完整版英国文学史及作品选读习题集7Word文档下载推荐.docx

1、 Comment on John Galsworthy。4. Comment on Virginia Woolfs literary achievements.5。 Compared with Virginia Woolf, D。 H. Lawrence and other writers of transitional age in the 20th century， should E. M. Forster be labeled as a traditional writer or a modernist or a writer of transitional age？ State you

2、r opinion.6. Discuss the possible theme in William Butler Yeats “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and how that theme is presented in the poem。7. Comment on James Joyces creation and literary achievements。 8。 Comment on T。 S. Eliots achievements in poetry。9。 Introduce the plot of Lucky Jim and analyze the

3、 character of Jim。10。 Make a contrast between 1950s poetry and 1960s poetry。11. Through analyzing the symbolic meaning of major characters， Estragon （Gogo）， Vladimir （Didi）， Pozzo, Lucky, Godot， comment on the symbolic values in Waiting for Godot。. Define the following terms.1. Modernism 2。 Epiphany

4、 Interior monologue 4。 Fragmentation5. Non-linear， discontinuous narratives 6。 Allusive language7。 Feminist criticism 8. Reader-response criticism 9. Epigraph 10. Epilogue11. Postmodernism 12. Poststructuralism13. Theatre of the absurd 14. Kitchen sink drama15. Metafiction。 Fill in the blanks.1。 Mod

5、ernism takes their rational philosophy and the theory of as its theoretical base.2. The three trilogies of s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century. “Araby” from Dubliners is a tale of the frustrated quest for in the midst of drabness.4. The major themes of the

6、 modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and , man and society, man and man, and man and himself. William Butler Yeats experienced a slow and painful change in his poetic creation， starting in the tradition and finishing as a mature poet.6. T. S。 Eliots ma

7、jor achievement in playwriting has been the creation of a in the 20th century to express the ideas and actions of modern society with new accents of the speech. In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent” puts great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in cr

8、iticism。 is Galsworthys masterpiece which gives a profound and truetolife picture of the English society from the 80s of the 19th century up to the 20s of the 20th century。9. The trilogy The Forsyte Saga consists of The Man of Property, and To Let. , which bears a strong thematic resemblance to “The

9、 Waste Land”， is generally regarded as the darkest of T。 S. Eliots poems.11。 Structurally and thematically， George Bernard Shaw follows the great tradition of 。12。 Joyce seems to mean that the novel describes the mental activities of two Dubliners in a single day， while ， his second novel, describes

10、 the sub-conscious world in which a man lives through a good part of his life.13。 represents the much more readable novelists of the stream of consciousness school。 She is a fine artist, a woman of sharp sensitivity who， in one of her frequent mental depressions, committed suicide。14。 Virginia Woolf

11、s novel ， published in1925， made her reputation as an important psychological writer。15。 Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological one。16。 All of Joyces novels and short stories have the same setting, , especially ,and the same subject， Dubliners and their l

12、ife.17. was much concerned about the crying contradictions of bourgeois civilization and made protests against imperialism and fascism， but he believed in the possibilities of improving capitalism with a system of “technocracy”. The First Men in the Moon is one of his novels。18。 The statement “A dem

13、anding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D。 H. Lawrences .19。 According to James Joyce， the three required things for the perception of beauty are wholeness， harmony and 。20. In Mrs. Dalloway， Virginia Woolf adopted a writing techniq

14、ue called , in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters.21。 “She frankly wanted him to climb into the middle class， a thing not very difficult, she knew. And she wanted him in the end to marry a lady.” is taken from D. H. Lawrences novel .22. D。 H. Lawrences

15、 poems fall roughly into three categoriessatirical and comic poems， poems about human relationship and emotions， and poems about 。23。 Galsworthy distinguished himself as a playwright. His two important plays include and Strife.24. In his novels of social satire, H. G. Wells makes realistic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the “ man。25. “The Bliss” is one of s famous sho