___ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with the “black” vision of life and human beings.
which of the works concerns most concentratedly the calvinistic view of original sin?
which of the following is not a work of nathaniel hawthorne’s?
in hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as
the finest example of hawthorne’s symboli is the recreation of puritan boston in ___.
poe was a great genius, and he was well recognized in his own day.
poe felt that poetry should teach.
poe is generally regarded as a pioneering aesthetician, psychological investigator, literary technician and his influence on american literary circles can never be overrated.
nathaniel hawthorne welcomed the transcendentalists’ transparent optimi about the potentialities of human nature.
hawthorne believed that romance was the predestined form of american narrative. he took a great interest in his contemporary society.
comment on the sentences taken from chapter 41 in moby dick. 1．nor did wild rumors of all sorts fail to exaggerate, and still the more horrify the true histories of these deadly encounters. for not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events,—as the itten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to. and as the sea surpasses the land in this matter, so the whale fishery surpasses every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and fearfulness of the rumors which sometimes circulate there. 2. here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man，chasing with curses a job's whale round the world，at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades，and castaways，and cannibals——morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in starbuck，the invulnerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in flask. such a crew，so officered，seemed specially picked and packed by some infernal fatality to help him to his monomaniac revenge.
which of the following had influence on melville’s writing?
____ is not melville’s work.
____ is the narrator in moby-dick.
____ is regarded as the first american prose epic.
____, the tragic hero of moby-dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.
melville’s ____ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc. in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.
the white whale moby dick is a symbol of ____.
during a journey thoreau made to concord in july of 1846, thoreau was put in the jail for one night for refusing to pay a poll-tax of $2.00 to the government. this experience inspired him to write his famous essay ____, advocating nonviolent struggle against social injustice.
the following are correct for transcendentali except _____.
which of the following is not thoreau’s works?
transcendentali is also indebted to ancient indian and chinese works, such as confucius and mencius.
romantic values were prominent in american politics, art, and philosophy until the first world war.
moby-dick is melville’s semi-autobiographical novel.
melville obviously holds a positive and optimistic view toward life and human nature.
the romantic writers would focus on inidual feelings and strong imagination.
american romantici entered a new phase around the middle 1830s and culminated around the 1840s in what has come to be known as “new england transcendentali” or “american renaissance” (1836-1855).
like romantici, transcendentali rejected both 18th century rationali and established religion, which for the transcendentalists meant the puritan tradition in particular.
the transcendentalists celebrated the power of the human imagination to commune with the universe and transcend the limitations of the material world. they found their chief source of inspiration in nature.
the term “transcendental” was derived from the latin verb “transcendere”, which means to raise up, to pass beyond the limits.
transcendentali is always been accused of being over-pessimistic, near to mystici, without support in reality.