文学概论复习提纲文概论复习提纲.doc

题型 单选题 20% ; 名词解释 15 % 诗歌分析 25 % 短篇小说（或小说片段分析）14% 简答题目：16 文学概论复习提纲 I. 选择题范围 Classification of literature: Fiction and nonfiction. Under Fiction, there are four genres: novels, short stories, plays, and poem Rhetorical divisions of essay/non-fiction: description, narration, exposition and argumentation. Classification of novel: by length, by technique, by subject matter Trilogy: Arnold Bennett’s “The Clayhanger Family”, John Dos Passos’s U.S.A, James T. Farrell’s “Studs Lonigan”; Tetralogy: For Maddox For’s “Parade’s End”; Lawrence Durrell’s “The Alexandria Quartet”. E. M. Forster who wrote Aspects of the Novel suggested that 50, 000 words is the smallest number of words needed to make a work a novel. Conveniently, a full-length novel comprises a book of considerable thickness. More importantly, full length should indicate full development. 6. Short novel, centers on just one or two characters, but unlike a short story, it has room to reveal them in greater fullness and depth, sometimes taking a longer span of time. Sometimes, a short novel is also called novelette or a novella. 7. Gothic novel: applied first by Horace Walpole to his novel The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story. The typical Gothic novel has a medieval setting, tantalizing plot of revenge and terrifying scenes and ending. The main character is always a woman usually doomed in one way or another. It is a woman’s adventure story. The atmosphere is depressing. Other examples include Jane Eyre, Rebecca. 8. Kunstlerroman: It is a novel about the artist or writer coming of age, or in conflict with society. His struggles from childhood to maturity are both against an inhospitable environment and with himself toward an understanding of his creative mission. Examples: James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Maugham’s The Moon and Six Pence. Dorris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook. 9. Psychological novel: novels that dwell on a complex psychological development and present much of the narr