《英国文学史及选读》(8)

《英国文学史及选读》

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( )4.John Galsworthy is a conventional writer, inheriting the fine traditions of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism such as Dickens.
( )5.James Joyce is a prolific writer, creating a great number of famous works.
IV. Name the author of each of the following literary works.
1.Modernism
2.Angry Young Men
V. Define the literary terms listed below.
1. Pygmalion
2. “Sailing to Byzantium”
3. Woman in Love
4. Ulysses
5. The Man of Property
VI. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.
1. I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
2. Now she began to combat in his restless fretting. He still kept up his connexion with Miriam, could neither break free nor go the whole length of engagement. And this indecision seemed to bleed him of his energy. Moreover. His mother suspected him of an unrecognized leaning towards Clara, and, since the latter was a married woman, she wished he would fall in love with one of the girls in a better station of life. But he was stupid, and would refuse to love or even to admire a girl much, just because she was his social superior.
Keys:
I. 1.C 2.D 3.B 4.C 5.A 6.B 7.D 8.A 9.C 10.D
II. 1. Symbolism 2. rationalism 3. psycho-analysis
4. problem plays 5. D. H. Lawrence 6. The Forsyte Saga
7. T. S. Eliot 8. The Waste Land 9. Dublin
10. Dubliners
III. 1.F 2.F 3.F 4.T 5.F
IV. 1.Modernism is a movement in the 20th century. It takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base and in many aspects is a reaction against realism.
2. Angry Young Men is a phrase applied to a number of British playwrights and novelists from the mid-1950s, who described various forms of social alienation and whose political views were radical and anarchic.
V. 1. Bernard Shaw 2. W. B. Yeats 3. D. H. Lawrence
4. James Joyce 5. John Galsworthy
VI. 1. It is taken from Yeats’s “The lake Isle of Innisfree.” In this poem, Yeats expresses his longing to escape from the city life and to live a secluded life by describing the peaceful, tranquil scene of the lake Isle of Innisfree, a legendary place for hermitage.
2. It is taken from D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers. Paul has love affairs with two girls, Miriam and Clara. But he is so dependent on his mother’s love and help that he fails to achieve a fulfilling relationship with either girl.











English Lite
rature ( Book II)

Romanticis

1.Romanticism（名词解释）要对浪漫主义兴起的时间，根源，主要特点，主要代表作家都有所了解。
2.William Wordsworth要知道他的 “Lyrical Ballads”前言是英国浪漫主义时期

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