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1、布丁考研网，在读学长提供高参考价值的考研真题资料布丁考研网，在读学长提供高参考价值的考研真题资料 北京外国语大学北京外国语大学 2002 年硕士研究生入学考试年硕士研究生入学考试 英美文学专业试题英美文学专业试题The following exam will be graded on both what you say and how you say it. All answers must be written on the answer sheets.I. Below are some terms that you might overhear literary critics say a
2、t a cocktail party in the English Department at BFSU. Explain SIX of them. (30 points)1. ballad 2. Calvinism 3. dramatic irony 4. epic 5. metaphysical conceit 6. Oedipus complex 7. round character 8. transcendentalismII. 1. Summarize the plot of the following story in your own words(around 200 words
3、). (20 points) 2. Comment on the narrative technique of the story. (20 points)Continuity of ParksHe had begun to read the novel a few days before. He had put it down because of some urgent business conferences, opened it again on his way back to the estate by train; he permitted himself a slowly gro
4、wing interest in the plot, in the characterizations. That afternoon, after writing a letter giving his power of attorney and discussing a matter of joint ownership with the manager of his estate, he returned to the book in the tranquility of his study which looked out upon the park with its oaks. Sp
5、rawled in his favorite armchair, its back toward the door-even the possibility of an intrusion would have irritated him, had he thought of it-he let his left hand caress repeatedly the green velvet upholstery and set to reading the final chapters. He remembered effortlessly the names and his mental
6、images of the characters; the novel spread its glamour over him almost at once. He tasted the almost perverse pleasure of disengaging himself line by line from the things around him, and at the same time feeling his head rest comfortably on the green velvet of the chair with its high back, sensing t
7、hat the cigarettes rested within reach of his hand, that beyond the great windows the air of afternoon danced under the oak trees in the park. Word by word, licked to the point where the images settled sown and took on color and movement, he was witness to the final encounter in the mountain cabin.
8、The woman arrived first, apprehensive; now the lover came in, his face cut by the backlash of a branch. Admirably, she stanched the blood with her kisses, but he rebuffed her caresses, he had not come to perform again the ceremonies of a secret passion, protected by a world of dry leaves and furtive
9、 paths through the forest. The dagger warmed itself against his chest, and underneath liberty pounded, hidden close. A lustful, panting dialogue raced 布丁考研网，在读学长提供高参考价值的考研真题资料布丁考研网，在读学长提供高参考价值的考研真题资料 down the pages like a rivulet of snakes, and one felt it had all been decided from eternity. Even to
10、 those caresses which writhed about the lovers body, as though wishing to keep him there, to dissuade him from it; they sketched abominably the frame of that other body it was necessary to destroy. Nothing had been forgotten: alibis, unforeseen hazards, possible mistakes. From this hour on, each ins
11、tant had its use minutely assigned. The cold-blooded, twice-gone-over re-examination of the details was barely broken off so that a hand could caress a cheek. It was beginning to get dark. Not looking at one another now, rigidly fixed upon the task which awaited them, they separated at the cabin doo
12、r. She was to follow the trail that led north. On the path leading in the opposite direction, he turned for a moment to watch her running, her loosened and flying. He ran in turn, crouching among the trees and hedges until, in the yellowish fog of dusk, he could distinguish the avenue of trees which
13、 led up to the house. The dogs were not supposed to bark, they did not bark. The estate manager would not be there at this hour, and he was not there. He went up the three porch steps and entered. The womans words reached him over the thudding of blood in his ears: first a blue chamber, than a hall,
14、 then a carpeted stairway. At the top, two doors. No one in the first room, no one in the second. The door of the salon, and then, the knife in hand, the light from the great windows, the high back of an armchair covered in green velvet, the head of the man in the chair reading a novel. The followin
15、g is an excerpt from one of John Fowless novels. What does the passage say about the novel? (30points)You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always inexorably the actuality of Chapter Thirteen. But novelists write for countl
16、ess different reasons: for money, for fame, for reviewers, for parents, for friends, for loved ones; for vanity, for pride, for curiosity, for amusement; as skilled furniture makers enjoy making furniture, as drunkards like drinking, as judges like judging, as Sicilians like emptying a shotgun into an enemys back. I could fill a book with reasons, and they would all be true, though not true of all. Only
