课程名称︰ 二十世纪英国文学 课程性质︰ 必 课程教师︰ Prof. Duncan Chesney 开课学院： 文 开课系所︰ 外文系 考试日期（年月日）︰ 11/9 2012 考试时限（分钟）： 是否需发放奖励金：yes 试题 : I. Short Answer Questions a) Background- 1. What is the U.K. (what do the initials stand for; what does it comprise?) 2. When did Queen Victoria die (year)? b) Some foreign terms- 3. What does 'dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' mean and in what context have we come across it this semester? 4. What does 'carpe diem' mean and what tradition does it refer to? 5. What does 'bildungsroman' mean and what tradition does it refer to? 6. What does 'avant-garde' mean and what tradition does it refer to? c) Other short answer questions- 7. What does the word "hap" signify (in the dictionary), and what does it mean for Hardy more generally? 8. According to Housman, what is the loveliest of trees? 9. What is metonymy? 10. Why does Eveline not go to Argentina? 11. What is assonance? 12. Who or what are Jesuits? 13. What is a 'manifesto'? 14. Who or what is the Count of Monte Cristo (or, why would I ask)? 15. Who or what is Emma Clery? 16. What was/were adolescent Stephen's mortal sins in 'Portrait'? 17. Who was Mina Loy? II. Medium Answer 18. Who was Ezra Pound? Discuss briefly why we are reading him in Britlit class and what his contribution to British lit was. 19. Discuss the Daedalus image as it structures the symbolism of Joyce's 'Portrait.' What is the background myth? How does Joyce manifulate it in his quasi-autobiography? 20. What is Naturalism? 21. What does Epiphany mean within Joyce's aesthetics. Please define and try to give an example. 22. Discuss the style of 'Portrait.' What is unusual and so influential about Joyce's narrative and symbolic strategies in the novel? 23. "Smart lad, to slip betimes away. From fields where glory does not stay. And early though the laurel grows. It withers quicker than the rose. " Comment briefly on the tone of Housman's 'To An Athlete Dying Young ' and then compare it with the poem 'Disabled' [1918] by Wilfrid Owen. Try to assess the radical differences in the poem as well as the underlying continuities. 24. What is dead in "The Dead"? Explain the title by attempting to give a general interpretation of the story. If stories are supposed to have a point or a moral, what is the point or moral of "The Dead"? What does it confirm or undermine for Gabriel Conroy? 25. Compare the poem "Drummer Hodge" by Hardy with Rupert Brooke's "Soldier" and with Owen's "Anthem for doomed Youth." What different attitudes are reflected in these poems about the link between man-earth-sky (cosmos)? What differences do you see (where, why?) and what continuities? --

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