課程名稱︰美國文學1865以後
課程性質︰外文系必修
課程教師︰李欣穎
開課系所︰外文系
考試時間︰2006/06/20
試題：
I. Identification and Explication: 60%
Please identifying the author (full name) and the source (full title) of the
following passages and briefly answering the questions:
1. [Said Daisy,] "But did you ever hear anything so cool as Mrs. Walker's
wanting me to get into her carriage and drop Mr. Giovanelle; and under
the pretext that it was proper? People have different ideas! I would
have been most unkind; he had been talking about that walk for ten days."
"He should not have talked about it at all," said Winterbourne; "he would
never have proposed to a young lady of this country to walk about the
streets with him."
...[Cried Daisy,] "I, thank goodness, am not a young lady of this country.
The young ladies of this country have a dreadful pokey time of it, so far
as I can learn; I don't see why I should change my habits for them."
Author:_________; Title:__________
* How do the speakers' ideas of propriety abd their attitudes toward
cultural difference differ in this passage?
2. He remembered one winter..., the winter before the missionary came with
his talk-books and his box of medicines. Many a times had Koskoosh smacked
his lips over the recollection of that box. ... The "painkiller" had been
especially good. But the missionary was a bother after all, for he brought
no meat to camp, and he ate heartily, and the hunters grumbled. But he
chilled his lungs on the divide over his bones.
Author:_________; Title:__________
* What is the author's attitude toward religion here?
3. A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully
surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as
important and nervous to do something effective in the way of swamping
boats. ... As each slaty wall of water approached, it shut all else from
the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that
this paricular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort
of the grim water. There was a terrible grace in the waves, and they came
in silence, save for the snarling of the crests.
Author:_________; Title:__________
* How does the author characterize the sea in this passage? What ideas
of the sea does it indicate?
4. "The marvellous thing is that it's painless," he said. "That's how you
know when it starts."
"Is it really?"
"Absolutely. I'm awfully sorry about the odor though. That must bother
you."
"Don't! Please don't."
"Look at them," he said. "Now is it sight or is it scent that brings them
like that?"
Author:_________; Title:__________
* What are the characters talking about? As an opening passage of a modern
fiction, how is this beginning different from earlier fiction, and what
are the effects of such new techniques?
II. Essay Question: 40%
Answer One of the following questions:
1. Discuss how either of the following works can be read as “a story of
initiation”: 1) “Daisy Miller”; or 2) “The Open Boat.”
2. Discuss in what ways the authors are able, as the Norton anthology claims,
to “allow for … the value of human beings …under the most adverse
circumstances” (p. 1229) in either of the following stories:
1) “The Law of Life”; or 2) “The Open Boat”
3. The Norton anthology sees the role of women becoming a threat to masculinity
after 1920 (see p. 1810 and also Hemingway’s biography), but critics such
as D. H. Lawrence and Leslie Fiedler believe the discord between the sexes
to be a prevalent theme in American literature. Discuss the gender clashes
in “Daisy Miller” or “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and explain where you
think the author stands.
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