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1、美国文学史期末考试复习题可以参考课本及其他复习资料一、名词解释（交代背景、内容/特点、代表人物/作品）1.AmericanRealism2.BlackHumor3.HenryJames’sinternationaltheme4.BeatGeneration5.AmericanPuritanism6.Transcendentalism7.ThemesofHenryJames’swriting8.TheLostGeneration二、回答问题1.WhatarethecharacteristicsofAmericanromanticism？

2、2.HowistheDarwinianbeliefinnaturalismopposedtotheChristiancreationistview?Whatisthedeterministviewofexistencethatinformsnaturalism?Whataretheimplicationsofthisviewonethics?3.WhatarethephilosophicalfoundationsandcharacteristicsofAmericannaturalism?4.Whataretheimportantpo

3、intsforHawthorne’sstyle?5.WhatisthepredominantmoodinPoe’spoetry?Discusswithtwopoemsasexamples.6.WhataretheparametersofAmericanRealism?7.HowisThoreaurevoltmanifestedbothinhissocialactionsandhiswriting?Whatisthenatureofhisrevolt?8.TheageofAmericanrealismisdividedintotwomo

4、reperiods.Whataretheperiodscalled?Whatarethecharacteristicsandwhoaretherepresentativesofeachperiod?