consists of two works. The first book deals withthe persecutions of the Separatists in Scrooby, England, and the second book describes the signing of the “Compact”. (Mayflower) compact17.T he History of New England is a gift left us by _____. (John Winthrop)18.________ wrote his most impressive work The Magnalia Christi America.(Cotton Mather)19.The writer who best expressed the Puritan faith in the colonial period was_______. (John Winthrop)20.The Puritan philosophy known as _____ was important in New England duringcolonial time, and had a profound influence on the early American mind for several generations. (Puritanism)21.Many Puritans wrote verse, but the work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and_____, rose to the level of real poetry. (Edward Taylor)22.A representative sermon A True Sight of Sin is ______’s main work. (ThomasHooker)23.Before his death, _______ had gained a position as America’s first systematicphilosopher. (Jonathan Edwards)24.Jonathan Edward’s masterpiece is _______. (Freedom ofthe Will)25.The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poemscomposed by _______. (Anne Bradstreet)26._______’s best verse is to be found in a series called “Preparatory Meditations”.(Edward Taylor)27.The Day of Doom, a long-standing best-seller both in America and in England,was written by _______. (Michael Wiggleworth)28.Charles Brockden Brown’s first novel ______, or _______ has been regarded asthe first American novel. (Wieland, The Transformation; An American Tale) 29.With his elaborate metaphors, _______ was reminiscent of Richard Crashawand George Herbert in English. (Edward Taylor)选择题1.English literature in America is only about more than _____ years old. (200)2.The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist ______.(John Smith)3.The Puritan dominating values were _____. (hard work, thrift, piety, sobriety)4.The early history of _____ Colony was the history of B radford’s leadersh ip.(Plymouth)5.Choose those names that were named after English monarch or land.(Georgia, New York, Carolina, New Hampshire)6._______ usually was regarded as the first American writer. (Captain John Smith)7.Cotton Mather was a graduate of Oxford College.8.Jonathan Edwards’ best and most representative sermon was ______. (Sinnersin the Hands of an Angry God)9.Which writer is not a poet? Michael Wigglesworth, Anne Bradstreet, EdwardTaylor, Thomas Hooker. (D)10.The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasison the ______. (Individualism)11.Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in Englandth at she became known as the “_____” who appeared in America. (Tenth Muse) 12.The ship “_____” carried about o ne hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beatits way across the Atlantics. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. (Mayflower)。
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1. Early in the seve ntee nth cen tury, the En glish settleme nts iVirgi nia andMassachusettdDega n the mai n stream of what we recog nize as the America n n atio nal history.2. The earliest settlers in America in cludeDutch, Swedes, Germa ns,Fren ch,Spa ni ards, Italia nsand Portuguese3. The first perma nent En glish settleme nt in North America was established atJamestow n, Virgi nia, in 1607.4. Captain John Smith' reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, havebeen described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English.5. There was a little of thereligious ferme nt ans zeal that in spired such a tide ofliterature to flow Purita n New En gla nd.6. The Purita ns had come to New En glish for the sake orfeligious freedom, whileVirgi nia had bee n pla nted main ly as acommercial ven ture.7. Hard work, thrift, piety _ and sobriety were the Purita n values that domin atedmuch of the earliest America n writi ng, in cludi ng the serm ons, books, andletters of such no ted Purita n clergyme n as Joh n Cott on and Cott on Mather. 8. William Bradford , first governor of Plymouth, and John Winthrop, who held thesame post at Bost on, were superior to eve n the remarkable qualities thatdistinguished many of their associations. Each has left a priceless gift: the former, The History of Plymouth plantation, the latter,the History of New England.9. The best way to learn more of the colonial Puritan mind is to meet two importantfigures, Joh n Cott on and Roger Williams.10. Most Puritan verse was directly plodding, but the work of two writers, AnneBradstreeta nd Edward Taylor, rose to the level of real poetry.1. Who were the earliest settlers? Where were they the n? Who was the most in fluential group?2. What were the first America n writi ngs?3. Could you give a descripti on of America n Purita ns?1. As we have see ntheology domin ated the Purita n phase of America n writi ng.Politics was the n ext great subject to comma nd the atte nti on of the best min ds.2. Freedom was won as much by the fiery rhetoric of Thomas Paine Com monSenseand the eloque nee of thQeclarati on of In depe nden ceas by the weap ons of Washi ngton or Lafayette.3. The British gover nment hampered colo nial economy by requiri ng America ns toship raw materials abroad and to importfi ni shed goods at prices higher tha n the lost of making them in this coun try.4. America n En lighte nment dealt a decisive blow upon the purita n traditi ons andbrought to life secular education and literature.5. The secular ideals of America n En lighte nment were exemplified in the life andcareer of Benjamin Fran kli n, who in structed his coun tryme n as 印rin ter, n ot a priest.6. In 1783, the year the Un ited States achieved its in depe nden cNoah Websterdeclared, America must be as independent in literature as she is in politics, as famous for the arts as for arms .Born in Bost on in 1706, Benjamin Fran kli n went to Philadelphia as a young manand bega n his career as |arin ter. From 1732 to 1758, Fran kli n wrote and published his famouPoor Richard'sAlmanaG an annual collecti on of proverbs.Thomas Pai newas the Great Commoner of Mankin d ”，s on of a nominalQuaker of Thetford, En gla nd.On January 10,1776, Pai n 'famous pamphletsCo mmon Sen seappeared.Philip Fren eau is perhaps the most outsta nding writer of the post-Revolutio naryperiod.Fren eau wasneoclassicalby training and taste yet roma ntic in esse ntial spirit.For a few years, writing with sporadic fluency, Freneau earned his living variouslyas farmer, journalist . and sea captain.As a poet,Fre neauheralded America n literary in depe nden ce, his closeobservation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life andother native American subjects.Fren eau has bee n called the 'Father of America n Poetry ”，a nd it i ultimatelyin a historical estimate that Fren eau is importa nt. What is your impressi on upon the pers on of Benjam in Fran kli n? What belief does the Autobiography sta nd fo ? What is Thomas Pain esCom mon Sense about? What does Fren ea 'poem The Wild Hony Suckle in dicate? Say somethi ng about the style of the AutobiographyIn 1828 the electio n of the fron tier heroA ndrew Jacks onas the seve nthPreside nt of the United States had brought an effective end to theVirginiaDynasty ” of American Preside nt.The United States had been a republic of sma l andlords, without sharp contrastsof wealth.Through the first half of the century the pursuit of simplicity, utility _ and perfection rema ined an America n characteristic.In 1837- the first college-level institution for women Mount Holyoke FemaleSemin ary, ope ned inMassachusettsto serve the muslin sex ”.Washington Irving' Sketch Bookbecame the first work by an American writer towin financial success on both sides of the Atlantic. The attitudes of America 'writers were sharped by theirNew World en vir onmentand an array of ideas in herited from thsoma ntic traditi ons of Europe. Romantic values were prominent in American politics, art and philosophy until the Civil War. As a moral philosophy, Transcenden talism was n eithelogical nor systematized7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 1.2.3.4.5.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.7. 8. 9.Roma ntic writers placed in creas ing value on thfree expressi on of emoti on and displayed increasing attention to thepsychic states of their characters.10. In 1828 Noah Websterpublished An American Dictionary of the English Ianguage.11. At mid-century a cultural reawakening brought a “lowering of New England ”. Ledby Hawthor ne, Emers on, and Thoreau and stirred by the teachi ngs oftran sce nden talism, writers of Bost on and n earby tow ns and villages produceda New En gla nd literary ren aissa nee12. Washington Irving was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism, andhis familiar style was desti ned to outli ne the formal prose of such contemporaries as Scott and Cooper, and to provide a model for the prevailing prose narrative of the future.13. Washington Irving was the first greatbelletrist, writing always for pleasure and toproducepleasure14. The Spyby Cooper was a rous ing tale about espi on age aga inst the British during the Revoluti onary War.15. Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular storiesThe sea adventure taleand the fron tier saga16. Cooper'enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels thatcomprise theLeatherstock ing Tales17. In their order of events, the novels in the Leatherstocking Tale arThe Deerslayer,The last of the Mohica ns, The Pathfi nder, The Pion eera nd The Prairie.18. The central figure in the novels,Natty Bumppo, goes by the various names ofLeatherstock ing, Deerslayer, Pathfi nder, and Hawkeye.19. In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis' by William Cullen Bryant_ introduced the best poet to appear in America up to that time.20. Ralph Waldo Emersonwas responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New Engla nd.21. Emerson believed above all inindividualism, independence of mindand self-relianee.22. Two speechesThe American Scholarand The Divinity School Addressby Emerson made him famous.23. Emerson s truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerso'theories, wasHe nry David Thoreau.24. For Thoreau, as for Emersonself-reliance and independence of mindrankedabove all.25. The essayCivil Disobedienee stated Thoreaus belief that no man should violatehis con scie nee at the comma nd of a gover nment.26. The House of the Seven Gabledeals with the effects of a curse, and though thetale itself is fiction, the germ of the story sprang from the authers family history. 27. The book Moby-Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of aseem in gly super natural white whale.28. What baffled its early readers of Moby-Dick was the books wild extravagances ofmood and Ian guage its effect of what the moder n critic Van Wyck Brooks calls “a shreddedShakespearearplay”.29. Irving had been notably successful in domesticating European subject matter while employi ng a British prose style: now Lon gfellow domesticated Europea n meters as in his adoption of classical Greek meters to tell the story of Evangeline Bellefo ntai ne.30. The gentleness, sweetnesand purity for which his poetry was popular during hislifetime were the very qua ntities that caused the react ion aga inst it afterLongfellow 'death.1. What is Irving ' style?2. What does Irving's Rip Van Winkle” reveal?3. Read Poesworks, and tell what Poestheories for the short story and poetry are?4. Read Raven”.And use it as an example to illustrate his poetic theories.5. What Tran sce nden talist views did Emers on state in his Nature?6. In your opinion, how should we read Walde n?7. From Walde n, we can know what Thorea'belief is?8. what is the theme of Moby-Dick?9. What is the sig nifica nee of the character, Ahab, in the history of America nliterature?10. Say something about the symbolism in Moby-Dick.11. Give a brief analysis of Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter.12. Can you say something about the style of Walden13. What is Hawthorn's style?14. What is Transcendentalism?。