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1、美国文学归纳内容IFilltheFollowingBlankswithAppropriateAnswers1ThepseudonymofMarkTwainis.SamuelLanghorneClemens2Twain’swritingsarecharacterizedbybroad,oftenirreverenthumourorbiting.socialsatire3ThepseudonymMarkTwainisaMississippiRiverphrasemeaning“”.twofathomsdeep4TheAdventuresofHuckl

2、eberryFinn,thesequelto,isconsideredtomarkTwain’smasterpiece.TomSawyer5HuckleberryFinnisentirelynarratedfromHuck’spointofview,notedforitsauthenticlanguage&foritsdeep.commitmenttofreedom6HenryJamescreatedfictionsbyjuxtaposingAmericaninnocence&Europeanexperienceinaseriesofintens

3、e.psychologicallycomplexworks7IntheworksThePortraitofaLady,thescenereflectstheimpactofonAmericanstravelingorlivingabroad.Europeanculture8Ingeneral,thestyleofHenryJames’laterworksiscomplex,withmotives&behaviorofhischaractersrevealedbymeansoftheirconversations&throughtheirminut

4、eobservationsofoneanother.obliquely9ThemoststraightforwarddefinitionofrealismisprobablytheonegivenbytheAmericanrealist:thatis“nothingmore¬hinglessthanthetruthfultreatmentofmaterial.”WilliamDeanHowells10Thesubjectsofrealisticfictiontendedtobecontemporary,ordinary&.middle-cl

5、ass11Plotsofrealisticfictionshadtobeunobstrusive,madeupoftheincidentsofeverydaylife.trivial12RealismfirstappearedinUSintheliteratureof,anamalgamofromanticplots&realisticdescriptions.localcolour13wasunquestionablythemostinfluentialAmericanliteraryrealistinthelastquarterofthe19

6、thcentury.WilliamDeanHowells14Bytheendof19thcentury,therealists&naturalistshadturnedfromportrayalofcharacters&events,insteadsoughttodescribethewiderangeofAmericanexperience&topresentsubtletiesofhumanpersonality.idealized15Naturalisminliteraturereferstotheorythatliterarycompos

7、itionshouldbebasedonanobjective,presentationofhumanbeings.empirical16NaturalismagreeswithdeterminismofDarwin&economicaldeterminismofMarx.biological17OneofthefirstAmericanexponentsofnaturalismwasFrankNorris,whosenovelisaclassicalstudyoftheinterplaybetweeninstinctualdrives&envi

8、ronment7conditions.McTeague18EdwinRobinsonisanAmericanpoetknownforth