英美文学史考前辅导.docx

1、英美文学史考前辅导英美文学史考前辅导试卷构成：1 作家作品对应 20，20个题2 判断题 30，15个题，每题2分3 简答题 30，5个题，每题6分4 论述题 20，1个题复习：一、 作家作品英国文学史Early and Medieval Period Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury TalesThe Period of English Renaissance Edmund Spenser The Faerie QueeneFrancis Bacon Essays, “The Advancement of Learning”, “New Instrument”W

2、illiam Shakespeare Four Great Tragedies= Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethFour Great Comedies= A Mid-Summer Nights Dream, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth NightThe Period of English Bourgeois Revolution John Bunyan The Pilgrims ProgressJohn Miltion Paradise LostThe 18th CenturyAlexa

3、nder Pope Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, Essay on ManJonathan Swift Gullivers Travels, “ A Modest Proposal”Daniel Defoe Robinson CrusoeSamuel Richardson Pamela, ClarissaHenry Fielding Tom Jones, Joseph AndrewsThe Romantic PeriodWilliam Wordsworth Lyrical BalladsSamuel Taylor Coleridge “Th

4、e Rime of Ancient Mariner”, “Kubla Khan”Lord Byron Don Juan, Childe Harolds PilgrimagePercy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound, Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam, “Ode to the West Wind”John Keats Endymion, Lamia, Hyperion, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”The 19th CenturyWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Vanity FairChar

5、les Dickens Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two CitiesJane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Sense and SensibilityCharlotte Bronte Jane EyreEmily Bronte Wuthering HeightsGeorge Eliot The Mill on the Floss, Silas MarnerThomas Hardy Tess of the DUrbervilles, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterb

6、ridgeThe Modern PeriodT. S. Eliot The WastelandD. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Rainbow, Lady Chatterleys LoverJames Joyce UlyssesVirginia Woolf To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway美国文学史The Colonial PeriodBenjamin Franklin Poor Richards Almanac, The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinTh

7、e Romantic PeriodWashington Irving Rip Van Winkle, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”Henry David Thoreau WaldenNathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, House with Seven Gabbles Herman Melville Moby DickWalt Whitman Leaves of Grass, Song of MyselfThe Realistic PeriodWilliam Dean Howells The Rise of Silas L

8、aphamHenry James A Portrait of a Lady, Daisy MillerMark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnStephen Crane The Red Badge of CourageFrank Norris McTeagueTheodore Dreiser Sister Carrire, An American TragedyF. Scott Fitzgerald The Great GatsbyErnest Hemingway A Farewell

9、 to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the SeaWilliam Faulkner The Sound and the FuryAmerican DramaEugene ONeill Long Days Journey Into the Night, The Hairy Ape, Emperor JonesArthur Miller Death of a Salesman二、 事实判断1. Writers like Charles Dickens are called critical realists because they

10、 criticize social evils with their literature.2. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are considered to be “stream-of-consciousness” novelists.3. Percy Shelley was a representative romantic poet who paid great attention to the natural flow of feelings in the writing of poetry.4. English Romantic poets can

11、 be put into two groups: one is called passive romanticists, including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey; they are also called lake poets. The other is called active romanticists, including Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and John Keats.5. At the turn of the 19th and 20th cent

12、uries, Naturalist literature was formed in America. Important writers belonging to this school include Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser. 6. John Keats is sometimes regarded as a forerunner of the aesthetic school, because he pays great attention to the creation of beauty, sings praises of beauty a

13、nd pursues beauty. In one of his poems, he says, “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.”7. Geoffrey Chaucer is considered to be the founder of English poetry because he introduced rhymed verses to English poetry.8. Humanism is keynote of the Renaissance literature while reason is the keynote of the Clas

14、sic poetry in England.9. Ralph Emerson was the founder of New England Transcendentalism. 10. Samuel Richardson is a famous epistolary novelist while Sir Walter Scott invented the historical novel.11. Samuel Richardsons Pamela is sometimes regarded as the first psycho-analytical novel in the English

15、literary history.12. Henry James was an important realistic writer. His works are called literature of “psychological realism.”13. The beginning of the English Romantic Period was marked by the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and its end was marked by Scotts death in 1832.14. Ezra Pound was t

16、he leader of Imagist poets. He emphasized the economy of words in writing poetry.15. William Shakespeare used blank verse in the writing of his plays.16. The novel in its modern sense rose in England in the 18th century. It reflects the ordinary life of the ordinary people in reality.17. Classic poets belie