英美文学考前总复习_全国大学生英语竞赛_英美文化.docx

一.What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction?and what is his favourite approach in characterization,which makes him different from Mark Twain and W.D .Howells as realists?give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.?1.his most famous theme is international theme.2.Psychological approach 3.The portrait of a lady ;Daisy Miller ?一..What are the qualities of Emily Dikinson poems? (Emily Dikinson)1.Dickinson is poems are usually based on her own experiences,her sorrows and joys.2.Love is another subject Dickinson dwelt on.3.Many poems Dickinson wrote are about nature,in which her general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.4.Dickinson is poetry is unique and unconventional in own way.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.?一.Sister Carrie is the greatest literary work by Theodore Dreiser.Discuss Carrie Meeber,the protagonist of the novel.1.Carrier,penniless and full of illusions of ignorance and youth,leaves her yural home to seek work in ??????? Chicago.Dis-illusioned bu meager income and terrible work condition in a shoe factory,she acceptes Drouet as his mistress.Later,shefalls in love with Drouet is friend Hurstwood and eloupes with him.However,when Hurstwood is life is on the decline,Carrier leaves him.Carrier becomes a star of musical comedies at last;yet she is lonely and dissatisfied.2.Sister Carrie best embodies Dreiser is naturalistic belief that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity,in-stinct and chance,a few unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate and try to find meaning and purpose for their existence.Carrie,as one of such,senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks to grasp the mys-teries of life and thereby satisfies her desire for social status and material comfort.?一.Discuss the character of Carrie Meeber in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and his naturalistic tendency in the novel.Ca