美國文學考試資料(英文版)(doc 10頁)

美國文學考試資料內容提要：
1. Hawthorne’s masterpiece, one of the greatest novels of the world is The Scarlet Letter.
2. Emerson’s first startling book is Nature.
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the chief spokesman of this spiritual movement of Transcendentalism.
4. Washington Irving is worth the honor of being “for his literary craftsmanship for his literary craftsmanship.
5. The colonial influence over American Romanticism made American Romantic writers more moralize than their English counter-parts.
6. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American Naturalism.
7. In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud, whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.
8. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial New England speech into a poetic expression.
The theme of returning to nature could be read in Leather-Stocking Tales by Cooper.
10. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is not true? D
A. It's very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.
B. It's a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism. C. It's mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in general.
D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.
11. Ezra Pound showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Bai into English.
12. Eliot’s first major poem (1917 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock , has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English.
13. The Fitzgerald lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as The Roaring Twenties,The Jazz age andThe Dollar Decade.
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