美国文学题库-整理版

美国文学史及选读期末复习重点考试题型:

1. 名词解释（20分）5个*4=20分

2•选择题（20分）

3•连线题（10分）

4•判断题（10分）

5•片段赏析（20分）一个10分2个一个小说一个诗歌6. 论述题（20分）一个10分2个一个小说一个诗歌

The Outli ne of America n Literature

Realists: Henry James and his psychological realism

William Dean Howells and his moral realism

Local Colorism/Regio nalism: Mark Twain

Naturalists: Stephen Crane /Dreiser

The Modern Period 1914-1945

Moder n Poetry:

Imagism:Ezra Pound

W.C.Williams

Lyrical Poet : Robert Frost

Carl San dburg

Wallace Steve ns

Moder n Novelists:

Represe ntatives of the Lost Gen erati on:

（Jazz Age）F.Scott Fitzgerald/Ernest Hemi ngway/T.S.Eliot

Epitome of the Souther n Ren aissa nee:

William Faulk ner

The Leftist Novelists:

Joh n Dos Passos/Joh n Stein beck

The Jewish American Novelists in this period:

Eugene O Neill

Part I Term Defin iti on

1. American Naturalism:美国自然主义

1. Naturalism is a more deliberate kind of realism and this term describes a type of literature that attempts

2. Naturalism is a literary movement that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had in escapable force in shap ing huma n character.

3.Although n aturalist described the world with sometimes brutal realism, it sometimes also aimed at bettering the world through social

reform.4.It accepted the in terpretati on of Darwin leadi ng figure of this school.5.The represe ntative figure

is Stephe n Crane and his Sister Carrie.

Key words : Darwin ' Evolutionary Theory;environment and heredity; objectivity and detachment Theodore Dreiser; Sister Carrie, Stephe n Crane, etc.

2. American Realism:美国现实主义

1. 时间：In America n literature, the Civil War brought the Roman tic Period to an end. The Age of Realism

came into existe nee. 内战将浪漫主义结束，开启现实主义。

2.It came as a reacti on aga inst the lie of roman ticism and sen time ntalism. 反对浪漫主义和感伤主义

3. Realism turned from an emphasis on the stra nge toward a faithful of the ordin ary, a slice of life as it is really lived. It expresses the concern for commo nplace and the low, and it offers an objective rather tha n

an idealistic view of the huma n n ature and huma n experie nee. 现实主义从对奇异的强调转向对平凡的忠

禾口人类经验。 4.A realistic writer is more objective than subjective ，more descriptive than symbolism.

5.The represe ntative figures are Mark Twain, Henry James and Howells.

Key words : Mark Twain, Henry James and Howells ；reality; the depressed;

to apply scie ntific prin ciples of objectivity （客观）and detachme nt （冷静）to its study of huma n beings.

'evoluti onary theory and Dreiser is a

literature