課程名稱︰美國文學選讀
課程性質︰必修
課程教師︰奚永慧
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰進修部外文系
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是否需發放獎勵金：是
試題 :
Multiple Choice: Please write the number of the question and its answer on your answer sheet. 24%
1. Statement ____ is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect.
B. Hawthorne is a realistic writer
C. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist
D. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism
2. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is particularly evident in ______.
A. Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales
B. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
C. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
D. Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”
3. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except __________.
A. religion
B. love and marriage
C. life and death
D. war and peace
4. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except ________.
A. brevity
B. directness
C. plainest words
D. obscurity
5. Which of the following features cannot characterize Walt Whitman’s poems?
A. lyrical and well-structured
B. free-flowing
C. simply and rather crude
D. conversational and casual
6. In “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”, Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death _______.
A. passionately
B. pessimistically
C. in despair
D. peacefully
Essay Questions: Please answer three of the following questions.
1. Emily Dickinson is now recognized not only as a great poetess on her own right but as a poetess of considerable influence upon American poetry of the present century. What are the characteristics of her poems?
2. In the history of American literature, the Romantic Period is a time during which many famous writers like Emerson, Hawthorne, and Whitman contributed to a literature different from its counterpart in Europe. According to their writings, discuss the features of American literature in this period.
3. Discuss the themes of “Young Goodman Brown.”
4. “To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are!
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.” –Identify the author and the work and then briefly comment on this passage.
要寫self-evaluation
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