4. I heard a Fly buzz---when I died 5. I like to see it lap the miles Dreiser:
1. Masterpieces: An American Tragedy Sister Carrie 2. P526 3. Sister Carrie 练习
1． Fill in the following blanks.
1). The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as ______ in the literary history of the United States.
2). Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism..
3). Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name _______.
4). The novel which was described by an American critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is Henry James? ______.
5). ______ is considered the founder of Psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.
6). The first novel of Theodore Dreiser was ______.
7). Dreiser?s novel ______, a commercial and critical failure when first published in 1900, was reissued in 1907 and won high praise for its grim, naturalistic portrayed of American society. 8). ______ was Mark Twain?s masterwork from which, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American literature comes.”
9). The best work that Mark Twain eve produced is ______, which was a success from its first publication in 1884, and has always been regarded as one of the great books of western literature and western civilization.
10). American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. That was ______.
11). The main theme of _______?s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.
12). Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times, ______ was an admirer.
2. Answer the following questions: 1). What is Dreiser?s style?
2). What is the difference between Henry James? realism and Mark Twain?s realism? 3). What is the theme of Dickinson?s poem?
Chapter 3 Modern Period 本章学习重点:
1. 识记: 迷惘的一代、 意象派诗歌、 表现主义、 意识流 2. 领会: ------- 《在地铁站》的主题、意象和语言 -------《未选择的路》的主题、意象和语言 ------- 《毛猿》第八场的主题结构、语言特色 -------《了不起的盖茨比》与“美国梦”
-------《印地安营寨》的人物刻画，语言风格与思想意义 -------福克纳小说的艺术特色 3．应用：------- 意象派诗歌的艺术特色 -------弗罗斯特自然诗
-------《了不起的盖茨比》的主题意义和主要人物的性格分析 -------海明威小说的艺术特色
------- 《纪念爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》的主题结构、人物刻画、语言刻画
4. Some important points. Characteristics in Modern Period:
Page 546
The Lost Generation (P547)
The Poet (Pound, Robert Frost) : Imagist Movement The Novelists: (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, P 548) John Steinbeck, O?Neill New fiction (P551) Pound
1. The spokesman of Imagist Movement 2. Pound?s three principles about poetry.(P b556) 3. In a Station of the Metro
4. The River-Merchant?s Wife: A Letter 5. A Pact
Robert Lee Frost 1. Status: P 560
2. Characteristics of Frost?s poems (P561 and P563) 3. Main works (P562) 4. After Apple-Picking 5. The Road Not Taken
6. Stopping ?by Woods on a Snowy Evening O’Neill
1. Status (P568)
2. Beyond the Horizon (P568-569), the theme
3. O?Neill? character (P570) 4. The Hairy Ape(P572)
Fitzgerald
1. spokesman of Jazz Age 2. P 580
3. The Great Gatsby P581-582
Hemingway 1. Nobel Prize
2. The Sun Also Rises P600 3. A Farewell to Arms P601 4. For Whom the Bell Tolls 5. The Old Man and the Sea
6. Characteristics of Hemingway?s novels (Page 602-603)
William Faulkner
1. Setting for his novels: P612 2. P613
3. four masterpieces P613-614 4. characteristics of his works P616 5. A Rose for Emily 练习：
1. Fill in the following blanks:
1). The publication of the Waste Land, written by _____, helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.
2). Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel ______.
3). Early in the 1920s, the most prominent of the new American playwright, whose name is ______, established an international reputation.
4). The 1950s Americans writers often used the narrative techniques derived from William ______. 5). Pound was the leader of a new movement in Poetry which he called “______” movement. 6). Ezra Pound?s major work of poetry is the long poem called ______. 7). “After Apple-Picking” is a well-known poem written by ______.
8). In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.
9). The hero in Fitzgerald?s novel _______ is a psychiatrist who marries a rich patient. The author condemns the wasted energy of misguided youth.
10). With the publication of the Sun Also Rise, ______ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.
11). In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named ______, who shown triumphant even in defeat.
12). In 1945, Hemingway was awarded a ______ for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”. 13). I the same way that Fitzgerald?s “Tales of the Jazz Age” became the symbol for an age, Hemingway?s novel ______ painted the image of a whole generation, the Lost Generation. 14). “The apparition of those faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by ______.
15). ______ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influence by Confucian ideas.
16). In Faulkner?s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called _______, I which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.
17). Faulkner?s novel ______ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view.
2. Answer the following questions.
1). What is Pound?s contribution to American literature?
2). Give a comment on Ezra Pound?s “In the Station of the Metro”. 3). Give a comment on Robert Frost?s “The Road Not Taken.”
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