課程名稱︰英國文學1600-1800
課程性質︰必修
課程教師︰楊明蒼
開課系所︰外文系
考試時間︰4/26 15:40-17:40
試題 :
I. True/False (22%)
1.The revolutionary ear in mid 17th century culminats in the execution of
Charles II.
2.Puritans emphasized sacraments as the core of religious practice.
3.Jacobeans thought of themselves as especially prone to melancholy.
4.The genre of autobiography witnesses the tendency to self-analysis in the
17th century.
5.Mary Wroth was the most prolific female writer of the Jacobean era.
6.The Cavalier poets celebrate royalist culture and the courtly ideal of good
life.
7.George Herbert is the only major English poet in the tradtion of the baroque
style.
8.Ben Jonson wrote the famous Anatomy of Melancholy.
9.The chain of being is the belief that links and orders all species
hierarchically.
10.In Paradise Lost, God sent Abdiel to warn Adam and Eve of their impending
danger.
11.Calvinist theory of contract suggests that people could mount resistance to
a king if he endangered his subjects' liberties.
II.Analyze and comment on THREE of the following (18%)
1.For in love's field was never found/A nobler weapon than a wound./Love's
passive are his activ'st part,/The wounded is the wounding heart.
2.But as I raved and grew more fiece and wild/At every word/Methoughts I heard
one calling, Child!/And I replied, My Lord.
3.Alas, alas, who's injured by my love?/What merchant's ships have my sighs
drowned?/Who says my tears have overflowed his ground?/When did my colds a
forward spring remove?
4....the earth/Though, in comparison of heav'n, so small,/Nor glistering, may
of solid good contain/More plenty than the sun that barren shines,/Whose
virtue on itself works no effect,/But in the fruitful earth; there first
received/His beams, unactive else, their vigor find.
III.Explain FOUR of the following (20%)
1.Areopagitica
2.Stuart absolutism
3.Counter-Reformation aesthetics
4.emblem
5.comedy of humors
6.Raphael
IV.Answer the follwoing questions in well-wirtten and well-supported essays
(40%)
1.(A)"The Tragedy of Mariam is more about the conflict between women than
about women and men." Comment on the statement to show your evaluation of
the play.
OR(B)John Donne was long grouped with George Herbert and Richard Crashaw under
the heading of "Metaphysical Poets." Compare and contrast the three poets
to comment on the validity of the "school" of metaphysical poetry.
2.Disucss the function of the invocations in the Paradise Lost.
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