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Part V. Twentieth Century Literature (I) Before WWII
Part V. Twentieth Century Literature (I) Before WWII
I. Fill in the blanks.
1.__________ stands as a great dividing line between the
nineteenth century and the contemporary American literature.
2.American writers of the first postwar era lf-consciously
acknowledged that they were a "__________ " , devoid of faith
and alienated from a civilization.
3.The most significant American poem of the twentieth century
was_____________ .
4.The publication of The Waste Land, written by____________ ,
helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with
learning and allusive thought.
5.In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of
American small-town provincialism in___________ .
6.F. Scott Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of
the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel___________ .
7.The__________ of the 1930s greatly weakened the American
白蚕豆nation's lf-confidence.
8.An American woman writer named ____________ who had lived
in Paris since 1903, welcomed the young expatriates to her
literary salon, and gave them a name "the Lost Generation".
9._____ wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in
the American Southern States, and its effect on the lives of
modern people, both black and white.
开头的成语接龙10.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he
called the "__________ " movement.
11.Ezra Pound's major work of poetry is the long poem
called______________ .
12."After Apple-Picking" is a well-known poem written by
_______ .
13.______ was successful in two fields of activity which did not
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em compatible with one another; he was a very successful
businessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet at the
same time.
14.In 1915, __________ published his Prufrock and Other
Obrvations.
书柜英语15.In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot began to write his
masterpiece_______________ , one of the major works of
modern literature.
16.As Thomas Stearns Eliot declared, he followed strictly the advice
of his clo friend___________ in cutting and concentrating The
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17.In his work___________ , Thomas Stearns Eliot satirized the
straw men, the Guy Fawkles men, who world would end "not with a bang, but a whimper. "
18.Few men of letters have been more fully honored in their own day
than_____________ , and even tho who strongly disagree with him emed content with his lection for the Nobel Prize in
1948.
19.Thomas Stearns Eliot's last important work was____________ , a
profound meditation on time and timelessness, written in four
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20.F. Scott Fitzgerald' s first novel____________ , with its portrayal
of casual dissipations of "flaming youth" , was an immediate
commercial success.
21.In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his best novel_____________ .
It is the story of an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-eking people around him.
22.F. Scott Fitzgerald' s cond novel______________ describes a
handsome young man and his beautiful wife, undoubtedly
modelled after himlf and Zelda.
23.The hero in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel_____________ is a
psychiatrist who marries a rich patient. The author condemns the wasted energy of misguided youth.
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24.With the publication of The Sun Also Ris, _____________
became the spokes man for what Gertrude Stein had called "a
Lost Generation".
动机信25.Emest Hemingway' s stature as a writer was confirmed with the
publication of his novel___________ in 1929. The novel
portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.
26.Set in Spain during the Civil War, the novel_____________
stated again Hemingway ' s view of love found and lost, and
described the indomitable spirit of the common people.
27.In the story The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
portrayed an old fisherman named___________ , who shows
triumphant even in defeat.
28.In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was awarded a_______________ for
his "mastery of the art of modem narration".
29.In 1952, Ernest Hemingway published a successful novel
entitled_____________ , which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and occasioned the award of the Nobel Prize in 1954.
30.In the same way that F. Scott Fitzgerald' s Tales of the Jazz Age
