课程名称︰文学作品独法上 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 考试日期（年月日）︰2011 01 10 考试时限（分钟）：150 是否需发放奖励金：是 （如未明确表示，则不予发放） 试题 : 1. Summarize the plot of William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” in chronological order. (10%) 2. Discuss in detail the narrating voice of “A Rose for Emily” by bringing in the critical opinions we read in class; be sure to comment on the title in relation to the above. (10%) 3. First explain the following passage about “A Rose for Emily,” then offer a reading of the story (except the one as suggested in the next question) that is capable of meeting the challenge near its end: (10%) …if Faulkner is merely interested in relating a case history of abnormal psychology, the story lacks meaning and justification as a story….If the story is to be justified, there must be what may be called a moral significance, a meaning in moral terms—not merely psychological terms… 4. Explain the following critical opinion on “A Rose for Emily” by referring to the concrete contents of the story: (5%) …it is a story of a woman victimized and betrayed by the system of sexual politics, who nevertheless has discovered, within the structures that victimize her, sources of power for herself…Falkner’s story is an analysis of how me’s attitudes toward women turn back upon themselves…. 5. Discuss Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” as well as Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” as a detective story. (10%) 6. Analyze the detail(i.e. by citing concrete textual illustrations) Flannery O’Conner’s main concerns and her attitudes toward them as manifest in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” and then briefly comment on how our knowledge of her biography can help explain the above. (20%) 7. Explain how a certain knowledge of the American South help us to understand these two stories of O’Conner’s. (5%) 8. Discuss the themes of Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Glaspell ’s “A Jury of Her Peers” by putting them together as within their cultural and historical context; be sure to provide details for your discussion. (10%) 9. Explain first what “metafiction” is by discussing Grace Paley’s “A Conversation with My Father” and Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Ending,” then how Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Garden of Forking Paths” can also be read within this category. (15%) 10. It can said that the three main characters in Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” are the hunger, the impresario, and the audience. Analyze their characterization as well as the relationship between them and then use these as the basis for a symbolic reading of the story. (10%) 11. Provide the crucial biographical information about Kafka and Borges (such as roughly when and where they lived etc.). (5%) --

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