課程名稱︰文學作品讀法
課程性質︰外文一必修
課程教師︰朱偉誠
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試時間︰12/20 10:20~13:00
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試題 :
1. Explain what the following passages are talking about.(5% each)
(A) "I like yours," he said. "But I believe mine."
"It doesn't matter. I believe mine."
"Not in your heart of hearts, you don't."
"You're wrong."
"I'm not wrong," he said. "And her breath would smell like your
milk, and it's kind of a bittersweet smell, if you want to know
the truth."(Elizabeth Tallent, "No One's a Mystery")
(B) You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you
slice it. Don;t be deluded by any other endings, they're all
fake, either deliberately fake, with malicious intent to
deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by
downright sentimentality.
The only authentic ending is the one provided here:
John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die.
(Margaret Atwood, "Happy Endings")
(C) She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind,
tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked
save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw
beyond that bitter moment a long succession of years to come
that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread
her arms out to them in welcome.(Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour)
(D) "Come," I said, with decision, "we will go back; your health is
precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are
happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no
matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be
responsible. Besides, there is Luchresi--"(Edgar Allan Poe, "The
Cask of Amontillado")
2. In what sense can Spencer Holst's "The Zebra Storyteller" be read
as a story about story-telling?(3%)
3. How do "No One's a Mystery" and Lorrie Moore's "How" differ from
ordinary stories in terms of plot?(5%)
4. Explain how "setting"(i.e. specific reference to a place) influences
our understanding of the following two sotries:(1) "No One;s a
Mystery"(with its reference to Cheyenne, Wyoming); and (2) "Happy
Endings" (with its reference to Canada).(5%)
5. Explain how the title of Guy de Maupassant's "The Jewelry" can
aptly sum up the message of the story(i.e. how it is also related
to the characters in the story).(5%)
6. What is the biggest lack(i.e. something that is left unsaid) in the
plot of "The Jewelry"? Try to fill in (briefly) with your own
imagination.(5%)
7. Do you think the following passage is an example of metaphor or
symbol? Explain why and spell our what you think it is a metaphor
or symbol of.(5%)
A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there
slowly all day long, while I taught my classes algebra. It was a
special kind of ice. It kept melting, sending trickles of ice water
all up and down my veins, but it never got less. Sometimes it hardened
and seemed to expand until I felt my guts were going to come spilling
out or that I was going to choke or scream. This would always be at a
moment when I was remembering some specific thing Sonny had once said
or done.(James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues")
8. Summarize the situation of black people as described in James Baldwin's
"Sonny's Blues," especially with reference to what Sonny has gone
through; then explain what the ending of the story means in terms of
the above.(10%)
9. Explain the general differences between first-person narration and
third-person narration by comparing "The Cask of Amontillado" with
Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"; then discuss the
different varieties of third-person narration by comparing "Hills like
White Elephants" with "The Story of an Hour."(10%)
10.What is on the mind of the American and the girl respectively in "Hills
Like White Elephants"? What are their different attutides towards that
matter? And why does the girl become so annoyed by the American?(8%)
11.Describe the protagonist "you" as characterized in the story "How."
(5%)
12.Describe the process of Doris Lessing's characterization of Judith in
the story "Our Friend Judith"; then briefly explain the function of the
story's minor characters--but only the English ones.(10%)
13.Try to read Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" with the young
man as its target of critique; be sure to include as many details of the
story as possible.(8%)
14.What is the most adequate term to describe the following passages when
they are read in the light of what really happens in the story, and
why?(3%)
And then she would roll the pearls of the necklaces between her fingers,
and make the facets of the cut crystals flash in the light, repeating:
"Now look at them--see how well the work is done. You would swear it
was real jewelry."(The Jewelry)
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of joy
that kills.("The story of an Hour")
15.試分析白先勇<玉卿嫂>的敘事策略，包括它所選擇的敘述者以及情節安排，並說明
這種策略的用意或效果為何。(8%;此題可以中文作答)
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