2017年英语双学位 《美国文学史及选读》期末考试题型及复习要点
期末考试题型及分值：
1．作家、作品配对题（10*1分 = 10分）
2．作品选读题（填空题、简答题5*5分 = 25分） 3. 文学术语、文学人物解释题（4*5分 = 20分） 4. 论述题（3*15分 = 45分）
? 认真阅读教材的中文版的《序言》
? 熟悉教材中以下复习要点中各位作家的选文
Benjamin Franklin:
? Remember Benjamin Franklin as inventor, statesman and writer. ? Remember him as ‘father of the United States’.
? Writing features The Autobiography: It is the pattern of Puritan simplicity, directness, and
concision. The narrative is lucid, the structure is simple, the imagery is homely. ? 本杰明·富兰克林：
? 本杰明·富兰克林是发明家、政治家和作家。 ? 他是“美国之父”。
? 写作特点 自传：这是清教徒的简单、直接和简洁的方式。叙事清晰，结构简单，
意象朴实。
Edgar Allan Poe
? Remember Poe as father of modern short story and father of detective story. ? Remember his important works.
? Remember his critical works: The Poetic Principle and The Philosophy of Composition. ? Be able to list some of his famous short stories and some of his famous poems such as
The Raven, Annabel Lee, To Helen. ? Tell the story The Cask of Amontillado in your own words. What is the theme of this short story? Be familiar with his poem To Helen. 埃德加爱伦坡
Poe是现代短篇小说之父和侦探小说之父。 他的重要著作。
他的批评作品：诗歌原则和写作哲学。
能够列出一些他著名的短篇小说和一些著名的诗歌，如《乌鸦》、《Annabel Lee》、《海伦》等。
?讲述一桶白葡萄酒用你自己的话。 这个短篇小说的主题是什么？ 对海伦熟悉他的诗。 Ralph Waldo Emerson
? Know something about transcendentalism. Remember Emerson as the leader of this
philosophy: Transcendentalism refers to a kind of attitude that believes in the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the senses. Major concepts
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1) Power of intuition.
2) Spirit first, matter second.
3) Nature as symbolic of spirit or God.
4) Individual as the most important element in society/ self-reliant
5) Religion as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “oversoul”
? 6) Commerce as degrading/ pay less attention to the material world
? The “over-soul” as called by Emerson was an all-pervading unitary spiritual power of
goodness, omnipresent and omnipotent, from which all things came and of which everyone was a part. Generally, the over-soul referred to spirit of God as the most important thing in the universe.
? Emerson’s Nature is called ‘manifesto of transcendentalism’.
? The American Scholar (1837) is regarded as “America’s Second Declaration of
Independence / Declaration of Intellectual (Cultural) Independence” ? Be familiar with the essay ‘Self-reliance’. ? 拉尔夫瓦尔多爱默生
? ?知道一些关于超验主义。记得爱默生作为这一哲学的领袖：超验主义指的是一种态
度，相信人的直觉认识真理的能力的识别，或实现知识超越感官。主要概念 ? ?1）直觉的力量。
? 2）?精神第一，物质二。 ? ?3）自然象征精神或上帝。
? ?4）个体在社会/自立的最重要的元素
? ?5）宗教作为一种情感交流个人灵魂和宇宙的“超灵” ? 6）商务?降级/较少关注物质世界
? ?“结束”艾默生称作是一种无孔不入的整体精神力量的善良的灵魂，无所不在，无
所不能，这一切来的都是一部分。一般来说，过度的灵魂提到上帝的灵魂是宇宙中最重要的东西。
? ?爱默生的自然是被称为“超验主义”宣言。
? ?美国学者（1837）被誉为“美国的第二次申报知识/独立宣言（文化）独立” ? ?熟悉文章“自力更生”。 Henry David Thoreau
? Remember Thoreau’ masterpiece.
? Tell the main contents of Walden in your own words. ? 亨利戴维梭罗 ? 记得梭罗的杰作。 ? 告诉瓦尔登湖的主要内容用自己的话。 Nathaniel Hawthorne
? Introduce The Scarlet Letter in your own words. ? The influence of Puritanism on The Scarlet Letter. ? Analyze the main characters.
? Tell the symbolic meanings of the letter ‘A’. ? List Hawthorne’s major works. ? 纳撒尼尔霍桑 ? 介绍红字用你自己的话。
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? 清教对红字的影响。 ? 分析主要人物。 ? 告诉字母A的象征意义”。 ? 霍桑主要作品列表。 Herman Melville
? Be able to list Melville’s major works.
? Be able to retell the story of Moby Dick in your own words. ? Be able to analyze the character Captain Ahab.
? Be able to tell the symbolic meanings of Moby Dick, the ship Pequod and the coffin: the
White Whale can be read as an allegorical representation of an unknowable God or the mysterious force of nature; the Pequod is a symbol of doom/death; Queequeg's coffin alternately symbolizes life and death. ? The influence of Puritanism on Moby Dick. ? 赫尔曼梅尔维尔 ? 可以列出Melville的主要作品。 ? 能用自己的话复述Moby Dick的故事。 ? 能够分析人物Ahab船长。 ? 能够告诉Moby Dick的象征意义，船」和棺材：白鲸可以解读为一个不可知的上
帝或大自然的神秘力量的一种象征；」是厄运和死亡的象征；Queequeg的灵柩交替象征着生命和死亡。 ? 清教思想对Moby Dick的影响。 Walt Whitman
? Remember Whitman’s most important work.
? What is free verse? A kind of poetry that does not conform to any regular metre: the
length of its lines is irregular, as is its use of rhyme—if any. Instead of regular metrical pattern it uses more flexible cadences or rhythmic groupings, sometimes supported by anaphora and other devices of repetition. Now the most widely practiced verse form in English, it has precedents in translations of the biblical Psalms and in some poems of Blake and Goethe, but established itself only in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with Walt Whitman. Be familiar with the poem O Captain, My Captain and know its main idea. 沃尔特怀特曼
?记住怀特曼最重要的工作。
自由诗是什么？一种不符合任何格律的诗：它的线条长度不规则，如用韵。而不是常规的格律采用更灵活的节奏或韵律的分组，以照应和重复其他设备有时支持。现在是英语中使用最广的诗歌形式，它在圣经圣歌和布莱克和歌德的一些诗歌中有先例，但只有在第十九世纪末和第二十世纪，沃尔特·惠特曼才建立起自己。 ? 熟悉船长的诗，我的船长，知道它的主要思想。 Emily Dickinson
? Be familiar with her three poems in the textbook and their themes.
? Know something about Dickinson’s poetic features: A. Her poems have no titles, hence
the first line of each poem is always quoted as the title of each poem. ? B: particular stress pattern: dash“— ” ? C: Capital letters as a means of emphasis;
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D: Language: brief, direct, and plain;
E: Poem: short, always on original images or symbols F: Conventional meters, iambic tetrameter, off-rhymes.
G: Short poetic lines, condensed by using intense metaphors and by extensive use of ellipsis. ? 狄金森 ? 熟悉她的三在教科书和他们的诗的主题。 ? 知道狄金森的诗性特征的东西：她的诗没有标题，因此每一首诗的第一行总是引
用作为每首诗的题目。 ? B：特殊应力模式：短跑“-” ? C：大写表示强调； ? D：语言：简单、直接、朴素的； ? E：诗：短，总是对原始图像或符号 ? F：常规米，四音步抑扬格，无韵。 ? G：短的诗句，用强烈的隐喻和省略大量使用浓缩。 Mark Twain
? What was Mark Twain’s true name?Samuel Langhorne Clemens What does his pen name mean?
? What book of his is thought to be the best one about which Hemingway said “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain? ? What is his first real novel? What is its sequel? ? Name three of his other works.
? Retell the short story ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. ? What do you know about Mark Twain’s Style?
? Vernacular Language: Mark Twain wrote in his unpretentious, colloquial, and poetic
style. He used vernacular language. The directness of the language is a very influential point in Twain’s style. ? Local Color: Twain depicted social life through descriptions of local places and people he
knew best and believed that “the most valuable capital, or culture, or education usable in the building of novels is personal experience.” ? Cracker-barrel Philosopher: Twain adopted the moral stance of a cracker-barrel
philosopher. This term is often used to mean someone who understands folk wisdom, has a pretty good common sense of view of life, and is pretty realistic about social problems. Twain was that kind of a person.
Stephen Crane
? The definition of American Naturalism.
? Remember Stephen Crane’s important works.
? Be familiar with The Open Boat and know the themes of the short story. F. Scott Fitzgerald
? Remember Fitzgerald as the spokesman of the Jazz Age and his major works. ? Be able to introduce The Great Gatsby and make comments about Gatsby. William Faulkner
? Remember some of Faulkner’s famous works.
? Know something about his writing features: a. complex plot
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? b. stream of consciousness
? c. characterization: he was able to probe into the psychology of characters ? d. violation of chronology
? e. courtroom rhetoric: formal language ? f. multiple points of view, circular form
? Be familiar with ‘Barn Burning’ and know the conflict in it. Ernest Hemingway
? Remember him as the spokesman of the Lost Generation. ? Memorize Hemingway’s major works.
? Know the theme of the short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: The theme of Nada
/nothingness is the keynote of the whole story. Nada means hopelessness, aimlessness and meaninglessness of life. Nearly all the characters live in Nada. Faced with “nothing\ the modern society now and then, man should seek light and order to establish dignity in life. ? Hemingway’s Iceberg principle: His sentences only give one small bit of the meaning.
The rest is implied. One must go very deep beneath the surface to understand the full meaning of his writing. Certainly, there are moments when the reader feels the suggestion of vast meaning beneath Hemingway's few, spare words. ? Hemingway’s Code Hero:
? The “Hemingway Code” of manhood does not involve mere physical strength, sexual
potency, or ability to accumulate (or spend) wealth. ? According to this code, a man is defined by will, pride, and endurance: the endurance to
accept pain, even loss-when the loss cannot be avoided; the pride of knowing that one has done one’s best, with the courage to act truly according to one's own nature; and the will to face defeat or victory without whining on one hand or boasting on the other.
Ezra Pound
? Remember Ezra Pound’s most important work The Cantos.
? Be familiar with In a Station of the Metro and know the images in it.
? Remember the three Imagist poetic principles: direct treatment of the “thing”（no fuss,
frill, or ornament）, exclusion of superfluous words（precision and economy of expression）, the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a metronome（free verse form and music）
Wallace Stephens
Be familiar with his poem ‘Anecdote of the Jar’. Remember the symbolic meaning of the jar. William Carlos Williams
Be familiar with his poem ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’. Images in ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’. Robert Frost
? His four collections of poems that won Pulitzer Prizes. ? Be familiar with the three poems of his in the textbook. ? Symbolic meaning of ‘road’.
? Theme in Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Langston Hughes
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