专八人文-英美文学

人文知识部分人文知识部分 题目构成 10 道英语专业知识单选题 分值均分到三块 1 英语国家概况 主要包括政治 历史 地理等内容 2 英美文学常识 主要考察对代表作家及其代表作的掌握 文学阶段特征 时期划分等 3 语言学基础 要求掌握 Chomsky 等语言学家及其主要理论 语言学常用概念 如 semantics syntax 等 例题 1 The capital of Australia is A Sydney BMelbourne C Canberra D Perth 例题 2 John Galsworthy was most famous for A Heart of Darkness B Ulysses C The Forsyte Saga D A Passage to India 例题 3 The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in communication is A morphology B general linguistics C phonology D semantics 分块知识梳理分块知识梳理 英国文学 美国文学 语言学要点 英语国家概况 1 英国文学英国文学 I Medieval Literature 5th century 1485 1 Beowulf 贝奥武甫 national epic in old English oldest surviving epic in the English language 2 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 高文爵士和绿衣骑士 stories about King Arthur and his knights of the round table 3 Geoffrey Chaucer father of English poetry the first one to use middle English The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集 London dialect iambic parameter the heroic couplet II The Age of Renaissance Late 15th century Early 17th century Renaissance an intellectual movement It sprang first in Italy in the 14th century and gradually spread all over Europe Two features 1 a thirsting curiosity for the classical literature 2 the keen interest in the activities of humanity 1 Thomas More Utopia 2 Francis Bacon Essays The New Atlantis 3 William Shakespeare sonnets long poems and plays Hometown Straford Four great tragedies Four great comedies love tragedy A pound of flesh to be or not to be III 17th century 1 John Milton Paradise Lost great epic Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes 2 John Donne The Flea metaphysical poems 3 John Bunyan Pilgrim s Progress It is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language IV The Age of Enlightenment Late 17th century Middle 18th century 1 Jonathan Swift a great satirist Gulliver s Travels A Modest Proposal 2 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe rise of the novel Moll Flanders 4 Henry Fielding Tom Jones 5 Samuel Richardson Pamela 6 Lawrence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy 7 Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village The Citizen of the World Chinese Letters 8 Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The Graveyard School 9 Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language Lives of the Poets V The Age of Romanticism 1798 1832 1 Robert Burns National poet of Scotland 2 William Blake Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience 3 William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads It marked the beginning of Romanticism in English poetry 4 George Gordon Byron Don Juan 5 Percy Shelley Ode to the West Wind If Winter comes can Spring be far behind 6 John Keats Ode to a Nightingale 7 Lake Poets Samuel Coleridge Robert Southey William Wordsworth VI The Age of Realism In the Victorian Age 1836 1901 romanticism gradually gave way to realism 1 Robert Browning My Last Duchess dramatic monologue 2 Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy Dover Beach 3 Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield Oliver Twist Hard Times Great Expectations 4 Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights 5 Thomas Hardy Tess of D Urbervilles 6 William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair 7 George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion Mrs Warren s Profession He is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare 8 John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga 9 Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte 10 George Eliot The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Middlemarch 11 Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 12 E M Forster A Passage to India Howards End 13 Oscar Wilde Art for art s sake The Picture of Dorian Gray VII The Age of Modernism 1918 1945 1 D H Lawrence Sons and Lovers 2 Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse 3 James Joyce Irish Dubliners Ulysses Stream of Consciousness 4 T S Eliot The Waste Land VIII Contemporary Literature 1945 1 George Orwell Animal Farm William Golding Lord of the Flies 2 John Fowles The French Lieutenant s Woman 3 Doris Lessing The Grass is Singing 4 Modern poets Dylan Thomas Philip Larkin Seamus Heaney Irish 5 A S Byatt Possession 6 Kazuo Ishguro The Remains of the Day 7 Doris Lessing The Grass is Singing The Golden Notebook 7 Angry Young Man Kingsley AMis John Wain 8 Magaret Drabble ed The Oxford Companion to English Literature 9 Others Samuel Beckett Julian Barnes 2 美国文学美国文学 I The Colonial Period c 1607 1765 1 Captain John Smith usually was regarded as the first American writer II The Age of Enlightenment and Independent War 1765 Late 1800s 1 Benjamin Franklin Founding Father of the United States The Autobiography God help those who help themselves American dream 2 Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence III The Age of Romanticism 1800 1865 1 James Fenimore Cooper Leatherstocking Tales 2 Washington Irving the first man of letters from the US to win an international reputation Rip Van Winkle 3 Transcendentalism as a philosophical and literary movement flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War Representatives Emerson and Thoreau 4 The American Scholar written by Emerson was regarded as Declaration of Intellectual Independence Nature the Bible for transcendentalism 5 19th century Poets Henry Longfellow A Psalm of Life Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass O Captain My Captain for Abraham Lincoln Emily Dickinson 6 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter 7 Herman Melville Moby Dick 8 Edgar Allan Poe The Raven To Helen The Fall of the House of Usher 9 Abolitionist Movement Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom s Cabin IV The Age of Realism 1865 1918 1 Representatives William Howells Henry James Mark Twain Howells Criticism and Fiction Henry James The American The Portrait of a Lady The Ambassadors Mark Twain Samuel Clemens Local Color famous novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2 Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage 3 Jack London The Call of the Wild Martin Eden autobiographical 4 Kate Chopin female writer The Awakening The Story of An Hour 5 Theodore Dreiser naturalism famous novels Sister Carrie An American Tragedy V The Age of Modernism 1918 1945 1 Famous American poets in the 20th century Ezra Pound leader of the Imagist movement The Cantos Robert Frost American national poet famous poems Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening The Road Not Taken Mending Wall T S Eliot The Waste Land a landmark and a model of the 20th century poetry 2 Eugene O Neil the leading playwright of the modern period Desire under the Elm The Iceman Cometh 3 Female writer Willa Cather Oh Pioneers My Antonia 4 The Lost Generation influence of WWI Gertrude Stein Ernest Hemingway 1954 Nobel Prize winner spokesman of the Lost Generation The Old Man and the Sea A Farewell to Arms F Scott Fitzger