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《英美文学》考试大纲

《英美文学》考试大纲学院（盖章）：负责人（签字）：专业代码： 050201 专业名称：英语语言文学专业考试科目代码：考试科目名称：英美文学根据教育部和国家各专业学位教育指导委员会相关文件精神，我校文法学院英语语言文学专业的研究生，除应具有坚实的英语基础外，还应掌握英美文学基本概念、理论、知识，具有一定的应用分析能力。

为便于考生考试前的学习及考前准备，保证硕士学位研究生的培养质量，特制定本《英美文学》入学考试大纲。

一、考试目的《英美文学》考试旨在全面考察考生是否具有硕士阶段学习所要求的英语水平，是否具有扎实的英语基础，是否掌握英美文学的基本概念、理论、知识，是否具有一定的应用分析能力及写作能力，以保证所招收硕士学位研究生的培养质量。

二、考试性质与范围测试考生掌握英美文学知识的水平考试。

1、1、考试的总体要求? 英语水平：通过英语专业四级考试。

②词汇：要求掌握语言学及英美文学相关专业词汇3500以上，积极词汇6000以上，能够使用以上词汇对英美文学的术语做出解释说明。

③专业知识：能读懂有关英美文学的问题，并能根据要求运用所学相关知识分析和回答问题。

④综合能力：要求考生掌握英美文学的基本概念、理论、知识，具有较好的英语写作能力，具有一定的应用分析能力，能够就相关专业问题表达自己的理解、观点或看法。

2、2、考试形式3、①笔试、闭卷4、②使用英语答题。

③总分为150，考试时间为180分钟。

三、题型与内容1、试题题型①填空题? 判断正误题? 术语解释题④问答题⑤论述题2、考试内容①填空题：考查英美文学的基础知识。

（10道题，计20分。

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《英美文学》课程考试大纲[001]

《英美文学》课程考试大纲
一、基本描述
课程名称：英美文学（English and American Literature）
学分: 3
学时：45+45 （课内实验(践)：上机：课外实践：）
适用专业：英语
开课单位：外国语学院外语系
课程负责人：汤红
教材与主要参考书目：《英美文学选读》张伯香外语教学与研究出版社1999年12月第2版
内容概述：《英美文学》课程的教学内容是根据本课程的性质、学习目的以及英语专业教学的特点确定的。

本课程主要内容包括英国和美国文学史上代表作家的简要介绍和作品选读。

结合英国和美国文学各个历史断代的主要历史背景，文学文化思潮和流派，社会政治、经济、文化等对英国和美国文学史上最具有影响、最具有代表性的作家的作品中的艺术特色、主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格和思想意义等进行深入地分析。

（考核要求：A—重点考核；B—一般考核；C—了解）三、考核方式
试卷考核
四、大纲编写的依据与说明
根据专业培养目标及教学计划，综合该课程权威体系编写。

起草人：汤红审核人：章联日期：2016年11月9日。

英美文学导论考试题及答案

英美文学导论考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪部作品是威廉·莎士比亚的悲剧？A.《罗密欧与朱丽叶》B.《威尼斯商人》C.《皆大欢喜》D.《第十二夜》2. 19世纪英国浪漫主义诗人拜伦的全名是什么？A. 乔治·戈登·拜伦B. 威廉·华兹华斯C. 珀西·比希·雪莱D. 约翰·济慈3. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 查尔斯·狄更斯B. 简·奥斯汀C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 托马斯·哈代4. 美国文学中被称为“黑暗浪漫主义”的时期是？A. 浪漫主义时期B. 现实主义时期C. 现代主义时期D. 后现代主义时期5. 以下哪部作品是马克·吐温的代表作？A.《了不起的盖茨比》B.《汤姆·索亚历险记》C.《白鲸》D.《老人与海》二、填空题（每空2分，共20分）6. 英国文学史上的文艺复兴时期，以_______的戏剧创作最为著名。

7. 19世纪美国文学的“现实主义”运动，以_______的《红字》为代表作。

8. 现代主义文学中，_______的《荒原》被认为是现代主义诗歌的里程碑。

9. 20世纪美国文学中，_______的《了不起的盖茨比》描绘了20年代的“爵士时代”。

10. 英国浪漫主义诗人_______的《夜莺颂》是其代表作之一。

三、简答题（每题10分，共30分）11. 简述英国文学中的“哥特式小说”的特点。

12. 描述美国文学中的“自然主义”运动，并举例说明。

13. 简述现代主义文学与后现代主义文学的主要区别。

四、论述题（每题15分，共30分）14. 论述威廉·华兹华斯的“自然主义”观点及其在《抒情歌谣集》中的体现。

15. 分析弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》中的女性主义视角。

答案一、选择题1. A2. A3. C4. B5. B二、填空题6. 威廉·莎士比亚7. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑8. T.S.艾略特9. F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德10. 威廉·华兹华斯三、简答题11. 哥特式小说的特点包括恐怖、神秘、超自然元素，以及对古老建筑或废墟的描写。

英美文学导论

British & American Literature IntroductionClass:Student Name:Student Number:Supervisor:Foreign Language DepartmentⅹⅹⅹⅹⅹUniversityDecember19, 2011An Analysis of the Main Characters in The Great Gatsby（姓名：班级：学号：）Ⅰ. IntroductionF. Scott Fitzgerald was the leader of the Jazz Age and one of the best American writers of the 20th century. The Great Gatsby is considered a correct depiction of that era and is the best novel of F.S. Fitzgerald. The novel shows the disil lusion of “American Dream” in the 1920s and also shows that in the American society of 1920s, the commons were in total depravity. It tells us that there is no way to go from money to love, from material to spirit. It is full of realistic meaning even today. As a novel with strong tragic flavor, it keeps in step with the time and its criticism of America society is really penetrating. This article will to elaborate the inevitability of disllusion of American dream by the analysis of character.Ⅱ. The introduction and analysis of the Main Characters1. Nick Carraway①Nick gets involved in the bonds business and moves to West Egg in the summer of 1922. He is a Yale graduate,a World War I veteran. He becomes intrigued by his next-door neighbor, the enigmatic Jay Gatsby. Nick puts the story of Gatsby's life together for the audience. After more investigation into Gatsby's life, Nick realizes that Gatsby attained his wealth and possessions not only to impress Daisy but also to attempt to fulfill the American Dream of rising from rags to riches. While Nick nonetheless admires his optimism, ambition, and grand schemes.②Because Nick is the narrator of the story, we actually learn very little about his personality except for the few tidbits that Fitzgerald purposely allows to slip out. He tells us at the beginning of the book that he is inclined to reserve making judgments about people, a habit which encourages many people to confide in him and tell him secrets that they are too afraid to tell anyone else.2.Jay Gatsby①The protagonist of the work, Jay Gatsby attempts to live out the American Dream but instead meets a tragic death because he cannot survive without his dream. Gatsby's goal is to attain as much money as he can because money has limitless power. He believes that money can buy him friends, social status, and even love. He is a young, mysterious millionaire later revealed to be a bootlegger, originally from North Dakota, with shady business connections and an obsessive love for Daisy .When Daisy and Gatsby drive away in the "death car" that kills Myrtle Wilson, Gatsby to take the blame.Gatsby is unique - one of the most memorable characters. Always addicted himself in the past;He didn’t realized the reality around him—the society is full of hypocrisy and cheating.②In an era flooded with the pursuit of material wealth and social intolerance. When Daisy made the accident, he just try to protect her and shoulder the responsibility.3.Daisy Buchanan Angel or devil? （天使还是恶魔？）The object of Gatsby's limitless love, Daisy Buchanan is nothing more than a combination of unimaginable wealth and unattainable beauty - and that is why Gatsby loves her.①Since I have seen this work, I thought she is a devil.Because she was believed to be a typical represen tative of the “Jazz Age”;and she is greedy, empty pursuit of pleasure, worshipper of money, cold-hearted.Daisy was stained by the worship of money, despite the beauty .②while some people thought he is a angel, because she is an attractive and effervescent, shallow young woman;in the movie,Daisy always put a white dress,which seems a angel. Daisy is believed to have been inspired by Fitzgerald's own youthful romance with Chicago heiress Ginevra King.1.Tom Buchanan a representive of upper class of capitalismTom is an intimidating, powerful hulk of a man who tries to prove to any individual he meets that he has both brains and brawns, but his mind definitely doesn't match his muscles. An extremely wealthy and privileged ex-athlete who attended Yale with Nick, he proclaims to love Daisy but has had extramarital affairs throughout their relationship. Tom tries to make himself seem intelligent and well-read, but in reality, he is quite ignorant. He believes that the white raceshould always possess power over all minority races and worries that African-Americans have gained too much standing in society. After Gatsby and Daisy run over Myrtle in a car, he and Daisy, lacking moral scruples and any sense of responsibility, leave New York.III. ConclusionAbove on these, we know the failure of Gatsby imple the failure of “American Dream".His struggle is the embodiment of the spirit of the United States, his failure to declare the callapsed of the American spirit.His tragedy is put the ideal based on the illusions and unreality .He is eager for success, but when he gained he had fallen into in a spiritual crisis. He would escape from the reality rather than bravely to face. Gatsby and Tom contend for not only rival in battle, but also thecontest of two class representatives. So his failure is inevitable. Nick and Jordan the lovers are the the viewers of the story, they witnessed this dirty, evil history. The high prosperity of Material civilization brought enormous emptiness and confusion of spiritual. The whole society is subjected to this mental illness disease. So far, the callapsed of "American Dream" become an inevitability.。

英美文学选读自学考试大纲

英美文学选读自学考试大纲一、考试简介英美文学选读自学考试旨在测试考生对于英美文学的基本概念、发展历程、重要作家及其作品的掌握程度，以及对于英美文学的基本理论和分析方法的了解和运用能力。

考试形式为闭卷笔试，考试时间为180分钟，满分为100分。

二、考试内容1、英美文学基本概念及发展历程（20%）测试考生对于英美文学的基本概念、发展历程和重要时期的了解和掌握程度。

2、英美文学重要作家及其作品（30%）测试考生对于英美文学的重要作家及其代表作品的了解和掌握程度，包括但不限于莎士比亚、简·奥斯汀、托尔斯泰、海明威等。

3、英美文学的基本理论和分析方法（30%）测试考生对于英美文学的基本理论和分析方法的了解和掌握程度，包括但不限于新批评、结构主义、后现代主义等。

4、阅读理解与写作能力（20%）测试考生的阅读理解能力和写作能力，包括对于所给文本的理解、分析、评价和论述能力。

三、考试形式及题型1、单项选择题（20分）要求考生从四个选项中选择一个最符合题意的答案。

2、多项选择题（20分）要求考生从五个选项中选择两个或以上的答案。

21、简答题（20分）要求考生用简短的语言回答问题，考查考生的理解和概括能力。

211、分析题（30分）要求考生对所给的文学作品进行分析、评价和论述，考查考生的分析能力和语言表达能力。

2111、写作题（10分）要求考生根据给定的题目和要求进行写作，考查考生的写作能力和语言表达能力。

四、自学建议系统学习英美文学基本知识：了解英美文学的发展历程、重要时期和流派，掌握基本概念和理论。

阅读重要作家作品：选择一些经典作家及其代表作品进行阅读和研究，深入了解作家的创作风格和思想内涵。

培养阅读和分析能力：通过阅读和分析文学作品，提高自己的阅读能力和分析能力，掌握基本的文学分析方法。

加强写作训练：通过写作练习，提高自己的写作能力和语言表达能力，为考试做好准备。

英美文学选读复习资料一、英国文学1、文艺复兴时期：代表人物：莎士比亚、培根、哈姆雷特等。

自考英语本科英美文学选读考试大纲

《英美文学选读》考试大纲全国考办在组织全国考委外语类专业委员会研究论证后，决定对高等教育自学考试英语语言文学专业“英美文学选读”（课程代码：0604）自学考试大纲的部分内容进行调整:具体调整如下：《英美文学选读自学考试大纲》的考核知识点与考核要求（一）关于考核知识点的调整考核知识点中的各章概述内容仍为考核内容；对知识点中的作家只保留对如下主要作家的考核。

英国文学：Chapter 1III. William ShakespeareVI. John MiltonChapter 2III. Daniel DefoeIV. Jonathan SwiftV. Henry FieldingChapter 3I. William BlakeII. William WordsworthV. Percy Bysshe ShelleyVII. Jane AustenChapter 4I. Charles DickensII. Charlotte BronteVI. Thomas HardyChapter 5I. George Bernard ShawIV.T. S. EliotV.D. H. Lawrence美国文学：Chapter 1III. Nathaniel HawthorneIV. Walt WhitmanV. Herman MelvilleChapter 2I. Mark TwainII. Henry JamesIII. Emily DickinsonIV. Theodore DreiserChapter 3II. Robert Lee FrostIV.F. Scott FitzgeraldV. Ernest HemingwayVI. William Faulkner二、关于考核要求的调整考核要求中每章概述内容不作调整：“该时期的重要作家”只包含对考核知识点中保留的重要作家的相关内容的考核原大纲如下：上篇英国文学第一章文艺复兴时期一、学习目的和要求通过本章的学习，了解文艺复兴运动和人文主义思潮产生的历史、文化背景，认识该时期文学创作的基本特征和基本主张，及其对同时代及其对同时代及后世英国文学乃至文化的影响；了解该时期重要作家的文学生涯、创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物刻画、评议风格、思想意义等；同时结合注释，读懂所选作品，了解其思想内容和写作特色，培养理解和欣赏文学作品的能力。

英美文学考试题型及大致范围

一、根据作品写作家。

（20%）要求：必须写作家全名且不能写错，如Charles Dickens。

二、单选题。

（20%）全部在英国文学选择题和美国文学选择题上。

三、名词解释（20%）transcendentalism,超越论，先验论naturalism,自然主义，本能行动，自然论romanticism,浪漫主义，浪漫精神sonnet,十四行诗，商籁诗renaissance, 文艺复兴the Byronic Hero,拜伦式英雄lyrical ballad,抒情歌谣the lost generation,迷惘的一代beat generation,垮了的一代local color,乡土特色，地域色彩critical realism批判现实主义，批判实在论四、诗歌评论与翻译（20%）The Road Not Taken五、小说评论（20%）Tess of the D’urbervilles.Two days ago, I have read Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Tess is so miserable. She is really a tragic figure in the book TESS of the d’Urberwilles.She was seduced by a so-called gentleman—Alec. And from then on her life totally changed. People looked down on her and respected her no more. Actually she did nothing wrong because before she was seduced she knew nothing of men. She was justa girl when she first met that terrible man. She was forced by thegossips and the church to blame herself for this accident. In order to get rid of the past she decided to go to a distant dairy farm. Maybe God didn’t agree with t hat, because Angel Chare came into her life. Angel is the man Tess loved with her whole heart and life. After their wedding, Tess told everything to Angel, hoping he would forgive her as he was forgiven .But she was wrong. She was not forgiven. Angel left her.Tragedy didn’t stop. Alec found her again. Tess was deceivedagain. She lost Angel for the second time!She forgot the difference between right and wrong. The only thing in her mind is her love to Angel. She lost control! She killed Alec!I was so sad to read the tragic ending. I wanted to ask why the ending is that.Tess’s whole character was honest and faithful. She was always hurt by those people who said they love her. She was so unsophisticated that she trusted everyone else.She loved Angel very much. And she trusted Angel. So she was on her mettle to tell her husband her past. Why didn’t she get Angel’s forgive?It’s unfair. Men are always easy to get forgive. Women are always easy to be hurt.In old China there was a culture, which didn’t think of women as human beings. If you asked one if he was the oldest in his family, he would probably answer “yes” even if he had some elder sisters. If you asked why then he would say, “Ha, they are not included!” People gave birth to many girls in order to ha ve only one boy to keep the family name going. They thought girls had no use for the family.Nowadays women’s situations have become much better. Some are because of the change of society and some are because of civilization.Just let those poor painful women like TESS be just a memory. 《德伯家的苔丝》是哈代著称于世的“威塞克斯系列”中的一部力作。

《英美文学》复习纲要

《英美文学》复习纲要I. Define the following terms1. Lake poets:2. Pre-romanticism:3. Romanticism:4. Byronic heroes5.: Critical Realism:6. Dramatic monologue7. Neo-romanticism8. Naturalism9. Aestheticism10 Stream of consciousness11. .Imagism12. American PuritanismII. Reading comprehension：Passage1O my luve is like a red, red rose,That‟s newly sprung in June;O my luve is like the melodieThat‟s sweetly played in tune.2As fair thou art , my bonie lass,So deep in luve am I;And I will luve thee still, my dear,Till a‟ the seas gang dry.3Till a‟ the seas gang dry, my dear ,And the rocks melt wi‟ the sun;And I will luve thee still , my dear,While the sands o‟life shall r un.4And fare thee weel,my only luve,And fare thee weel awhile;And I will come again, my luve,Tho‟it were ten thousand mile!Questions:1.The poem is entitled____________, written by ______________.2.The theme of the poem is about ________.3.The poem is written in _________dialect.4.The rhythm used in the odd-numbered lines is ______ while that used in the even-numbered lines is __________.5.The rhyme scheme employed in the first two stanzas of the poem is ____ and that employed in the last two stanzas is ___6.List two rhetorical devices used in the poem with one example each.Passage 2For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude,And then my heart with pleasure fillsAnd dances with the _______.…”Questions:1. Identify the poet and the title of the poem. (2 points)2. What is the last word at the end of the line? (1 points)3. What is the metrical pattern and rhyme scheme of the above excerpt? (4 points)4. Please paraphrase this stanza. (3 points)Passage 3She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and oh,The difference to me!1) Who was the writer?2) What is the name/ title of the poem?3) What does “and oh, /The difference to me!” imply?4) Why the writer use “unknown” and “know” in the same line?Passage 4I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,The black-clad cricket bear a second part;They kept one tune and played on the same string.Seeming 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 American womanwriter. What is her name?2.Make a brief comment on this short poem.Passage 5HuswiferyMake me, O Lord, thy spinning wheel complete.Thy holy word my distaff make for me.Make mine affections thy swift flyers neat,And make my soul thy holy spool to be.My conversation make to be thy reel,And reel the yam thereon spun of thy wheel. Questions:1. Identify the poet of this poem.2. Make a brief comment on this poemPassage 6Sunset and evening star,And one clear call for me!And may there be no moaning of the bar,When I put out to sea,But such a tide as moving seems asleep,Too full for sound and foam,When that which drew from out the boundless deepTurns again home.Twilight and evening bell,And after that the dark!And may there be no sadness of farewell,When I embark;For though from out our bourne of Time and PlaceThe flood may bear me far,I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.Questions:1.Who is the author and what is the title of the poem?2. What are the images of the end of life in the poem?3. What is the theme of the poem?Passage 7"Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted in to infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparenteye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal being circulatethrough me; I am part or particle of God. "1. Which work is this selection taken from?2. How do you understand the philosophical ideas in these words?Passage 8The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1.Who is the writer of this poem? _______________2.What is the title of this poem? _______________3.What images in this poem suggest Haiku poetry and what images are “modern”?4.What is the effect of the parallel between lines one and two of the poem? And whatfeeling and meaning does the poem express to you?III. Questions and Answers.1. What is the significance of Preface to Lyrical Ballads?(In the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth set forth his principles of poetry. He based his own poetical theory on the premise that good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. He appealed directly to individual sensation as the foundation in the creation and appreciation of poetry. Ordinary peasants and children may be used as subjects in the poetic creation. As to the language used in poetry, Wordsworth endeavored to bring language near to the real language of men.)2. What does “She” (referring to Lucy) in“She Dwelt Among the Untroden Ways” imply?3. What is the theme of “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”?4. “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!/ A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed/ One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.” The a bove quotation is taken from Shelley‟s poem …Ode to the West wind”. What does the underlined part mean?5. Why did Shelley wish to be “a dead leaf”, “a swift cloud” and asked the West wind to “lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud”?6. What is the image of “nightingale” in Keats‟“Ode to a Nightingale”?7. What are Austen‟s writing features Jane Austen?(She is one of the realistic novelists. She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels. Austen‟s work has a very narrow literary field. She confines herself to small country parishes, whose simple country people became the characters of her novels, but within her own field, she is unrivaled. Her novels show a wealth of humor, wit and delicate satire. Her pots are straight-forward; there is little action. Her characters are like real living creatures, with faults and virtues mixed as they are in real life. Her prose flows easily and naturally. Her dialogue is admirably true to life.)8. Why does William Makepeace Thackeray give one of his novels the title Vanity Fair and the subtitle “Novel without a Hero”?9. What is the character Rebecca Sharp?What is your opinion on the character Rebecca Sharp?10. What are the major contributions made by the 19th century critical realists?(The major contribution is their perfection of the novel. Like the realists of the 18th century, the 19th century critical realist made use of the form of novel of full and detailed representations of social and political events, and of the fate of individuals and of whole social classes. However, the realistic novels of the 19th century went a step further than those of the 18th century in that they not only pictured the conflicts between individuals who stood for definite social strata, but also showed the broad social conflicts over and above the fate of mere individuals. Their artistic representation of vital social movements such as Chartism, and their vivid description of the dramatic conflicts of the time make the 19th century realistic nov el “the epic of the bourgeois society”.)11. What is the significance of American Puritanism in American literature?12. Please make a brief statements of English critical realism.13. Please summarize the main principles of Mathew Arnold‟s literary criticism .14.Pease make a brief summary of the principles of Imagist movement .15.What are the main features of New England Transcendentalism.IV. Topic Discussione examples from Oliver Twist to illustrate the major themes of the novel.2.Please retell the story of The Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens , andthen make comments on it on the terms of its theme and characterization.3.Please retell the story of Vanity Fair written by W. M. Thackeray , and then makecomments on it on the terms of its theme and characterization.4.Please retell the story of Jane Eyre, and then make comments on it on the termsof its theme and characterization.5.Please retell the story of Wuthering Height, and then make comments on it on theterms of its theme and characterization.6.Please retell the story of Scarlet Letter, and then make comments on it on theterms of its theme and characterization.。

《英美文学导论》试题答案

试卷代号:湖北广播电视大学学年度第学期期末考试《英美文学导论》试题答案I. Multiple Choices (30 points, 2 points for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1-5 C C B A C 6-10 C B A C B 11-15 A B B D AII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write T or F as your answers in the blanks (10 points, 1 point for each).1. T2. F3. F4. T5. T6. F7. F8. T9. T 10. FIII. Choose the author of each of the following literary works from the given choices (10 points, 1 point for each).1. A2. H3. D4. F5. L6. J7. B8. K9. C 10.GIV. Please define the literary terms listed below (10 points for each, 5 points for each).1. RomanticismRomanticism is a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in western culture during most of the 19th century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. There have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places. The leading figures of Romantic movements are Wordsworth, Shelley, etc.2. Stream of ConsciousnessIt’s a narrative device with which the author makes an attempt to depict the exact process of mental workings of the character (mainly narrator), with all its illogical darts and dashes and sudden turns and free associations. Both Faulkner and Joyce employed this literary device in some of their works.V. Please give brief answers to each of the following questions in English (40 points, 20 points for each).1.Give a brief analysis of the relation Between Heathcliff and Catherine in EmilyBronte’s masterpiece Wuthering Heights.The love between Heathcliff and Catherine is the most beautiful, most tense and at the same time the most horrible passion. They fall in love for their mutual love of the moor, the sublime beauty and wilderness on it. And their love takes the feature of the moor. However when Catherine betrays her heart as well as their love and marries Linton, Heathcliff runs away. When they meet again, Catherine is trapped by her fidelity to her husband and her love towards Heathcliff, which finally brings her death. After her death, Heathcliff turns into a demonic figure and takes revenge crazily, but his love towards Catherine remains unchanged.Finally, he sees her ghost and starves himself to death in the ghost house. The souls of the two at last unite.This love between Heathcliff and Catherine experiences the tow worlds of this life and after life, and it is totally spiritual. It takes Romantic feature and can only exist and survive in that particular circumstance.2.Give a brief analysis of Huck, a character in Mark Twain’s Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn, and discuss the social importance of the characterization of this character.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the best known for Mark Twain’s wonderful characterization of “Huck”. Huck is a typical American Boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience”. He appears to be vulgar in language and in manner, but he is honest and decent in essence. His remarkable raft’s journey down the Mississippi river, which Twain used both realistically and symbolically to shape his book into an organic whole, can also be regarded as his process of education and his way to grow up. On the whole, he is the son of nature and a symbol for freedom and earthly pragmatism.Through the eyes of Huck, the innocent and reluctant rebel, we see the pre-Civil War American society fully exposed. Twain thematically contrasts the life on the river and the life on the banks. These contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization best show the romantic quality in Twain’s writing.。

英美文学选读教程大纲 lecture 2

Chapter 2 The Neoclassical Period (1660-1798)一、背景知识（Background knowledge）1、历史背景（Historical background）新古典主义时期的英国社会矛盾交织。

王室与议会、不同的教派之间、统治阶级与贫苦的劳动大众之间冲突不断，托利党与辉格党也为对议会和政府的控制而争斗不已。

概言之，那是一个充满了多种矛盾和多种价值观的时代。

18世纪的英国发展迅速，到世纪中叶，英国已成为世界上的头号资本主义强国。

随着经济的迅速发展，中产阶级也随之壮大了起来.2、文化背景（Cultural background）A 随着资本主义的发展，中产阶级的社会价值观和道德观占据了主宰地位。

中产阶级崇尚自制、自立和勤劳。

对他们而言，生活的意义就在于工作、节俭和积累财富。

B 这一时期，启蒙运动在英国全面展开。

该运动的目的是用现代哲学和艺术观启迪社会。

启蒙主义者们宣扬理性、平等与科学，宣称理性是人类的一切思想和行动唯一的、终极的目标。

C 启蒙者们相信当理性作为衡量一切人类行为和关系的标尺之时，一切迷信、压迫和不公正将让位于“终极真理”、“终极正义”和“终极平等”。

D 启蒙者们鼓吹全民教育。

他们认为，大众受到教育才更有可能建成民主社会。

3、新古典主义文学的特征（Features of the Neo-classic literature）A 新古义文学奉古希腊、罗马的经典作品和当代法国作品。

B新古典主义作家自觉地追求均衡、统一与和谐表达的优雅，从而形成了雍容、雅致、诙谐、睿智的文风。

C这一时期的文学说教意味浓厚，成为流行一时的大众教育的手段。

各种文学体裁均遵循某些固定的条律和规则。

D包括当时流行的模拟史诗、传奇、讽刺诗、讽刺短诗在内的各体诗歌结构工整，遣词雅致、语气庄严、注重说教。

小说则不同于传统的贵族传奇文学，以现实的笔触摹写普通人民的生活。

二Daniel Defoe丹尼尔·笛福（1660～1731），英国小说家，英国启蒙时期现实主义小说的奠基人，被誉为“欧洲小说之父”。

美国文学2013年大纲完整版

一．题型I.Multiple Choice （30%）II.Identification（20%）III.Short-answer Questions（20%）IV.Appreciation（30%）二．复习内容I.Multiple Choice1.In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment.______was the dominant spirit.A.HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2.Which statement about B. Franklin is not true?A.He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He is a puritanD. He was a master of Diplomacy3.The Autobiography of B. Franklin is an important document of _____.A. American RealismB. American RomanticismC. American PuritanismD. American Naturalism4.Which of the following characters is an ambitionless and idle man wholongs to escape from his wife's nagging?A. SoapyB. Rip Van WinkleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Jim Smiley5.From “Rip Van Winkle”it can be inferred that _____.A．Washington Irving’s taste is very modern.B . Washington Irving shows great in the American Revolution.C. Washington Irving prefers the past to the present.D. Washington Irving wrote the story in a realistic way.6.Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary preference for the pastis revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, ______.A.“The Legend of Sleepy Hallow”B.“Rip Van Winkle”C. “The Custom House”D.“The Birthmark”7.“Rip Van Winkle” is a short story written by ___A. James Fenimore CooperB. Washington IrvingC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Mark Twain8.The Romantic Period in American Literary history started withthe publication of ____.A．Washington Irving’s The Sketch BookB．Washington Irving’s Tales of A TravelerC．Whitmam’s Leaves of GrassD．James F. Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales9._______ was regarded as “Father of the American short stories”.A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Washington IrvingD. Nathaniel Hawthorne10.Emersonian Transcendentalism is, in fact, a philosophical school whichabsorbed some ideological concerns of _______ and EuropeanRomanticism.A. American PuritanismB. NeoclassicismC. American RomanticismD. social criticism11.The transcendentalists believed in the following except _____.A. living close to natureB. moral impact on manC. the essential holiness of manD. self-reliance and self-trust12.Emerson's _____ was called the "Intellectual Declaration ofIndependence."A. Self - RelianceB. The Over-SoulC. The American ScholarD. Nature13.The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is ________.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Washington IrvingD. Henry David Thoreau14._______ is generally regarded as the Bible of New EnglandTranscendentalism.A. NatureB. On BeautyC. WaldenD. Self-Reliance15.Which of the following is not written by R.W. Emerson?A. American TragedyB. NatureC. The American ScholarD. Self-Reliance16.Edgar Allan Poe is known as a poet and critic but most famousas the first master of the form of ______.A. poemB. dramaC. short storyD. essay17.Which of the following is written in memory of Allen Poe’s dead wife?A. To HelenB. Annabel LeeC. The RavenD. The Bells18.Edgar Allan Poe can be described as the following except _____.A. a playwrightB. a criticC. a short story writerD. a poet19.The writer who is famous for his detective stories is _______.A. Washington IrvingB. O. HenryB. Edgar Allan Poe D. Nathaniel Hawthorne20.The most modern and bizarre poet the 19th century America ever producedwho was also famous for his detective stories is _____.A. Washington IrvingB. O. HenryC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Walt Whitman21.The poet who is a Romanticist with his high-mindedness, gentleness, anddidacticism is ______.A.Nathaniel HawthorneB. H. W. LongfellowC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Walt Whitman22.“A Psalm of Life” is a _______ poem.A. narrativeB. dramaticC. lyricD. didactic23.In what century is the story of Hester Prynne set?(A) The 16th century (B) The 17th century(C) The 18th century (D) The 19th century24.________________ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed andtormented one, which has much to do with his black vision of life and human beings.A. Herman Melville’sB. Washington Irving’sC. Nathaniel Hawthorne’sD. Walt Whitman’s25.As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s art is concerned, which of the followingstatements is true?A.In his The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne intends to tell a love story and astory of sin.B. His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a Puritanhimself.C.Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.D.According to Hawthorne, man is divine in nature and thereforeperfectible.26.What does Hester’s letter “A” eventually come to represent to thetownspeople?A. “Able”B. “Alone”C. “Avaricious”D. “Absolutely Admirable”27._____ was the poet of the common people and the prophet and singer ofdemocracy.A. FrostB. LongfellowC. PoundD. Whitman28.Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in the style of _______.A. blank verseB. alliterationC. free verseD. irony29.Which of the following is written in memory of President Lincoln?A.Song of MyselfB.I Hear America SingingC.O Captain! My Captain!D.Leaves of Grass30.In_____________, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln’s death.A. Cavalry Crossing a FordB. A PactC. O Captain! My Captain!D. There was a Child Went Forth31.The shy, reclusive poet, _____, has come to be regarded as one ofAmerica's great lyric poets.A. H.W. LongfellowB. Emily DickinsonC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Walt Whitman32.Which of the following died almost completely unknown to the Americanpublic?A. DickinsonB. WhitmanC. LongfellowD. Poe33.Which of the following is not true as far as Emily Dickinson’s poetry isconcerned?A.She often uses dashes.B.Most of her poems are about death and immortality.C.Her poems are very personal and meditative.D.Her poems usually have well-chosen titles.34.Mark Twain's novels are mostly about _____ subject matter.A. internationalB. adventureC. travelogueD. love35.________ is called by Hemingway the one from which all modernAmerican literature comes.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinB.The Adventures of Tom SawyerC.The Gilded AgeD.Life on the Mississippi36.Huckleberry Finn is in ______ language.A. vernacularB. BritishC. AmericanD. black37.Mark Twain, the humourist, wrote the following except ______.A.The Adventures of Tom SawyerB.The Prince and the PauperC.The Happy PrinceD.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn38.Mark Twain is all of the following but _____.A. a local coloristB. a social satiristC . a realist D. a romanticist39.Soapy is a fictional character from _____.A.The Gift of MagiB.The Last LeafC.The Cop and the AnthemD.An unfinished Story40.________ was the leading spokesman of the Imagist Movement, whosefamous one-image poem “In a Station of the Metro” would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Wallace Stevens41.______ was a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman42.Robert Frost’s _______ is an easy poem recording the poet’s meditationon a snowy evening and emphasizing one’s responsibility to be fufilled in life against a temptation of momentary retreat.A. “Mending the Wall”B. “The Road Not Taken’’C. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’D. “Departmental”43.________ stems from the ambiguity of the speaker’s choice between safetyand the unknown.A. “Mending the Wall”B. “Home Burial”C. “The Road Not Taken”D. “Stopping by Woods on a SnowyEvening’44.In Frost’s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from_________________.A. the simple country lifeB. the urban lifeC. the life on the seaD. the adventures and trips45.Which of the following poets is the poet of New England country and farmlife?A. Walt WhitmanB. Anne BradstreetC. H.W. LongfellowD. Robert Frost46._____ is often acclaimed as literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. Ezra Pound47.F. Scott Fitzgerald skillfully employs the device of having events observedby______ to his great advantage.A.more than one witnessB. a “central consciousness”C.his double visionD.the protagonist48.In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner makes best use of the ______ device innarration.A. RomanticB. GothicC. RealisticD. Modernist49.Faulkner once said that __________ is a story of “lost innocence”, whichproves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Sound and FuryB. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. Absalom, Absalom!50.Apart from dislocation of time and the modern stream of consciousness, theother narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include ______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.A. expressionismB. impressionismC. first person point of viewD. multiple points of view51. Most of Faulkner’s works are set in ______.A. EnglandB. ParisC. the American SouthD. the American North52. Faulkner wrote all of the following except_______.A.For Whom the Bell TollsB.The Sound and FuryC.Light in AugustD.As I Lay Dying53. Which of the following stories is set in a caféin Spain?A. Farewell to ArmsB.The Old Man and the SeaC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. A Clean, Well-lighted Place54. The Hemingway style is all but ______.A. laconicB. leanC. optimisticD. economical55. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with thebankruptcy of the _______________.A. American bourgeoisieB. ruling classesC. American CapitalistsD. American Dream56. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of the __________.A. QuakersB. AnglicansC. CatholicsD. Puritans57. The first symbol of self-made American man is __________.A. George WashingtonB. Washington IrvingC. Thomas JeffersonD. Benjamin Franklin58. “Diedrich Knickerbocker” is the pseudonym of ________ for whose works which combines European legends with New England reality.A. CooperB. Washington IrvingC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Philip Frenau59. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the greatest American litterateurs whose call for an independent American culture played a crucial part in the American intellectual history. The following works are all his except __________.A. NatureB. The PoetC. The American ScholarD. Walden60. Which work does not belong to Washington Irving?A.Rip Van WinkleB. The RavenC. The Legend of Sleepy HollowD. The Alhambra61. Which one does not belong to Whitman’s poetic style?A. The use of certain “I.”B. Writing in free verseC. Long list of names, long poem sentences.D. Frequent use of hyphen.62. Which character is not from The Scarlet Letter?A. Hester PrynneB. Roger ChillingworthC. AhabD. Pearl63. One of Mark Twain’s significant contributions to American literature lies in the fact that he made ________ an accepted, respectable literary medium in the literary history of the country.A. colloquial speechB. tall talesC. fierce humorD. social satire64. “The Lost Generation” refers to the young who experienced the disillusion after WWII. One of its representative writers is ________.A. William FaulknerB. F. S. FitzgeraldC. Langston HughesD. Vladimir Nabokov65. In The Great Gatsby, Nick is the narrator who belongs to the type of _______.A. participantB. non-participantC. unreliableD. innocent eye66. Who among the following writers is recognized as a leading spokesman of the Imagist Movement in America?A. J. D. SalingerB. Ezra PoundC. Richard RightD. Ralph Ellison67. Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT __________.A. Lost GenerationB. iceberg theoryC. American DreamD. grace under pressure1._________ works are marked by a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil.A.Emerson’sB. Hawthorne’sC. Thoreau’sD. Allan Poe’s2. Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” got ideas from _______ legends.A.B ritishB. GermanC. ItalianD. French3. “Rip Van Winkle” reveal s the theme of ______ the past.A. nostalgia forB. rejectionn toC. detachment fromD. dislike for4. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for ____________.A. AngelB. AdulteryC. AbleD.all the above4. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A” which originally stood for “____”finally obtained the meaning of “able” or “angel” through Hester’s efforts.A. adulteryB. arroganceC. accomplishmentD. agony5. Which one is not the characteristics of the puritan style?A. FreshB. SimpleC. GrandD. Direct6. In his ______, Benjamin Franklin creates the image of a boy’s rise from rags to riches and demonstrates his belief that the new world America was a land of opportunities which might be met through hard work and wise management.A. The AutobigraphyB. Poor Richard’s AlmanackC. The Way to WealthD. Common Sense7. The ________ is a doctrine of predestination, original sin, total depravity andlimited atonement.A. PuritanismB. TranscendentalismC. ImagismD. Naturalism8. Which of the following does not belong to the points of view of Transcendentalists?A. Believing in the transcendence of the OversoulB. Believing in the “infinitude of man”C. Believing in rational and logical of natureD. Believing in making himself by making his world9. Which is regarded as one of the most important works in the Transcendentalistperiod?A. NatureB. The Marble FaunC. Leaves of GrassD. The Raven10. ______ intend to depict the local character of their region, and Mark Twain is oneof the representative writers.A. RomanticistsB. Local ColoristsC. Writers of Colonial and Revolutionary periodsD. Modernists11. _____ put forward three Imagist poetic principles.A. Walt WhitmanB. Robert FrostC. Henry W. LongfellowD. Ezra Pound12. _____ became Mark Twain’s masterpiece, as Hemingway noted, it is the one bookfrom which “all modern American Literature comes”.A. B. C. D.13. Faulkner’s works have been termed as the ________ saga, in which he inventedthe geography, history and people of an imaginary county in the Deep South.A. WinesburgB. YoknapatawphaC. ForsyteD. Olinger14. Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of ______.A. blankB. sonnetC. free verseD. quatrain15. Direct treatment of the “thing”, rigid economy of words, organic rhythm and theimage as a fusion of idea and emotion are principles laid down by _____ for the new poetry he championed.A. Amy LowellB. T. S. EliotC. Wallace StevensD. Ezra Pound16. Which of the following statements is not true about Imagism?A. It rebels against the traditional ways of poetry.B. Imagists do not use extra words that don’t express the feeling.C. It only gets the inspiration from the ancient Greek or Latin.D. It is the most influential movement in the 1920s of American poetry.17. Which of the following is not one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, thechief spokesman of American Romanticism Transcendentalism?A. Importance of the IndividualB. Faith in ChristianityC. The oversoulD. Self-Reliance18. In Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”, the drastic political changes in the lapsed 20yearsare suggested by all of the following except ________.A. the flag of the United StatesB. the portrait of Georgre WashingtonC. the graves of the dead Union soldiersD.the mention of election and Congress19. Which of the works concerns most concentratedly the Calvinistic view of originalsin?A. The Waste LandB. The Scarlet LetterC. Leaves of GrassD. As I Lay Dying20. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Bostonin ____.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest21. Transcendentalists recognized _____ as the “highest power of the soul”.A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking22. Transcendentalist doctrines found their great literary advocates in _____ andThoreau.A. JeffersonB. EmersonC. FreneauD. Paine23. Which of the following is not a famous concept of Transcendentalism?A. Nature is ennoblingB. The individual is divine and self–reliantC. Man is capable of knowing truth by intuitionD.Man is corrupted in nature.24. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne is mainly concerned with ______.A. the corruption of societyB. the consequence of sin and guiltC. the wrongdoing of one generation that lives into the successive onesD. “overreaching intellect”25. Walt Whitman was a famous figure in American poetry. His innovation first of alllies in his use of _____, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. heroic coupletC. free verseD. iambic pentameter26. Which of the following statements is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne?A. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is the over-reachingintellect.B. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist.C. Hawthorne is also a master of symbolism.D. Hawthorne is a realistic writer.27. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is not true?A. It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialisticdesires.B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.D. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.28. Emily Dickinson wrote many poems on various aspects of life. Which of thefollowing is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. ReligionB. Life and deathC. Love and marriageD. War and peace29. Dickinson’s poems include poems of ______.A. natureB. loveC. deathD. all of the above30. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works in a ______ language.A. grandB. pompousC. simpleD. vernacular31. In writing “In a Station of the Metro”, Pound got his inspiration from _____.A. English sonnetB. Chinese classical poetryC. Japanese haikuD. French poetry32. William Faulkner’s works mainly concern the American _______.A. New EnglandB. Mid WestC. SouthD. West33. _____ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of LiPo into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson34.______ wrote about the society in the American South by inventing familieswhich represented different forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “poor whites”; and the negroes who labored for both of them.. A. Faulkner B. Fitzgerald C. Hemingway D. Steinbeck35. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depicted mostly _____.A. the frontier lifeB. the sea adventuresC. puritain communityD.the landscape and people in New England36.Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, can be regardedas a symbol standing for all the following except ______.A. old valuesB. rigid distinction of social statusC. bigotry and eccentricityD. harmony and integrity37. Which of the following statements is not a typical feature of Imagism?A. To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word.B. To create new rhythms, as the expression of a new mood.C. To allow absolute freedom in the choice of subject.D. To recommend heroic couplet as a preferable verse form.38. “In a Station of the Metro” is a typical imagist poem that fully displays Pound’sdefinition of image, which is ______.A. to reveal a poet’s instantaneous experience of lifeB. to present an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of timeC. to bring out a natural outburst of the poet’s emotionsD. to retell a poet’s past moment of experience39. Which of the following statements is not a typical feature of Frost’s poetry?A. It is usually presented in the dramatic monologue.B. It is rich in images, metaphors and symbols.C. Most of his poems are written in the form of free verse.D. Nature is one of the most important thematic concerns in his poetry.40. “My little horse must think it queer /To stop without a farmhouse near.”The above two lines are taken from Frost’s “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”, a beautifully structured poem which follows _______.A. iambic tetrameterB. iambic pentameterC. trochaic tetrameterD. trochaic pentameter41. In “petals on a wet, black bough”, the figure of speech used here is ______.A. metaphorB. hyperboleC. punD.simile42. “In a Station of the Metro” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of ______.A. the romantic poetryB. the absurd poetryC. the transcendental poetryD. the imagist poetry43. Which of the following best describes the protagonist of Faulkner’s “A Rose forEmily”?A. She is a conservative aristocratB. She is a wealthy ladyC. She is a prisoner of the pastD. She has good taste.44. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms --- the sonnet, rhyming couplets,blank verse --- with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.A. WesternB. New EnglandC. New HampshireD. southern45. Fitztegerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ____.A. the Jazz AgeB. the Romantic PeriodC. the Renaissance PeriodD. the Neoclassical Period46. Which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist inFaulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is not true?A. She has a distorted personality.B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C. She is the victim of the past glory.D. She is the symbol of the old values of the South.47. At the beginning of “A Rose for Emily”, there is a detailed description of Emily’sold house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ______.A. is a wealthy ladyB. is a prisoner of the pastC. has good tasteD. is a conservative aristocrat48. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both…In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, the poet ,by implication, was referring to _______..A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life49. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties.The purpose of such description is to show _______.A. emptiness of lifeB. the corruption of the upper classC. contrast of the rich and the poorD. the happy days of the Jazz Age50. Lots of people rushed to Gatsby’s party at the weekend and they clustered aroundGatsby’s wealth like＿＿＿．A. gluttonsB. fliesC. insectsD. moths1-67部分答案1-5 BCCBC 6-10 BBACA 11-15 BCBAA 16-20 CBACC 21-25 BDBCC26-30 ADCCC 31-35 BAD BA 36-40 ACDCC 41-45CCDAD 46-50 BBBAD 51-55 CADCD 56-60 DDBDB 61-67 DCABABC1-50部分答案1-5 BBADAC 6-10 AACAB 11-15 D(12哈克贝利芬历险记)BCD 16-20 CBCBA 21-25 ABDBC 26-30 DADDD 31-35 CCCAD 36-40 DDBCA 41-45 ADCBA 46-50 BBDADII.Identification1 Edgar Allan Poe To HellenOn desperate seas long wont to roam,Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home, To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.2Edgar Allan Poe Annabel LeeFor the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annalbel Lee；And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyesOf the beautiful Annabel Lee；And so，all the night-tide ，I lie down by the sideOf my darling ，my darling ，my life and my bride，In the sepulchre there by the sea，In her tomb by the side of the sea.3 A Psalm of Life wordsworth LongfellowIn the world's broad field of battle,In the bivouac of Life,Be not like dumb, driven cattlt!Be a hero in the strife!Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And , departing , leave behind usFootprints on the sands of time;4 O Captain! My Captain Walt WhitmanO Captain! my Captain!rise up and hear the bells;Rise up -for you the flag is flung -for you the bugle trills,For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths-for you the shores crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turing;Here, Captain!dear father!This arm beneath your head;It is some dream that on the deckYou 've fallen cold and dead.5 Because i Could Not Stop for Death Emily DickinsonSince then 't is centuries；but eachFeels shorter than the dayI first surmised the horses' headsWere toward eternity.6 I’m Nobody Emily DickinsonHow dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!7 In a station of the metro Ezra PoundThe aspiration of these faces in the crowd,Petals on a wet black bough8the cop and the anthem O henryNeatly upon his left ear on the callous pavement two waiters pitched Soapy. H e arose, joint by joint, as a carpenter’s rule opens, and beat the dust from his clothes. Arrest seemed but a rosy dream. The Island seemed very far away9 the cop and the anthem O henryA sudden fear seized Soapy that some dreadful enchantment had rendered him immune to arrest. The thought brought a little of panic upon it, and when he came upon another policeman lounging grandly in front of a transplendent the atre he caught at the immediate straw of "disorderly conduct."10 William Faulkner A rose for EmilyAlive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligati on upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor--h e who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without a n apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on int o perpetuity.11 William Faulkner A rose for EmilyAnd so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a dodder ing Negro man to wait on her. We did not even know she was sick; we had long sinc e given up trying to get any information from the NegroHe talked to no one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rust y, as if from disuse.12 A Clean Well-lighted Place Earnest Hemingway"I am of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said."With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the n ight.""I want to go home and into bed.""We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go hom e. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very be。

英美文学导论阅读参考书目

英美文学导论阅读参考书目PoetryElizabethan Poetry1. Determine whether the following poems are an English sonnet or an Italian sonnet.How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.I love thee to the level of everyday‘sMost quiet need, by sun and by candlelight.I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.I love thee with the passion put to useIn my old griefs, and with my childhood‘s faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints – I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!– and, if god choose, I shall but love thee better after death. One day I wrote her name upon the strand,But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assayA mortal thing so to immortalize,For I myself shall like to this decay,And eek my name be wiped out likewise.Not so (quoth I), let baser things deviseTo die in dust, but you shall live by fame:My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue, Out love shall live, and later life renew.2. Appreciate the following poems. What are the main ideas expressed in the following poems? How does the poet express these ideas?Sonnet 18by ShakespeareShall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest:So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.Sonnet 116—by ShakespeareLet me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark (三桅帆船), Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come:Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.The Bargain-- Sir Philip SidneyMy true love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange one for another given:I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven: My true love hath my heart, and I have his. His heart in me keeps him and me in one,My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides: He loves my heart, for once it was his own,I cherish his because in me it bides:My true love hath my heart, and I have his.Song: to Celia--by Ben JonsonDrink to me, only with thine eyes,And I will pledge with mine ;Or leave a kiss but in the cup,And I'll not look for wine.The thirst, that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine :But might I of Jove's nectar sup (god‘s wine),I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath,Not so much honoring thee, As giving it a hope, that thereIt could not wither'd be.But thou thereon didst only breathe, And sent'st it back to me :Since when it grows, and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee.Go and Catch a Falling Star -- by John DonneGo and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are,Or who cleft the Devil’s foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging,And findWhat windServes to advance an honest mind.If thou be‘st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see,Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee; Thou, when thou return‘st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swearNo whereLives a woman true, and fair.If thou find‘st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet; Yet do not, I would not go,Though at next door we might meet: Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter,Yet sheWill beFalse, ere I come, to two or three.Compare Sidney and Shakespeare‘s poems with that of Donne, what is the difference in central idea?Romantic Poetry AppreciationI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud-- by WordsworthI wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.The waves beside them danced; but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed---and gazed---but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.Questions:1.What scenery has been described in this poem?2.What feeling does that scenery bring to the poet?3.What images reflect the poet‘s feeling and which words help to build up the images?4.What is the main idea of the last stanza?5.What features of writing of Wordsworth does this poem reveal?Kubla KhanIn Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea.So twice five miles of fertile groundWith walls and towers were girdled round:And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;And here were forests ancient as the hills,Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slantedDown the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!A savage place! as holy and enchantedAs e'er beneath a waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her demon-lover!And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,A mighty fountain momently was forced:Amid whose swift half-intermitted burstHuge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and everIt flung up momently the sacred river.Five miles meandering with a mazy motionThrough wood and dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war!The shadow of the dome of pleasureFloated midway on the waves;Where was heard the mingled measureFrom the fountain and the caves.It was a miracle of rare device,A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!A damsel with a dulcimerIn a vision once I saw:It was an Abyssinian maid,And on her dulcimer she played,Singing of Mount Abora.Could I revive within meHer symphony and song,To such a deep delight 'twould win meThat with music loud and longI would build that dome in air,That sunny dome! those caves of ice!And all who heard should see them there,And all should cry, Beware! Beware!His flashing eyes, his floating hair!Weave a circle round him thrice,And close your eyes with holy dread,For he on honey-dew hath fedAnd drunk the milk of Paradise.When We Two Parted（《昔日依依别》）When we two parted昔日依依惜别，In silence and tears，泪流默默无言；Half broken-hearted 离恨肝肠断，To sever for years，此别又几年。

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2013—2014学年第二学期《英语文学作品选读2》考试大纲1. 了解熟悉英国20世纪及美国各时期文学特点、代表作家、代表作品及作品概要。

2. 重点掌握以下几部作品,包括作家/诗人写作特点，创作理念，作品内容及赏析，人物特点等等：1) Walt Whitman &“Song of Myself”2) Nathaniel Hawthorne & The Scarlet Letter3) Jack London & Martin Eden4) Ezra Pound & “In a Station of the Metro”5) Robert Frost & “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”3. 名词解释：1) American Naturalism: American naturalism was a new and harsher realism. American naturalism had been shaped by the war; by the social upheavals that undermined the comforting faith of an earlier age. America’s literary naturalists dismissed the validity of comforting moral truths. They attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presenting characters of low social and economic classes who were determined by their environment and heredity. In presenting the extremes of life, the naturalists sometimes displayed an affinity to the sensationalism of early romanticism, but unlike their romantic predecessors, the naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that lives were controlled by heredity and environment, that the destiny of humanity was misery in life and oblivion in death. Although naturalist literature described the world with sometimes brutal realism, it sometimes also aimed at bettering the world through social reform.2) Black humour: Also known as Black Comedy, writing that places grotesque elements side by side with humorous ones in an attempt to shock the reader, forcing him or her to laugh at the horrifying reality of a disordered world.3) Free verse: Free verse is poetry that has an irregular rhythm and line length and that attempts to avoid any predetermined verse structure; instead, it uses the cadences of natural speech. While it alternates stressed and unstressed syllables as stricter verse form do, free verse does so in a looser way. Whitman’s poetry is an example of free verse at its most impressive.4). Imagism : A literary movement launched by British and American poets early in the 20th century in reaction against Victorian sentimentalism that advocated the use of free verse, common speech patterns, and clear concrete images.5) Local colorism：Local colorism or Regionalism as a trend first made its presencefelt in the late 1860s and early 70s in America. It may be defined as the careful display in speech, dress or behavior peculiar to a geographical locality. The ultimate aim of the local colorists is to create the illusion of an indigenous little world with qualities that tell it apart from the world outside. The social and intellectual climate of the country provided a stimulating milieu for the growth of local color fiction in America. Local colorists concerned themselves with presenting and interpreting the local character of their regions. They tended to idealize and glorify, but they never forgot to keep an eye on the truthful color of local life. They formed an important part of the realistic movement. Although it lost its momentum toward the end of the 19th century, the local spirit continued to inspire and fertilize the imagination of author. 6) Meter: It is measured in units called feet. It is any form of poetic rhythm, determined by the type and number of feet in a line or in a passage of verse. The analysis of the meter is called scansion.7) Modernism: Modernism was a complex and diverse international movement in all the creative arts, originating about the end of the 19th century. It was made up of many facets, such as Symbolism, surrealism, cubism, expressionism, and futurism. The modernists consciously and actively rejected the established rules, traditions and conventions to show their dissatisfaction and disappointment about the realistic society.8) Oxymoron: A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms. An oxymoron suggests a paradox, but it does so very briefly, usually in two or three words, such as “living death,” “dear enemy,” “sweet sorrow,” and “wise fool.”9) Puritanism:Puritanism is the practices and beliefs of the Puritans.The Puritans were originally members of a division of the Protestant Church. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of them. They were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles. As the word itself hints, Puritans wanted to purity their religious beliefs and practices. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace form God. As a culture heritage, Puritanism did have a profound influence on the early American mind. American Puritanism also had a enduring influence on American literature.10) Transcendentalism : the emergence of the Transcendentalists as an identifiable movement took place during the late 1820s and 1830s, but the roots of their religious philosophy extended much farther back into American religious history. Transcendentalism and evangelical Protestantism followed separate evolutionary branches from American Puritanism, taking as their common ancestor the Calvinism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American spirit, or the Oversoul, as the most important thing in the Universe. They stressed the importance of the individual. To them, the individual was the most important element of society. They offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the Spirit or God. Nature was, to them, alive, filled with God’s overwhelming prese nce. Transcendentalism is based on the belief that the most fundamental truths about life and death can be reached only by going beyond the world of the senses. Emerson’s Nature has been called the “Manifesto of American Transcendentalism” and his The Amer ican Scholar has been rightly regarded as America’s “Declaration of Intellectual.1.It stressed the power of intuition, believing that people could learn things both from theoutside world by means of the five senses and from the inner world by intuition. It took nature as symbolic of spirit or God. All things in nature were symbols of the spiritual, of God’s presence. It emphasized the significance of the individual and believed that the individual was the most important element in society and that the ideal kind of individual was self-reliant and unselfish. Transcendentalists envisioned religion as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “Oversoul”.期末试卷题型1.Multiple choice 20%2.True or false 10%3.Define the following terms 30%4.Poem appreciation and segment reading 20%ments 20%二、知识点1、了解英国维多利亚时期及20世纪文学特点及代表作家、代表作；a.English critical realism: critical realism was the main current in English novel in the middle of the 19the centuryb. flourished in the forties and in the early fiftiesc. The critical realists described with much vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint.d. The English critical realists of the 19th century not only gave a satirical portrayal of the bourgeoisie and all the ruling classes, but also showed profound sympathy for the common people维多利亚时期代表作家及作品：（1）Novel①Charles Dickens---the greatest realist of the timeSketches by Boz(博兰特写集) the Pickwick Paper’s(匹克威克外传)Oliver Twist(雾都孤儿) the old curiosity shop(老古玩店)A merican notes(国美札记) DOobey and son(董贝父子)D avid copperfield(大卫科菲波尔) bleak house(荒凉山庄)L ittle dorrit (小杜丽) a tale ot two cities (双城记) great expectation(远大前程)②William Makepeace Thackeray：1839年：《凯萨琳》（Catherine）1840年：《水手日记》（Cox's Diary）1840年：《悲惨华丽的故事》（A Shabby Genteel Story）1843年：《费兹·布多·佩帕斯》（Fitz-Boodle Papers）1844年：《乱世儿女》，原名【贝瑞·林登】（Barry Lyndon）1847年：《我的家园》（Our Town）1848年：《名利场》（Vanity Fair）1850年：《丽贝卡与罗薇娜》（Rebecca and Rowena）1852年：《男人的妻子们》（Men's Wives）11855年：《玫瑰与戒指》（The Rose and the Ring）1857年-1859年：《维吉尼亚的人们》（The Virginians）1862年：《菲利浦的冒险》（The Adventures of Philip）1864年：《丹尼斯·狄万》（Denis Duval）③Charlotte Bronte847年：代表作《简·爱》（Jane Eyre）1849年：《雪莉》（Shirley）1853年：《维莱特》（Villette）1857年：《教师》（The Professor）④Elizabeth Gaskell1. Mary Barton (1848 )2. The Moorland Cottage (1850)3. Ruth (1853)4. Cranford (1853)5. North and South (Household Words, x, 1855)⑤George Eliot乔治·艾略特Adam Bede《亚当·比德》The Mill on the Floss《弗罗斯河上的磨房.Silas Marner《织工马南传》Middlemarch 《米德尔马契》（2）Prose⑥Thomas Carlyle托马斯·卡莱尔《法国革命》The French Revolution《论英雄、英雄崇拜和历史上的英雄业绩》On Heroes and Hero-Worship《过去与现在》Past and Present⑦John Ruskin约翰·拉斯金《现代画家I~V》Modern Painers I~V(1843年~1960年)《建筑的七盏明灯》The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849年)《威尼斯之石》The Stones of Venice (1853年)《建筑与绘画》Architecture and Painting (1854年)⑧Matthew Arnold马修・阿诺德Dover Beach《多佛滩》（3）Poetry⑨Alfred Tennyson 阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生（维多利亚时代最具代表性的伟大诗人）“Break, Break, Break”碎了，碎了，碎了“Ulysses”尤利西斯“The Princess”公主In Memoriam 悼念The Idylls of the King国王叙事诗⑩Robert Browning罗勃特·白朗宁( dramatic monologue)The Ring and the Book 《环与书》"My Last Duchess"《我的已故的公爵夫人.》"Home Thoughts, from Abroad"《海外乡思》（11）Charles Swinburne查尔斯·史文朋1.了解美国各个时期文学特点及代表作家,特别是超验主义，自然主义，现代主义；（1）Transcendentalism（超验主义）Transcendentalism—it is a philosophic and literary movement that flourish in New England, as a reaction against rationalism and Calvinism（加尔文主义）. It stressed intuitive understanding of god without the help of the church, and advocated independence of the mind.特点：It placed emphasis on spirit, or the over-soul.It stressed the importance of the individual.It offered a fresh perception of nature as a symbolic of the spirit of overwhelming presence.代表作家: Emerson & Thoreau; Hawthorne & Melville; Whiteman & Dickenson; Allen Poe（2）Naturalism（自然主义）a new and harsher realism, the end of the century Perception of society’s disorders Presenting characters of low social and economic classes who were dominated by their environment and heredity.特点：The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their lives were controlled by heredity and the environment, the religious “truths” were illusory, that the destiny of humanity was misery in life and oblivion in death.代表作家：Stephen Crane 史蒂芬.克莱恩,Frank Norris 弗朗克.诺里斯, Jack London杰克.伦敦, Theodore Dreiser 西奥多.德莱塞（3）Modernism现代主义：is loosely a synonym of anything contemporary. Strictly, especially in literary criticism, which began in the late 19th century and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base. They pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one.代表作家：埃兹拉·庞德Ezra Pound、罗伯特·弗洛斯特Robert Lee Frost、尤金·奥尼尔Eugene O'Neill、F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德F Scott Fitzgerald、欧内斯特·海明威Ernest Hemingway、威廉·福克纳William Faulkner、约翰‧史坦贝克John Steinbeck、辛克莱·刘易斯Sinclair Lewis2.熟悉课内涉及到的各作家写作风格、代表作及作品的梗概，（1）在殖民时期最好的清教徒诗人：the best of Puritan poets is Edward Tayor. （2）Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林1706-1790The Autobiography《自传》18世纪美国唯一流传至今的自传As an author he had power of expression, simplicity, a subtle humor, sarcastic.作为作家具有非凡的才能，表达简洁明了，幽默，讽刺天才、（3）Thomas Paine 托马斯·佩因1737-1809 "Great Common of Mankind" 最平凡的人American Crisis《美国危机》（4）Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰弗逊drafted the Declaration of Independence. 起草了独立宣言（5）Philip Freneau菲利普·费瑞诺poet and political journalist诗人和政治方面的新闻记者has been called the "Father of American Poetry"美国诗歌之父The Wild Honey suckle《野金银花》The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地（6）Washington Irving华盛顿.欧文the first great belletrist第一个纯文学作家the first great prose stylist of American romanticism 美国第一位浪漫主义散文文体作家A History of New York 《纽约的历史》-----美国人写的第一部诙谐文学杰作The Legend of Sleepy Hollow《睡谷的传说》-----使之成为美国第一个获得国际声誉的作家（7）James Fenimore Cooper 詹姆斯.芬尼莫.库珀contribution: launched two kinds of immensely popular stories →the sea adventure tale and the frontier saga 开创了两种流传极广的小说体裁，边疆传奇小说和海上传奇小说。

英美文学选读考试大纲

英美文学选读考试大纲一、考试目的与要求本考试旨在评估学生对英美文学经典作品的理解和鉴赏能力，以及对文学理论、历史背景和文化语境的掌握程度。

考生应具备以下能力：1. 阅读并分析英美文学作品的能力。

2. 理解和评价文学作品中的主题、风格和技巧。

3. 对英美文学发展史有一个基本的了解。

4. 能够将文学作品与社会、历史背景联系起来进行综合分析。

二、考试内容1. 英国文学- 古代至文艺复兴时期：包括但不限于乔叟、莎士比亚的作品。

- 17世纪至18世纪：如约翰·弥尔顿、亚历山大·蒲柏、简·奥斯汀的作品。

- 19世纪：浪漫主义、维多利亚时期的作家，如华兹华斯、拜伦、狄更斯等。

- 20世纪至今：现代主义和后现代主义作家，如弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫、乔治·奥威尔、多丽丝·莱辛等。

2. 美国文学- 殖民时期至独立战争：包括但不限于爱德华·泰勒、本杰明·富兰克林的作品。

- 19世纪：浪漫主义和现实主义作家，如爱默生、霍桑、梅尔维尔、马克·吐温等。

- 20世纪：现代主义和后现代主义作家，如菲茨杰拉德、海明威、福克纳、塞林格等。

- 当代文学：包括多种族、多文化背景下的作家，如托尼·莫里森、唐·德里罗等。

三、考试形式与题型1. 选择题：考察学生对文学作品的基本事实、作者、历史背景等的了解。

2. 简答题：要求学生对文学作品的主题、人物、情节等进行简要分析。

3. 论述题：要求学生综合运用文学理论知识，对文学作品进行深入分析和评价。

4. 作文题：根据给定的文学作品或文学现象，撰写一篇有观点、有分析、有论证的论文。

四、考试范围与重点1. 英国文学的重点包括但不限于：- 莎士比亚的戏剧和诗歌。

- 18世纪启蒙时期的文学作品。

- 19世纪的浪漫主义和现实主义作品。

- 20世纪现代主义和后现代主义文学。

2. 美国文学的重点包括但不限于：- 早期美国文学与美国独立精神的关系。

英美文学选读大纲整理

英美文学选读大纲整理英国文学第一章文艺复兴时期考核知识点（一）文艺复兴时期概述及人文主义思潮对文学创作的影响（二）文艺复兴时期主要作家的文学创作思想及其代表作品的主题结构、人物塑造、语言风格、艺术手法、社会意义等。

1.威廉莎士比亚2.约翰弥尔顿考核要求（一）文艺复兴时期概述1.识记：（1）文艺复兴时期的界定（2）历史文化背景2.领会：（1）文艺复兴运动的意义与影响（2）文艺复兴时期的文学特点（3）人文主义的主张及文学的影响3.应用：文艺复兴、人文主义及玄学诗等名词的解释（二）该时期的重要作家1.一般识记：重要作家的文学生涯2.识记：重要作品及主要内容3.领会：重要作家的创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物塑造、语言风格、艺术手法、社会意义等4.应用：（1）莎士比亚诗歌的主题、意象（2）喜剧《威尼斯商人》的主题和主要人物的性格分析（3）哈姆雷特的性格分析（4）史诗《失乐园》的结构、人物性格、语言特点等的分析第二章新古典主义时期考核知识点（一）新古典主义时期概述1.新古典主义时期英国社会的政治、经济、文化背景2.启蒙运动3.新古典主义时期英国文学的各种派别及其特点4.新古典主义文学基本主张与特色（二）新古典主义时期主要作家的文学创作思想及其代表作的主题结构、人物塑造、语言风格、艺术手法、社会意义等1.丹尼尔笛福2.乔纳森斯威夫特3.亨利菲尔丁考核要求（1）新古典主义时期概述1.识记：（1）新古典主义时期的界定（2）政治、经济背景2.领会：（1）启蒙运动的主张与文学的艺术特色（2）新古典主义时期文学的艺术特色3.应用：启蒙运动、新古典主义、英雄双行诗、英国现实主义小说等名词的解释（二）该时期的重要作家1.一般识记：重要作家的创作生涯2.识记：重要作品及主要内容3.领会：重要作家的创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格、艺术特色、社会意义等4.应用（1）《格列佛游记》的社会讽刺（2）菲尔丁的"散文体史诗"第三章浪漫主义时期考核知识点（一）浪漫主义时期概述1.浪漫主义时期英国社会的政治、经济、文化背景2.浪漫主义文学分行的基本主张3.英国浪漫主义文学的特点4.浪漫主义对同时代及后世英国文学的影响（二）浪漫主义时期主要作家的文学创作思想及其代表作品的主题结构、人物塑造、语言风格、艺术手法及社会意义等1.威廉布莱克2.威廉华兹华斯3.珀比雪莱4.简奥斯汀考核要求（一）浪漫主义时期概述1.识记：（1）浪漫主义时期的界定（2）历史文化背景2.领会：（1）浪漫主义思潮的意义与影响（2）浪漫主义文学创作的基本主张及对后世文学的影响3.应用：（1）名词解释：浪漫主义（2）浪漫主义时期文学特点的分析（二）该时期的重要作家1.识记：浪漫主义时期的重要作家、他们的代表作品及其主要内容2.领会：重要作家的创作思想、艺术特色及代表作品的主题结构、人物塑造、语言风格、社会意义等。

英美文学(英国部分)期末考试范围

◆The first national epic of English people 英国人第一部史诗作品—Beowulf贝尔武甫◆Most important book by Geoffrey Chaucer 乔叟的名著-The Canterbury Tales◆The three “Lake Poets”三位湖畔派诗人—William Wordsworth，Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey威廉·华兹华斯，塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治, 罗伯特·骚塞（不考，要知道是其中一位) ◆What are William Shakespeare’s four great tragedies 莎士比亚四大悲剧•Hamlet《哈姆雷特》•Othello《奥赛罗》•King Lear《李尔王》•Macbeth《麦克白》四个浪漫主义诗人◆拜伦George Gordon Byron的代表作+雪莱代表作（混在四个答案里）P41 《唐璜》Don Juan《恰尔德·哈罗德游记》Childe Harold's Pilgrimage《闲散时光》Hours of Idleness插雪莱的A Defence of Poetry《诗辩》◆雪莱Percy Bysshe Shelley代表作P37 (小心填空）最经典的长诗Ode to the West Wind《西风颂》《伊斯兰的反叛》The Revolt of Islam《诗辩》A Defence of Poetry◆莎士比亚第18首商籁体诗歌的题目?SonnetShall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?◆华兹华斯美称：大自然的吟唱者“worshipper of nature”◆济慈John KeatsP43 《夜莺颂》Ode to a Nightingale《忧郁颂》Ode on Melancholy《心灵颂》Ode to Psyche《希腊古瓮颂》Ode on a Grecian Urn《圣·阿格尼斯节前夕》The Eve of St。