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1、TheAgeofRealismI.Fillintheblanks.1.HenryJamesfirstachievedrecognitionasawriterofthe“_Internationaltheme_____”---astorywhichbringstogetherpersonsofvariousnationalitieswhorepresentcertaincharacteristicsoftheircountry.2.TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn__wasMarkTwain’smasterpiecefromwhich,asHemingw
2、aynoted,“allmodernAmericanliteraturecomes.”3.ThethreedominantfiguresoftheAmericanRealisticPeriodareWilliamDeanHowells,_MarkTwain___,andHenryJames.4.HenryJames'semphasisonpsychologyandonthehumanconsciousnessprovestobeabigbreakthroughinnovelwritingandhasgreatinfluenceonthecominggenerations.That
3、iswhyheisgenerallyregardedastheforerunnerofthe20thcentury“thestreamofconsciousness”.5.AsoneofAmerica’sfirstandforemostrealistsandhumorists,_MarkTwain___,thepennameofSamuelLanghorneClemens,usuallywroteabouthisownpersonalexperiencesandthingsheknewaboutfromfirsthandexperiences.6._HenryJames_wasa
4、realist,butnotanaturalist.Hewasanobserverofthemindratherthanarecorderoftime.Hisrealismwasaspecialkindofpsychologicalrealism.7.OneofClemens’sbestbooks_LifeontheMississippi___isbuiltaroundhisexperiencesasasteamboatpilot.8.MarkTwain’sfirstnovel,_TheGildedAge______wasanartisticfailure,butitgaveit
5、snametotheAmericaofthepost-bellumperiodwhichitattemptedtosatirize.9.TheimpactofDarwin’sevolutionarytheoryontheAmericanthoughtandtheinfluenceofthe19thcenturyFrenchliteratureontheAmericanmenoflettersgaverisetoanotherschoolofRealism:AmericanNaturalism.II.Decidewhetherthestatementsaretrueorfalse.
6、1.Inthelatterhalfofthenineteenthcentury,womensomewhatbecamethenation’sdominantcultureforce.T2.Inthelatenineteenthcentury,althoughAmericanscontinuedtoreadtheworksofIrving,Cooper,Hawthorne,andPoe,thegreatageofAmericanromanticismhadended.T3.TheAmericanrealistssoughttodescribethewiderangeofAmeric
7、anexperienceandtopresentthesubtletiesofhumanpersonality.T4.MarkTwainhad,ashisaimofwriting,thesoul,thelife,andthespeechofthepeopleinmind.T5.MarkTwain’slaterworksunmistakablyshowedhischangefromanoptimistandhumoristtoanalmostdespairingdeterminis
