課程名稱︰歐洲文學1350-1800
課程性質︰外文系必修
課程教師︰張惠娟
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰2007.11.9
考試時限（分鐘）：110分鐘
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試題 :
I. Explication (80%)
A. "...if the sweet desire is still alive that imflamed you beside/ the
Thessalian waves, and if you have not forgotten, with the/ turning of the
years, those beloved blond locks;/ against the slow frost and the harsh and
cruel time that lasts as/ long as your face is hidden, now defend the
honored and holy/ leaves where you first and then I were limed."
1.Petrarch links his love of Laura to the love of ______for ________.
2.This passage shows that Petrarch can't stick to the transcendent model of
________; what he follows is rather Ovid of the Metamorphoses.
3.Give one example of typical Petrarchan language which appeals to the
senses:_____.
B. "It was the morning of that blessed day/ Whereon the Sun in pity veiled his
glare/ For the Lord's agony, that, unaware, / I fell a captive, Lady, to
the sway/ Of your swift eyes..."
4.Give one example of the blending of Christian and pagan elements:_____.
5.Your "swift" eyes means:_________.
C. "But by doing this he is left with something that cannot even be called
human; he fabricates some new sort of divinity that has never
existed and never will. Frankly, he sets up a marble statue of a man,
utterly unfeeling and quite impervious to all human emotion. They can enjoy
their wiseman all they like and have him all to themselves, or (if they
prefer) they can live with him in Plato's republic, or in the realm
of Platonic ideas, or in "the gardens of Tantalus."
6.Who is being criticized here?_______.
7.The "new sort of divinity" may be among Folly's attendants and
hanmaidens.________(True/False)
8.Plato's republic denounces human passion.________(True/False)
D. "...they had more reverence than to pry into the secrets of Nature
with irreligious curiosity--to measure the stars, their motions and effects,
to seek the causes of mysterious phenomena--for they considered it unlawful
for mortals to seek knowledge beyond the limits of their lot."
9.Who are "they"?________
10.Whould Rabelais endorse this perspective?______(yes/no)
E. "So they brought in another old cougher, Maitre Blowhard Birdbrain, with
whom he read Bishop Huguito of Ferrara, Eberhard de Bethune's
Greekishnessisms, Alexander de Villedieu's barbarous Latin grammer,
Remigius's Petty Doctrines and also his What's what, a charming discourse
set in question-and-answer form, the Supplement to All Supplements, a fat
glossary of saints' lives and the like, Sulpicius' long, long poem on the
psalms and death, Seneca's De quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus, The Four
Cardinal Virtues (which wasn't by Senaca at all), Passavantu's Mirror of
True Penitence, and the same author's Sleep in Peace, a collection of
sermons chosen to make happy days still happier--and he also read other
tough birds of the same feather."
11.Two techniques of Menippean satire are being employed here:____and____.
12.What topic is being satirized here?_______.
F. "In the middle of the inner court was a magnificent fountain of beautiful
alabaster. Above it stood the three Graces, holding the symbolic horns of
abundance: water gushed from their breasts, mouths, ears, eyes, and every
other body opening."
13.What is the name of the paradise?_______.
14.The three Graces represent Rabelais's celebration of the classical body.
______(True/False)
G. "Williams (Raymond Williams, The Country and the People, 1973)" sees 'To
Penshurst' as excluding that in Nature which is manifest in labour and the
peasant, in the interests of showing solidarity with the gentry."
15.Williams here points out the _______ tendency in Renaissance literature
; that is, there is a clear link between the values associated with 'the
Renaissance' and the concept of gentility.
H. Pick up three most appropriate terms from the following list and fill in
the blanks:
hyperbole parody oxymoron paradox travesty
16.The statement "Less is more" is a(n) ________.
17."Loud silence,""lonely crowd," or "living death" are all examples of___.
18.The sentence "My sighs are tempests and my tears are floods" examplifies
the use of _______.
II. Essay Question (20%)--Please write a well-organized essay to comment on
the following observation of Renaissance literature. Make sure you cite
specific examples from the texts we have studied so far:
"While on one, and perhaps the better-known, side of the picture human
intellect in Renaissance literature enthusiastically expatiates over the
realms of knowledge and unveils the mysteries of the universe, on the
other it is beset by puzzling doubts and a profound mistrust of its own
power."
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