2014南京大学英美文学考研真题与解析

励学南大考研网 http://www.njukao.com/ 历年考研真题试卷 南京大学2007年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题 考试科目名称及代码：英美文学 964 适用专业：英语语言文学专业 注意：所有必须写在研究生入学考试答题纸上，写在试卷和其他纸上无效。 I. Read the following excerpts and identify their authors and the titles from which they are excerpted. Give full name of the author and full title of the work. (30%) 1. Author_____Title_____ April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. 2. Author_____Title_____ Next day was cloudless, and they decided to finish the work in the basement. They felt excluded, shut in the grey cement basement fitting pipes, from the holiday atmosphere of London in a heat wave. At lunchtime they came up for some air, but while the married couples, and the men in shirt-sleeves or vests, were there, she was not there, either on her usual patch of roof or where she had been yesterday. 3. Author_____Title_____ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. 4. Author _____Title _____ For having lived in Westminster—how many years now? over twenty, —one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Such foois we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. 5. Author _____Title_____ My feet are locked upon the rough bark. It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot 6. Author _____Title_____ At other times, the like battles have been fought between the yahoos of several neighbourhoods, without any visible cause: those of one district watching all opportunities to surprise the next, before they are prepared. But if they find their project has miscarried, they return home, and, for want of enemies, engage in what I call a civil war among themselves. 7. Author _____ Title _____ To die-to sleep. To sleep- perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. Must give us pause. 8. Author ______ Tide _____ "He is not my husband, nor ever will be. He does not love me: I do not love him. He loves (as he can love, and that is not as you love) a beautiful young lady called Rosamond. He wanted to marry me only because he thought I should make a suitable missionary's wife, which she would not have done. He is good and great, but severe; and, for me, cold as an iceberg. He is not like you, sir: I am not happy at his side, nor near him. nor with him. He has no indulgence for me--no fondness. He sees nothing attractive in me: not even youth-only a few useful mental points. --Then I must leave you, sir, to go to him?" 9. Author _____Title _____ The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. 10. Author _____ Title _____ The city of Wintoncester-the fine old city, aforetime capital of Wessex-lay amidst its convex and concave downlands in all the brightness and warmth of a July morning. The gabled brick, tile, and freestone houses had almost dried off for the season their integument of lichen , the streams in the meadows were low, and in the sloping Highstreet, from the West Gateway to the mediaeval cross, and from the mediaeval cross to he bridge, that leisurely dusting and sweeping was in progress which usually ushers in an old-fashioned market-day. 11. Author_____Title_____ I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where; For who has the sight so keen and strong That can follow the flight of a song. 12. Author _____ Title _____ Well, and what if she was? She still had ears. It was like Cornelia to whisper around doors. She always kept things secret in such a public way. She was always being tactful and kind. Cornelia was dutiful; that was the trouble with her. Dutiful and good: "So good and dutiful," said Granny, "that I'd like to spank her." 13. Author_____Title_____ The appantion of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. 14. Author_____Title_____ It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory, I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only could answer. 15. Author_____Title_____ He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it. II. Give full names of authors to the following works. (10%) 1. The Marble Faun 2. English Traits 3. "The Purloined Letter" 4. Herzog 5. After the Fall 6. The Confidence Man 7. Something Happened 8. Paradise 9. Cathay 10. Paterson III. For each of the following sections, choose one question and give your answers. (60%) Section I. 1. In what way is the West Wind both a destroyer and a preserver in Shelly's "Ode to the West Wind"? 2. Who kills Paul in "The Rocking-Horse Winner"? 3. What does the title of "The Road from Colonus" by E.M. Forster suggest? Section II. 1. How to understand Ralph W. Emerson's statement "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness," in terms of American characteristics? 2. Why is Gatsby, the protagonist in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel Great Gatsby, called "the great"? 3. Take the poem "A Supermarket in California" as m example to relate some artistic, similarities between W. Whitman and A. Ginsberg. Section III. 1. Compare the attitudes toward women of two male characters from any texts in Selected Readings in British Literature or Selected Readings in American Literature. Sufficient textual information is required to illustrate your viewpoints. 2. Compare and contrast the way the main character (s) in the work of THREE of the following authors was able or unable to accept death: Walt Whitman, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner Robert Frost and Eugene O'Neill. Sufficient textual information is required to illustrate your viewpoints. 3. Hemingway's war novel ends with a scene in a maternity hospital. How does this final topic, the death of a woman and a child in childbirth, force us to enlarge or reconsider what we took to be the central subject of the novel? In what sense is the novel a war novel? What is its subject if it is not war, battle, engagement with the enemy, strategy, etc.? Sufficient textual information is required to illustrate your viewpoints. IV. Discuss ONE of the following passages. (10%) 1. In the opening sentences of Wharton's The House of Mirth we find the following: “…what was Miss Ban doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the countryhouses which disputed her presence after the close of the Newport season, but her desultory air perplexed him. She stood apart from the crowd, letting it drift by her to the platform or the street, and wearing an air of irresolution which might, as she surmised, be the mask of a very definite purpose…An impulse of curiosity made him turn out of his direct line to the door, and stroll past her. He knew that if she did not wish to be seen she would contrive to elude him; and it amused him to think of putting her skill to the test." What do we know about the kind of society Wharton will be describing from these sentences and opening moments of action? 2. "She had been a big woman once but now her skeleton rose, draped loosely in unpadded skin that tightened again a paunch almost dropsical, as though muscle and tissue had been courage or fortitude which the days or the years had consumed until only the indomitable skeleton was left rising like a ruin or a landmark above the somnolent and impervious guts, and above that the collapsed face that gave the impression of the bones themselves being outside the flesh, lifted into the driving day with an expression at once fatalistic and of a child's astonished disappointment, until she turned and entered the house again and closed the door." Faulkner's description of Dilsey. List the features of Faulkner's style present in this description. V. Make comments on the following passage. Use at least one major novel to support your argument. (40%) For most of its history the British novel has been primarily a domestic melodrama about money and sex. and the modern novel is no exception. Nineteenth-century realism especially is an encyclopedia of entries on English class and gender anxieties, and on the links between them. There is, of course, another tradition of adventure and travel, rooted in the maritime imperialism of the British Isles. This tradition is also well represented by the modem novel, which often followed earlier travel-adventure narratives in providing a critical commentary on life at home. -Vincent P. Pecora