uji英国文学选读第四版复习资料

2021年1月20日发(作者：妥为)
Charles Dickens
1.

Make a brief introduction to the three main characters.
Dombey,
Edith
and
Carker,
are
vividly
described
in
the
novel
Dombey
and
Son.
The writer is Charles Dickens.
Dombey
is
a
heartless
capitalist
who
thinks
of
everything
in
terms
of
cash,
even
in his relations
with the
members
of his family.
He
is proud
of
his wealth
and is devoted to the gods of wealth and power.
Edith is also proud. She is very handsome, very haughty, and very willful. Her
pride
is
quite
different
from
that
of
Dombey.
Her
pride
is
the
one
weapon
of
self-defense
for
a
hurt
and
tormented
soul
in
her
struggle
against
the
rule
of
money. Edith is a tragedy from first to last
—
a fine spirit that has been allowed no
chance of unfettered development under capitalism, and who, in the end, wins
only the peace of a voluntary, solitary confinement.
Carker the villain, whole smooth tongue covers alago-like malevolence, stands
as a type of social evil, to which the capitalist system lends a cover of virtue, and
which it usually rewards with success. Though Carker is killed in an accident, he
has done the maximum of mischief during his lifetime. These types of characters
are all products of the bourgeois society.
2.

Tell the characteristics of Alfred Tennyson
’
s poetry
----- Dramatic monologue (Robert Browning)
Tennyson has a total mastery of the sounds and rhythms of the English language.
Tennyson has a genius for evoking moods and states of mind in his poems. He is
able to create a sense of nostalgia, a wistful longing for the past or for remote
experiences. No English poet surpasses Tennyson at linking descriptions of nature
or
setting
to
state
of
mind.
Some
of
his
poems
deal
with
the
main
political,
religious and scientific issues of his day. His poems reflect his conservative ideas
and idealization of the bourgeois social reality.
3.

Comment on the characteristics of Modernist Literature.(
现代文学
)
Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psychoanalysis as
its
theoretical
base.
The
major
themes
of
the
modernist
literature
are
the
distorted,
alienated
and
ill
relationship
between
man
and
nature,
man
and
society, man and man, and man and himself. The modernist writers concentrate
more
on
the
private
than
on
the
public,
more
on
the
subjective
than
on
the
objectivity.
They
are
mainly
concerned
with
the
inner
world
of
an
individual
therefore,
they
pay
more
attention
to
the
psychic
time
than
the
Chronological
one.
In
their
writings,
the
past,
the
present
and
the
future
are
mixed
together
and exist at the same time in the consciousness of an individual.
4.

Make a brief introduction to William Butler Yeats
’
s literary career.
生涯为三部分，所以从三部分来写。

During
the
early
ears
of
William
Butler
Yeats
’
s
literary
career,
he
wrote
romantic
poetry
under
the
influence
of
Edmund
Spenser,
Shelley
and
the
Pre- Raphaelites.
He
also
made
an
intensive
study
of
William
Blake,
whose
symbolism
and
mysticism
attracted
him.
In
this
period,
he
mainly
created
the
works:
The Wanderings of Oisin
.
The Wind among the Reeds.