美国文学复习材料.docx

1、美国文学复习材料美国文学复习专题材料（整理TT ）（请于下载后24小时内删除，仅供文学爱好者及考试之用）Part V. Twentieth Century Literature (I) Before WWIII. Fill in the blanks.1. _ stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth century andthe contemporary American literature.2. American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously ackn

2、owledged that they were a _ , devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.3. The most significant American poem of the twentieth century was_ .4. The publication of The Waste Land, written by_ , helped to establisha modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.5. In 1

3、920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in_ .6. F. Scott Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel_ .7. The_ of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nations self-confidence.8. An American

4、woman writer named _ who had lived in Paris since1903, welcomed the young expatriates to her literary salon, and gave them a name the Lost Generation.9. _ wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the American Southern States, and its effect on the lives of modern people, both black

5、 and white.10. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the _ movement.11. Ezra Pounds major work of poetry is the long poem called_ .12. One of Edwin Arlington Robinsons early books, _ , once came tothe attention of President Theodore Roosevelt.13. Edwin Arlington Robin

6、son produced a large body of works and was honored with the_ Prize in 1922, 1925 and 1928.14. Robert Frost s first book_ brought him to the attention of influentialcritics, such as Ezra Pound, who praised him as an authentic poet.15. Robert Frosts second volume of poems was_ .16. After Apple-Picking

7、 is a well-known poem written by _ .17. _ , one of Robert Frost s longest poems, is a very witty and wiseanecdotal discussion about the values of life and character.18. At one time, Sandburgs reputation mainly rested on a multi-volume biography of_ including The Prairie Yearsand The War Years.19. Ca

8、rl Sandburg s love of folklore developed in time into a rather modern tend ency to represent it in literature such as in his_ .20. _ was successful in two fields of activity which did not seem compatible with one another; he was a very successful businessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet a

9、t the same time.21. At the age of 44, Wallace Stevens was finally persuaded to publish a book of poems, entitled_ .22. _ is a collection of Wallace Stevens s occasional lectures on poetry.23. For the publication of hisCollected Poems,_received the NationalBook Award and the Pulitzer Prize.24. After

10、his death, Wallace Stevenss previously uncollected works appeared under the title_ .25. In 1915, _ published hisPrufrock and Other Observations.26. In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot published his_ , containing, amongother essays, Tradition and the Individual Talent, the earliest statement of his aesthet

11、ics.27. In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot began to write his masterpiece_ ,one of the major works of modern literature.28. As Thomas Stearns Eliot declared, he followed strictly the advice of his close friend_ in cutting and concentratingThe Waste Land.29. Thomas Stearns Eliot s later poetry took a posi

12、tive turn toward faith in life.This was demonstrated by_ , a poem of mystical conflict betweenfaith and doubt.30. In his work_ , Thomas Stearns Eliot satirized the straw men, theGuy Fawkles men, whose world would end not with a bang, but a whimper. 31. Few men of letters have been more fully honored

13、 in their own day than_ , and even those who strongly disagree with him seemed content with hisselection for the Nobel Prize in 1948.32. Thomas Steams Eliot wrote seven plays, the best of which is_ , averse play on an ancient historical subject, written in 1935.33. Thomas Stearns Eliots last importa

14、nt work was_ , a profound meditation on time and timelessness, written in four parts.34. F. Scott Fitzgerald s first novel_ , with its portrayal of casual dissipations of flaming youth , was an immediate commercial success.35. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his best novel_ . It is the story ofan

15、 idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.36. F. Scott Fitzgerald s second novel_ describes a handsome youngman and his beautiful wife, undoubtedly modelled after himself and Zelda.37. The hero in F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel_ is a psychiatrist who

16、 marries a rich patient. The author condemns the wasted energy of misguided youth.38. F. Scott Fitzgeralds last novel_ remained unfinished.39. With the publication ofThe Sun Also Rises,_became the spokes man for what Gertrude Stein had called a Lost Generation.40. Emest Hemingway s stature as a writ

17、er was confirmed with the publication ofhis novel_ in 1929. The novel portrayed a farewell both to war andto love.41. Set in Spain during the Civil War, the novel_ stated again Hemingway s view of love found and lost, and described the indomitable spirit of the common people.42. In the storyThe Old

18、Man and the Sea,Ernest Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named_ , who shows triumphant even in defeat.43. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded a_ for his mastery ofthe art of modem narration.44. Numerous parallels exist between the events of Ernest Hemingways life and those of his characters, bu

19、t fewer were closer than those of Richard Cantwell, the hero of the work _ .45. In 1952, Ernest Hemingway published a successful novel entitled_ ,which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and occasioned the award of the Nobel Prize in 1954.46. In the same way that F. Scott Fitzgerald sTales of the Jazz A

20、gebecame thesymbol for an age, Ernest Hemingway s novel _ painted the imageof a whole generation, the Lost Generation.47. Ernest Hemingway s_ can be read as a footnote toThe Sun AlsoRisesin that it explains how people, like Jake Barnes, come to behave the way they do.48. The Spanish war was conducti

21、ve to Ernest Hemingway s writing_ ,a play which was universally deplored.49. _ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the1930s.50. In the short novel_ , John Steinbeck portrayed the tragic friendshipbetween two migrant workers.51. In the work_ John Steinbeck described the fate of th

22、e lowly whoseinstinctive responses to life led only to destruction.52. _ is generally regarded as John Steinbeck s masterpiece.53. In 1935, John Steinbeck published_ , a collection of short storieswhich vividly described the life of poor Mexican-Americans with affection and humor.54. John Steinbeck

23、s post-war novel _ reflected his bitter feelingsagainst those greedy, rapacious elements of society which made the war possible.55. Quentin is a character in William Faulkners novel_ .56. Joe Christmas is a character in William Faulkners novel_ .57. The works written by_ may be viewed as a culminati

24、on of the development of twentieth-century southern fiction.58. Katherine Ann Porters novelShip of Foolsconsists of three parts, _, _ and_ .59. In her essay Place in Fiction , Eudora Welty emphasizes the importance of _ for literary creations. She is noted for her fidelity to the AmericanSouth, so h

25、er major theme relate to_ .60. Carson McCullers was said to touch William Faulkner in writing, and her well-known novels are_ and_ .61. One of the important figures in the 1930s who tried to adapt Europeanavantgardism to American writing is62. The New Criticism first emerged in 1920s as a reaction a

26、gainst the prevailing time-honored critical tendency to focus on the theme often in disregard of the form of the work. The name is given by John Crowe Ransom s collection ofcritical essays_ .II. Decide whether Hie statements are true or false.1. In the years preceding World War I , nineteenth-centur

27、y realism and naturalism remained vital forces in American literature.2. The best-selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth centurywere historical romances.3. Early in the twentieth-century, the growth of mass-circulation periodicalscreated a rich marketplace for popular writers.4

28、. Early in the 20th century, a rising number of little magazines brought numerous avant-garde writers to the attention of a limited but sophisticated audience.5. The form and direction of modem American literature had clearly begun toemerge in the first decade of the 20th century.6. For the U. S. ,

29、the First World War began as a crusade for purity and democracy, and at its end, President Wilson proclaimed that Americans had gained everything for which they had fought.7. The First World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment.8. In the decade of the 1910s, American litera

30、ture achieved a new diversity andreached its greatest heights.9. Jazz music of the American Negro is the most influential art form to originate in the U. S.10. The American years between 1920 and 1930 were a time of new direction and new achievements in all the arts.11. Although short-lived, the Imagist movement had a tremendous influence onmodern poet