he was not concerned with technical innovations, his interest lay in the tracing of the ______ development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
21). In his long dramatic career, G. B. Shaw wrote more than ______ plays, touching upon a variety of subjects.
22). “Ulysses”, James Joyce?s masterpiece, gives an account of man?s life during one day (16 June, 1904) in Dublin. The whole novel is divided into 18 episodes in correspondence with the _____ hours of the day.
2. Answer the following questions
1). What are the characteristics of George Bernard Shaw?s drama? 2). What are the characteristics of D. H. Lawrence?s literary creation?
3. Explain the following literal terms 1). Modernism
2). Stream- of -consciousness
American Literature chapter one The Romantic Period 本章学习重点:
1. 识记： 超验主义， 象征主义，自由诗，所选作品主要内容 2. 领会：———《Rip Van Winkle》的主题及艺术特点 ———霍桑对浪漫主义小说的贡献 ———Whitman 的语言风格 ———《Moby Dick》的主题思想
3．应用：———Emerson 的超验主义思想（Transcendentalism）以及 他的自然观
-------- 《Young Goodman Brown》中的语言及象征
--------《Moby Dick》的象征意义
--------《Leaves of Grass》的结构、主题及语言特色
4. Some important points.
1). Romantic Period started with the publication of Washington Irving?s __________
and ended with Whitman?s ________. This period is also called “the American Renaissance”.(see page 399) 2). P400 ,P401
3). New England Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau
4). Discuss the characteristics of American Romantic Period (Page 402)
Washington Irving:
1. father of American short story 2. page 405-406
3. The theme of 《Rip Van Winkle》（—P 407）characteristic (P406) 4. Rip Van Winkle Emerson
1. England Transcendentalism is the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American Literature. 2. P421 3. P423
Hawthorne 1. P431
2. P432: Hawthorne?s view of man and human history originates in Puritanism. 3. 《Young Goodman Brown》中的语言及象征
allegorist and symbolist (P434-435) Whitman
1. significance of : (P447)
2. 《Leaves of Grass》的结构、主题及语言特色(Page 450) 3. There Was a Child Went Forth Cavalry (1) Crossing a Ford Song of Myself Melville
1. Moby Dick is regarded as the first American prose epic. (Page 460) 2. Symbolism in Moby Dick (page 460-461) 3. Language in Moby Dick (P461) 练习：
1. Fill in the following blanks.
1). In early nineteenth century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by an American writer to earn an international reputation.
2). The American Transcendentalists formed a club called ______.
3). Ralph Waldo Emerson was responsible for bringing ______ to New England. 4). Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne?s novel ______.
5). Melville?s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.
6). The American Romantic Period stretches from the end of 18th century through the outburst of the _______.
7). In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by ______.
8). Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was ______, a friend of Emerson?s and his junior by some fourteen years.
9). Melville is best known as the author of one book named ______, which is one of the world?s greatest masterpieces.
10). The poetic style Whitman devised is now called ______, that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
11). In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass, ______ give America its first genuine epic poem.
12). Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocate in ______ and Thoreau. 13). The finest example of ______?s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in The Scarlet Letter.
14). Melville?s ______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the options of the whaling industry.
15). The short story Rip Van Winkle is taken from Irving?s work named ________.
2. Answer the following questions.
1). What?s Irving?s main contribution to American literature. 2). Is there symbolisms in the book “Moby Dick”?
Chapter Two The Realistic Period 本章学习重点：
A． 识记： 现实主义，达尔文主义，自然主义，所选作品的主要内容 B． 领会： 马克吐温的语言特色 詹姆斯小说的艺术特色 德莱塞作品中的自然主义倾向
《哈克贝利 非恩》的主题结构，人物刻画
C． 应用： 现实主义与自然主义倾向在美国19世纪小说中的反映 哈克的性格分析及其社会意义 《苔瑟 米勒》的主题及主要人物分析
狄金森诗歌的主题及艺术特色
1． Time: 1865-1914
2． Characteristics of this period (Page 472-473)
3． Similarities and differences among Howells ,Mark Twain and Henry James (Page 474) 4． Local Colorist (P 475) 5． American naturalism
Mark Twain:
1. the true father of American national literature, pen name of Smuel Langhorne Clemens 2. Two masterpieces: Ad
3. ventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (478-480) 4. Why his works are so unique? (P 480-481)
Henry James
1. Three Periods(P 495-496) 2. international theme (P497) 3. psychological approach 4. Daisy Miller
Emily Dickinson: 1. 1,775 poems
2. theme of her poems(P518) 3. This is my letter to the World
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