課程名稱︰ 二十世紀英國文學
課程性質︰ 必
課程教師︰ Prof. Duncan Chesney
開課學院： 文
開課系所︰ 外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰ 11/9 2012
考試時限（分鐘）：
是否需發放獎勵金：yes
試題 :
I. Short Answer Questions
a) Background-
1. What is the U.K. (what do the initials stand for; what does it comprise?)
2. When did Queen Victoria die (year)?
b) Some foreign terms-
3. What does 'dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' mean and in what context
have we come across it this semester?
4. What does 'carpe diem' mean and what tradition does it refer to?
5. What does 'bildungsroman' mean and what tradition does it refer to?
6. What does 'avant-garde' mean and what tradition does it refer to?
c) Other short answer questions-
7. What does the word "hap" signify (in the dictionary), and what does it mean
for Hardy more generally?
8. According to Housman, what is the loveliest of trees?
9. What is metonymy?
10. Why does Eveline not go to Argentina?
11. What is assonance?
12. Who or what are Jesuits?
13. What is a 'manifesto'?
14. Who or what is the Count of Monte Cristo (or, why would I ask)?
15. Who or what is Emma Clery?
16. What was/were adolescent Stephen's mortal sins in 'Portrait'?
17. Who was Mina Loy?
II. Medium Answer
18. Who was Ezra Pound? Discuss briefly why we are reading him in Britlit
class and what his contribution to British lit was.
19. Discuss the Daedalus image as it structures the symbolism of Joyce's
'Portrait.' What is the background myth? How does Joyce manifulate it in
his quasi-autobiography?
20. What is Naturalism?
21. What does Epiphany mean within Joyce's aesthetics. Please define and try
to give an example.
22. Discuss the style of 'Portrait.' What is unusual and so influential about
Joyce's narrative and symbolic strategies in the novel?
23. "Smart lad, to slip betimes away. From fields where glory does not stay. And
early though the laurel grows. It withers quicker than the rose. "
Comment briefly on the tone of Housman's 'To An Athlete Dying Young ' and
then compare it with the poem 'Disabled' [1918] by Wilfrid Owen. Try to
assess the radical differences in the poem as well as the underlying
continuities.
24. What is dead in "The Dead"? Explain the title by attempting to give a
general interpretation of the story. If stories are supposed to have a
point or a moral, what is the point or moral of "The Dead"?
What does it confirm or undermine for Gabriel Conroy?
25. Compare the poem "Drummer Hodge" by Hardy with Rupert Brooke's "Soldier"
and with Owen's "Anthem for doomed Youth." What different attitudes are
reflected in these poems about the link between man-earth-sky (cosmos)?
What differences do you see (where, why?) and what continuities?
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