課程名稱︰歐洲文學1350-1800
課程性質︰必選
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）︰2008.1.18
考試時限（分鐘）：100分鐘
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試題 :
I.Explication(72%)
A. "I had with me for a long time a man who had lived for ten or twelve years
in that other world which has been discovered in our century, in that
place where Villegaignon landed, and which he called Antarctic France."
"I think there is nothing barbarous and savagein that nation, from what
I have been told, except that each man calls barbarism whatever is not his
own practice. For indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason
than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we
live in. There is always the perfect religion, the perfect government,
the perfect and accomplished manners in all things."
1. Antarctic France is in ________.
2. "There is always......the perfect government" adopts the literary
technique of _________(A.irony B.humor)
3. Montaigne means to comment on so-called "v______ of the other," a common
practice during the era of the European colonization of the New World.
B. "Three of these men, ignorant of the price they will pay some day, in
loss of repose and happiness, for gaining knowledge of the corruptions of
this side of the ocean; ignorant also of the fact that of this intercourse
will come their ruin (which I suppose is already well advanced: poor
wretches, to let themselves be tricked by the desire for new things, and
to have left the serenity of their own sky to come and see ours!)--three of
these men were at Rouen, at the time the late King Charles IX was there."
4. Who are "these men"? __________.
5. Where in this passage can we see evidence of Montaigne as different
from affirmative Renaissance?____________________________________.
C. "O flower of chivalry," he was saying, "the course of whose well-spent
years has been brought to an end by a single blow of a club! O honor of you
line, honor and glory of all La Mancha and of all the world, which, with
you absent from it, will be full of evil-doers who will not fear being
punished for their deeds! O master more generous than all the Alexanders,
who after only eight months of service presented me with the best island
that the sea washes and surrounds!..."
6. Who is the speaker of this passage?_______.
7. What may be the significance of this passage?_________________________.
D. "I have delineated my character as sharply as I could; I have left no
room for doubt; I have removed all that might confuse good with evil, and
have used for this painting only the specific colors and essential lines..."
8. Who is the speaker of this passage?________.
9. What kind of character does the speaker attempts to portray?
________(A.round B.flat)
E. "Ah, Brother, man's a strangely fashioned creature / Who seldom
is content to follow Nature, / But recklessly pursues his inclination
/ Beyond the narrow bounds of moderation, / And oftne, by transgressing
Reason's law, / Perverts a lofty aim or noble cause."
10. Who is this "Brother"?__________.
11. What does "to follow nature" mean? _______________________________.
F. "No, dear Theramenes, I've too long delayed / In pleasant Troezen; my
decision's made."
12. What is the meter (韻律) employed here?_____________________
G. "But no: I'd first have thought of that design, /Inspired by love;
the plan would have been mine."
13. What is "that design"_________________
H. "Forgive me, a cruel God destroys your line; / Behold her hand in
these mad deeds of mine."
14. "Her hand" refers to the hand of ____________.
15. What aspect of Jansenism can be detected here?_____________.
I. "Above, how high, progressive life may go! / Around, how wide! How deep
extend below! / ...which from God began, / Natures ethereal, human, angel,
man, / Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, /No glass can reach;
from Infinite to thee, / From thee to Nothing."
16. This passage elucidates the concept of ________, which advocates the
existence of an entirely rational and orderly universe.
17. <Candide>, however, challenges this concept through a very ludicrous
episode. What is that episode?
J. "The Terms Classic and Romantic"
18. A thing is romantic when , as Aristotle would say, it is probable
rather than wonderful.__________(True/False)
19. A thing is classical when it belongs to a high class or to the best
class________(True/False)
20. The "metaphysical" poets strove to excel less by judgment than by
invention, by "high-flying liberty of conceit."_________(True/ False)
21. In the neoclassical period a demand arose for something that was less
representative and more rare and "precious."________(True/ False)
II. Essay Question (28%): Please write a well-oragnized essay to comment on
the following observation of Neoclassical literature. Make sure you cite
specific examples from the texts we have studied.
"One dominant convention of twenty-first-century poetry and prose is
something we call 'realism.' In fiction, verse, and drama, writers often
attempt to convey the literal feel of experience, the shape in which
events actually occur in the world, the way people really talk. Racine,
Pope, and Voltaire pursued no such goal. Despite their concern with
permanent patterns of thought and feeling, they employed artifice to
emphasize and to obscure...Artistic transformation of life, the period's
writers believed, involves imposing formal order on the endless flux of
event and feeling. The formalities of this literature constitute part of
its meaning: what experience shows as unstable, art makes stable."
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