英美文学介绍复习.docVIP

11级英语二专《英美文学》期末复习指南(AB卷) 【注：】 一、Identification. (1%×10=10%)Identify the author with his or her work. Charles Dickens A. A Passage to India E.M. Foster B. Paradise Regained James Joyce C. The Color Purple John Milton D. The Road Not Taken Shelley E. For Whom the Bell Tolls Robert Frost F. Jude the Obscure Alice Walker G. The Waste Land Ernest Hemingway H. Hard Times T.S. Eliot I. Ulysses Thomas Hardy J. Prometheus Unbound Henry James Francis Bacon George Bernard Shaw Emily Bronte William Golding Shelley Dylan Thomas William Blake Oscar Wilde James Joyce Lord of the Flies Wuthering Heights “The Tyger” Queen Mab The Portrait of a Lady The Dubliners The Importance of Being Earnest Pygmalion Novum Organum Deaths and Entrances 二、Fill in the blanks. (1%×10=10%) Beowulf is regarded as the oldest poem in English literature. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the Romance. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote his best novel The Great Gatsby. It is the story of an idealist who is destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him. The greatest and most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is drama. In 1925, Virginia Woolf published her masterpieces Mrs. Dalloway, in which she used the technique of “stream of consciousness” to denote the flow of inner experiences. William Faulkner wrote about the society in the south by inventing families which represents different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious unscrupulous class of the “Poor Whites”; and the Negroes who labor for both of them. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are Jane Austen and Walter Scott. J. D. Salinger is regarded as a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is referred to as a students’ classic. Jane Eyre is one that introduces to the English novel the first governess heroine. John Dryden wrote h