美国文学英语专业期末考填空题

美国文学英语专业期末

考填空题

CKBOOD was revised in the early morning of December 17, 2020.

C h a p t e r O n e The Colonial Period and 17th Century Literature of Puritanism

1. John Smith: the first of American literature is written by him. A True relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia(1608),was a long report recording what he saw and heard in New England.

2. 还有一些人道主义作家则认为应与印第安人和平相处，甚至主张与印第安人通婚（Edward Taylor）

3. Such religious and cultural background of the Puritan writers was

responsible for the two essential characteristics of the early

American literature: their religious subject and imitation of English literary traditions. (elite in New England, 这就是长期美国文学长期没有自己文学的传统的原因之一)

4. Anne Bradstreet’s poems of religious experience and domestic intimacy were unique and genuine, delicate and charming, embodying her profound understanding of religion and humanity.

5. The Colonial Period and 17th Century Literature of Puritanism Historical narrative, poetry(history religions experience), sermons

6.Puritanism was central to colonial American literature, its impact could find expression in almost all respects concerning literature.

7.In keeping with the belief that literature should concern itself primarily with spiritual values, the

developed and the most popular of Puritan literary forms, since its

tight and logical structure, its precise and compact expression, and its avoidance of rhetorical decoration excellently illustrated Puritan aesthetic and moral theories.

8.As to the Puritan concept of beauty, they believed that beauty was, as Thomas Hooker defined, “that sweet correspondence and orderly usefulness the Lord first implanted in the order of things,” thus the Puritans equated beauty with utility and order.

9.Two colonies: 1607 1620

Chapter Two The Period of Enlightenment

1.The 18th century American history witnessed two great revolutions: one was American Revolution and the other was the Enlightenment. (rationalistic spirit/ rationalism, Age of Reason)

2.A major feature of American literature in the 18th century is its “utilitarian tendency”.

3.浪漫主义前驱： Philip Freneau “poems of Romantic fancy” such as The Wild Honey Suckle

4. The prose of the great philosopher-statesman makes up a prominent part of 18th century American literature. It includes two parts. The

first is political prose and the second is the prose in other meanings.

3. John Adam 1765.8, published in Boston Daily 4 anonymous essays. Superficially speaking, his essays were to criticize the Stamp Acts and the other Acts imposed on the northern American.

4. Thomas Pain: Common Sense is the major literary creation to drive the independence of the northern America.

四个原因：the Stamp Acts; no longer the mother; separated by Atlantic ocean; the size of territory.

5.John de Crevecoeur His masterpiece is “Letters from an American Farmer” (1782)

American culture: mother land; experience; new continent

His concept of individualism is quite similar to that of Franklin’s, but his response of confusion to the independence war is quite different from Franklin’s optimism.

6. Benjamin Franklin is the spokes man of Enlightenment movement