课程名称︰Victorian Literature 课程性质︰必 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）︰2012/06/21 考试时限（分钟）： 是否需发放奖励金：是 1. Describe how friendship is mentioned in Tennyson's In Memoriam, what is particularly striking about it from today's point of view, and provide a possible explanation for it. (5%) 2. Explain, by providing concrete illustrations from the poem, what T.S. Eliot means when he says that In Memoriam is "religious....because of the quality of its doubt," as well as the function of Christmas in it. (10%) 3. Summarize the general contents of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khyayyam, and explain its Victorian popularity as well as the problems it poses to English Literature.(10%) 4. Describe in detail the discursive strategies used by John Ruskin in The Stones of Venice to value gothic architecture as well as the latter's significance in the Victorian context.(15%) 5. First summarize the contents of Matthew Arnold's poen "The Scholar Gypsy," and then explain how this poem as well as his "Dover Beach" can be linked to the Victorian Age. (15%) 6. Summarize the main ideas put forth in Matthew Arnold's "The Function of Criticism." (5%) 7. Use Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire," to explain his ideas of 'inscape' and 'instress' and then link them to his unique style of writing.(10%) 8. Sumamrize the contents of Hopkins's poem "The Windhover."(5%) 9. Explain the tenets of aestheticism as articulated in Oscar Wilde's Preface to The Picure of Dorian Gray. (5%) 10. Recall two of Oscar Wilde's famous aphorisms and then explain how they illustrate his critical attitude towards the Victorian establishment. (5%) 11. Expalin why the 1890s can stand out as a minor literary period of its own. (5%) 12. Summarize the contents of Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The White Man's Burden."(5%) 13. Explain Thomas Hardy's idea of 'hap' as expressed in the poem of the same name, and link it with A.E. Housman's poetry. (10%) 14. Discuss how Hopkins, Hardy and Housman could be used to complicate the idea of literary periodization. (5%) ------------------ --

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