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American Literature: A Concise History I. Review2005-2011真题中美国文学部分出现过哪些重要作家？这些作家分别代表哪些文学流派？如何高效地梳理美国文学简史？1. Who wrote the famous pamphlet, The Common Sense,before the American Revolution? (2011)A. Thomas Jefferson.B. John Adams.C. Thomas Paine.D. Benjamin Franklin.2. Which of the following best explores American mythin the 20th century? (2011)A. Beyond the Horizon.B. The Sun Also Rises.C. The Sound and the Fury.D. The Great Gatsby.3. The Financier is written by ______. (2010)A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. William FaulknerD. Theodore Dreiser4. Who among the following is a poet of free verse? (2009)A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.B. Walt Whitman.C. Herman MelvilleD. Theodore Dreiser.5. Who wrote The American? (2008)A. Herman MelvilleB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry JamesD. Theodore Dreiser6. Death of a Salesman was written by____. (2007)A. Arthur MillerB. Ernest HemingwayC. Ralph EllisonD. James Baldwin7. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by___. (2006)A. Scott FitzgeraldB. William FaulknerC. Eugene O’NeilD. Ernest Hemingway8. William Sydney Porter, known as O’Henry, is most famous for_____. (2005)A. his poemsB. his playsC. his short storiesD. his novels考点：重要作家及其作品；作家及其作品类型、风格已考体裁：长篇小说4，短篇小说1，戏剧1，诗歌1，散文1（先把少量的戏剧诗歌散文领域的著名作家梳理清楚，再重点复习主流小说家，最后整理边缘作家如黑人作家和女性作家）重要流派：romanticism1, realism2, naturalism1, modernism3重要作家：Theodore Dreiser3, Ernest Hemingway2, Henry James2, Herman Melville2, William Faulkner2, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Miller, Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neil, O’Henry, F.S. Fitzgerald讨论：上述四大流派的大致历史时期？将重要作家和流派进行匹配II. Historical Periods1. Colonial Period: 17th~18th2. Romantic Period: end of 18th to the Civil War★3. The Age of Realism: 1865-1890★4. The Age of Naturalism: 1890-1900★5. Modern Period: 1912-1945★6. Postwar Realism: 1950s-1960s7. Postmodernism: 1960s-1980s可按几次大的战争大致分段：独立战争、南北战争（内战）、一战、二战III. Key Figures1. Benjamin Franklin2. James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving; Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson/Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville(R. W. Emerson, H.D. Thoreau)3. O’Henry, Henry James, Mark Twain4. Stephan Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London5. Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, R.L. Frost/Ernest Hemingway,F.S. Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck，William Faulkner /Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller6. Jerome Salinger7. Nabokov梳理清楚纵向的历史时期后，再细看各个时期重要作家。

专八人文知识讲义完整版

人文知识讲义2004年2月全国英语考试专业教学指导委员会修订专八考试大纲，2005年正式实施，开始新增人文知识的内容。

主要包括：英语国家概括、英语语言文学知识、和英语语言学知识。

测试要求：1 英语国家地理、历史、文化、教育等等。

4题。

主要考察英国、美国必有（地理、历史、文化和政治），加拿大、澳大利亚和新西兰概括，爱尔兰没有出现，2 英语文学知识。

3题。

文学部分英美文学作家作品，流派、文学贡献也会出现，及格律3 英语语言学知识。

3题。

语言学基本概念，及其代表理论、代表著作注意：人文一般不会考很偏的知识第一章英语国家概况第一节美国地理：东南西北地理位置、人口3亿（人口最多的是加州、德州、纽约州、佛罗里达州等，主要为印第安人，首先移民到此是英国人和荷兰人）、星条旗为国旗（13和50）、国徽白头鹰、国歌《星条旗永不落》（1931年通过）、首都华盛顿哥伦比亚特区，属于中央政府管理。

50州，最大阿拉斯加，最小罗得岛州，美国本土最大德克萨斯州。

美国又称为Uncle Sam（1961年美国国会正式承认），国花为玫瑰Rose。

美国本土共分为6大地区：New England：6州，最重要为马萨诸塞州（波士顿）、罗德岛州（普罗维登斯）和新罕布什尔（康科德）。

总统大选初选开始于新罕布什尔。

1 美国诞生地和独立战争的主要战场。

2 波士顿美国最古老的城市，有麻省理工学院和哈佛。

波士顿的龙虾很有名3 新英格兰人又称为yankees.the Middle Atlantic States: 7州、最重要的为纽约州、宾州、新泽西州和马里兰州。

1 白宫和国会山在华盛顿特区。

2 纽约是美国最大的城市，联合国大厦等等著名建筑在此。

共有5个区：分别是曼哈顿、皇后、布鲁克林、布朗克斯和斯塔滕岛。

有帝国大厦和自由女神像。

哥伦比亚大学和康奈尔大学。

纽约称为big apple。

3 尼亚加拉大瀑布在纽约州的水牛城。

4 葛底斯堡位于宾州，林肯曾在此发表过演讲。

专八人文知识英美文学复习材料

专八人文知识英美文学复习材料专业八级备考英美文学知识纲要注：黄色部分为往年已考过的内容。

英国文学Old and Medieval English literature (5th-15th century) 10661. Beowulf oldest English epic2. medieval romance Arthurian romances, knight3. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury T ales in heroic couplet4. popular ballads Robin Hood stories and the ballad meterThe English Renaissance—Humanism, drama (16th century)1. Edmund Spenser Faerie Queene in the Spenserian stanza, allegorical romance2.Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great3.William Shakespearea)Major tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbethb)Major comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of V enice; As YouLike It; The Twelfth Night; Romeo and Julietc)Sonnet 184.Francis Bacon Essays“Of Studies” some quotes from the essay5.King James’s or The Authorized Bible (1604)The 17th Century—Turbulent and gloomy1.John Donne and Metaphysical Poetry “The Flea”, “Valediction: ForbiddingMourning”2.John Milton: Paradise Lost rebellious spirit, Miltonic style, blank verse3.John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress allegory, satire, Vanity FairThe 18th Century—Age of Reason and common sense1.Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders2.Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels, “A Modest Proposal”3.Neoclassicism and Alexander Pope4.Samuel Johnson Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield5.Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling6.Robert Burns: “A Red, Red Rose”“Auld Lang Syne”7.William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, “The Tyger”The Age of Romanticism—Poetry, individualism, nature, emotion (1798-1832)1.William Wordsworth: “The Preface to Lyrical Ballads” as declaration of Romanticism,nature poet “The Solitary Reaper”, “Tintern Abbey”, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” or“Daffodils” , “Composed upon Westerminster Bridge”2.Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan3.George Gorgon Byron: the Byronic hero; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan4.Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound, “Ode to the West Wind”5.John Keats：“Ode to a Nightingale”, “To Autumn”, “Ode on an Grecian Urn”, truth isbeauty, beauty is truth6.Walter Scott: historical romance, Ivanhoe7.Jane Austen: realistic writing about family life, Pride andPrejudice, Emma, Sense andSensibilityThe Victorian Age (1832-1901) 19th century1.general features: utilitarianism, middle class urban literature, conservative morality2.Charles Dickens: Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations,Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Little Dorrit3.William Thackeray: Vanity Fair4.The Bronte sisters: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte5.George Eliot: Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch6.Thomas Hardy: the Wessex novels; Tess of the D’urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, TheReturn of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, naturalist ideas7.Alfred Tennyson: poet8.Robert Browning: poet, drama tic monologue, “My Last Duchess”9.George Bernard Shaw: dramatist, 1925 Nobel Prize winnerThe Twentieth Century1.The features of modernism: alienation and loneliness2.T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; The Waste Land 1948 Nobel Prizewinner3.James Joyce: Ulysses, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Irish, Dublin, stream ofconsciousness4.Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway5. D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers(Oedipus Complex), Lady Chatterley’s Lover6.W. B. Yeats: Irish poet, modernism 1923 Nobel Prize winner7.Angry Young Men (1950s): Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim8.The Theatre of the Absurd: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot9.Women writers: Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark10.Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook, 2007 Nobel Prize winner11.contemporary writers: Martin Amis, Ian McEvan, Julia Barnes, A. S. Byatt, MargaretDrabble, Anita Brookner, V. S, Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Philip Larkin(poet), Seamus Heaney (poet), Harold Pinter (dramatist)12.V. S. Naipaul: Indian-British novelist, 2001 Nobel Prize winner13.Seamus Heaney: Irish Poet 1995 Nobel Prize winner美国文学Colonial Period (1607-1800) –Rise of the American Dream1.Puritanism, Enlightenment, Independence War2.Jonathan Edwards3.Benjamin Franklin:Poor Ric hard’s Almanac, AutobiographyRomanticism (1800-1865) –Prime of the American Dream1.Washington Irving: “Rip Van Winkle”, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”2.James Fenimore Cooper: Leather stocking Tales, American Westward movement3.New England Transcendentalism: Oversoul4.Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nature”(The Bible forTranscendentalism), “The AmericanScholar” (intellectual independence), prose5.Henry David Thoreau: Walden, prose6.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poet, “A Psalm of Life”7.Edgar Allan Poe: poet and short story writer, “The Raven”, The Fall of the House ofUsher, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter8.Walt Whitman: free verse, Leaves of Grass, “Song of Myself”, “O Captain! MyCaptain!”, national poet of America, social and national topics, strongly influenced byEmerson9.Emily Dickinson: poet, regional and inner world, topics on religion, death, love, nature10.Nathaniel Hawthorn: novelist, dark side of human beings, The Scarlet Letter, “YoungGoodman Brown”, “The Minister’s Black Veil”11.Herman Melville: novelist, sea life, Moby DickRealism and Naturalism (1865-1918)—Questioning the American Dream1.William Dean Howells: middle class, The Rise of Silas Lapman2.Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens, lower class, local colorism, The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn/T om Sawyer, The Gilded Age3.Henry James: rich class, international theme, psychological descriptions, The Portrait ofa Lady, The Ambassadors, The American, Daisy Miller4.Stephen Crane: pioneer writing in the naturalistic tradition, Maggie: A Girl of theStreets, The Red Badge of Courage5.Frank Norris: McTeague, the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel, a case studyof the inevitable effect of environment and heredity on human lives6.Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, An American Tragedy7.Jack London: The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden8.O Henry: short story writer, the American Maupassant, surprise endings, “The Gift ofthe Magi”, “The Cop and the An them”Modernism (1918-1945)—Disillusionment of the American Dream1.Imagist poetry: imagism, direct treatment of the thing, use as few words as possible2.Ezra Pound: “In a Station of the Metro”, The Cantos3.T. S. Eliot: referring to the British part4.Wallace Stevens: “Anecdote of the Jar”, “The Idea of Order at Key West”5.William Carlos Williams: “The Red Wheelbarrow”6.Robert Frost: New England poet, “The Road Not Taken”, “Mending Wall”, “AfterApple-picking”7.Modernist Novels: the Lost Generation8. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, the Jazz age9.Ernest Hemingway: the Lost Generation, Hemingway hero, iceberg theory, The Sun AlsoRises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, 1954Nobel Prize winner10.William Faulkner: the Southern Renaissance/myth, Yoknapatawpha, The Sound and theFury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, stream of consciousness1949 Nobel Prize winner11.Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio; describing the grotesque12.Sinclair Lewis: Main Street, sociological writer, first American Nobel Prize winner,(1930)13.Willa Cather: female writer, writing about the Old West in traditional way, My Antonio14.John Dos Passos: 1930s, Depression, U.S.A.15.John Steinbeck: 1930s, Depression, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl1962 Nobel Prize winner16.Drama: A renaissance of drama in 1920s—Eugene O’Neill, The theatre of theDepression in 1930s17.Eugene O’Neill: American dram began in 1916 when O’Neil’s first play Bound East forCardiff was produced, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey intoNightPost-War American Literature—Multi-faceted1.The Beat Generation in 1950s: Howl by Allen Ginsberg (poet), On the Road by JackKerouac (novelist)2.Black Humor: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller3.Post-war Realism: Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger4.Jewish literature: Herzog by Saul Bellow5.African-American literature: Richard Wright, Native Son; Ralph Ellison, The InvisibleMan; Toni Morrison, Beloved6.Post-war drama: Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie,A Streetcar Named Desire;Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman7.Theatre of the Absurd: George Albee, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Literary Terms:1. Alliteration: repetition of the same sound or sounds at the beginning of two or more wordsthat are next to or close to each other.2. Iambic pentameter: poetic meters of five iambs or feet. Iambic means the stress is on thesecond syllable.3. Heroic couplet: a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines.4. Blank verse: unrhymed poetic lines in iambic pentameters.5. Sonnet: a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linkedby an intricate rhyme scheme. Italian or Petrarchan sonnet is composed of an octave and a sestet (rhyming abbaabba cdecde). Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains and a couplet (rhyming abab cdcd efef gg).6. Assonance: repetition of related vowel sounds7. Ode: a long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and elaboratein its stanzaic structure.8. Spenserian stanza: a nine-line stanza of eight lines in iambic pentameter plus an iambichexameter. The rhyme scheme is abab bcbc c.9. Romance: a tale in verse, embodying the life and adventures of knights.10. Ballad: a narrative poem that tells a story.11. Ballad meter: a quatrain in alternate four- and three-stress lines; usually only the second andfourth lines rhyme.12. Allegory: a story or description in which the characters and events symbolize some deeperunderlying meaning, and serve to spread moral teaching.13. American Puritanism: Puritanism is a Protestant movement which spread its influence intothe New England colonies in 17th century. The American Puritans believed that the Church should be restored to the “purity” of the Church as established by Christ himself. They accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin, total depravity, and limited atonement. 14. American Romanticism: American Romanticism is the literary movement stretching from theend of the 18th century through the outbreak of the Civil War. It was in essence the expression of “a real new experience” and contained “an alien quality”. There was American Puritanism as a cultural heritage to consider. The features can be found in the major works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman.15. Transcendentalism: Transcendentalism is a literary and philosophical movement, associatedwith Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcended the empirical and scientific and was knowablethrough intuition.16. American Realism: First, American realist authors described life truthfully. Second, they putthe typical characters under typical circumstances. Third, they were objective rather than idealized, in a close observation and investigation life. Finally, realistic works were concerned with social and psychological problems. The famous realistic works include Henry James’s The Ambassadors and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.17. Local Colorism: As a literary trend, local colorism made its presence felt in the late 1860s toearly 70s. Local colorists concerned themselves with presenting and interpreting the local characters of their regions. The representative works of local colorism include Bret Hart’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp” and H. B. Stowe’s Oldtown Folks.18. American Naturalism: American naturalism is a literary tendency that prevailed in 1890s.Under the influence of social Darwinism and inspired by French naturalism, American naturalists wrote about the helplessness of man in a cold, amoral world, and his lack of dignity in face of the crushing forces of environment and heredity. The features of naturalism can be found in the major works by Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser.19. Lost Generation: The Lost Generation refers to the group of American writers who came ofage during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s. The writers considered themselves “lost” because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world. The term is commonly applied to Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others.20.Image(in Pound’s poetry): An image is defined by Pound as that which presents anintellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time, “a vortex or cluster of fused ideas”“endowed with energy”.21. Stanza: Stanza is a recurrent grouping of two or more lines or more lines of a poem in termsof length, metrical form, and rhyme-scheme.22. Code Hero: Code hero is the Hemingwayan hero, an average man of decidedly masculinetastes, sensitive and intelligent, a man of action, and one of few words.23. Southern Literature: Southern Literature is defined as American literature about the SouthernUnited States or by writers from this region. The Southern literature meets its renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s, and the famous Southern writers include Ellen Glasgow and William Faulkner.24. “Anti-hero”(as in William Faulkner’s works): A central character in a work of literature wholacks traditional heroic qualities such as courage, physical prowess, and fortitude. Anti-heroestypically distrust conventional values and are unable to commit themselves to any ideals.Anti-heroes usually accept, and often celebrate, their positions as social outcasts.25. Allusion: Allusion is a figure of speech that makes brief, often casual reference to a historicalor literary, event, or object.26. Beat Generation: Beat generation is a term applied to agroup of American poets andnovelists of the 1950s and 1960s who were in romantic rebellion against the culture and value systems of America. They expressed their revolt through the literary works of loose structure and slang diction. Among the leading members of the loose group were the poet Allen Ginsberg and the novelist Jack Kerouac.27. Black Humor: Black humor is a term applied to a large group of American novels beginningin the 1950s, represented by Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. In the novelists’ opinion, their society is full of institutionalized absurdity. Therefore, all of them hold a cynical attitude toward society and the conventional moral values. This despondency is reflected in their novels by the use of exaggeration as a vehicle for satire.28. Satire: Satire is a literary manner which blends a critical attitude with humor and with wit forthe purpose of improving human institutions or humanity. Catch-22, satirizes bureaucracy and the military, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.29. Motif:Motif is a theme, character type, image, metaphor, or any other verbal element thatrecurs throughout a single work of literature or occurs in a number of different works over a period of time. For example, the disillusionment of “American Drama” is one of the important motifs in Death of a Salesman.30. Theatre of the Absurd: The Theatre of the Absurd is an avant-garde kind of drama in the1950s and 1960s that represents the absurdity of the humancondition by abandoning rational devices and realistic form. Some playwrights in the school are Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee.。

tem8-英美文学知识（1）

英美文学知识第一节英国文学一、古英语时期的英国文学 (约499-1066)Alliteration – Beowulf《贝奥武甫》- national epicCaedmon (开德蒙)Anthem《赞美诗》1. 诗歌Cynewulf(基涅武甫)Dream of the Rood《十字架之梦》Bede (比德)Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum《英吉利人教会史》2. 散文King Alfred(阿尔弗雷德大帝)Wessex – Father of English Prose (“英国散文之父”);Anglo-Saxon Chronicle《盎格鲁-撒克逊编年史》二、中古英语时期的英国文学 (14世纪 – 15世纪)1. Allegory – Romance – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》2. Ballad – The Robin Hood Ballads《罗宾汉民谣集》3. William Langland (威廉•兰格伦)The Vision Concerning Piers the Plowman 《农夫皮尔斯的幻想》4. Geoffrey Chaucer (杰弗里•乔叟)Father of English Poetry (“英国诗歌之父”); The Canterbury Tales《坎特布雷故事集》;- octosyllabic & heroic couplet (八音节英雄双韵体)5. Sir Thomas Malory(托马斯•马洛礼)Le Morte d’Arthur《亚瑟王之死》三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学 (15世纪末 – 17世纪中期)1. Humanism – classic culture2. Thomas More (托马斯•莫尔)Utopia《乌托邦》; The Painful Life of Edward V; Historie of Richard the Third《理查德三世传》3. Thomas Wyatt (托马斯•怀亚特), Henry Howard (亨利•霍华德) – Sonnet4. Philip Sidney (菲利浦•锡德尼)Arcadia《阿卡迪亚》-第一篇田园生活的传奇,“现代长篇小说的先驱”;The Defence of Poesie / Apology for Poetry《诗辩》-人文主义文学的宣言,开创近代英国的文学批评5. Edmund Spencer (埃德蒙•斯宾塞)poet’ poet – Spencerian stanza – 9行(ababbcbcc)8 iambic pentameter + 1 iambic hexameter; The FaireQueene 《仙后》被誉为英国文艺复兴时期“最杰出的史诗” nationalism, humanism, puritanism 6. Christopher Marlowe(克里斯托弗•马娄)Tamburlaine 《帖木耳大帝》; The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 《浮士德博士的悲剧历史》7. William Shakespeare2首长诗, 154首十四行诗, 37部戏剧长诗Venus and Adonis 《维纳斯和阿多尼斯》;The Rape of Lucrece 《露克丽丝受辱记》十四行诗iambic pentameter – 14 (abab cdcd efef gg)3 quatrains + 1 couplet = Shakespearean sonnet悲剧Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth喜剧 A Midsummer Night’s Dream ; The Merchant ofVenice ; As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》; TwelfthNight历史剧Henry VI, Henry IV, Richard III(威廉•莎士比亚)戏剧传奇剧Pericles 《泰尔亲王配力克里斯》;Cymbeline 《辛白林》; The Winter’s Tale ;Tempest 《暴风雨》8. Ben Jonson (本•琼森)comedy of manners (风俗喜剧的奠基人);Every Man In His Humor 《人性互异》9. John Donne (约翰•多恩)Metaphysical Poems (“玄学派”诗歌创始人);Songs and Sonnets 《歌曲与十四行诗》10. George Herbert (乔治•赫伯特)the saint of the Metaphysical school(“玄学派诗圣”);The Temple 《神殿》11. Andrew Marwell (安德鲁•马韦尔)诗风结合了玄学派和古典主义的创作特点;To His Coy Mistress 《致他的娇羞女友》12. Francis Bacon (弗朗西斯•培根)Materialism; Essays 《随笔》(Of Study, OfTruth );The Advancement of Learning 《学术的推进》;The New Instrument 《新工具》四、资产阶级革命及启蒙时期的英国文学 (17世纪末，18世纪 )1. the Enlightenment: liberty, equality, democracy前30年：neo-classicism (崇尚古典文学的创作及美学原则)40年代到80年代：realism2. 18世纪的英国文学80年代以后：sentimentalism & pre-romanticism (崇尚情感)3. John Milton (约翰•弥尔顿)Defence of the English People 《为英国人民而辩》;Second Defence of the Englishpeople 《为英国人民再辩》;Paradise Lost (blank verse, 旧约); Paradise Regained(新约);Samson Agonistes 《力士参孙》(poetical drama, closet73. Tennessee Williams (田纳西·威廉斯)The Glass Menagerie《玻璃动物园》; A Street car Named Desire《欲望号街车》; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》74. Arthur Miller (阿瑟·米勒)All My Sons《都是我的儿子》; The Death of a Salesman《推销员之死》75. Edward Albee (爱德华·阿尔比)The Zoo Story《动物园的故事》; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 《谁害怕弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫》76. Sylvia Plath (西尔维亚·普拉斯)自白派; The Colossus and Other Poems《巨人》。

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24、Ambrose Bierce安布罗斯·毕尔斯1842-1914?⼩品集：The Fiend’s Deligh魔⿁的乐趣;Nuggests and Dust Panned out in California在加利福尼亚淘出的⾦块和⾦粉;Cobwebs from an Empty Skull来⾃空脑壳的蜘蛛短篇⼩说集：Tales of Soldiers and Civilians军民故事;In the Midst of Life在⼈⽣中间;Can Such Things Be?这种事情可能吗？The Devil’s Dictionary魔⿁词典(The Applicant申请者)25、Edward Bellamy爱德华·贝拉⽶1850-1898Looking Backward:2000-1887回顾：从2000看1887年；Equality平等；The Duke of Sockbridge:A Romance of Shay’s Rebellion斯托克布⾥奇的公爵：雪司起义的故事;The Blindman’s World and Other Stories育⼈的世界及其他26、Edwin Charles Markham马卡姆1852-1940The Man With the Hoe荷锄⼈27、Charles Waddell Chesnutt查尔斯·契斯纳特1858-1932The Conjure Woman巫⼥;The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line他青年时代的妻⼦(The Sheriff’s Children 警长的⼉⼥)(the pioneer of the color line);The Marrow of Tradition⼀脉相承28、Hamlin Garland汉姆林·加兰1860-1940Crumbling Idol崩溃的偶像（真实主义veritism）;Man Travelled Roads⼤路(The Return of a Private三等兵归来);Rose of Ducher’s Cooly荷兰⼈⼭⾕中的露斯;A Son of the Middle Border中部边地农家⼦29、O·Henry欧·享利（William Sidney Porter）1862-1910The Man Higher Up黄雀在后;Sixes and Sevens七上⼋下30、Edith Wharton伊迪斯·华顿1862-1937The House of Mirth欢乐之家;Ethan Frome;Bunner Sister班纳姐妹;The Age of Innocent天真时代;The Customs of the Country 乡村习俗;A Backward Glance回⾸往事32、George Santayana桑塔亚那1863-1952Scepticism and Animal Faith怀疑主义与动物性信仰;The Realms Being存在诸领域（本质/物质/真理/精神领域：4卷）(Relativity of Knowledge);Three Philosphical Poets三⼤哲学诗⼈；Poems(A Minuet:On Reaching the Age of Fifty⼩步舞曲：五⼗书怀);The Last Puritan最后的清教徒33、William E·B Dubois威廉·艾伯·杜波依斯1868-1963Souls of Black Folk⿊⼈的灵魂(Of Booker T Washington and Others);The Suppression of the African Slave Trade into the USA制⽌⾮洲奴⾪贸易进⼊美国;The Philadephia Negro;John Brown;The Black Flame⿊⾊的⽕焰（三部曲）34、Edgar Lee Masters埃德加·李·马斯特斯1868-1950A Book of Verse诗集;Maximilian马克西⽶连（诗集）;Spoon River Anthology斯普恩河诗集(Lucinda Matlock鲁欣达·马物罗克)35、Edwin Arlington Robinson鲁宾逊1869-1935Captain Craig克雷格上尉---诗体⼩说；The Town Down the River河上的城镇;The Man Against the Sky衬托着天空的⼈;Avon’s Harvest沃冯的收成;Collected Poems诗集36、Frank Norris弗兰克·诺⾥斯1870-1902Moran of the Lady Letty茱蒂夫⼈号上的莫兰（romantic）;Mc-Teague麦克提格（naturalistic）;The Epic of theWheat(realistic)⼩麦诗史(The Octopus章鱼,The Pit⼩麦交易所);A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the Old and New West ⼩麦交易所及其他新⽼西部故事37、Stephen Crane斯蒂芬·克莱恩1871-1900Magic:A Girl of the Streets街头⼥郎梅姬（美国⽂学⾸次站在同情⽴场上描写受辱妇⼥的悲惨命运）；The Red Badge of Courage红⾊英勇勋章；The Open Boat⼩划⼦;The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky新娘来到黄天镇38、Theodore Dreiser西奥多·德莱塞1871-1945Sister Carrie嘉莉姐妹;Jennie Gerhardt珍妮姑娘;Trilogy of Desire欲望三部曲(Financer⾦融家,The Titan巨⼈,The Stoic);An American Tragedy美国的悲剧（被称为美国最伟⼤的⼩说）;Nigger Jeff⿊⼈杰弗39、Paul Laurence Dumbar保尔·劳伦斯·邓巴1872-1906We Wear the Mask我们带着⾯具他是美国第⼀个有成就的⿊⼈诗⼈，被称为“⿊种⼈的桂冠诗⼈”(Poet Laureate of the Negro Race)40、Jack London杰克·伦敦1876-1916The Son of the Wolf狼之⼦,The Call of the Wild野性的呼唤;The Sea-wolf海狼;White Fang⽩獠⽛;The People of the Abyss深渊中的⼈们;The Iron Heel铁蹄;Marti Eden马丁·伊登;How I become a Socialist我怎样成为社会党⼈;The War of the Classes阶级之间的战争;What Life Means to Me⽣命对我意味着什么;Revolution⾰命;Love of Life热爱⽣命;The Mexican墨西哥⼈;Under the Deck Awings在甲板的天蓬下41、Upton Sinclair厄普顿·⾟克莱尔1878-1968Spring and Harvest春天与收获;The Jungle屠场（揭发⿊幕运动的代表作家）;King Coal煤炭⼤王;Oil⽯油;Boston波⼠顿;Dragon’s Teeth龙齿42、Irving Babbitt欧⽂·⽩壁德1865-1933（新⼈⽂主义主要代表）Literature and the American College⽂学与美国学院（）要求恢复古典⽂学教学;The New Laokoon新拉奥孔;Rousseau and Romanticism卢梭与浪漫主义;Democracy and Leadership民主与领导;On being Creative论创造性。

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72、Lillian Hellman丽莲·海尔曼1905-1983The Children’s Hour孩⼦们的时光;The Little Foxes⼩狐狸;Watch on the Rhine守望莱茵河;The Searching Wind彻⾻的风;The Autumn Garden秋园 ;Tos in the Attic阁楼⾥的玩具;The Days to Come未来的⽇⼦;Another Part of the Forest森林的另⼀处回忆录：An Unfinished Wonman⼀个事业尚未终了的⼥⼈;Pentimento旧画新貌;Scoundrel Time邪恶的时代73、Clifford Odets克利福德·奥德茨1906-1963Waiting for Lefty等待⽼左/勒夫特;Awake and Sing!醒来歌唱;Till the Day I Die直到我死的那天;Paradise Lost失乐园;Golden Boy⾦孩⼦;Clash by Night夜间冲突;The Big Knife⼤⼑;The Country Girl乡村姑娘;The Flowering Peach开花的桃树74、Richard Wright理查德·赖特1908-1960Uncle Tom’s Children汤姆叔叔的孩⼦们;Native Son⼟⽣⼦;Black Boy;⿊孩⼦The Outsiders局外⼈;The Long Dream漫长的梦;Eight Men⼋⼈⾏75、Eudora Welty尤多拉·韦尔蒂1906-短篇⼩说：Death of a Travelling,Salesman巡回推销员之死;A Curtain of Green and Other Stories绿窗帘和其他;The Wide Net and Other Stories⼤和其他故事;The Golden Apples⾦苹果;The Bridge of Innifallen英尼斯法伦的新娘长篇⼩说：The Robber Bridgeroom强盗新朗;Detta Wedding德尔塔的婚姻;The Ponder Heart庞德的⼼;The Losing Battles失败的战⽃;The Optismist’s Daughter乐观者的⼥⼉76、Valdimir Nabokov弗·纳博科夫1899-1977Lolita洛莉塔;Pale Fire微暗的⽕;The Admiralty Sprie海军部⼤厦塔尖77、Anais Nin安娜伊思·宁1903-1977The Novel of Future未来的⼩说;Heida海达;House of Incest乱伦之家;Collages拼贴78、Issac Bashevis Singer艾萨克·⾟格1904-1991Gimpel the Fool傻⽠吉姆佩尔;The Family Moskat莫斯卡特家族;Satan in Goray撒旦在⼽雷;The Magician of Lublin卢布林的魔术师;The Slave奴⾪;The Manor庄园;The Estate产业;Enenemies,A Love Story仇敌们，⼀个爱情故事;Shosha舒莎短篇⼩说：The Spinoza of Market Street市场街的斯宾诺莎;A Friend of Kafka卡夫卡的朋友名篇：Neighbours邻居79、Robert Penn Warren罗伯特·沃伦1905-1989Night Rider夜间骑⼠;At Heaven’s Gate在天堂门⼝;All King’s Men国王的全部⼈马;World Enough and Time⾜够的世界和时间;The Cave洞⽳;Band of Angels天使的队伍;A Place to Come to归宿诗集：Thirtysix Poems;Selected Poems1923-1943;Brother to Dragons;Promised:Poems1954-1956;You,Emperors and Others;Selected Poems New and Old 1923-1966;Elven Poems on the Same Themet;Incarnation Poem1966-1968显灵：1966-1968诗选;Now and Then:Poems 1976-1978此时与彼时1976-1978诗选剧作：Proud Flesh骄傲的⾎⾁之躯;Modern Rhetoric当代修辞学；Birth of Love爱之诞⽣(选⾃与Cleanth Brooks合编的Understanding Poetry/Understanding Fiction)逃亡者集团The Fugitive的宣⾔书I’ll Take My Stand我表明我的⽴场80、Tennessee William⽥纳西·威廉斯1911-1983American Blues美国的布鲁斯;Battle of Angels天使的战⽃;The Glass Menagerie玻璃动物园;The Streetcar Named Desire欲望号街车;Cat on a Hot Tin Roof热铁⽪屋顶上的猫;The Night of The Iguana鬣蜥之夜;Summer and Smoke夏与烟;The Rose Tattoo玫瑰纹;Sweet Bird of Yout可爱的青春鸟81、John Cheever约翰·契弗1912-1982短篇⼩说：The Expelled开除短篇⼩说集：The Way Some People Live⼀些⼈的⽣活⽅式;The Enormous Radio and Other Stories巨型收⾳机和其他;The Housebreaker of Shaddy Hill and Other Stories绿茵⼭窃贼和其他;Some People,Places and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel⼀些不会在我下⼀部⼩说中出现的⼈物、地点、事件;The Brigadier and the Golf Widow陆军准将和⾼尔夫迷寡妇;The World of Apples苹果世界→The Stories of John Cheever契弗短篇⼩说选长篇⼩说：The Wapshot Chronicle/Scandal⽡普肖特纪事/丑闻;Bullet Park布利特公园;Falconer鹰猎者82、Irwin Shaw欧⽂·肖1913-1984Bury the Dead埋葬死者;Sailor off the Bremen不来梅港外的⽔⼿长篇⼩说：The Young Lions幼狮;The Troubled Air混浊的空⽓;Lucy Crown露茜·克朗;Two Weeks in Another Town； Voices of a Summer Day夏⽇的喁喁声;Rich Man,Poor Man;Evening in Byzantium;Nightwork认夜⼯;Beggarman,Thief;Bread upon the Waters83、Ralph Ellison拉尔夫·埃利林1914-长篇⼩说：Invisible Man看不见的⼈散⽂集：Shadow and Act影⼦与⾏动;Going to the Territory步⼊⽂学界84、Bernard Malamud伯纳德·马拉默德1914-1986长篇⼩说：The Natural天⽣运动员;The Assistant伙计;The Fixer装配⼯;A New Life新⽣活;God’s Grace上帝的恩赐短篇⼩说：The Magic Barrel魔桶。

《英美文学教案》

《英美文学教案》第一章：英国文学概述1.1 英国文学的历史背景介绍英国文学的发展历程，包括中世纪、文艺复兴、启蒙时期、维多利亚时期等主要阶段。

强调英国文学在全球文学中的重要地位和影响力。

1.2 英国文学的重要作家和作品介绍几位具有代表性的英国作家，如莎士比亚、简·奥斯汀、查尔斯·狄更斯等。

分析他们的代表作品，如《哈姆雷特》、《傲慢与偏见》、《双城记》等。

1.3 英国文学的特点和风格探讨英国文学的特点，如现实主义、浪漫主义、象征主义等。

分析英国作家的写作风格，如细腻的描写、丰富的心理描写、幽默与讽刺等。

第二章：美国文学概述2.1 美国文学的历史背景介绍美国文学的发展历程，包括殖民时期、浪漫主义时期、现实主义时期等主要阶段。

强调美国文学在全球文学中的重要地位和影响力。

2.2 美国文学的重要作家和作品介绍几位具有代表性的美国作家，如马克·吐温、欧内斯特·海明威、弗朗茨·卡夫卡等。

分析他们的代表作品，如《汤姆·索亚历险记》、《老人与海》、《美国》等。

2.3 美国文学的特点和风格探讨美国文学的特点，如多元文化、创新性、社会批判等。

分析美国作家的写作风格，如直接叙述、对话丰富、寓言与象征等。

第三章：文学作品的主题与形式3.1 文学作品的主题介绍文学作品的主题概念，包括情节、人物、背景等。

分析文学作品主题的多样性，如爱情、友情、权力、成长等。

3.2 文学作品的形式介绍文学作品的常见形式，如小说、诗歌、戏剧、散文等。

探讨不同形式对文学作品表达效果的影响。

3.3 文学作品的象征与隐喻解释象征与隐喻的概念，其在文学作品中的应用。

分析象征与隐喻对文学作品深层意义的贡献。

第四章：文学作品的分析方法4.1 文本分析法介绍文本分析法的基本概念和步骤。

强调文本分析法对文学作品主题、形式、语言等方面的深入探究。

4.2 历史文化分析法介绍历史文化分析法的基本概念和步骤。

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专八英美文学常识英美文学1. William Faulkner is the author of ______.A. Far From the Modeling CrowdB. Sound and FuryC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. Scarlet Letter1. Robert Frost is a famous ______.A. novelistB. playwrightC. poetD. literary critic3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ______A. Jack LondonB. Charles DickensC. Samuel Coleridge DEmest Hemingway4. Which of the following poets is different from the others?A. John Donne.B. John Keats.C. Lord Byron.D. Percy Bysshe Shelley.5. Which of the following is not written by William Shakespeare?A. Othello.B. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus.C. Romeo and Juliet.D. The Twelfth Night.6. Beowulf narrates a story taking place in ______.A. the MediterraneanB. Northern EuropeC. EnglandD. Scandinavia7. ______ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.A. AllegoryB. ConflictC. IronyD. Flashback8. William Wordsworth is an English _____.A. poetB. novelistC. playwrightD. critic9. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ______.A. NatureB. WaldenC. ExperienceD. Essays10. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT ______.A. DublinersB. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManC. Jude the ObscureD. Ulysses11. The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT ______.A. The Tenant of Wildfell HallB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Agnes Grey12. In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?A. John Bunyan' s Pilgrim' s Progress.B. Edmund Spencer' s The Faerie Queen.C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.D. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.13. The Victorian Age was largely an age of ______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. pessimismB. naturalismC. modernismD. critical realism14. Mark Twain shaped the world' s view of America and made a combination of______ and serious literature.A. American folk humorB. funny jokesC. English folkloreD. American values15. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?A. Fennimore Cooper.B. Nathaniel Hawthorn.C. Walt Whitman.D. Washington Irving.16. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by ______.A. Christopher MarlowB. John MiltonC. William ShakespeareD. Ben Jonson17. Have a Dream is addressed by ______.A. Abraham LincolnB. John F. KennedyC. Martin Luther KingD. Ralph Waldo Emerson18. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?A. This is my letter to the world.B. heard a fly buzz — when I died.C. This is just to say.D. Because I could not stop/or death.19. Eugene 0' Neil is an American ______.A. novelistB. playwrightC. poetD. essayist20. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ______.A. Jane AustinB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth21. In the works of such aesthetics as ______ and Walter Pater, the theory of "art for art's sake" is advocated.A. Oscar WildeB. Mrs. GaskellC. Alexander PopeD. Charles Lamb22. Works by ______ are characterized by stream-of-consciousness.A. George EliotB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Virginia Woolf23. Who of the followings is a playwright of the "theater of absurd" ?A. John Osbom.B. Wystan Hugh Auden.C. Bernard Shaw.D. Samuel Beckett.24. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the ______ in the literary history of the United States.A. Age of RealismB. Age of ClassicalismC. Age of RomanticismD. Age of Renaissance25. With "Collected Poems" , ______won the second Pulitzer Prize.A. Ezra PondB. e. e. cummingsC. Robert FrostD. William Cullen Bryant26. ______ belongs to the second period in Shakespeare' s three stages of writing career.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. Love' s Labor LostC. HamletD. The Tempest27. Grass is a poem written by ______.A. Walt WhitmanB. Carl SandburgC. Langston HughesD. Alien Ginsberg28. William Makepeace Thackeray' s most famous work is ______.A. The School for ScandalB. Past and PresentC. Major BarbaraD. Vanity Fair29. Dover Beach is written by ______.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. Mathew ArnoldD. Dylan Thomas30. The period of Old English literature refers to ______.A. about 450 — 1066B. 14th century — mid-17th centuryC. 14th century — mid-ISA centuryD. 16th century — mid-18th century31. Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.A. Jack LondonB. Herman MelvilleC. Sinclair LewisD. Ralph Ellison32. 0. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.A. novelsB. poemsC. short storiesD. dramas33. Francis Bacon' s ______ is a great essay on education.A. The Advancement of LearningB. The Importance of Being EarnestC. The New AtlanticD. The Learned Reading upon the Statute of Uses34. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.A. Tender Is the NightB. Anna ChristieC. The Beautiful and DammedD. The Great Gatsby35. The American literature in modem period is divided into two parts by the event ofA. the expatriate movementB. the Great DepressionC. the First World WarD. the Second World War36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser' s Trilogy of DesirefA. The Titan.B. The Financier.C. The "Genius".D. The Stoic.37. The followings are all Dickens' works EXCEPT______.A. Oliver TwistB. Moll FlandersC. Great ExpectationsD. Bleak House38. It is generally regarded that Keats' s most important and mature poems are in the form ofA. odeB. elegyC. epicD. sonnet39. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______ for his "mastery of the artof modem narration".A. William FaulknerB. John SteinbeckC. Saul BellowD. Ernest Hemingway40. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of ______ work.A. romanticB. classicC. neo-classicD. naturalistic41. Who is the father of English poetry?A. Shakespeare.B. Edmund Spencer.C. John Milton.D. Geoffrey Chaucer.42. The Octopus is written by ______.A. Frank NorrisB. Sherwood AndersonC. Willa GatherD. Stephen Crane43. James Baldwin' s most famous short story is ______.A. A Rose/or EmilyB. The Story of an HowC. Sonny's BluesD. A Clean, Well-lighted Place44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Price for his work ______.A. UlyssesB. Hard. TimesC. The Forsyte SagaD. Jude the Obscure45. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?A. She Walks in Beauty.B. The Solitary Reaper.C. When We Two Parted.D. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.46.______wrote several novels with the name of "Rabbit".A. Arthur MillerB. Thomas PynchonC. John UpdikeD. Wallace Stevens47. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______.A. Robert FrostB. LongfellowC. Ezra PondD. Carl Sandburg48. "God help them that help themselves" is found in ______' s work.A. FranklinB. FreneauC. JeffersonD. Paine49. T. S. Eliot' s most famous long poem is ______.A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Pru/rockB. A Boy's WillC. The Waste LandD. The Golden Bough50. ______ is often credited with writing the first true " novel of incident".A. John BanyanB. Henry FieldingC. Samuel RichardsonD. Daniel Defoe51. Daisy Miller is a great work by ______.A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. DreiserD. Stowe52. Hester is a character in ______.• A. Cone with the Wind B. The Fall of the House of UsherC. BabbittD. Scarlet Letter53. Jack London' s ______ is his patently autobiographical novel.A. The Call of the WildB. The Sea WolfC. Martin EdenD. The Iron Heel54. William Golding' s first and most well-known novel is ______.A. Coral IslandB. Lord of the FliesC. Treasure IslandD. The Brass Butterfly55. "To be, or not to be" is quoted from ______.A. King Lear BHamletC. Julius CaesarD. Romeo and Juliet56. The first book of the Old Testament is called ______.A. ExodusB. NumbersC. LeviticusD. Genesis57. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain' s ______.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Life on the MississippiD. The Prince and the Pauper58. 0 Captain} My Captain\ was written in memory of ______.A. Walt WhitmanB. Benjamin FranklinC. Abraham LincolnD. Martin Luther King59. Which of the following works is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?A. Women in Love.B. Sores and Lovers.C. The Rainbow.D. The French Lieutenant' s Woman.60. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.A. 14th/mid-17thB. 14th/mid-18thC. 16th/mid-18thD. 16th/mid-17th61. The Crapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.A. John SteinbeckB. John CheeverC. John UpdikeD. John DOS Passes62. _____ is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.A. Cat on a Hot Tin RoofB. The Class MenagerieC. Light in AugustD. A Streetcar Named Desire63. Robert Bums is a poet from ______.A. EnglandB. New EnglandC. IrelandD. Scotland64. Look Back in Anger is a play written by ______.A. John OsbomeB. Samuel BeckettC. Edward AlbeeD. Eugene O'Neil65. ______ is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. RomanceB. NovelC. SonnetD. Drama66. Seize the Day is regarded the best novel written by ______.A. Flannery 0'ConnerB. Saul BellowC. Ralph EllisonD. Sherwood Anderson67. ______ is NOT among the postwar poets in modem American literature.A. Robert LowellB. Gary SynderC. Alien GinsbergD. e. e. cummings68. William Blake' s The Tiger is collected in ______.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical Sketches69. The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by ______.A. Washington IrvingB. Fennimore CooperC. Edith Wharton D William Dean Howells70. ______ is known as "the poet' s poet".A. ShakespeareB. MarloweC. SpenserD. Donne71. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be ______.A. O'NeilB. PoundC. Robert FrostD. Scott Fitzgerald72. ______was the most important person of the transcendental club.A. HawthornB. WhitmanC. EmersonD. Thoreau73. Shylock is a character in ______.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. The Twelfth NightC. The Winter's TaleD. Macbeth74. The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is ______.A. Joseph AddisonB. Richard SteeleC. Samuel JohnsonD. Laurence Stem75. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPTA. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace76. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves different from its predecessors. It is referred to as ______.A. imagismB. black humorC. new fictionD. the Beat Generation77. Together with Lawrence and Joyce, ______ is considered one of the three giants ot the modem English novel and a master of English prose.A. Henry JamesB. Joseph ConradC. E. M. ForsterD. Aldous Huxley78. This line "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is quoted from ______.A. Don Juan C Kubia KhanC. To AutumnD. Ode to the West Wind79. Stephen Crane is famous for ______.A. An American TragedyB. The AmbassadorsC. Main StreetD. The Red Badge of Courage80. "Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay". What is the figure oi this speech?A. Hyperbole.B. Simile.C. Metaphor.D. Synecdoche.81. ______ has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and Nobel Prize.A. Ernest HemingwayB. John SteinbeckC. Eugene 0' NeilD. William Faulkner82. Golden Notebook is a feminist novel written by ______.A. Amy TanB. Doris LessingC. Flannery 0' ConnorD. Kate Chopin83. Which of the following poems is written by W. H. Auden?A. Sailing to ByzantiumB. To an Athlete Dying YoungC. Musee des Beaux ArtsD. Church Going84. Beloved is the masterpiece of ______.A. Tony MorrisonB. Ralph EllisonC. John DOS PassesD. Willa Gather85.______, the author of The Interpretation of Dreams has great impact on literary creation and criticism.A. Carl JungB. Jean-Paul SartreC. Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheD. Sigmund Freud86. Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel, ______.A. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingB. PamelaC. Moll FlandersD. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy87. Tess is a character created by ______.A. D. H. LawrenceB. James JoyceC. Thomas HardyD. Dylan Thomas88. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer' s day" is quoted from Shakespe-A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD. sonnets89. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B. To put the stress on traditional values.C. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D. To advocate a conscious break with the past.90. In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne compares the lovers ' souls to ______.A. two rosesB. two circlesC. sun and moonD. twin compasses91. Utopia is ______' s work.A. Thomas MoreB. Francis BaconC. John DrydenD. George Herbert92. One of the Prime Ministers of Britain has won the Nobel Prize for literature, and that is ______.A. Margaret ThatcherB. Tony BlairC. Winston ChurchillD. John Major93. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ______.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley94. Whitman' s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT______.A. a strict poetic formB. a simple and conversational languageC. a free and natural rhythmic patternD. an easy flow of feelings95. Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?A. Hemingway.B. Fitzgerald.C. Gertrude Stein.D. William Faulkner.96. My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by ______.A. William ShakespeareB. Robert BrowningC. Ben JonsonD. Robert Herrick97. The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around ______.A. 1820B. 1850C. 1880D. 192098. The title of Alfred Tennyson' s poem "Ulysses" reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT______.A. the Trojan WarB. Homer's OdysseyC. adventures over the seaD. religious quest99. As a literary figure, Heathcliff appears in ______.A. Jane EyreB. Oliver TwistC. Wuthering HeightsD. Middlemarch100. The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The Over-SoulD. The American Scholar101. ______ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A. Richard SheridanB. Oliver GoldsmithC. Oscar WildeD. Bernard Shaw102. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ______.A. Ezra PoundB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Robert FrostD. Emily Dickinson103. The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.A. explorerB. peasantC. workerD. governess104. ______ is the representative work of the Beat Generation.A. The Great CatshyB. On the RoadC. Look Back in AngerD. The Sun Also Rises105. Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by ______.A. Willa GatherB. Doris LessingC. William FaulknerD. Nathaniel Hawthorn106. The most significant idea of the Renaissance is ______.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism107. The title of Thackeray' s "Vanity Fair" is taken from __A. The Holy BibleB. The Faerie QueenC. The Pilgrim' s ProgressD. Paradise Lost108. Mr. Micawber in David Coppeifield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps I best ______ characters created bv Charles Dickens.A. comicB. tragicC. roundD. sophisticated109. Thomas Pynchon can also be categorized as a Black Humor writer, as well as______ writer.A. classicalB. transcendentalC. postmodernist D realistic110. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written by ______.A. Ben JonsonB. Thomas GrayC. William WordsworthD. William Blake111. Who is considered the father of American poetrv?A. Philip Freneau.B. William Cullen Bryant.C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. D Henry David Thoreau.112. In America,there is "a little woman started a great war". Who is she?A. Anne BradstreetB. Harriet Beecher StoweC. Edith WhartonD. Catharine Anne Porter113. Waiting/or Godot is a ______.A. poemB. playC. short storyD. novel114. Which of the following poets has once won the Nobel Prize?A. William Butler Yeats.B. Thomas Hardy.C. Wystan Hugh Auden.D. Dylan Thomas.115. ______ is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.A. The RavenB. Annabel LeeC. The Fall of the House of UsherD. Song to Celia116. Arthur Miller is an American ______.A. novelistB. poetC. playwrightD. essayist117. Mr. Darcy is a character in ______.A. Tess of the D' UrbervillesB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Happy PrinceD. The Mill on the Floss118. Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by ______.A. Jack LondonB. Sinclair LewisC. William FaulknerD. Ernest Hemingway119. ______ is featured by black humor.A. CaricatureB. Catch-22C. The Catcher in the Rye C. Death of a Salesman120. Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize?A. Pearl Buck.B. Virginia Woolf.C. Tony Morrison.D. Katharine Mansfield.。