2008年北京航空航天大学822英美文学考研真题及详解
I. Define the following terms (40/150, 10×4)
1. English Enlightenment
2. D. H. Lawrence
3. Theatre of the Absurd
4. Doris Lessing
5. American Romanticism
6. Southern Renaissance
7. The Stream of Consciousness
8. Postmodernism
9. Narrator
10. Allegory
II. Essay Questions and Literary Analysis (30/150, 3×10)
1. Analyze “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
齐藤太太22. What contribution did Christopher Marlowe make to English literature?
3. Why is “Tom Jones” a successful novel?
III. Literary Selections and A nalysis (80/150, 8×10)
1.
rapidoMiss Quested and Aziz and a guide continued the slightly tedious expedition.
They did not talk much, for the sun was getting high. The air they felt like a warm bath into which hotter water is trickling constantly, the temperature ro and ro, the boulders said, “I am alive,” the small stones answered, “I am almost alive.”Between the chinks lay the ashes of little plants. They meant to climb to the rocking-stone on the summit, but it was too far, and they contented themlves with the big group
And having no one el to speak to on that eternal rock, she gave rein to the subject, of marriage and said in her honest, decent, inquisitive way: ‘Have you one wife or more than one?’
The question shocked the young man very much. It challenged a new conviction of his community, a
nd new convictions are more nsitive than old. If she had said, ‘D o you worship one god or veral?’ he would not have objected. But to ask an educated India Moslem how many wives he has—appalling, hideous! He was in trouble how to conceal his confusion. ‘One, one in my own particular ca,’ he spluttered, and let go of her hand. Quite a number of caves were at the top of the track, and thinking, ‘Damn the English even at their best,’ he plunged into one of them to recover his balance. She followed at her leisure, quite unconscious that she had said the wrong thing, and not eing him, she also went into a cave, thinking with half her mind ‘sight-eing bores me’, and wondering with the other half about marriage.
a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is lected.
b. Who is the real lor in the novel? Why?
c. Why there is a humming in her mind whenever she thought of the possible rape?
d. Explain the symbolic meaning of the title and the structure of story.
2.
That’s my Duchess painted on the wall,
looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t plea you sit and look at her?
[……]
—E’en then would be some stooping; and I choo
Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,
When’er I pasd her; but who pasd without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands
As if alive. Will’t plea you ri? We’ll meet
The Company below, then. I repeat.
The count your master’s known munificence
Is ample warrant that no just preten
Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;
保管员Though his fair daughter’s lf, as I avowed
At starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll go
Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a a hor, though a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!
a. Identify the author of and the work from which the passage is lected.
b. Identify and define the literary device employed in the poem.
c. What does the ntence “I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together” mean? How does it reveal the protagonist’s personality?
d. Why at the end of the poem “statue of Neptune” is mentioned?
3.
—And who is the best poet, Heron? asked Boland.
—Lord Tennyson, of cour, answered Heron.
—O, yes, Lord Tennyson, said Nash. We have all his poetry at home in a book. At this Stephen forgot the silent vows he had been making and burst out: —Tennyson a poet! Why, he’s only a rhymester!
—O, get out! said Heron. Everyone knows that Tennyson is the greatest poet. —And who do you think is the greatest poet? asked Boland, nudging his neighbor. —Byron, of cour, answered Stephen.
Heron gave the lead and all three joined in a scornful laugh.
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—What are you laughing at? asked Stephen.
—You, said Heron. Byron the greatest poet! He’s only a poet for uneducated people.
—He must be a fine poet! said Boland.
—You may keep your mouth shut, said Stephen, turning on him boldly. All you know about poetry is what you wrote up on the slates in the yard and were going to be nt to the loft for.
Boland, in fact, was said to have written on the slates in the yard a couplet about a classmate of his who often rode home from the college on a pony:
As Tyson was riding into Jerusalem
He fell and hurt his Alec Kafoozelum.
This thrust put the two lieutenants to silence but Heron went on:ft什么意思
—In any ca Byron was a heretic and immoral too.
—I don’t care what he was, cried Stephen hotly.
—You don’t care whether he was a heretic or not? said Nash.
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—What do you know about it? shouted Stephen. You never read a line of anything in your life except a trans, or Boland either.
—I know that Byron was a bad man, said Boland.
—Here, catch hold of this heretic, Heron called out. In a moment Stephen was a prisoner.
skyper—Tate made you buck up the other day (5), Heron went on, about the heresy in your essay.
—I’ll tell him tomorrow, said Boland.
—Will you? said Stephen. You’d be afraid to open your lips.
—Afraid?
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华东政法大学排名—Ay. Afraid of your life.
—Behave yourlf! cried Heron, cutting at Stephen’s legs with his cane.
It was the signal for their ont. Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland ized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter. Struggling and kicking under the cuts of the cane and the blows of the knotty stump Stephen was borne back against a barbed wire fence.
—Admit that Byron was no good.
—No.
—Admit.
—No.
—Admit.
—No. No.
a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is lected.
b. What is the symbolic meaning of the protagonist’s name?
c. Describe his growing process, which is also called Bildungsroman—novels of
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education/growth.
d. How is his personality is revealed from the above mentioned lections?
