大致上,英研所的考試是以問答題為主要決勝關鍵,故同學的分析及英文作文能力是十分重要的。但近年來,各大學(尤其是北部的大學),皆有將問答題「打散」的趨勢;也就是說,原本一題20~30分的題目已經很少見了,取而代之的是一題10~15分的問答題以及愈來愈多的ID題。在文學史的背景知識日趨重要之下,在學校中表現好的同學並不一定在此類考試中佔優勢(因為學校裡所上的作品有限),同學仍須在課外自我加強文學常識才足以應考。
英 美 文 學 考 題 類 型 分 析
一、 文學名詞解釋 (Literary Terms) (4-5)
1. 作者及作品︰Harold Pinter - The Dumb Waiter (台大85), Samuel Butler - Hudibras (政大89), Aphra Behn (輔大89) - Oroonoko (台大89)
2. 文學時期及流派︰Postmodernism (台大86), Theatre of Absurd(中正85)
3. 文類︰novel - gothic novel (政大85), poetry - the English sonnet (中興86)
4. 文學風格與技巧︰the Pre-Raphealites (台大87), the Imagists (台大89)
二、 指認題 (ID) (4-5)
1. 文學作品節錄︰"A little learning is a dangerous thing" (清華89), "How can we know the dancer from the dance." (台大85), "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't matter."(淡大89)
2. 批評作品節錄︰Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own (清華89)
3. ID + 問答︰the Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales + T. S. Eliot's Waste Land (政大85)
三、 問答題 (10-20)
1. 單一作者作品:形式、技巧、主題、文學史上重要性 Comment on the speaker's voice in Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess." (中正86), colonial or post-colonial view point - Heart of Darkness or A Passage to India (中興86)
2. 比較作者作品:Compare the tales of the Wife of Bath & the Miller in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales- in terms of marriage and gender problems (台大88) (10), Compare the post-war American poets - John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, John Ashbery - in terms of their relationship with William Carlos Williams and Walt Whitman. (台大87) (15)
3. 精讀分析:George Orwell's "Marrakech" (中央89)-英美文學與理論, Margaret Atwood's "Siren Song" (政大89)-文學作品分析, Analyze and compare Emily Dickens' "The Robin's my Criterion for Tune" and the opening section of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself."
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