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精选优质文档-----倾情为你奉上精选优质文档-----倾情为你奉上专心---专注---专业专心---专注---专业精选优质文档-----倾情为你奉上专心---专注---专业美国文学期末复习提纲考试题型作家作品名称匹配名词解释根据作品内容写出作家、作品及作品简短评价诗歌赏析（两首诗歌，选择一首进行作答）作家与作品总结.需要记住作家和作品名字，并能准确书写出来的十六位作家，同时要求记得这些作品的评价，一两句话即可。WashingtonIrving《RipVanWinkle》HenryDavidThoreau《Walden》NathanielHawthorne《TheScarletLetter》WaltWhitman《SongofMyself》EmilyDickinson《I’mNobody!WhoAreYou?》、《SuccessIsCountedSweetest》、《ThisIsMyLettertoTheWorld》、《BecauseICouldNotStopforDeath》(她的诗歌标题一般是诗歌的第一句话)MarkTwain《AdventuresofHuckleberryFinn》O’Henry《TheCopandtheAnthem》RobertFrost《NothingGoldCanStay》、《TheRoadNotTaken》、《StoppingbyWoodsonaSnowyEvening》、《MendingWall》SherwoodAnderson《TheTriumphoftheEgg》KatherineAnnePorter《TheJiltingofGrannyWeatherall》EzraPound《InaStationoftheMetro》、《APact》LangstonHughes《Cross》、《Dream》ErnestHemingway《IndianCamp》ArthurMiller《TheDeathofaSalesman》AllenGinsberg《Howl》.下列作家只需要记得作品和作者能够配对即可，不需要知道具体书写。AnneBoardstreet《ToMyDearandLovingHusband》EdwardTaylor《Huswifery》BenjaminFranklin《TheAutobiography》PatrickHenry《SpeechinVirginiaConvention》ThomasJefferson《DeclarationofIndependence》EdgarAllenPoe《ToHelen》、《AnnabelLee》RalphWaldoEmerson《Nature》HermanMelville《Moby-Dick》AbrahamLincoln《Lincoln’sGettysburgAddress》HenryWadsworthLangfellow《APsalmofLife》HenryJames《ThePortraitofaLady》TheodoreDreiser《SisterCarrie》WillaCather《NeighborRosicky》WilliamCarolsWilliams《TheRedWheelbarrow》、《SpringandAll》E.E.Cummings《YourLittleVoice》F.Scott.Fitzgerald《TheGreatGatsby》WilliamFaulkner《ARoseforEmily》EugeneO’Neil《LongDay’sJourneyintoNight》SaulBellow《SeizetheDay》ElizabethBishop《TheFish》RobertLowell《SkunkHour》TheodoreRoethke《MyPapa’sWaltz》SylviaPlath《Mirror》RobertHayden《ThoseWinterSunday》名词解释AmericanRomanticism:Romanticismisamovementthatmarkedapartialreactioninliterature,philosophy,art,religion,andpoliticsfromtheNeoclassicismoftheprecedingperiod.Transcendentalism:Itisneitherlogicalnorsystematized.Itexaltsfeelingoverreason,individualexpressionovertherestraintsoflawandcustom.Transcendentalistsbelieveinthetranscendenceofthe“Over-soul”,anall-pervadingpowerforgoodnessfromwhichallthingscomeandofwhichallthingsareapart.AmericanRealism:RealismasamovementinAmericanliteraturerangedfrom1865to1914,andwasapartialreactiontomuchoftheearlierromanticandsentimentaltradition.AmericanRealismwasgroundedinthefaithfulreportingofallfacetsofeverydayAmericanlife,freefromsubjectiveprejudice,idealism,orromanticcolor.

4.InternationalTheme:ThisthemeisinnovelsofHenryJames,andthesenovelsarealwayssetagainstalargerinternationalbackground,usuallybetweenEuropeandAmerica,andcenteredontheconfrontationofthetwodifferentcultures.ThetypicalpatternoftheconflictbetweenthetwocultureswouldbethatofayoungAmericanmanorwomanwhogoestoEuropeandaffrontshisorherdestiny.AmericanNaturalism:ThetwomostimportantimpactswereDarwin’sevolutionarytheoryandtheFrenchnovelistEmilyZola’sideaaboutfictionwriting.Theirideaslike“thesurvivalofthefittest”and“thehumanbeast”becamecatchwordsandstandardsofmoralreferenceinanamoralworld.AmericanModernism:ItwasinspiredbytheEuropeanavant-gardeart,andwasatrendofthoughtthataffirmedthepowerofhumanbeingstocreate,improve,andreshapetheirenvironment,withtheaidofscientificknowledge,technologyandpracticalexperimentation,andwasthusinitsessencebothprogressiveandoptimistic.ModernistliteratureinAmericadealtwithsuchtopicsasracialrelationships,genderrolesandsexuality,tonamejustfew.ItreacheditspeakinAmericafromthe1920suptothe1940s.LocalColor:ThisparticularconcernaboutthelocalcharacterofaregioncameaboutasRegionalism,auniquevariationofAmericanliteraryrealism.Writersofthisgroupcapturedthelocalcolorofaregionthroughtheaccuratedescriptionofthecharacters’activitiesandrealisticuseofdialect.8.Puritanism:Puritanspurifiedtheirreligionsbeliefsandpractices,andbelievedthatGoddecideseverythingandtheyareGod’schosenpeople.Hardwork,thrift,pietyandsobrietywerethePuritanspiritthatdominatedmuchoftheearliestAmericanwriting.(或者是文学书p267的标准答案)9.TheLostGeneration:TheLostGenerationwasappliedtothedisillusionedintellectualsandaesthetesoftheyearsfollowingWorldWar1,whorebelledagainstformeridealsandvalues,butcouldreplacethemonlybydespairoracynicalhedonism.TheremarkofGertrudeStein,“youareallalostgeneration”,addressedtoHemingway,wasusedasaprefacetothelatter’snovel,TheSunAlsoRise,whichbrilliantlydescribesanexpatriategrouptypicalofthe“lostgeneration.”诗歌鉴赏本题所选择的诗歌范围为以下几首WaltWhitman《SongofMyself》EmilyDickinson《I’mNobody!WhoAreYou?》《SuccessIsCountedSweetest》《ThisIsMyLettertoTheWorld》《BecauseICouldNotStopforDeath》RobertFrost《NothingGoldCanS