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国人的想法来看待这里的事物，不然你会觉得一切都是那么的令人厌恶。 “我亲爱的年轻女士”， Mrs.Touchett说，“这世界上有那么多种观点人们根据感觉来采用他们。你可能会说，并不是有很多人这样做。美国人？他们也从来不这样。你这样的想法是那么的惊人的狭隘。我的想法是尊重个人，愿上帝保佑。” 伊莎贝尔认为这是一个比她自己所想的更好的答案，这是一个她可以接受的说法，但她不会承认。 Questions：
1）This passage is taken from a well—known novel．What is the name of the novel? 2）Who is the author of this nove?
3）Make a brief comment on the heroine Isabel Archer． 4）What is Jamesian theme? III． Answer the questions．
1. How to define the Realistic Period in American literary history? What is the historical and socio-cultural background of the Realistic Period in America?
2. What are the literary characteristics of the Realistic Period in American literature? 3. What is Realism?
Exercises Five:
I. Fill in the blanks
1. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name Mark Twain．
2. One of Samuel Langhorne Clemens’best books Life on the Mississippi is built around his experiences as a steamboat pilot．
3. The result of Mark Twain?s European trip was a series of newspaper articles， later published as a book called Innocent abroad ．
4. Mark Twain was the first literary giant born west of the Mississippi． 5. Mark Twain?s first novel， Gilded Age was an artistic failure．but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize．
6. Three years’life on the Mississippi left such a fond memory with Mark Twain that he returned to the theme more than once in his writing career．His book relates it in a vivid，moving way．
7. Huck Finn was Mark Twain?s masterpiece from which，as Hemingway noted，“all modern American literature comes．”
8. The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is Huck Finn ，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． II. Identify the fragments． 1.
I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid，and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in；then I done the same with the side of bacon；then the whisky-jug．I took all the coffee and sugar there was，and all the ammunition；I took the wadding；I took the bucket and gourd；took a dipper and a tin cup，and my old saw and two blankets，and the skillet and the coffee-pot． I took fish．1ines and matches and other things--everything that was worth a cent．I cleaned out the place．1 wanted an ax，but there wasn’t any，only the one out at the woodpile，
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and I knew why 1 was going to leave that．I fetched out the gun，and now 1 was done． Questions:
1）Which novel is this passage taken from? 2）Analyse the language style of this passage． III． Answer the questions． 1. What is Local Colorism?
2. Discuss the character of Huck in Mark Twain?s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. And what s the social significance of the novel? 3. What are Mark Twain?s major works? 4. What does “Gilded Age” refer to?
Exercises Six:
I. Fill in the blanks
1. is the pioneer who wrote in the naturalistic tradition．
2. Stephen Crane?s novel relates the story of a good woman?s downfall and destruction in a slum environment．
3. War in the novel by Stephen Crane is a plain slaughter-house．There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield，and if there is anything，it is the fear of death，cowardice，the natural instinct of man to run from danger． II. Identify the fragments 1.
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen，she does one of two things．Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better，or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse．Of an intermediate balance，under the circumstances，there is no possibility．The city has its cunning wiles，no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter．There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human．The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye．Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman．A blare of sound，a roar of life，a vast array of human hives，appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms．Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations，what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear! Unrecognised for what they are，their beauty，like music，too often relaxes，then weakens then perverts the simpler human perceptions． Questions：
1）From which novel is this paragraph taken? 2）Who is the author of this novel?
3）How do you understand “the cosmopolitan standard of virtue??? 4） Is there any naturalist tendency in this passage? III． Answer the questions． 1. What is Naturalism?
2. What is the distinction between Realism and Naturalism? 3. What is (Social) Darwinism?
4. What is the influence of Darwinism and French naturalist writers on American
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literature in its Realistic Period?
5. Discuss the reflections of realistic and naturalistic tendencies on the American 19th century novels.
6. What is the theme, stylistic features and the major character in Dreiser?s Sister Carrie?
Exercise Seven:
I: Match Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each) Group 1
Column A Column B ( e ) 1. F. Scott Fitzgerald a. After Apple-Picking ( d ) 2. Herman Melville b. Daisy Miller ( b ) 3. Henry James c. Indian Camp ( c ) 4. Ernest Hemingway d. Billy Budd ( a ) 5. Robert Frost e. The Great Gatsby Group 2
Column A Column B ( ) 1. Grierson a. Sister Carrie ( ) 2. George Hurstwood b. A Rose for Emily ( ) 3. Nick c. Goodman Brown ( ) 4. Faith d. Indian Camp ( ) 5. Jim e. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
II: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each) ( ) 1. ____ appeared as a literary trend against rationality.
A. Classicism B. Neo-Classicism C. Humanism D. Romanticism
( ) 2. The famous 20 years in Rip Van Winkle helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving?s ____.
A. satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings B. expression of transient beauty C. concern with the passage of time
D. idea about supernatural manipulation of man?s life
( ) 3. Nature has become so important that most people consider it an unofficial manifesto for the “____ Club.”
A. Natural B. Transcendental C. Soul D. Universal
( ) 4. ___ is unanimously claimed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature.
A. New England Transcendentalism B. Puritanism C. Unitarianism D. Deism
( ) 5. Moby-Dick is a mixture of fantasy and ____ based upon the South Pacific whaling industry.
A. realism B. romanticism C. surrealism D. naturalism
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( ) 6. ___held a “black” vision of life and human beings. A. Washington Irving B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Mark Twain D. James Fennimore Cooper
( ) 7. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possibly read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT____.
A. evil B. adultery C. God D. beauty ( ) 8. According to ____, man?s capacity is infinite. A. James Cooper B. Emily Dickinson C. Walt Whitman D. Ralph Emerson
( ) 9. ____ is regarded as an encyclopedia of everything: philosophy, religion, history, etc.
A. Walden B. Nature C. The Scarlet Letter D. Moby Dick
( ) 10. Whitman?s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT____.
A. a free and natural rhythmic pattern B. a simple and conversational language C. a strict poetic form D. an easy flow of feelings
( ) 11. Another fact that made ____unique is his magic power with language, his use of vernacular. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language.
A. Mark Twain B. Washington Irving C. Henry James D. Theodore Dreiser ( ) 12. The real name of Mark Twain is ____.
A. Samuel Langhorne Clemens B. Langhorne Clemens Samuel C. Langhorne Samuel Clemens D. Samuel Clemens Langhorne
( ) 13. About Naturalism, which of the following statements is NOT correct?
A. They portrayed misery and poverty of the “underdogs,” who were demonstrably victims of society and nature.
B. Naturalists chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society. C. American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism.
D. One of the most familiar themes in American Naturalism is the theme of human “bestiality,” especially an explanation of sexual desire.
( ) 14. Which of the following is a typical feature of Henry James?s writing style? A. exquisite and elaborate language B. minute detailed description C. Lengthy psychological analysis D. all of them
( ) 15. Which of the following statements about Mark Twain is NOT true? A. He is a humorist. B. He is a realist.
C. He is a local colorist. D. He is a psychologist
( ) 16. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson?s poetry?
A. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines. B. Dickinson?s poetry is unique and conventional in its own way. C. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern.
D. Her poems tend to be very impersonal and meditative.
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