【正文】 美國文學(xué)歸納內(nèi)容I Fill the Following Blanks with Appropriate Answers 1 The pseudonym of Mark Twain is .Samuel Langhorne Clemens2 Twain’s writings are characterized by broad ,often irreverent humour or biting .social satire3 The pseudonym Mark Twain is a Mississippi River phrase meaning “ ”.two fathoms deep4 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the sequel to , is considered to mark Twain’s master piece.Tom Sawyer5 Huckleberry Finn is entirely narrated from Huck’s point of view, noted for its authentic language amp。 for its deep .mitment to freedom6 Henry James created fictions by juxtaposing American innocence amp。 European experience in a series of intense .psychologically plex works7 In the works The Portrait of a Lady ,the scene reflects the impact of on Americans traveling or living abroad.European culture8 In general, the style of Henry James’later works is plex, with motives amp。 behavior of his characters revealed by means of their conversations amp。 through their minute observations of one another.obliquely9 The most straightforward definition of realism is probably the one given by the American realist : that is “nothing more amp。 nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.”William Dean Howells10 The subjects of realistic fiction tended to be contemporary, ordinary amp。 .middleclass11 Plots of realistic fictions had to be unobstrusive, made up of the incidents of everyday life.trivial12 Realism first appeared in US in the literature of ,an amalgam of romantic plots amp。 realistic descriptions.local colour13 was unquestionably the most influential American literary realist in the last quarter of the 19th century.William Dean Howells14 By the end of 19th century, the realists amp。 naturalists had turned from portrayal of characters amp。 events, instead sought to describe the wide range of American experience amp。 to present subtleties of human personality.idealized15 Naturalism in literature refers to theory that literary position should be based on an objective, presentation of human beings.empirical16 Naturalism agrees with determinism of Darwin amp。 economical determinism of Marx.biological17 One of the first American exponents of naturalism was Frank Norris, whose novel is a classical study of the interplay between instinctual drives amp。 environment conditions.McTeague18 Edwin Robinson is an American poet known for the poems set in Tilbury Town, an New England village modeled after his childhood home.imaginary19 The trilogy of narrative poems created by Edwin Robinson includes Merlin,Lancelot amp。 .Tristram20 Stephan Crane is known for his amp。 often brutal portrayals of human conditions.pessimistic21 ,a story of young prostitute who mits suicide, was Crane’s first novel which won praise from the American writers. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets22 The second novel of Crane, ,gained international recognition as a penetrating amp。 realistic psychological study of a young soldier in the American Civil War.The Red Badge of Courage23 ’s Sister Carrier tells the story of a smalltown girl who moves to Chicago amp。 eventually bees a Broadway star in New York city.Theodore Dreiser24 In The Financier amp。 , Dreiser drew harsh portraits of a type of ruthless businessman.Titan25 Frost’s poetry is based upon the life amp。 scenery of rural New England , the language of his verse reflects the of that region.pact idiom26 Frost’s colloquialism is structured within traditional amp。 rhythmical schemes.metrical27 American modernism is treated as rebellion against the tradition of literature.genteel28 Artists of modernism, esp,