课程名称︰文学作品读法上 课程性质︰必修 课程教师︰朱伟诚 开课学院：文学院 开课系所︰外文系 考试日期（年月日）︰2009/01/12 考试时限（分钟）：140分钟 是否需发放奖励金：是 thx （如未明确表示，则不予发放） 试题 : 1. There are two kinds of setting which should be noticed whenever reading fiction. What are they? Use Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" as an example to demonstrate how a knowledge of them could be helpful or even indispensable for a proper understanding of a work of fiction.(10%) 2. According to the definition provided by the "Glossary" at the end of our textbook, theme is "a generalized, abstract paraphrase of the inferred central or dominant idea or concern of a work." Please follow this definition and discuss the "theme" of ONE of the following three stories: Edith Wharton, "Roman Fever" Ernest Hemingway, "Hill Like White Elephants" Ann Beattie, "Janus" Be sure you not just state what its theme is but also illustrate it with concrete details of the story.(10%) 3. Summarize the hunger artist's thoughts, especially when they turn out to be the opposites of what we expected, in Franz Kafka's "A Hunger Artist." (10%) 4. Explain why Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" has been widely read as a symbolic story and conduct such a reading of the story yourself.(10%) 5. Summarize Flannery O'Conner's story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and discuss how "irony" may be the most useful concept in analyzing it.(10%) 6. Relate O'Conner's story "Everything That Rises Must Converge" to the American South, analyze the narrator's attitude towards the two major characters, and explain what you think the title means.(10%) 7. Explain how the idea of the author can help us better understand literary works by using the above mentioned two stories by Flannery O'Conner as illustrations ( be sure to provide concrete examples). Also explain what the seemingly contradictory concept of "the death of the author" mean.(15%) 8. Name another author whom you find interesting through assigned readings of our textbook and tell what you have found about her/him.(5%) 9. Explain what an allegory is and read Nathaniel Howthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" as one; pay special attention to its ending and explain how that may decide our interpretation of the whole stroy.(15%) 10. First describe the basic situation and major characters in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper." Then discuss its narrating point of view and how we should react to the story accordingly. Finally, explain what you think the story is really about, especially with reference to the yellow wallpaper.(15%) ---------------------------------试题结束------------------------------------- --

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