英美文学选读历年主观题及答案.docx

1 Give a brief discussion of Henry James’ literary achievement.
International theme: James’s novels are always set agaihe battle-ground is and how tragic the ending is, they will never be defeated.
Hemingway himself is one of those code heroes, some critics say his protagonists are autobiographical, for they share something that is Hemingway.
2 Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style，together with his theme and hero. Please discuss Hemingway’s writing style in relation to his novels you have read.
Hemingway himself once said, “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water”. Typical of this “iceberg” analogy is Hemingway’s style. He deals with a limited range of characters in quite similar circumstances and measures them against unvarying code, known as “grace under pressure”.
The characters he depicted, with the honesty, the discipline, and the restraint, survive in the process of seeking to master the code
According to Hemingway, good literary writing should be able to make readers feel the emotion of the characters directly and the best way to produce the effect is to set down exactly every particular kind of feeling without any authorial comments, without conventionally emotive language, and with a bare minimum of adjectives and adverbs.
Besides, Hemingwa