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美国文学史期末考试复习题(使用书本为童明的《美国文学史修订版》)

一、名词解释（交代背景、内容/特点、代表人物/作品）

1.AmericanRealism:InAmericanliterature,theCivilWarbroughttheRomantic

thelieofromanticismandsentimentalism.Realismturnedfromanemphasisonthe

thananidealisticviewofhumannatureandhumanexperience.(therepresentative

writersanditsfeaturesshouldbealsoadded.)

2.BlackHumor:

1）Inthe1960s,inliterature,drama,andfilm,blackhumorreferstogrotesqueor

modernworld.

2）Blackhumoroftenuseslowcomedyfarceandlowcomedytomakeclearthat

individualsarehelplessvictimsoffateandcharacter.

3）JosephHeller’sCatch-22isanexampleofthisschool

3.HenryJames’sinternationaltheme:书p159

4.BeatGeneration：

1)Americanpoets,1950s-1960s,arebellion,counterculture,romantic,drugsand

uninhibitedsex.

2)Bestandmostinfluentialpoem:“Howl”:denouncesthelife-denyingeffectsof

Americanculture.

5.AmericanPuritanism：itcomesfromtheAmericanpuritans,whowerethefirst

immigrantsmovedtoAmericancontinentinthe17thcentury.Originalsin,

predestinationandsalvationwerethebasicideasofAmericanPuritanism.And,

hard-working,piousness，thriftandsobrietywerepraised.书p17

6.Transcendentalism:isaphilosophicandliterarymovementthatflourishedinNew

England,particularatConcord,asareactionagainstRationalismandCalvinism.

advocatedindependenceofthemind.TherepresentativewritersareEmersonand

Thoreau.

7.ThemesofHenryJames’swriting:书p158

8.TheLostGeneration:itreferstoagroupofyoungintellectualswhocameback

fromwar，wereinjuredbothphysicallyandmentally.Theylivedbyindulging

themselvesintheBohemianwayoflife.TheirAmericandreamwasdisillusioned.The

bestrepresentativeofthelostgenerationwasErnestHemingway.

二、回答问题

1.WhatarethecharacteristicsofAmericanromanticism？

（书本p68.3点+P69.5点）

2.

书p166

Whatisthedeterministviewofexistencethatinformsnaturalism?Whatarethe

implicationsofthis