可能却没真正领略过这两部小说描写的对象——一位小说大师——亨利·詹姆斯作品的真正风采。你可以从这本《黛西·米勒》开始——一段完美旅程的开始。作者简介: 亨利·詹姆斯（1843—1916），现代小说大师，世界文学史上最重要的小说家之一。他出身于纽约上层知识分子家庭，父亲和兄长均是著名学者和哲学家。他从小接受良好的教育，大学毕业后，便长期旅居欧洲，对19世纪末美国和欧洲的上层生活有细致入微的观察。古老保守的欧洲和年轻质朴的美国这两种不同文化和价值体系间的冲突是他诸多作品的重要主题之一。他的小说风格独特，语言精妙，技巧娴/熟/，他还是心理小说创始人。詹姆斯一生创作了许多作品，其中最具代表性的有《黛西·米勒》、《一位女士的画像》，《螺丝在拧紧》、《鸽翼》、《使节》、《金碗》等。

18. Ernest Hemingway --- A farewell to Arms; For whom the bell tolls;The old man and

the sea; the sun also rises

19. Harriet Beecher Stowe --- Uncle Tom’s Cabin 20. Carl Sandburg --- Chicago

21. Wallace Stevens --- Anecdote of the Jar; The Emperor of Ice Cream 22. Stephen Crane’s Major works主要作品: 斯蒂芬·克莱恩

1) 《街头女郎梅季》Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) 2) 《红色英勇勋章》The Red Badge of Courage (1895) 3) 《海上扁舟》The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure

(1898)

4) 《黑骑者》The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895) 5) 《战争是仁慈的》 War is Kind (1899)

25. Frank Norris’ Major works主要作品:

1) 《章鱼》(1901) The Octopus: A California Story (1901) Theodore Dreiser’s Major works主要作品:

1) Sister Carrie 《嘉莉妹妹》 2) An American Tragedy《美国悲剧》 3) Jennie Gerhardt《珍妮姑娘》 4) The Financier《金融家》 5) The Titan《巨头》

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6) The Genius《天才》

26. Robert Frost’s most famous poems are :

1) \补墙\

2) \没有走的路that is about the universal dilemma of making

decisions in one's lifetime

3) \雪夜林边小立\

readers of their social obligations. 弗洛斯特最有名的诗歌有\补墙\教育人们如何处理人与人之间的关系;\没有走的路\探索人生中如何抉择这一普遍问题;以及\雪夜林边小立\提醒每一位读者自己所承担的义务和使命。

27. Theodore Dreiser is another important naturalistic writer in American Literature.

His major works are:

Sister Carrie《嘉莉妹妹》(1900) Jennie Gerhardt《珍妮姑娘》(1911) The Financier《金融家》(1912) The Titan《巨人》(1914)

The Genius 《天才》(1915)是德莱塞自己最满意的一部长篇小说 An American tragedy《美国的悲剧》(1925)是德莱塞的代表作 28. William Faulkner’s major works: 主要作品:

1) A Rose for Emily 献给艾米丽一朵玫瑰 major character : Emily

Grierson

2) The Sound and Fury 《喧哗与骚动》 3) Light in August《八月之光》

IV. Read the following excerpts and answer the questions. (5分 x 5题 = 25 分)

Passage 1

The trader caught a full glimpse of her just as she was disappearing down the bank; and throwing himself from his horse, and calling loudly on Sam and Andy, he was after her like a hound after a deer. In that dizzy moment her feet to her scarce seemed to touch the ground, and a moment brought her to the water's edge. Right on behind they came; and, nerved with strength such as God gives only to the desperate, with one wild

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cry and flying leap, she vaulted sheer over the turbid current by the shore, on to the raft of ice beyond. It was a desperate leap – impossible to anything but madness and despair;… The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a moment. With wild cries and desperate energy she leaped to another and still another cake; stumbling -- leaping -- slipping -- springing upwards again! Her shoes are gone -- her stockings cut from her feet -- while blood marked every step; but she saw nothing, felt nothing, till dimly, as in a dream, she saw the Ohio side, and a man helping her up the bank. Questions:

1) Which book is this part taken from?

--- From a famous novel entitled Uncle Tom's Cabin 2) The author of the book is --- Harriet Beecher Stowe .

3) Sum up the part above.--- She throws open the door to her room, which faces the river, grabs Harry, and leaps over the rushing currents onto a raft of ice. Haley sees her and gives chase, but Eliza jumps onto a huge floating chunk of ice. She springs from one chunk of ice to the next, oblivious to all pain and cold, until she reaches the other side. A man on the other side helps her up. Carrying the boy, she leaps from cake to cake of ice as her pursuers watch in horror and amazement. She reaches the Ohio side and is helped onto shore by a Kentucky farmer.

Passage 2

Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

Questions:

1. Which poem is the stanza above quoted from? --- \2. Who is the poet of this poem? --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3. Summarize the lines above. --- Though art can exist forever and it survives

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everything, time fleets and therefore, human life is limited. Though our heart is strong and brave, still, it is beating like the muffled drums at a funeral towards the grave.

Passage 3

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Questions:

1. Which work is the passage quoted from? --- The Declaration of Independence 2. Who is the author of the work? --- Thomas Jefferson

3. Summarize the passage above: --- To safeguard these rights, Governments are established among people, obtaining their just powers from the agreement of the people.

Passage 4

I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous

Seducer of young women,

Questions: 1. 2. 3.

Which work are the 2 lines above quoted from? --- I Sit and Look Out Who is the author of the work? --- Walt Whitman

Summarize the 2 lines above --- I see the wife was mistreated by her

husband; I see some men deceitful to seduce the innocent young women.

Passage 5

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And What I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,

I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. Questions:

1. Who is the writer of this poem? --- Song of Myself 2. What is the title of this poem? -- Walt Whitman

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