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美国文学复习材料
美国文学复习材料

美国文学--大四·下 最后一次考试加油!

07级英教4班 张旭 第美国文学期末复习

--大四·下(大学最后一次考试)

1. 名词解释。(5 分*4=20分)

本学期所学的四个名词,需要分别举例。 ,

Primitivism (原始主义): Primitivism is a preference for the supposedly free and contented existence found in a “primitive” way of life as opposed to the artificialities of urban civilization. It had a particular prominence in the 18th century Europe and 19th century America, contributing to the values of Romanticism. Primitivism can be found in works of William Wordsworth, James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Daivid Thoreau (Walden), etc.

Symbolism (象征):The symbol is a word or phrase that signifies an object or event which in its turn signifies something, or has a range of reference, beyond itself. Symbolism refers to the use of symbols or a set of related symbols. E.g. Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

Allegory(寓言): An allegory is a narrative, whether in prose or verse, in which the agents and action, and sometimes the setting as well, are contrived by the author to make coherent sense on the primary level of signification, and at the same time to signify a second, correlated order of signification. Examples include John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, etc. E.g. Herman Melvile (Mobi Dick)

Free verse (自由体): Free verse, or “open form” verse, is pri nted like traditional verse in short lines instead of with the continuity of prose, but it differs from traditional verse by the fact that its rhythmic pattern is not organized into a regular metrical form. Most free verse also has irregular lengths, and either lacks rhyme or uses it only sporadically. E.g. Walt Whitman (O Captain, My Captain)

2. 判断对错。(2分*5=10分)

关于作家生平和主要作品的常识性内容,课堂讲过。 注:自己看书复习吧!没别的办法,没法总结,哈哈

3.根据选段选择作家和作品名。(2分*10=20分) 课堂讲过的选段,要求对应作家和作品名,选择题。

Henry Longfellow: A Psalm of Life;

Tell me not, in sad words Life is but an empty dream!

But the soul that sleeps is dead, And things are not what they seem.

Life is real and life is serious And death is not its goal:

That we become dust,

Was not spoken of the soul.

No enjoyment, and no sorrow Is our destined 2 end or way

It is to act, so that each tomorrow Finds us farther than today.

Art is long, and time is short,

And our hearts, though firm and brave,

Still, like drums, are beating,

Through their march to the grave.

In the world’s broad f ield of battle

In the time of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be heroes in the fight!

Trust no future, however pleasant!

Let the dead past bury its dead!

Act in the wonderful present!

Always follow your heart.Lives of great men all remind us that We can make our lives splendid3.

By passing away, we leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time.

Footsteps, that, perhaps another, Sailing over life’s sea,

A hopeless and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall find courage again.

Let us then keep doing our best,

With a heart for any fate4;

Still achieving, still pursuing5 Learn to labor and to wait.

The Slave's Dream

Beside the ungathered rice he lay,

?His sickle in his hand;

His breast was bare, his matted hair

?Was buried in the sand.

Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep,

?He saw his Native Land.

Wide through the landscape of his dreams

?The lordly Niger flowed;

Beneath the palm-trees on the plain

?Once more a king he strode;

And heard the tinkling caravans

?Descend the mountain-road.

He saw once more his dark-eyed queen

?Among her children stand;

They clasped his neck, they kissed his cheeks, ?They held him by the hand!a€”

A tear burst from the sleeper's lids

?And fell into the sand.

And then at furious speed he rode

?Along the Niger's bank;

His bridle-reins were golden chains,

?And, with a martial clank,

At each leap he could feel his scabbard of steel ?Smiting his stallion's flank. Before him, like a blood-red flag,

?The bright flamingoes flew;

From morn till night he followed their flight, ?O'er plains where the tamarind grew,

Till he saw the roofs of Caffre huts,

?And the ocean rose to view.

At night he heard the lion roar,

?And the hyena scream,

And the river-horse, as he crushed the reeds ?Beside some hidden stream;

And it passed, like a glorious roll of drums, ?Through the triumph of his dream.

The forests, with their myriad tongues,

?Shouted of liberty;

And the Blast of the Desert cried aloud,

?With a voice so wild and free,

That he started in his sleep and smiled

?At their tempestuous glee.

He did not feel the driver's whip,

?Nor the burning heat of day;

For Death had illumined the Land of Sleep, ?And his lifeless body lay

A worn-out fetter, that the soul

?Had broken and thrown away!

Henry Longfellow: A Psalm of Life;

*The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls(课上没讲)

The Slave's Dream

Henry Thoreau: Walden, Life in the Woods

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Herman Meiville: Mobi Dick

Walt Whitman:①Song of Myself;

②O Captain, My Captain

③I Heart America Singing

*④I Sit and Look out

Emily Dickinson: 1)Because I Could not Stop for Death

2)I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died;

3)Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant

*My Life Closed Twice before Its Close

*As Imperceptibly as Grief

*Mine--by the Right of the White Election

*Wild Night--Wild Nights

*A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

*Apprarently with No Surprise

*I Died for Beauty--but Was Scarce

*I Like to See It Lap the Miles

*The Brain--Is Wider than the Sky

4.分析《自我之歌》第一、第二诗章(15分)

1

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,

I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,

Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,

Hoping to cease not till death.1

Creeds and schools in abeyance,

Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never for-gotten,

I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,

Nature without check with original energy.

2

Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,

I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,

The distillation would intoxicate me also, but i shall not let it.

The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,

It is for my mouth forever, i am in love with it,

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.

I am mad for it to be in contact with me.

The smoke of my own breath,

Echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine,

My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs,

The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barm, The sound of the belch'd words of my voice loos'd to the eddies of the wind,

A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,

The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,

The delight alone or in the rush of the streetsm or along the fields and hill-sides,

The feeling of heath, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun

Have you reckon'd a thousand acress much?have you reckon'd the earth much?

Have you prectis'd so long to learn to read?

Have you felt s proud to get at the meaning of the poems?

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,

You shall possess the good of the earth and sun,(there are millions of suns left)

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the deadm nor feed on the spectres in books,

You shall ot look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,

You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

引导问题:

a.Analyze the theme of democracy in this chapter.

大体方向:①反应中下层人民的生活

②背景是整个美国,全篇歌颂的“自我”既是诗人又大于诗人,是具有美国民族特征和民主理想的巨人形象,也是新大陆的开拓者:铁匠、木匠、屠夫、伙计等等

③他们心胸开阔,乐观向上,在文学史上被称为惠特曼式人物

④爱默生的超验主义对诗人也产生了很大的影响,爱默生的学说核心内容是美国人要从精神

上独立于欧洲大陆,摆脱就旧学说,自助、自助、自爱

b. Analyze the form of free verse in this chapter.

无韵无律,诗行长短不一,不整齐

5.分析《红字》第一章(15分)

引导问题

a.Analyze the symbols in this chapter.

Prison/Grave/Rose bush:crime, evil and sin

Grass:general people who have evil in their hearts

Rust: darkness, old history

Church: redemption (拯救)

b.Analyze the theme of evil and sin in this chapter.

以诸多具有象征意义的事物来反映出环境的压抑性,以此来营造出一种阴森、恐怖黑暗的效果,从而折射出“Evil and sin”的主题。结合具体例子进行分析即可。

6.分析梭罗《瓦尔登湖》选段(20分)

课本中的选段,上课没有讲过,但是主题和上课所讲的段落一致。需要分析主题和写作风格。

几个写作主题:

(1)P199第八段When first I took up my abode in the woods主题:为什么要去Walden:主要是为了close to nature

(2)P204 第十六段I went to the woods because I wiced to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach..... 主题:Life 越simple越好,宗教信仰方面——寻找信仰,要有self-reliance,要有实践精神

(3)P207 第十八段Why should we live with such hurry and waste....主题:讲个人经验,忽略相关性少的东西,叙述含义比较深刻,但是语言相对简单。

写作风格:语言简单,内容深刻,亲近自然

大学最后一次考试,加油,为大学画个圆满的句号吧!加油加油!!!!

07级英教4班张旭整理

2011-5-9

美国文学史复习资料

美国文学史复习(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.

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

美国文学选读复习资料

American Puritanism 殖民地时期 ( roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th) 一、Benjamin Franklin 本杰明?富兰克林 作品: 1、Poor Richard's Almanac 《格言历书》--- A Collection of maxims, or proverbs, on the value of work and savings for success. 2、The Autobiography 《自传》---“美国梦”的根源 3、参与起草《独立宣言》 浪漫主义American Romanticism The Romantic Period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil War. It is a period of the great flowering of American literature. The social and cultural background of Romanticism The young Republic was flourishing into a politically, economically and culturally independent country. The Romantic writings revealed unique characteristics of their own in their works and they grew on the native lands. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values. Romantics frequently shared certain general characteristics:moral enthusiasm,faith in value of in dividualism and intuitive perception,and a presumption that the natural world was a source of good ness and man’s societies as a source of corruption. 二、Edgar Allan Poe埃德加·爱伦·坡 ---poet,short story writer and literary critic(48poems,70short stories) He greatly influenced the devotees of“Art for art’s sake.” He was father of psychoanalytic criticism(心理分析批评),and the detective story.诗歌的精髓就是追求美 小说的主题常常是恐怖和死亡,其中还运用了象征手法。 The Poetic Principle: 1.The poem,should be short,readable at one sitting; 2.Beauty(the rhythmical creation of beauty); 3.Melancholy忧伤(especially the death of a beautiful woman).

美国文学考试资料整理

一.The Literature of Colonial America(Puritanism) 1.The first English colony: Jamestown in Virginia in 1607 2.The first American writer: John Smith 3.Anne Bradstreet: first American woman poet; a Puritan poet; once called “Tenth Muse”; 二.Literature of Reason and Revolution War of Independence (1775-1783);The French and Indian War / the Seven Y ears’War(1756-1763) 1..Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography; Richard’s Almanac Maxims from Poor Richard’s Almanac (proverbs that give practical wisdom) 2..Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Common Sense: a strong push for the Revolution W ar; four parts (British enslavement of the colonies; praising democratic election; America’s economic and military potential to protect the rights of people) 3..Philip Freneau (1752-1832) The first American-born poet;“Poet of the American Revolution”, “Father of American Poetry”, the most significant poet of 18th century America W orks:The Wild Honey Suckle《野忍冬花》on mortality, The Indian Burying Ground 《印第安人殡葬地》on the imagined afterlife, The British Prison Ship《英国囚船》about his imprisoned experience. 三.Romanticism The American Romantic period is considered one of the most important periods, the first literary Renaissance, in the history of American literature. It stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outbreak of the Civil W ar. It started with the publication of W ashington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. 1.Washington Irving (1783-1859) Literary status: the first American to earn an international reputation; Father of the American short stories The Sketch Book: winning him international popularity,the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. Major works: A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty under the name of “Diedrich Knickerbocker

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

美国文学选读期末考试重点

1、The Colonial Period(1607-1765) American Puritanism ( in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th) 北美第一位女诗人Anne Bradstreet(宗教气息,夫妻恩爱) Edward Taylor 都受英国玄学派影响(metaphysical) 2、The Enlightenment and Revolution Period Benjamin Franklin:Poor Richard's Almanac The Autobiography---“美国梦”的根源 3、American Romanticism(end of 18th to the civil war) American writers emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature. 早期浪漫主义Washington Irving father of American Literature 短篇小说 James Fenimore Cooper 历史,冒险,边疆小说《The Leather-stocking Tales>文明发展对大 自然的摧残与破坏 William Cullen Bryant 美国第一个浪漫主义诗人《To a Waterfowl>美国 山水,讴歌大自然,歌颂美国生活现实 Edgar Allan Poe ---(48 poems,70 short stories) He greatly influenced the devotees of “Art for art’s sake.” He was father of psychoanalytic criticism , and the detective story. Ralph Waldo Emerson---The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism American Transcendentalism (also known as “American Renaissance”) It is the high tide of American romanticism Transcendentalists spoke for the cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society. 《Nature》---the Bible of Transcendentalism by Emerson 《Self-Reliance》表达他的超验主义观点Henry David Thoreau------ Walden he regarded nature as a symbol of spirit.Thoreau was very critical of modern civilization. 小说家:Hawthorne-赞成超验He is a master of symbolism The Scarlet Letter《红字》 Melville 怀疑,悲观,sailing experiences Moby Dick百科全书式性质/海洋作品/动物史诗 诗人Longfellow《I Shot an Arrow...》《A Psalm of Life》第一首被完整地介绍到中国的美国诗歌Whitman (Free Verse---without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme ) 《Leaves of Grass》《One's Self I Sing》《O Captain! My Captain!》song Dickinson inner life of the individual ---died for beauty 4、The Age of Realism James upper reaches of American society. <一位女士的肖像》inner world of man Howells, concerned himself chiefly with middle class life. Twain the lower strata of society. humor and local colorism American Naturalism 自然主义(新型现实) Stephen Crane;《Maggie: A Girl of the Streets》《The Red Badge of Courage》pessimistic Theodore Dreiser;Sister Carrie;Jennie Gerhardt;An American Tragedy(Trilogy of Desire) O.Henry (William Sydney Porter):The Gift of the Magi;The Cop and the anthem Jack London:The Call of the Wild;Martin Eden 5、The Modern Period The 1920s-1930s ( the second renaissance of American literature) The Roaring Twenties ,The Jazz Age ,“lost”(Gertrude Stein) and “waste land”(T.S.Eliot) 现代主义小说家 F. Scott Fitzgerald:《The Great Gatsby》被视为美国文学“爵士时代”的象征,以美国梦American Dream 为主线。

美国文学复习资料

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