2022文职英语专业语言学备考考点：美国文学

　　美国文学

　　美国文学的涉及范围广，涉及作家较多，下面以表格形式提炼出重点可能考到的作家和代表作品。

Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩	Common Sense 《常识》The American Crisis 《美国危机》	One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
Herman Melville 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔	Typee 《泰比》Moby-Dick 《白鲸》	His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change.
Walt Whitman 沃尔特·惠特曼	Leaves of Grass 《草叶集》	He was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.
Mark Twain 马克·吐温	The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today 《镀金时代》The Adventures of Tom Sawyer《汤姆·索亚历险记》The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》	Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels areThe Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called “The Great American Novel”.
Theodore Dreiser 西奥多·德莱塞	Sister Carrie 《嘉莉妹妹》An American Tragedy 《美国的悲剧》The Financier 《金融家》	He was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald F. 司各特·菲茨杰拉德	This Side of Paradise 《人间天堂》 Tender Is the Night 《夜色温柔》 The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》 Tales of the Jazz Age 《爵士时代的故事》	He was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. Perhaps the most notable member of the “Lost Generation”of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Ernest Miller Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威	The Sun Also Rises 《太阳照常升起》A Farewell to Arms 《永别了，武器》For Whom the Bell Tolls 《丧钟为谁而鸣》The Old Man and the Sea 《老人与海》	He was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed theiceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

　　【例】The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by ( ) .

　　A. Scott Fitzgerald

　　B. William Faulkner

　　C. Eugene O’Neill

　　D. Ernest Hemingway.

　　【答案】D。《丧钟为谁而鸣》是海明威的代表作品。所以答案选D。