1、7 English Literature in the 20th Century. Essay questions.1. Comment on the development of William Butler Yeats poetic career and characteristics of his poetry.2. Make comments on George Bernard Shaw as a playwright.3. Comment on John Galsworthy.4. Comment on Virginia Woolfs literary achievements.5.
2、 Compared with Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence and other writers of transitional age in the 20th century, should E. M. Forster be labeled as a traditional writer or a modernist or a writer of transitional age? State your opinion.6. Discuss the possible theme in William Butler Yeats “The Lake Isle of
3、Innisfree” and how that theme is presented in the poem.7. Comment on James Joyces creation and literary achievements. 8. Comment on T. S. Eliots achievements in poetry. 9. Introduce the plot of Lucky Jim and analyze the character of Jim. 10. Make a contrast between 1950s poetry and 1960s poetry.11.
4、Through analyzing the symbolic meaning of major characters, Estragon (Gogo), Vladimir (Didi), Pozzo, Lucky, Godot, comment on the symbolic values in Waiting for Godot. Define the following terms.1. Modernism 2. Epiphany3. Interior monologue 4. Fragmentation5. Non-linear, discontinuous narratives 6.
5、Allusive language7. Feminist criticism 8. Reader-response criticism 9. Epigraph 10. Epilogue11. Post-modernism 12. Post-structuralism13. Theatre of the absurd 14. Kitchen sink drama15. Meta-fiction. Fill in the blanks.1. Modernism takes their rational philosophy and the theory of as its theoretical
6、base.2. The three trilogies of s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.3. “Araby” from Dubliners is a tale of the frustrated quest for in the midst of drabness.4. The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships b
7、etween man and , man and society, man and man, and man and himself.5. William Butler Yeats experienced a slow and painful change in his poetic creation, starting in the tradition and finishing as a mature poet.6. T. S. Eliots major achievement in playwriting has been the creation of a in the 20th ce
8、ntury to express the ideas and actions of modern society with new accents of the speech.7. In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent” puts great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.8. is Galsworthys masterpiece which gives a profound and true-
9、to-life picture of the English society from the 80s of the 19th century up to the 20s of the 20th century.9. The trilogy The Forsyte Saga consists of The Man of Property, and To Let.10. , which bears a strong thematic resemblance to “The Waste Land”, is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eli
10、ots poems.11. Structurally and thematically, George Bernard Shaw follows the great tradition of .12. Joyce seems to mean that the novel describes the mental activities of two Dubliners in a single day, while , his second novel, describes the sub-conscious world in which a man lives through a good pa
11、rt of his life.13. represents the much more readable novelists of the stream of consciousness school. She is a fine artist, a woman of sharp sensitivity who, in one of her frequent mental depressions, committed suicide.14. Virginia Woolfs novel , published in1925, made her reputation as an important
12、 psychological writer.15. Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological one.16. All of Joyces novels and short stories have the same setting, , especially ,and the same subject, Dubliners and their life.17. was much concerned about the crying contradictions of b
13、ourgeois civilization and made protests against imperialism and fascism, but he believed in the possibilities of improving capitalism with a system of “technocracy”. The First Men in the Moon is one of his novels.18. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her aff
14、ection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrences .19. According to James Joyce, the three required things for the perception of beauty are wholeness, harmony and .20. In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called , in which the whole story was presented with the int
15、erior monologues of the characters.21. “She frankly wanted him to climb into the middle class, a thing not very difficult, she knew. And she wanted him in the end to marry a lady.” is taken from D. H. Lawrences novel .22. D. H. Lawrences poems fall roughly into three categoriessatirical and comic po
16、ems, poems about human relationship and emotions, and poems about .23. Galsworthy distinguished himself as a playwright. His two important plays include and Strife.24. In his novels of social satire, H. G. Wells makes realistic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the “ man.”25. “The Bliss
17、” is one of s famous short stories. She was skilled in psychological analysis, whose favorite technique is the .26. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is s first novel.27. Our Betters and The Circle are two of s plays. 28. To the Light house was written by _. 29. The Good Companions is a novel
18、by _.30. The Stars Look Down is a well-known novel by _. 31. To create his modern OdysseyUlysses, Joyce adopts a kind of _ style.32. “Sailing to Byzantium” is a well-known poem written by _.33. T. S. Eliots classic expression of the temper of his age is “_”, two years after which “_”, is also a powe
19、rful expression of an age of doubt that longs in despair for belief.34. The poem “The Waste Land”, which is 433 lines long, is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable land marks of _, the first part of “The Waste Land” is “_”, and the third is “_”.35. In 1913, Eliot published his first
20、volume of verse, “_” in which the influence of some French symbolists can be seen.36. Sean OCasey employs unique stagecraft in his expressionistic play, _, in which four scenes, Morning, Noon, Evening, and Night, correspond to four seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.37. Known as the most sig
21、nificant representative of the “_”, Kingsley Amis writes a satire on social and academic pretensions in his Lucky Jim.38. A Booker Prize winner, Iris Murdoch said “The ego disappears and you see the world with absolute vividness and clarity”, which is the theme of her novel _.39. Muriel Sparks The G
22、irls of Slender Means is set in a hostel in _ in 1945 when the detonation of an unexploded bomb sets fire to the hostel, a moment when characters spiritual world is depicted in a biting satire.40. The Golden Notebook is considered to be _s masterpiece, taken as a milestone work in Feminist Literatur
23、e.41. The French Lieutenants Woman is considered to be the masterpiece of John Fowles, in which the story is set in 1867, in _ society.42. In Look Backin Anger, John Osborne creates an image, _, who forges a voice for the “Angry Young Man” of his generation in 1950s.43. Through the military life exp
24、erience of Guy, and disillusionment of his dream of elimination of the evils through just wars, Evelyn Waugh explores in his work, _, the nature of war.44. Jean Rhyss is taken as one of the major works of West Indian literature. It explores the psychological dimension of race and violence and slaver
25、y. Choose the best answer.1. _ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist. A. William Butler Yeats B. John GalsworthyC. James Joyce D. George Bernard Shaw2. Rudyard Kipling was the spokesman for imperialist sentiment. Which one is NOT his work?A. Dubliners B. The Jungle BookC. The Seco
26、nd Jungle Book D. Plain Tales from the Hills3. The main characters in The Man of Property do NOT include .A. Soames B. IreneC. Bosinney D. Heathcliff4. Which of the following novels was NOT written by H. G. Wells?A. The Time MachineB. The First Men in the MoonC. The War in the AirD. A Portrait of th
27、e Artist as a Young Man5. G. B. Shaws play Mrs. Warrens Profession is a realistic exposure of the in the English society.A. slum landlordismB. inequality between men and womenC. political corruptionD. economic exploitation of women6. Which of the following is NOT John Boynton Priestleys work?A. Ange
28、l Pavement B. The Good CompanionsC. The Waves D. They Walks in the City7. was written by James Joyce.A. Dubliners B. Portrait of a LadyC. Picture of Dorian Gray D. To the Lighthouse8. Undershaft is a character in the play by George Bernard Shaw.A. The Devils Disciple B. The Man of PropertyC. Major B
29、arbara D. Justice9. Which writer belongs to “stream-of-consciousness” school?A. Virginia Woolf B. Thomas WolfeC. Sommerset Maugham D. Thomas Hardy10. By presenting a conventional hero as a villain, or a conventional villain as a hero, intends to give a shocking impression to his audience and challenge the conventional way of thinking.A. Rudyard Kipling B. George Bernard ShawC. T. S. Eliot D. D. H. Lawrence11. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a m
