美国文学练习题
美国文学练习题1
Part One Fill in the blanks with the correct information
1.The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at _________,
Virginia in the year of _____.
2._________________ was the first American writer.
3.The Mayflower voyage was taken in the year of _____.
4.With _____________ begins the history of religious toleration in America, and with him, too,
the history of the separation of church and state.
5.The best of the Puritan poets was ______________.
6.The most interesting works of New England Puritan literature were ___________.
7.The Declaration of Independence was signed on _____________ (month/date/year).
8.The writers held vitally important places in the movement for American independence.
Without the writings of ______________, there might have been no army for Washington to lead; without the writings of ________________, France might never have aided the cause. 9.The writings of ___________________ show the Enlightenment spirit in America at its best
and most optimistic.
10.___________________ has been respected as “the father of the Yankees”.
11.The most historically important pamphlet in American history is __________________. Its
clear thinking and exciting language quickly united American feelings against England.
12.The most important document in the political history of the United States is ______________
________________________, which is also a fine work of literature.
13.The United States achieved its independence in ______(year).
14.__________________ has been called the Father of American Poetry.
15.__________________was the first American to earn his living through literature.
16.__________________ was the first American novels, who made the American conscious of
his past, and made the European conscious of America.
17.______________________became known in Europe as “the American Walter Scott”.
18.The national anthem of the U.S.A. is ______________________, written by Francis Scott
Key.
19.The five novels that comprise the Leatherstocking Tales are:
(1)______________________________________
(2)______________________________________
(3)______________________________________
(4)______________________________________
(5)______________________________________
20.__________________________was responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New
England. In 1836, he published __________, the clearest statement of Transcendentalist ideas.
_______________________ was his truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of his theories and who, in 1854, wrote his world-famous __________, about his stay in the pond side hut.
21.________________ is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and ________________
is the pen-name of William Sidney Porter.
22.______________________ created the first theory for American realism, and the greatest of
America’s realists were ___________________ and __________________.
23.__________________ was the first American naturalist whose greatest novel is ____________
_________________________.
24.______________________ was America’s greatest naturalist’s writer, whose greatest and most
successful novel is _____________________________________.
25. Soapy is the hero in ______________’s short story The Cop and the Anthem.
26. Carrie Meeber is the heroine in _________________’s novel entitled ________________.
27. Hester Prynne and the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale are the two main characters in ________
__________’s novel______________________.
28. President Lincoln once said “so you’re the little woman who made the book that made the
great war.”Here “the little woman”is ________________________________, and “the book” is _______________________________.
29. ______________ in the 1860s was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide
popularity.
30. Mark Twain’s greatest novel is ________________________________________________.
31. ______________________was the most famous of the Muckrakers, and his greatest novel is
________________.
32. ______________ was the leader of the “Imagist” school of poetry in America.
33. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is _______________________.
34. The title of Ernest Hemingway’s famous novel For Whom the Bell Tolls comes from ________
_________’s Meditations.
35. The Sound and the Fury is one of __________________’s “modernist” masterpieces.
36. _________________ was the most joyful poet of the Lost Generation. In the poetry we can see
the clear influence of the Cubist painters.
37. ________________ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s,
whose masterpiece was ____________________________, a novel about the great “dust bowl” disaster in Oklahoma.
38. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Senator ____________________ led America on a “witch
hunt” against “Communist” intellectuals, writers and Hollywood figures.
39. Joseph Heller’s novel ______________ introduces the “black humor” literature in America.
40. _____________________ made American drama develop into a form of literature in America.
41. Arthur Miller’s best-known play is ________________________________________.
Part Two Supply the sources of the following citations.
(1)... though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never ex pire…
From The American Crisis by ___________________
(2) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. –That whether any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
From _________________________________________ (3) Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: --This dearness only that gives everything its value.
From ______________________ by ____________________
(4) A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines… To be great is to be misunderstood.
From ___________________________’s Self Reliance
(5) It was many and many years ago,
In a kingdom by the sea
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
From _____________________’s Annabel Lee (6) There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that limitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ______________________
(7) Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
From ___________________’s Poor Richard’s Almanac
(8) The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
From ________________’s Stoppong by Woods on a Snowy Evening
(9) The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
From ________________’s In a Station of the Metro
Part Three Match the writers in Column A with their works in Column B.
Column A (writers) Column B (works)
Nathaniel Hawthorne Sketch Book
Henry James Walden
Washington Irving The Scarlet Letter
Jack London Moby-Dick
Theodore Dreiser Leaves of Grass
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Walt Whitman The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Henry David Thoreau The Portrait of A Lady
Herman Melville Martin Eden
Mark Twain An American Tragedy
Ernest Hemingway The Road Not Taken
Theodore Dreiser Desire Under the Elms
Robert Frost The Old Man and the Sea
Eugene O’Neill The Titan
Part Four Answer the following questions
1.What are the beliefs and ideas of the Puritans in Colonial America?
2.What are the beliefs and ideas of the Founding Fathers of America?
3.Why did Mark Twain define the period of the Civil War as a “Gilded Age”?
4.What is “Naturalism” in literary creation?
5.What is the “Lost Generation”? Who were the most important writers of the lost generation?
美国文学练习题2
Part One For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence.
1.The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown,
_____, in 1607.
A. Vermont
B. Massachusetts
C. Virginia
D. California
2. The Mayflower voyage was taken in ________.
A. 1607
B. 1620
C. 1775
D. 1789
3. The first American writer was ______.
A. John Winthrop
B. William Bradford
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. Captain John Smith
4. With _____ begins the history of religious toleration in America, and with him, too, the history of the separation of church and state.
A. Roger Williams
B. Edward Taylor
C. Anne Hutchinson
D. Benjamin Franklin
5. The best of the Puritan poets was _____.
A. William Bradford
B. John Winthrop
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. Edward Taylor
6. The most interesting works of New England Puritan literature were _____.
A. novels
B. romances
C. histories
D. poetry
7. Anne Bradstreeet’s poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the “___”sprung up in America.
A. Ninth Muse
B. Tenth Muse
C. Best Muse
D. First Muse
8. Thomas Paine wrote the following EXCEPT ____.
A. Common Sense
B. Autobiography
C. The Rights of Man
D. The American Crisis
9. ____ has been respected as “the father of the Yankees”.
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. Thomas Paine
D. George Washington
10. The Declaration of Independence was signed on ____.
A. July 4, 1776
B. July 4, 1775
C. July 14, 1776
D. July 14, 1783
11. The most historically important pamphlet in American history is ____, its clear thinking and
exciting language quickly united American feelings against England.
A. Common Sense
B. The Declaration of Independence
C. The Rights of Man
D. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
12. The most important document in the political history of the United States is ___, which is also
a fine work of literature.
A. The American Crisis
B. The Declaration of Independence
C. The Rights of Man
D. Common Sense
13. The writings of ___ show the Enlightenment spirit in America at its best and most optimistic.
A. Washington Irving
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. Thomas Paine
D. Benjamin Franklin
14. The United States achieved its independence in ___.
A. 1776
B. 1783
C. 1789
D. 1853
15. ___ has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.
A. Edgar Allan Poe A. Walt Whitman C. Philip Freneau D. William Cullen Bryant
16. ___ was the first American novelist, who made the American conscious of his past, and made
the European conscious of America.
A. James Fenimore Cooper
B. Washington Irving
C. Herman Melville
D. William Cullen Byrant
17. ___ became known in Europe as “the American Walter Scott”.
A. James Fenimore Cooper
B. Washington Irving
C. Herman Melville
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
18. ___ was responsible for bringing Transcendentalism to New England.
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Herman Melville
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. ___ was the first American naturalist.
A. Theodore Dreiser
B. Stephen Crane
C. Hamlin Garland
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
20. ___ was America’s greatest naturalist writer.
A. Theodore Dreiser
B. Stephen Crane
C. Hamlin Garland
D. Jack London
21. ___ created the first theory for American realism.
A. Henry James
B. William James
C. William Dean Howells
D. Mark Twain
22. The greatest of America’s realists were ___.
A. Henry James and Mark Twain
B. Jack London and John Steinbeck
C. O. Henry and Theodore Dreiser
D. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
23. ___ in the 1860s was the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity.
A. Herman Melville
B. Washington Irving
C. James Fenimore Cooper
D. Bret Harte
24. ___ was the most famous of the Muckrackers.
A. Ida Tarbell
B. O. Henry
C. Upton Sinclair
D. Lincoln Steffens
25. ___ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s, whose masterpiece was a novel about the great “dust bowl” disaster in Oklahoma.
A. Theodore Dreiser
B. Upton Sinclair
C. Thomas Wolfe
D. John Steinbeck
26. The Sound and the Fury is one of ___’s “modernist” masterpieces.
A. John Steinbeck
B. William Faulkner
C. E. E. Cummings
D. Ezra Pound
27. ___ was the leader of the “Imagist” school of poetry in America.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. T. S. Eliot
D. Wallace Stevens
28. ___ was the most joyful poet of the Lost Generation. In his poetry we can see the clear influence of the Cubist painters.
A. Carl Sandbury
B. Robert Frost
C. E. E. Cummings
D. Wallace Stevens
29. ___ made American drama develop into a form of literature.
A. Arthur Miller
B. Tennessee Williams
C. Walt Whitman
D. Eugene O’Neill
30. ___ was considered the founder of psychological realism in America. His realism is known as “stream-of-consciousness” literature.
Part Two Fill the blanks with the correct information
1.The national anthem of the U.S.A. is __________________________, written by Francis
Scott Key.
2.The title of Ernest Hemingway’s famous novel For Whom the Bell Tolls comes from _______
________’s Meditations.
3.The writers held vitally important places in the movement for American independence.
Without the writings of ___________________, there might have been no army for Washington to lead; without the writings of _____________________, France might never have aided the cause.
4.The five novels that comprise the leatherstocking Takes are :
(1)______________________________________
(2)______________________________________
(3)______________________________________
(4)______________________________________
(5)______________________________________
5.In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson published __________, the clearest statement of
Transcendentalist ideas. _________________ was his truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of his theories and who, in 1854, wrote his world famous ___________, about his stay in the pond side hut.
6.__________________ is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and __________ is
the pen-name of William Sidney Porter.
7.President Lincoln once said, “so you’re the little woman who made the book that made the
great war.” Here “the little woman” is ________________________, and “the book” is _____ ______________________.
8.In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Senator _________________ led America on a “witch
hunt” against “Communist intellectuals, writers and Hollywood figures.
9.Joseph Heller’s novel _________ introduced the “black humor” literature in America.
10.Soapy is the hero in O. Henry’s short story ___________________________________.
11.Carrie Meeber is the heroine in ___________________ ’s novel entitled ________________.
12.Hester Prynne and the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale are the two main characters in ________
_________________’s novel ________________________.
13.Stephen Crane’s greatest novel is ____________________________________.
14.Theodore Dreiser’s greatest and most successful novel is ____________________________.
15.Mark Twain’s greatest novel is ___________________________________________.
16.Herman Melville’s masterpiece is _____________________.
17.Upton Sinclair’s greatest novel is _________________.
18.F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is ________________________.
19.Arthur Miller’s best-known play is _________________________________.
20.The Sketch Book was written by _________________.
21.The Grapes of Wrath was written by ____________________.
22.Leaves of Grass was written by _____________________.
23.The Portrait of A Lady was written by ______________________.
24.Martin Eden was written by ___________________.
25.The Road Not Taken was written by __________________.
26.A Psalm of Life: What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist was written by
_____________________.
27.Desire Under the Elms was written by _________________.
28.A Streetcar Named Desire was written by ________________________.
29.The Titan was written by _____________________.
Part Three Tell the story (in around 500 words) of ONE of the following novels
1.The Scarlet Letter
2.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
3.Martin Eden
4.Sister Carrie
5.The Great Gatsby
6. A Farewell to Arms
美国文学练习题
5. Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of ________ which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. A. romantic stories B. symbolic stories C. gothic stories D. humorous stories 7. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _____. A. rationality B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism 12. _____ held a “black”vision of life and human beings. A. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Edgar Allan Poe D. James Fenimore Cooper 16. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some common features..._______, with the English Romanticists. A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions B. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters C. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature D. both A and B 17. _______ was the first great American writer to earn international fame. A. Irving B. Cooper C. Emerson D. Whitman 21. Pearl is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel _________ . A. Moses from an Old Manse B. Twice-Told Tales C. The Scarlet Letter D. The Blithedale Romance 7. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, ang Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in __________. A.The Scarlet Letter B. The House of the Seven Gables C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The Pioneers 24. Being a period of the flowering of American literature, the Romantic period is also called “_____”. A. the American Renaissance B. the English Renaissance C. the Harlem Renaissance D. the Second Renaissance 5. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A”which originally stood for “_______” f inally obtained the meaning of “able”or “angel”through Hester’s efforts. A. adultery B. arrogance C. accomplishment D. agony 13. F. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ____________.
美国文学史及选读试卷 (1)
美国文学史及选读试卷 Ⅰ.Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (60points in all, 2 for each) 1. Which of following can be said of the common features which are shared by the English and American Romanticists ? A. An increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions. B. An increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. C. An increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature. D. both A and B. 2. Which of the following statements about the Romantic period in the history of American literature is NOT true? （） A. In most of the American writings of this period there was a new emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature. B. The writers of this period placed an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions and displayed an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters. C. There was a strong tendency to exalt the individual and the common man. D. Most heroes and heroines in the writings of this period exhibited extremes of reason and nationality. 3.______ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism in the history of American literature. A. New England Transcendentalism B. England Transcendentalism C. the Harlem Renaissance D. New Transcendentalism 4.Hawthorn e’s unique gift was for the creation of ______ which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. A. symbolic stories B. romantic stories
美国文学史及选读期末复习
美国文学史复习1（colonialism) 第一部分殖民主义时期的文学 一、时期综述 1、清教徒采用的文学体裁：a、narratives 日记 b、journals 游记 2、清教徒在美国的写作内容： 1）their voyage to the new land 2) Adapting themselves to unfamiliar climates and crops 3) About dealing with Indians 4) Guide to the new land, endless bounty, invitation to bold spirit 3、清教徒的思想： 1）puritan want to make up pure their religious beliefs and practices 净化信仰和行为方式 2) Wish to restore simplicity to church and the authority of the Bible to the theology. 重建教堂，提供简单服务，建立神圣地位 3）look upon themselves as chosen people, and it follow logically that anyone who challenged their way of life is opposing God's will and is not to be accepted. 认为自己是上帝选民，对他们的生活有异议就是反对上帝 4）puritan opposition to pleasure and the arts sometimes has been exaggerated. 反对对快乐和艺术的追求到了十分荒唐的地步 5）religious teaching tended to emphasize the image of a wrathful God.强调上帝严厉的一面，忽视上帝仁慈的一面。 4、典型的清教徒： John Cotton & Roger William 他们的不同：John Cotton was much more concerned with authority than with democracy; William begins the history of religious toleration in America. 5、William的宗教观点：Toleration did not stem from a lack of religious convictions. Instead, it sprang from the idea that simply to be virtuous in conduct and devout in belief did not give anyone the right to force belief on others. He also felt that no political order or church system could identify itself directly with God. 行为上的德，信仰上的诚，并没有给任何人强迫别人该如何行事的权利。没有任何政治秩序和教会体制能够直接体现神本身的意旨。 6、英国最早移民到美国的诗人：Anne Bradstreet 7、在殖民时期最好的清教徒诗人：the best of Puritan poets is Edward Tayor. 学习指南： 1、Could you give a description of American Puritans? 关于美国清教徒的描绘 Like their brothers back in England, were idealists, believing that the church should be restored to the "purity" of the first-century church as established by Jesus Christ himself. To them religion was a matter of primary importance. They made it their chief business to see that man lived and thought and acted in a way which tended to the glory of God. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God, all that John Calvin, the great French theologian who lived in Geneva had preached. It was this kind of religious belief that they brought with them into the wildness. There they meaant to prove that were God's chosen people enjoying his blessings on this earth as in Heaven. 2、Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing. 3、The work of two writers, Anne Bradstreet & Edward Taylor, rose to the level of real poetry. 4、The earliest settlers included Dutch, Swedes, Germans, French, Spaniards Italian, and Portuguese. 美国文学史复习2（reason and revolution) (2009-01-17 15:54:25) 一、美国的性质： The war for Independence ended in the formation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic - the United States of America. 联邦的资产阶级民主共和国--美利坚合众国。 二、代表作家： 1、Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林 1706-1790 1）"Poor Richard's Almanac" 穷人查理德的年鉴 annual collection of proverbs 流行谚语集
美国文学复习题(有答案版)
美国文学复习题(有答案版)
美国文学复习提纲 第一部分连线题（1*10=10’） 1. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence 2. Walt Whitman O’ Captain, My Captain 3. Mark Twain Jumping Frog 4. Robert Frost Mending Wall 5. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro 6. Carl Sandburg Chicago 7. Saul Bellow The Adventure of Augie March 8. Ernest Hemingway Men without Women 9. John Steinbeck The Grape of Wrath 10. Jack London The Call of the Wild 11. Sinclair Lewis Babbit 12. Flannery O’ Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find 13. O. Henry The Last Leaf 14. Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 15. William Falkner The Sound and the Fury 第二部分单项选择(1.5*20=30’) 1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the “________” who appeared in America. A. Tenth Muse B. Ninth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse 2. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment. ________ was the dominant spirit. A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution 3. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic? A. The American Crisis B. The Federalist C. Declaration of Independence D. The Age of Reason 4. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________. A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement 5. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with ________. A. nature B. transcendentalist ideas C. human beings D. celestial beings 6. ________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 Tales B. The Scarlet Letter C. The House of the Seven Gables D. The Marble Faun
美国文学史及选读期末复习题
1.Captain John Smith became the first American writer. 2.The puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. 4.Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”. 5.Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.
has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. 7.In Washington I rving’s appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. 8.Cooper’s enduring fame rests on his William Cullen Bryant’s wok. is considered “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”. 10.Emerson believed above all in
美国文学史及选读复习重点
Captain John Smith (first American writer). Anne Bradstreet；The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America （colonists living） Edward Taylor(the best puritan poet) John Cotton ”the Patriarch of New England” teacher spiritual leader Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography Poor Richard’s Almanack Thomas Jefferson： Political Career Thoughts The Declaration of Independence we hold truth to be self-evidence Philip Freneau“Father of American Poetry” The Wild Honey Suckle American Romanticism optimism and hope Nationalism Washington Irving“Father of American Literature short story”The first “Pure Writer” A History of New York The Sketch Book marked the beginning of American Romanticism! “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”Rip Van Winkle James Fenimore Cooper Father of American sea and frontier novels Leather stocking Tales The Last of the Mohicans The Pioneers The Prairie The Pathfinder The Deerslayer Edgar Allan Poe father of detective story and horror fiction Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque “MS. Found in a Bottle” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” “The Fall of the House of Usher”“The Masque of the Red Death”“The
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I. Multiple Choices (40%) 1-5 DCADA 6-10 ADDAD 11-15DBCBA 16-20 DBCCC 21-25 DCDAC 26-30 ACDBC 31-35CAACD 36-40 DDCAB II. Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%) 1-5 CABDE 6-10CDEAB III. Interpreting the following texts. （15%） Passage 1 1.Ezra Pound(2’) 2.This short poem is one of the most famous representative works of Imagist school. In the poem, “the object” to be treated is the faces in that dim and dam context. The impression is brought out most vividly by the single, dominant image of flower petals on a wet, black bough, which serves as the most. (5’) Passage 2 1. Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie(2’) 2. (1)The world is cold and harsh to Sister Carrie. Alone and helpless, she moves along like a mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunity for a better existence. A feather in the wind, she is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot comprehend, still less to say control. She does not seem to possess what may be called a mora l fiber in her. (4’) (2) Spencer’s influence is seen at its most powerful as to Hustwood’s tragedy. Dreiser’s portrait is an authentic one of the impotent modern man unfit to survive. He cannot help himself in his relationship with Sister Carrie. No respectable job, no handsome income, no genteel family, nothing could overcome his biological need and stop him from returning to savage, atavistic unreason. He thus hovers between being a man and beast in his behavior. He must die. (6’) IV. Explain the following terms（15%） 1. Local Colorism or Regionalism as a trend first came to prominence in the late 19th century in America. The local colorists were devoted to capturing the unique customs, manners, speech, folklore, and other qualities of a particular regional community, usually in humorous short stories. (3分) The most famous of the local colorists was Mark Twain, with his masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (2分) 2. Transcendentalism is the summit of the Romantic Movement in the history of American literature in the 19th century. （1分）Transcendentalism has been defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”. （1分）Transcendentalists place emphasis on the importance of the Over-soul, the individual and Nature. （2分）The most important representatives are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. （1分） 3. It defines a sense of moral loss or aimlessness. The WWI destroyed the in ocent ideas, many good young men went to the war and died, or returned damaged, both physically and mentally; their moral faith were no longer valid--- they were “Lost.”（2分）. So in a broad Sense: it refers to the entire post -WWI American young generation. In a narrow sense: The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s, including Heming way, F.S.Fitzgerald, etc. Who left
美国文学常识练习题
美国文学练习题 1. William Faulknerw(福克纳)is the author of ______. a. Far From the Madding Crowd b. Sound and Fury（喧嚣与骚动） c. For Whom the Bell Tolls d. Scarlet Letter a远离尘嚣Thomas Hardy 托马斯·哈代 c.丧钟为谁而鸣（海明威的著作） d红字:纳撒尼尔·霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne） 2. Robert Frost is a famous_______. a. novelist 小说家 b. playwright 剧作家 c. poet 诗人 d. literary critic文学评论家 3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________. a. Jack London b. Charles Dickens c. Samuel Coleridge d. Earnest Hemingway
4. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality. a. Allegory 寓言 b. Conflict 冲突，矛盾；斗争；争执 c. Irony 讽刺；反语 d. Flashback 倒叙；闪回 5. The great transcendental 超验的work by Henry David Thoreau is______. a. Nature b. Walden瓦尔登湖 c. Experience d. Essays B亨利·大卫·梭罗（美国作家及自然主义者） 6. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of _____and serious literature(严肃文学杨). a. American folk humor美国民间幽默
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1.C aptain John Smith became the first American writer. 2.T he puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. 4.T homas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”.
5.T homas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. 7.I n Washington Irving’s appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.
8.C ooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok. “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”.
美国文学史及选读考研复习笔记6.
History And Anthology of American Literature （6） 附：作者及作品 一、殖民主义时期The Literature of Colonial America 1．船长约翰·史密斯Captain John Smith 《自殖民地第一次在弗吉尼亚垦荒以来发生的各种事件的真实介绍》 “A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That Colony” 《弗吉尼亚地图，附：一个乡村的描述》 “A Map of Virginia: with a Description of the Country” 《弗吉尼亚通史》“General History of Virginia” 2．威廉·布拉德福德William Bradford 《普利茅斯开发历史》“The History of Plymouth Plantation”3．约翰·温思罗普John Winthrop 《新英格兰历史》“The History of New England” 4．罗杰·威廉姆斯Roger Williams 《开启美国语言的钥匙》”A Key into the Language of America” 或叫《美洲新英格兰部分土著居民语言指南》 Or “A Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New England ” 5．安妮·布莱德斯特Anne Bradstreet 《在美洲诞生的第十个谬斯》 ”The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America” 二、理性和革命时期文学The Literature of Reason and Revolution 1。本杰明·富兰克林Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ※《自传》“ The Autobiography ” 《穷人理查德的年鉴》“Poor Richard’s Almanac” 2。托马斯·佩因Thomas Paine (1737-1809) ※《美国危机》“The American Crisis” 《收税官的案子》“The Case of the Officers of the Excise”《常识》“Common Sense” 《人权》“Rights of Man” 《理性的时代》“The Age of Reason” 《土地公平》“Agrarian Justice” 3。托马斯·杰弗逊Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ※《独立宣言》“The Declaration of I ndependence” 4。菲利浦·弗瑞诺Philip Freneau (1752-1832) ※《野忍冬花》“The Wild Honey Suckle” ※《印第安人的坟地》“The Indian Burying Ground” ※《致凯提·迪德》“To a Caty-Did” 《想象的力量》“The Power of Fancy” 《夜屋》“The House of Night” 《英国囚船》“The British Prison Ship” 《战争后期弗瑞诺主要诗歌集》 “The Poems of Philip Freneau Written Chiefly During the Late War” 《札记》“Miscellaneous Works” 三、浪漫主义文学The Literature of Romanticism 1。华盛顿·欧文Washington Irving (1783-1859) ※《作者自叙》“The Author’s Account of Himself” ※《睡谷传奇》“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” 《见闻札记》“Sketch Book” 《乔纳森·欧尔德斯泰尔》“Jonathan Oldstyle” 《纽约外史》“A History of New York” 《布雷斯布里奇庄园》“Bracebridge Hall” 《旅行者故事》“Tales of Traveller” 《查理二世》或《快乐君主》“Charles the Second” Or “The Merry Monarch” 《克里斯托弗·哥伦布生平及航海历史》 “A History of the Life and V oyages of Christopher Columbus” 《格拉纳达征服编年史》”A Chronicle of the Conquest of Grandada” 《哥伦布同伴航海及发现》 ”V oyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus” 《阿尔罕布拉》“Alhambra” 《西班牙征服传说》“Legends of the Conquest of Spain” 《草原游记》“A Tour on the Prairies” 《阿斯托里亚》“Astoria” 《博纳维尔船长历险记》“The Adventures of Captain Bonneville” 《奥立弗·戈尔德史密斯》”Life of Oliver Goldsmith” 《乔治·华盛顿传》“Life of George Washington” 2．詹姆斯·芬尼莫·库珀James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) ※《最后的莫希干人》“The Last of the Mohicans” 《间谍》“The Spy” 《领航者》“The Pilot” 《美国海军》“U.S. Navy” 《皮袜子故事集》“Leather Stocking Tales” 包括《杀鹿者》、《探路人》”The Deerslayer”, ”The Pathfinder” 《最后的莫希干人》“The Last of the Mohicans” 《拓荒者》、《大草原》“The Pioneers”, “The Praire” 3。威廉·卡伦·布莱恩特William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) ※《死之思考》“Thanatopsis” ※《致水鸟》“To a Waterfowl” 4。埃德加·阿伦·坡Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ※《给海伦》“To Helen” ※《乌鸦》“The Raven” ※《安娜贝尔·李》“Annabel Lee” ※《鄂榭府崩溃记》“The Fall of the House of Usher” 《金瓶子城的方德先生》“Ms. Found in a Bottle” 《述异集》“Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque” 5。拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ※《论自然》“Nature” ※《论自助》“Self-Reliance” 《美国学者》“The American Scholar” 《神学院致辞》“The Divinity School Address” 《随笔集》“Essays” 《代表》“Representative Men” 《英国人》“English Traits” 《诗集》“Poems” 6。亨利·戴维·梭罗Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ※《沃尔登我生活的地方我为何生活》 1
张奎武《英美概况》笔记及习题(美国文学)【圣才出品】
第7章美国文学 7.1 复习笔记 I. A General Introduction II. Fiction III. Poetry IV. Drama I. A General Introduction (简要介绍) 1. The history of American literature is comparatively short, roughly about 200 years. 美国文学的历史很短，大约200年。 2. Many famous writers have earned great fame in the world, such as Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, and Ernest Hemingway. 很多著名作家已赫然立于世界文坛之上。例如惠特曼、马克·吐温、西奥多·德莱赛和欧内斯特·海明威。 II. Fiction (小说) 1. America did not have its fiction until Washington Irving. 美国的小说从华盛顿·欧文开始。
2. American contemporary literature has continued to undergo healthy development in producing new forms and new language. 美国的现代文学继续健康发展，不断涌现出新的形式和新的语言。 3. In 1990s, American literature takes much newer directions and varieties in quality. 20世纪90年代，美国文学呈现出很多新的趋势和种类。 4. There appeared some famous fiction writers in American literature. 美国文学史上出现了很多著名的小说家。 (1) Washington Irving (1783—1859) (华盛顿·欧文) ①Regarded as the “father of American literature”, Washington Irving was the first American to achieve international literary reputation. ②His most famous story “Rip Van Winkle”helps Irving earn great fame in the literary world. ①华盛顿·欧文是第一个在国际上享有盛誉的美国作家，被称为“美国文学之父”。 ②他最著名的故事是“瑞普·凡·温克尔”，使欧文在文学界获得很高的名望。 (2) Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804—1864) (纳撒尼尔·霍桑) ①Hawthorne is a famous American writer in romantic fiction and a pioneer in psychological description. ②His most famous novel is The Scarlet Letter. ①霍桑是美国浪漫主义小说的著名作家，也是心理描写方面的先驱。 ②他最著名的小说是《红字》。 (3) Mark Twain(1835—1910) (马克·吐温)