第一篇:北外英美文学经验
北外英美文学经验
准备考研的时间不长,只有三个月,总结起来两大经验吧,细节和节奏。细节是说考研要做个有心人,要勤看别人的经验,即使不是一个方向的。因为虽然准备的内容不同,但过程都是一样的(讲到底也只有专二不同)。学习别人的经验自己才能避免走别人的弯路,犯别人犯过的错误。节奏是说时间的充分利用,时间不在长短而在效率的高低,要根据自己的情况制定合适的复习计划。在这里给大家小小的鼓励一下:永远不要觉得时间不够用,也永远不要觉得这是不可能完成的的任务。当然要基于自身实力和现实的考虑,我相信大家都明白我的意思。等到真正做到了,你就是那个“传说”。
政治:六十多分没什么经验。。。总的感觉是过线不拉分就好因为进入复试政治和二外就不算分了,不要给自己太大的压力,不要浪费过多的时间,节省下来精力好好看专业。
法语:学校用的是很老的橘黄色皮的《法语》,先复习一遍,把忘掉的知识捡回来。然后把历年真题研究一遍,考察的知识点就那么多,有的题基本没变隔年又考一次。从图书馆借来新大学法语1-3,从头到尾梳理知识点整理笔记。因为知道考什么,所以看得有重点。借书的好处之一就是“书非借不能读也”,借来的总要还,有压力就看得快了,而且借的书都少都有点笔记,看看也是很好的。
基英:分阅读,翻译和写作三个部分。像名字一样就是考察英语的基础,所以投机取巧是不可取的,要稳扎稳打地不间断复习。阅读--每天精读一篇1500字左右的新闻,有用的词句整理出来,有兴趣的段落翻一翻,阅读是最好的输入方式,扩大阅读量不言而喻,也对写作和翻译大有益处。翻译--练了叶子南里面几个靠谱的文章,订在一起没事看看,每翻译一篇都会看到自己逐步的进步,翻译得逐渐成熟。写作—写作看的是内容、结构和语法。虽然在考场上不可能三方面都完美,但是写的时候有这样的意识在脑子里,偏也偏不到哪里去。基础自认为还是不错的,所以每天的复习就是一个routine,保持对英语的娴熟度,主要的精力都集中在复习专业上了。
专业:文学选段匹配+小说分析,今年取消了逻辑题。虽然文学的复习范围没边没沿,文学著作浩如烟海;但是恶俗的讲一句,只要是考试,它就有它的侧重点和一定的规律。文学选段匹配--本着上一原则,我把历年真题找来统计了一下每年考得上都是谁的作品,集中在哪几部作品上。统计过后发现大概十人左右而且都是大家 Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Wordsworth…然后就拜读他们的大作就好了。小说的话要先看看写作风格,像总考的adventures of huckleberry finn,如果没读过现读是来不及的,但只要了解马克吐温的写作风格,就会在看到南方方言的第一时间想到他老人家。诗歌的话,个人觉得比较没有办法,就是看啦,多看而且要多看几遍。文学选段也不是随便抽出一段让你中彩票似的猜,那几行字里面一定是有线索或是蛛丝马迹让你看出是谁的作品,就看你是否发现了线索并摸索着找到答案。
小说分析,就是几个essay questions,一共120分。准备的时候也有点投机,因为发现前三年的小说都是从一本《阅读反应 写作(小说卷)》里出的,所以把那本里所有靠谱的都研究了一遍,从网上找资料主题,人物分析,梗概都烂熟于心。怕面太窄又看了《英语短篇小说导读—结构与理解》和张在新《英语短篇小说解读》刚开始的时候感觉120分的小说
分析有点恐怖,后来看多了就会上瘾,不好好分析一下都难受。分析的时候一定要写下来,一篇一篇扎扎实实的写,练习的时候就当是考试,练四五篇就会发现自己巨大的进步,语言不断成熟,思维渐趋缜密,再写就会有信心了。当你“希望”结果会好的时候往往不会,你“知道”结果会好时才会。文学解读从来就是多维的,没有对与错之分,只有合理和更合理的差别。所以即使没有写到“官方”的答案,也不要灰心,因为采分不仅是what you said 还有how you said it.记得当时的那篇小说我没有看过,作者也不熟。分析是从女性主义角度入手分析婚姻与家庭,回来一查维基的分析以为死定了,但是分数出来还不错,所以什么事都是有可能发生的,什么时候都不要放弃。
再说一下诺顿的问题吧,当时看帖子前辈们都说不要看诺顿,看不完的。但是后来想想考回研连人家的参考书什么样都没见过有点过分,考前三周买下来,重点作家看一看,真的编的很好,作家介绍的语言相当之值得膜拜,只要有输入,总会有输出的。另外看迪金森的诗的时候,好几个文学选读的版本都没有考了几次的success is counted sweetest, 只有诺顿有。虽然狄诗鉴别度比较高,但是如果其他诗人有相同的情况呢,所以当即把诺顿上重点诗人的大作认真拜读。
最后说说面试。面试抽签,上来抽了个2号。面试也没有感觉很正式,三个面试官自己排的桌椅,齐齐一排。侯毅凌老师坐在正对面,目光炯炯身上差点被烧出俩窟窿。先是马海良老师让做自我介绍,准备过了,对答如流。第二个问题,对文学怎么理解?以前想过说的还成,不小心在结尾处提了哈姆雷特,此举真是自寻死路啊。。紧接着就被问像哈这样的经典,为什么穿越了几百年的时光仍然可读性很高呢?给莎翁戴了一下高帽,又说了三个评论的维度。侯老师一直没讲话,终于问了问题,我就倒了。“哈剧里面有一个问题很经典啊,哈姆雷特问什么犹豫呢?”当时的感觉是万里晴空里劈了一道闪,这个问题是经典啊,经典得没有想过为什么。。说了一个dilemma的解释(中学生都知道),老师没反应。。又拽了个俄狄浦斯情结,想这回该有反应了吧,“这个是经典理解啊,你自己有什么理解?”再度被劈,硬着头皮把前面的说过的拣几句paraphrase了一下,忽然想起来还有那经典的to be or not to be 可以说一说,话说一半当即被打断,“直接回答我的问题”。。旁边的女老师很同情的笑了笑。心里那个慌啊,哪还来的新理解,当即摊牌,“现在很紧张没有新的理解,但以后很有兴趣研究一下”。面试就这样很迷离的结束,当时觉得自己死定了,不过也真的向前辈们说的那样,面试很dramatic,不要轻易低估自己。
英美文学:(本人100分,几乎压线)考试时间的分配很重要,我就是吃了这亏,大家不要像我一样把答案在草稿上完整写好再抄上去,否则就和我一样悲剧了(最后两问只剩十五分钟,导致最终只得到100分),不过matching部分我是全部都见过的,有把握错误不超过一个,所以特别推荐以下的matching复习方法。
Matching 诗歌:推荐姜涛主编的《美国诗歌赏析》和苏煜主编的《英国诗歌赏析》,看完后用《英国文学名篇选注》补充最重要的几个诗人的作品。我个人分析了七八种诗集和文学选读,发现这样组合是北外试卷中诗歌命中率最高的。小说、散文:首先是选择那些书重点了解的问题。有些重要作者书籍繁多,全部了解也很难,在此推荐http:///booknotes/notes1.asp网站,点击按作者姓氏查询作品,从A到
Z查看下来,没听说过或在文学课本中不那么重要的作者可以跳过,重要作者在其中列出的作品是他们最重要的几部,考试通常不会跳出其范围。了解一下这些书籍的开头、结尾段落、重要任务姓名、第几人称写的、典型的地名、其他标志性的特点。不管是小说散文还是诗歌,开头结尾段是经常被提出来考的,大家要特别熟悉一下。
Short story: 推荐http:///library/Notes%20on%20Short%20Stories网站,在列表中找几篇短篇小说,网上找到原文,仔细阅读后在answer网站看plot、theme、character等的分析,摘录有用的句子和段落。每两天仔细解决一篇短篇小说,最后一周整理摘录的东西,提炼最有用的,总结出答题框架,最后几天背下提炼的内容,就可以胸有成竹地上场了!
德语:(本人81分)关于教材,本人只把大学德语1、2册学了一遍。之后通过《德语300小时》的语法部分完整学习语法,边看边做笔记。学完语法后重点攻克词汇,用的是《德语常用词汇精解》,四级单词熟悉到看中文想到德语(德译汉需要),六级单词熟悉到看德语知道含义。最后两个星期做了真题,让老师批改,并把整理好的语法再看了一遍。注意:最基础的语法千万不要忽视,比如动词过去式、第三人称单数形式、名词阴阳性、最基本的几种句式和关联词用法,这些基础知识在汉译德部分就显示出重要性
关于英美文学的考研经验贴实在太少了,考前我就承诺过考上后要与大家分享经验。虽然我的分数不高(384),但是有些方面大家还是可以借鉴下的。英美文学:(本人100分,几乎压线)考试时间的分配很重要,我就是吃了这亏,大家不要像我一样把答案在草稿上完整写好再抄上去,否则就和我一样悲剧了(最后两问只剩十五分钟,导致最终只得到100分),不过matching部分我是全部都见过的,有把握错误不超过一个,所以特别推荐以下的matching复习方法。Matching 诗歌:推荐姜涛主编的《美国诗歌赏析》和苏煜主编的《英国诗歌赏析》,看完后用《英国文学名篇选注》补充最重要的几个诗人的作品。我个人分析了七八种诗集和文学选读,发现这样组合是北外试卷中诗歌命中率最高的。小说、散文:首先是选择那些书重点了解的问题。有些重要作者书籍繁多,全部了解也很难,在此推荐http:///booknotes/notes1.asp网站,点击按作者姓氏查询作品,从A到Z查看下来,没听说过或在文学课本中不那么重要的作者可以跳过,重要作者在其中列出的作品是他们最重要的几部,考试通常不会跳出其范围。了解一下这些书籍的开头、结尾段落、重要任务姓名、第几人称写的、典型的地名、其他标志性的特点。不管是小说散文还是诗歌,开头结尾段是经常被提出来考的,大家要特别熟悉一下。Short story: 推荐http:///library/Notes%20on%20Short%20Stories网站,在列表中找几篇短篇小说,网上找到原文,仔细阅读后在answer网站看plot、theme、character等的分析,摘录有用的句子和段落。每两天仔细解决一篇短篇小说,最后一周整理摘录的东西,提炼最有用的,总结出答题框架,最后几天背下提炼的内容,就可以胸有成竹地上场了!政治:(本人74分)一章一章逐步攻克。每一章反复看两遍,第一遍重在理解,返回看第二遍,用圈圈或划线标出可能出单选、多选、问答题的内容,然后看下一章,重复同样的步奏。前三个部分每个部分看完再回看一遍,然后再看下一部分。形式与政策和世经的选择题可以买两三本带题目的辅导书,记忆答案(所有四项全选的题很多,都别去管,只要记忆剩下不全选的。考试时遇上不知道的就全选吧,八成没错)最后几个月开始背下划出的可能出单选、多选的内容。最后一个月开始按照两三套模拟题和任汝芬的《最后冲刺》总结可能考的问答题及其答案,并背诵(记关键词,不需要整段地背)。背诵量很大,但是多反复几次就记住了。德语:(本人81分)关于教材,本人只把大学德语1、2册学了一遍。之后通过《德语300小时》的语法部分完整学习语法,边看边做笔记。学完语法后重点攻克词汇,用的是《德语常用词汇精解》,四级单词熟悉到看中文想到德语(德译汉需要),六级单词熟悉到看德语知道含义。最后两个星期做了真题,让老师批改,并把整理好的语法再看了一遍。注意:最基础的语法千万不要忽视,比如动词过去式、第三人称单数形式、名词阴阳性、最基本的几种句式和关联词用法,这些基础知识在汉译德部分就显示出重要性。基础英语:(本人129分)这两年的作文和雅思的很接近,我背了一些雅思模板,临场很顺利。其他的没什么秘诀,无需针对题型准备,每天保持一到两小时Economists或New York Times之类的阅读。英译汉考的其实还是理解能力。先说这么多,大家有疑问尽管提,我十分乐意解答。
第二篇:英美文学复习经验
英美文学这门科目庞大之极,堪称英本自考之最。自己一个人看那么厚的一本书,不用说能不能看下来,能记住多少实在不好说!
我在复习的时候,总结了一些规律,与大家分享,望对你有用,帮你顺利通过!1.题型分析:
一般来讲,肯定是这种类型:a.单项选择题(40道,40分)b.引文简析(无非就是问问作者是谁,出自哪个作品,主题意象什么的,4道,16分)c.简答题(4道,24分)d.论述题(无非就是分析加读后感,20分)
经验:你应该可以看出来了,重点当然是单选了,分数大,又好得分,实在不行还可以蒙。建议尽可能把书看一遍,但不要看作者生平,那肯定不会考。有个印象就可以了,不用去背,如果你汉语文学功底好,可以省去不少时间。2.比例分析
据本人统计,历年来英美文学的国考试卷中英国文学占52%,美国文学占48%.(2003年4月例外,其中英国部分58%)其中,可以看出
单选题:前22题肯定为英国部分,其余为美国部分。
大题部分:基本上是一人一半,各占50% 经验:书上共652页,英国411页,美国241页。英国作家共38位,美国15位。其中,美国部分中,诗歌作品也比较少,比较好确认。结论:死学美国,顺带英国。
提醒大家注意的是,单选从第23题开始就是美国部分了,这一点可以做为你答题时转换思维的分水岭!3.内容分析
历年命题的趋势逐渐由课文内容向选读作品转移,选读的比重越来越大。
经验:课文内容作到大体了解,但要特别重视作家艺术特色。选读部分加大力度,多注意书上的注释及选文大意和某些细节,尽量作到能用英语复述。实在不行,也至少作到能用汉语复述。4.真题解析及预测
自学考试的一大特点就是重复率高,所以历年试题是必惫的复习材料,不可缺少。有人说:“一套真题等于3套模拟题!”这话绝对没错。所以要花大力气在上面。记得我考那回就有一道10分大题和前一年的一模一样。
注:马克吐温的《哈克贝里费恩历险记》的分析在2000~2002年中,连续考了三次。
经验:注意历年真题,尤其是去年的。去年的10分大题大致如下:
a.《傲慢与偏见》中的三种婚姻 b.《白鲸》选文作品复述几分析象征意义。
问:“死看美国?顺带英国?那怎么整?”
建议对策:
一。美国部分内容较少,我没记错的话,应该是15位作家,13首诗,1幕剧The Hairy Ape,1篇散文Nature,9个小说节选。1.先说小说。至少每一个节选你都要知道大意,和表达的主题(包括象征,隐喻,etc)。也就是说,选文你可以不看,但选文前的斜体介绍不能不看,那里集中着考点。记住的越多越好。
2.再说诗歌。美国部分的诗歌除了“easy”想不出别的来形容,原因是其口语风格。你所要做的,就是记住名字,然后把简介(就是诗歌前面的斜体内容)和书上的注释部分背下来。我敢说你诗歌部分(也就是第二题)基本OK了。3.至于散文和戏剧,不用花大力气,两者的方法同小说部分。另:Nature你要注意新英格兰超验主义,和“The Transparent eyeball”。千万别去读《毛猿》,太乱,不易读懂。
4.关于如何对待课文内容,千万别看作者生平,肯定不考。建议略过生平,采取两遍的方法:第一遍先用笔画,画出你认为可能出题的地方,第二遍只看你画的地方,记住关键词。
还有,参照书后的大纲,大纲上提到的作品有限,如果时间紧,就只记住大纲提到的作品便可省去不少时间。
二。英国部分的方法同美国,但见于其内容太多,所以可以适用时间充裕的人。此处不再敖述。
就我对从1999~2003年国考题的分析看,大纲每一章后都有一个终结,包括一般了解,了解,掌握,应用等。最后一道20分的大题一般都是大纲的应用部分的内容,应给予高度重视。English American Literature
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first time to use ‘heroic couplet’?
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the human passion for knowledge,power and happiness
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eternal or immortal beauty
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To be,or not to befully reveal the inner conflict of the characters
Francis Baconstudies serve for delight,for ornament,and for ability.Studies perfect nature,and are perfected by experience.Different ways adopted by different people to pursue studiesto weigh and consider.How studies exert influence over human characterbreak away from love poetry,a seemingly unfocused diversity of experiences and attitudes,and a free range of feelings and moodsConceits,syllogism 三段论
the busy sun is always ready to interfere with other things and everywhere
whatever you are,you can not escape from death.When you are living,you are always in the shadow of death.Death only lasts a moment,our life after death is eternal.The more pleasure the death gives people,not only the pleasure of the rest the sleep,because ‘whom the gods love die young’。Though death is usually considered powerful,it actually provides a rest for a man‘s body and a birth for his soul.John Milton
the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.The conflict is between human love and spiritual duty.In heaven,Satan led a rebellion against God with his unconquerable will.the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.Neoclassicisma progressive intellectual movement,reason(rationality),equality science
Gothic novelthe first writer study of the lower-class people,praise the human labor and the Puritan fortitude 清教徒坚韧
Jonathan SwiftLilliput,Brobdingnag,Flying Island Houyhnhnm
Henry Fieldingfirst combine an English dictionary,last neoclassicist enlightener
Richard Brinsley Sheridanemotion over reason,spontaneous emotion,a change from the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of the human spirit,poetry should be free from all rules,imagination,nature,commonplace
The romantic period began with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge‘s
William Blake-engraver雕刻家
from a happy and innocence world from children‘s eye
from a world of misery,poverty,disease,war and repression with a melancholy 忧郁的tone from men eyes Childhood,paradoxes,a pairing of opposites
William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyHe defines the poet as a ‘man speaking to men’,and poetry as ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,which originates in ’emotion recollected in tranquillity‘。
the poet is very cheerful with recalling the beautiful sights.In the poem on the beauty of nature,the reader is presented a vivid picture of lively and lovely daffodils 水仙 and poet‘s philosophical ideas and mystical thoughts.the sonnet describes a vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London,silent,bright,glittering,smokeless mildly.It is so touching a sight that the poet expressed his religion piety 虔诚for nature.thanks to poet‘s rich imagination,the mass of associations,this commonplace happening becomes a striking event,the poet succeeds in making the reader’s share his emotion.The poem also shows the poet‘s passionate love of nature.Samuel Taylor Coleridgethe demonic(supernatural)the conversational
The demonic group includes 3 masterpieces,,the contrast between the permanence of art and the transience 短暂of human passion,‘Heard melodies are sweet,but those unheard are sweeter’,‘Beauty is truth,truth beauty’
Jane Austen
The Victorian Period
Darwin‘s and shook the traditional faith,everything is created by GodUtilitarianism 功利主义 was widely accepted and practiced Critical realists were all concerned about the fate of the common people
Charles DickensCharlotte,Emily AnneEmily,a rather reserved and simple girl,was very much a child of nature.Alfred Tennysonthe most original poet,who improve and mature the dramatic monologue
his masterpiece
this dramatic monologue is the duke‘s speech addressed to the agent who comes to negotiate the marriage,the duke is a self-conceited,cruel and tyrannical man
George Eliot:As a woman of exceptional 特有的intelligence and life experience,she shows a particular concern for the destiny of women
a sharp contrast is set between the cold,lifeless,dull house and Dorothea who is full of youthful life and vigor
Thomas Hardyfather of the American short stories,the American Goldsmith
Perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced
First novel
contains German folk tales,Ralph Waldo Emersonme,my nation(society),Free verse,Envelope structure,Catalogue(Listing)
A new ideal,a new world,a new life-style
how a child is greatly influenced by his growing environments
a scene of the American Civil War,all the movements described in this picture are frozen.Whitman is a man bubbling with energy and laden with ideas,spontaneous expression of his original ideas
Herman Melvillethe Gilded Age,the poor poorer and the rich richer,people‘s attention was now directed to the interesting features of everyday existence
Local colorism,social Darwinism,bestiality,beyond man‘s control
Mark Twaininternational theme,psychological realistStream of consciousness,interior monologue,free association
the narrator is an American expatriate,named Winterbourne.Daisy is the most innocent girl.The clash is between two different cultures.Emily Dickinson
Based on her own experiences,her sorrows and joys
express Dickinson‘s anxiety about her communication with the outside world.description of a moment of death
Dickinson makes the train part of nature by animalizing it,like a horse.personify death and immortality so as to make her message strongly felt
Theodore Dreiser,’who shall cast the first stone?‘
The modern perioda leading spokesman of the ‘Imagist Movement’
Pound attempts to produce the emotion he felt when he walked down into a Paris subway station and suddenly saw a number of faces in the dim light.To capture the emotions,Pound uses the image of petals on wet,black boughs.agreement with Whitman‘s free verse
Robert Lee Frostfounder of the American drama,won the Pulitzer Prize four times
F.Scott Fitzgeraldawarded the Nobel Prize
Iceberg style,Code hero,the lost generation,grace under pressure
from birth and death coexist
William Faulkner-awarded a Nobel Prize
South,imprisonment in the past
Stream of consciousness,multiple points of view
Yoknapatawpha Country
Emily is regarded as the symbol of tradition and the
old way of life.Thus her death is like the falling of a monument.
第三篇:英美文学211人大山大北外北师大保研经验贴
英美文学普通211保研北师大经验贴
简介:郑州大学外语学院英语语言文学专业,收到山大,人大,保研到北京师范大学外国语言文学院攻读英美文学专业,大学三年绩点3.8,8/164,专四及口语均为优秀,获两年励志奖学金,两年三好学生,(大三学年的评优评先保完研之后才开始),优秀团员,优秀青年志愿者,社会实践活动先进个人,一个教育机构实习证明(还有一个实习,但没有证明),商洽会口译员证明。
保完研之后并没有天堂般的悠闲和舒适,因为闲下来的日子过得心很慌,所以,回想一下前期准备和将近一个月在外奔波的保研历程,我觉得十分有必要总结一下,既为自己反思人生阶段,也为学弟学妹们提供一些参考。
准备篇
搜集信息,评估自己,确定目标
大概在大一末第一次听到成绩如果保持,有可能被保研这个词汇,大三正式有意识的争取名额,9月20日左右正式公示名额。所幸,真的有我。
除了学习成绩的准备,推免信息的搜索也是至关重要。保研一定程度上来说也是一场信息战。第一阶段,我参加了很多讲座,了解了保研考研的区别,还有与我排名相似的学姐们保研的院校做参考,仅做参考,保研期间报学校的技巧我之后会详细解释,第二阶段针对性询问目标院校的学长学姐,题型,风格,以及难易度,并在三个官网上找招生简章,招生目录,专业院系介绍,是否有博士点等等。
Tips: 用好浏览器,微信等的收藏栏,用截图,下载图片,文件夹等等方式保存下有用信息,分类汇总,以便再次查找
那么保研和考研的区别是什么呢?
1.保研对前五学期或者前三学年的成绩排名要求高,而考研则向全体应届生开放。北外预报名对前三学年成绩要求为前15%,北师大要求名列前茅,山东大学要求获得推免资格等等。我们院排名按所有的必修课和专业选修课的绩点排名(86与89的绩点一样),17年首次将专英和科英合在一起计算,有些同学会受到不小影响,英语专业保研名额为20个,日语6个,德语3个,俄语2个。2.保研选择范围比考研大很多。考研只能报一个学校的一个专业,十分需要对自己全面的评估和破釜沉舟的胆识,而保研国家系统上可以报3个平行志愿,而在国家系统开放之前,很多同学的学校就已经确定了,这是因为保研分5,6月份报名、暑假参加的夏令营,大部分学校进行的预报名和最后阶段的国家系统,这就意味着你可以尝试尽可能多的学校,我一共申请过大概12所学校,参加了四个半学校的考试,收到三个录取通知。我们这一届,英语专业夏令营被录取的至少有三个人,也就是大三暑假就已经确定了学校,预报名被录取了几乎全部,国家系统开放时只需要走一下形式就可以了。可以看出,保研的选择权主动权都比考研占优势。
3.保研流程比考研简短,竞争压力小
考研从大三下半年开始准备,一直到大四的3月份,战线长达1年,而保研几乎只需要大三暑假和大四学期前一个月,总共最多3个月就可以尘埃落定。考研知识范围广而细,政治等非专业科目多,保研没有全国统考,相当于直接进入考研的复试,只考专业课的听说读写译,(后附回忆版试题),个别学校考察二外口语,而且竞争压力小,招生比例高,录取后待遇也相对要好,就北师大而言,研究生开学一等奖学金只颁给推免生。当然,这一切都离不开本科前三学年的努力)
那么,既然认定了走保研这条路,专业和学校的选择也是一大问题。首先遇到的问题是选专硕还是学硕。
专硕学制2或2.5年,学费在两万左右,奖学金助学金比例少,偏实践,而学硕学制2.5或3年,学费8000/年,助学金全覆盖,奖学金比例高,同时升博和出国交流机会多,偏研究型,比较之下,我选择了学硕。
英语专业的学硕分大概三个方向,文学,翻译理论与实践,和外国语言学及应用语言学,个别学校有英语国家文化研究(澳大利亚,英国,美国,加拿大,爱尔兰等),区域国别研究,跨文化交际等等。我当时也是纠结迷茫了好长时间,问学长学姐们为什么选择自己的专业,仿佛他们的理由也会成为我说服自己的借口,可是,时间一点点流逝,我却一直决定不了。因为我之前报了口译的补习班,经过一年的学习渐渐感觉不适合自己,而人工智能的发展对翻译构成极大的威胁,语言学抽象难懂,考试基本靠死记硬背,而之前认真读过几本英文原著,对《呼啸山庄》十分感兴趣,也喜欢读书的感觉,再加上参考上年,选笔译的同学相对多一些,内部竞争压力小,不会受到排名靠前同学的影响,同时文学基础知识相对固定,复习起来也比较有思路,因此最终确定了英美文学的方向。
确定了方向之后,学校也就好确定了,根据2017年广州日报给出的外国语言文学的专业排名,我确定了专业排名前25的北京的学校,有人大20,北航27,对外经济贸易大学18,山大16,北师7,北外1,还有专业排名靠前(第10)但学校门槛较低的南师、跟我们学校关系不错,录取过大量学姐的北理保底。另外还选择了不在北方但十分值得一去的南大3,武大28,浙大9。
夏令营
早做准备,一心多用
我对夏令营开放有些后知后觉,希望学弟学妹们关注招生信息动态,并非所有学校的所有院系都举办夏令营,要积极查找信息,广撒网,千万不要错过心仪的学校,比如中山大学和上海交通大学,夏令营几乎就已经招满了,预报名招生都是为了候补。正在紧张复习的5月中下旬,夏令营开放的通知传来,复印扫描证书,打印报名表,院办盖章,找老师写推荐信等等预报名时需要的流程就已经开始预演了,这时候积攒经验,多复印证书,统计自己的基本信息,为预报名做准备。大致包括家庭信息,学习工作经历,所获奖励,社会实践和个人自述,准备好一份之后复制粘贴改改开头结尾就可以申请不同的学校,效率十分高。如下:
我当时确定的方向还是口译,所以报了外交学院,北外,燕京学堂和人大(注意人大不是夏令营,而是大四不再开放的预报名,美其名曰优秀大学生论坛),不过,因为报的学校层次过于高,并没有收到参营通知。所以,我用我失败的经历告诉你们,夏令营抓住最好,没抓住也不要气馁,毕竟学生之间都流传着“夏令营门槛高,预报名录取难”的说法,希望你们超越我,如果没有,也没关系,我来给你们垫底。
暑期复习
提前确定1-2个目标院校,问好题型,暑假一个月之后回到学校,才开始真正的复习。由于时间太紧张,开学后安排有些混乱。建议学弟学妹尽早开始。
购买的资料:
刘炳善的《英国文学史》及辅导教材笔记与考研真题详解/圣才教育 常耀信的《美国文学史》及教参笔记与考研真题详解/圣才教育 散文108篇,专八华研真题,GRE写作,GRE阅读 复习重点:
1.面试问题及口语:下意识练习语音语调,英语自言自语,列出可能问的问题,结伴互相问答
2.文学知识:掌握英国文学和美国文学的基本知识,按流派进行分类整理,记清作者和作品,(用来增加底气和自信),对不同文学形式如小说,诗歌,戏剧均要有说的上来的一两个代表作家和作品,同时必须有自己的喜好和见解,在JStor上搜相关论文(面试的重中之重,100%命中率)
3.基础技能训练:听力,阅读,翻译,写作,保持题量 4.其他:多看时事新闻,用作写作,翻译。
5.二外:准备常用日常用语,尤其没听懂时的应对
预报名
8月下旬就已经陆陆续续有学校开放预报名系统了,跟婷婷,诗雨,研彦,杨慧,尹佳敏,李媛一起交流消息,省去很多盲目查找的麻烦,所以建议保研的同学一定抱成团,互通有无,真正意义上的竞争对手是外校的学生。5月份报的人大给了通知,因此先去了人大,之后南大浙大被拒,又收到了山大,对外经贸,北外,北航,北师,南师,武大的复试通知,根据复试时间地点确定了自己的行程:21日去山大,24日去北外,25日去北师,26日去北航。
17年复试时间汇总人大,9月7-9日,有笔试,也有二外面试;山大面试21日,有笔试;北外面试时间24日,有笔试;对外经贸23-24日,有笔试;北师大25日,有笔试;北航26日,有笔试;武汉大学,28日,有笔试;南师,29日;北理分三批,21/26/10.1之后。
复试
理性取舍,积极应对
复试对于时间的安排能力要求非常高,很多学校会冲突,因此前期尽可能报多的学校是一种明智的选择,提前找好同学结伴,预定好学校附近的宾馆,很有可能一个人坐火车跑去一个陌生的城市面试,可提前联系学校的同学或学长学姐。复试前一定养好精神,哪怕没有准备好,也一定要保证有领场发挥的精力。复试完后马上凭记忆再现问题,查找答案,总结感受,为下一场做准备,根本没有再拿起书本全面复习的时间。以下为我总结的人大,山大,北外,北师的复试流程,题型及感受。
人大复试 笔试
1.abbreviation写全称
10个
GMAT CIA Central Intelligence Agency SAT NASA GRE IELTS UNESCO NATO FBI Federal Bureau Investigation GPA 2.俗语填空
10个
A man’s house is his castle;a bolt out of the blue;the proof of the pudding is in the eating 实践出真知;nothing is impossible for a willing heart 心之所愿,无所不成;Never count your chickens before they are hatched小鸡孵出之后再算数;Once biten, twice shy一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳;Barking dog seldom bites吠犬不咬人;as gentle as lamb;look for a needle in the haystack 大海捞针„„
3.英译汉双一流计划,大学生创业,两学一做,一带一路,传销,维护国家主权和领土完整,人工智能,白人至上主义和种族暴力
4.分析诗歌
Emily Dickinson her soul selected her own society 5.共产党宣言两段的翻译
6.作文
加多宝和王老吉的包装纠纷 1500字以上 专业面试 英美文学
流程
抽文章,看五分钟,进去之后朗读,开始问问题,对文章的理解
读了哪些书 对双城记的看法 为什么喜欢呼啸山庄(要学术的理论分析)
在情感上,比较黑色郁金香和呼啸山庄
heathcliff与cathy的爱是否正常,安娜卡列尼娜与呼啸山庄,有没有读过美国文学(少给自己挖坑,我说的书太多了所以问了我很多问题)
二外面试
抽签,看文章2分钟,读文章,问数字六千万,问文中一个专有名词是什么,去哪里旅过游
山大
流程:上午报道,下午抽签,单数一考场,双数二考场 第一部分听力: 15分钟内做200字总结,大音响放,杂音,背景音多,尽量往前坐;听写,老师读三篇,一三遍快,第二遍慢
第二部分面试: 自我介绍(经验:)自我介绍(只说读了很多书,不说具体是哪个,问了再说,突出最喜欢的那本。没说完就被打断了)呼啸山庄是怎么开头的,里面的开头的男人叫什么,学多少关于文学的课程,还学了什么其他的关于文学的课程,比如诗歌啊,散文啊之类,看过那本莎士比亚的原著,知道什么文学理论
北外
24号上午8:30-11:30,笔试,本质上全是阅读(长一短两个阅读理解,段落七选六,完形填空 lay/ set/ rest/ put hands on?,没选项的完形填空)+ 作文:social media的利弊,总体感觉:题量不大,词汇量大,单词辨析重细节
24号中午12:30-13:30 报道,队快排出校园了„„
14:00-面试
专业分候场教室,三组同时面试,效率高。十分钟,老师卡时间,最喜欢《呼啸山庄》的那个点,为什么喜欢《呼啸山庄》,Heathcliff 是一个什么样的人,《苔丝》悲剧命运的原因
北师大
9月25日 上午8:20-40 报道,9点到10:30,笔试,13:00,面试 分值:笔试100,面试200,同一个专业按分数高低录,不分专业
一个班里考试,至少有一半是本校生,压力山大,书包就放在旁边,没收上去
笔试题型: 无选项完形填空,两篇阅读(难度不大),划线句子翻译(很多生词,五句),作文(父母孩子应不应该让孩子玩手机,不少于300字)面试:按名单顺序,有一篇文章看10分钟,满满一张A4纸,关于文学的内容,下面列了五个问题,关于paraphrase ,主题,字词理解,还有句子理解,现场随机问,有五个面试官,四个女的一个男的,每个老师都会问至少三个问题,还有一个记录员负责收报名表。先朗读一段,然后问关于文章的问题,文章关于rhetoric, responsive and responsible reader, considerate writer, 原则就是随时找空子往准备了两本小说的问题上扯,举例子 问题:
1.What is the difference between writer and author?
2.What is an ideal reader and how to be an ideal reader?
3.Tell me about your reading?(老师步步紧逼:Wuthering Heights and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.What else? Black Tulip.What else? The adventures of Tom Sawyer when I was little.What else have u read during your university life? Love Story, a romantic novel.I seldom mention it.)一直问我还读了哪些书,问的真心虚。
4.What is rhetoric ? 整个面试过程持续20分钟以上,是我面过得学校里时间最长的,大家在心理上一定要坚持住,千万不要害怕。
在北航笔试完之后,收到了人大录取的通知,在班主任建议下,亲自跑到北外研招办问老师结果什么时候出来,老师态度极差,结果当天下午收到北师的提前通知有可能有人放弃,决定不再去武大,拖着人大到北师出结果,回家,路上收到山大通知,直接回绝,收到北师确定答复,回绝人大,回到家后报上国家系统,一切就都结束了~ 院里推出的公众号ZZU外院微讯,TutorsOffice,上两届保研榜,班里和院里组织的学长学姐们的分享交流会,保研公众号小徐的武平工作室,保研论坛,以及各学校的研究生院官网,研究生招生信息网,各学校英语学院的官网等等要时刻关注,如果从5月份就开始关注会更好。我手机上还有China Daily, FT中文网,TED,可可英语学习软件,尤其是TED,要多听,对于面试口语表达大有裨益。同时十分感谢耐心的时楠学姐,李扬眉学姐,宋若晨学姐,周轲学长,严囝学长,方玉玲学姐,刘建航学长,宋希晔学姐,赵海云学姐,周羽学姐等等,为我解答疑惑,引导我鼓励我,毫无保留的将经验传授给我,真的谢谢你们!谢谢我的高中同学奚新杰,赵昊月,郭鸿姐姐在我人生地不熟时为我指路,领我到食堂吃饭,带我认考场,也真的十分谢谢北师大研招办的老师在未确定一人真正放弃时就提前通知我,感谢一切的一切!
第四篇:英美文学
Analysis of Robinson Crusoe
2009级师范三班刘静 Robinson Crusoe is written by Defoe(1660 ~ 1731), known as the father of English novel and the periodical literature.He is the father of the English novel and periodical literature, who was born in a family which was against the Anglican Protestant.His father is a businessman, doing business.His article influenced the later development of journal articles and newspaper.Because the speech, he was repeatedly arrested.At the age of 59 Defoe began writing fiction as a novelist, show remarkable ability.Robinson Crusoe Robinson is Defoe's first novel, is also one of the most famous novels.It is based on a British seaman on a deserted island alone for 4 years in exile records and creation.Robinson is the heroine of Defoe works in accordance with their ideals and created the character, he killed out of doing business, living on a desert island for 28 years, overcome all sorts of unimaginable difficulties.He start empty-handed, develop the island, not only to their own survival, and create a new world.He was a pioneer in the image, a real asset class hero.In this figure embodies the western ocean civilization tradition, with the outward development of curiosity, desire to conquer and spirit of adventure, praised the strength quality and working spirit.The novel opens English realistic novel road.In this novel, there are so many about the Wonderful part, but two points impress: one is the author of the narrative language easy to understand.In front of the book, the author use a lot of space to introduce Robinson in the sea to sea before, whether does not listen to parents' guide, but follow the guidance of the soul, the careful psychological description, the author description most incisive.Two is a fascinating story, the protagonist of nearly thirty years of life vividly in front of us, let our eyes as if emerging from a young life.Robinson Crusoe is to let a person look after all that the most primitive, most of my books, not only because it is the wonderful, and it gives us the modern enlightenment.The most qualities I learn from Robinson Crusoe is not his hard-working and brave, but his amazing mental capacity.One can imagine, a single large living alone on a desert island life ten years, no one to accompany him, even the most basic, and a person simply talk for a while to do.The deserted island there is no house, no rice, can only rely on his own hard to create a piece of heaven and earth.The first nonwhite character to be given a realistic, individualized, and humane portrayal in the English novel, Friday has a huge literary and cultural importance.Recent rewritings of the Crusoe story, like J.M.Coetzee’s Foe and Michel Tournier’s Friday, emphasize the sad consequences of Crusoe’s
failure to understand Friday and suggest how the tale might be told very differently from the native’s perspective.Besides his importance to our culture, Friday is a key figure within the context of the novel.Friday’s sincere questions to Crusoe about the devil, which Crusoe answers only
indirectly and hesitantly, leave us wondering whether Crusoe’s knowledge of Christianity is superficial and sketchy in contrast to Friday’s full
understanding of his own god Benamuckee.In short, Friday’s exuberance and emotional directness often point out the wooden conventionality of Crusoe’s personality.Despite Friday’s subjugation, however, Crusoe appreciates Friday much more than he would a mere servant.Crusoe does not seem to value intimacy with humans much, but he does say that he loves Friday, which is a
remarkable disclosure.Crusoe may bring Friday Christianity and clothing, but Friday brings Crusoe emotional warmth and a vitality of spirit that Crusoe’s own European heart lacks.This novel shows that we need to believe ourselves, where there is a will, there is way.Use our hands, then see a new world.What is more, we are not only live ourselves in the world, we need to care about others.Be brave, and
never lose hope.
第五篇:英美文学
术语解释:
Couplets: a rhymed pair of Iambic pentameter lines.Blank verse: unrhymed Iambic pentameter lines.Sonnet: 14 Iambic pentameter lines which follows certain rhyme schemes.2.The conquest: In the year the Normans headed by which is mainly about 4.The Canterbury Tales, in Chaucer’s plan, was to exceed that of Boccaccio’s Decameron, but he failed and only 24 tales were written.5.William Shakespeare, one of the first founders of realism.6.In the first period of his work Shakespeare wrote:
1590The Second and Third part of King Henry VI
1591The First part of King Henry VI
1592The Life and Death of King Richard III;The Comedy of Errors
1593Titus Andronicus;The Taming of the Shrew
1594The Two Gentlemen of Verona;Love’s Labour’s Lost;Romeo and Juliet
1595The Life and Death of Richard II;A Midsummer Night’s Dream
***8Much Ado About Nothing;The Merry Wives of Windsor;The Life of King Henry V
1599The Life and Death of Julius Caesar;As You Like It
1600Twelfth Night, or, What You Will
In the second period:
1601 1602 Troilus and Cressida;All’s Well That Ends Well
160416051606Antony and Cleopatra
1607The Tragedy of Coriolanus;Timon of Athens
1608Pericles, Prince of Tyre
In the third period:
1609Cymbeline, King of Britain
1610The Winter’s Tale
1612The Tempest;The Life of King Henry VIII
7.Hamlet.To be, or not to be: that is the question: is soliloquy which used in a play on the stage and without a listener.To die, to sleep, no more.8.Francis Bacon is scientist, philosopher, essayist.John Donne, a metaphysical poets(玄学派诗人)
John Milton, his Paradise Lost, which tells how Satan rebelled against God and how Adam and Eve were driven1
out of Eden.John Bunyan, The plain man’s pathway to heaven.成功刻画人物。
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, the first English novel, 是一部现实主义小说,作品的主题是通过对主人公鲁滨孙的成功刻画,歌颂资本主义上升时期那种不畏艰难和困苦,充满野心和冒险精神,富有百折不挠,顽强毅力和斗志,依靠自己的双手改变一切、创造一切的自我奋斗和创业精神。Is a realistic novel, the theme is according to the successfully describe of the hero Robinson, sing the praises of the not afraid of hardships and difficulties, and full of ambition and spirit of adventure , indomitable will power and fighting power, what’s more, the spirit of self-made depending on oneself in the liftperiod of capitalism.John Swift, his Gulliver’s Travels, 抨击当时英国的议会政治和反动的宗教势力,通过描写格列佛四次遇险,写出了作者看透了当代的腐败,以讽刺的方法,抨击了当时腐败的社会。Attack the Britain
parliamentarism and reactionary religious forces, according to describe Gulliver’s four-time distress to show the writer has understood the contemporary social corruption, and attack the corrupted society by satire at that time.Henry Fielding is the father of English novel.John Smith is the first American writer.Thomas Jefferson is the writer of The Declaration of Independence.The literature of romanticism period is from American War of Independence to before the Civil War.combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychological themes, bordering on
surrealism.His depictions of the past are a version of historical fiction used only as a vehicle to express
Transcendentalism是美国浪漫主义最高潮时期的体验,认为世间万物都是平等的。
Henry David Thoreau is the beginner of transcendentalism.Herman Melville, American novelist, proser and poet.Moby Dick, in which shows the struggle between
mankind and nature and draw people’s attention on how to get along with nature properly.He wants to subvert transcendentalism.9.诗歌鉴赏
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?我能否将你比作夏天?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:你比夏天更美丽温婉。
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,狂风将五月的蓓蕾凋残,And summer's lease hath all too short a date;夏日的勾留何其短暂。
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,休恋那丽日当空,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,转眼会云雾迷蒙。
And every fair from fair sometime declines,休叹那百花飘零,By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:催折于无常的天命。
But thy eternal summer shall not fade唯有你永恒的夏日常新
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,你的美貌亦毫发无损。
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,死神也无缘将你幽禁,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.你在我永恒的诗中长存。
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,只要世间尚有人吟诵我的诗篇,So long lives this,and this gives life to thee.这诗就将不朽,永葆你的芳颜。
全诗的基本格律是五音步抑扬格(iambic pentameter),包括三个四行组(quatrain)和一个对偶句(couplet),采用典型的莎氏十四行的韵式,即abab cdcd efef gg。
二、比喻和描述有时平淡或离奇,破坏意美
Sonnet 29
When, in disgrace with fortune and man's eyes当我受尽命运和人们的白眼,I all alone beweep my outcast state暗暗地哀悼自己的身世飘零,And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries徒用呼吁去干扰聋瞶的昊天,And look upon my self and curse my fate顾盼着身影,诅咒自己的生辰,Wishing me like to one more rich in hope愿我和另一个一样富于希望,Featured like him,like him with friends possess'd面貌相似,又和他一样广交游,Desiring this man's art and that man's scope希求这人的渊博,那人的内行,With what I most enjoy contented least最赏心的乐事觉得最不对头;
Yet in these thought myself almost despising可是,当我正要这样看轻自己,Haply I think on thee,and then my state忽然想起了你,于是我的精神,Like to the lark at break of day arising便象云雀破晓从阴霾的大地
From sullen earth sings hymns at heaven's gate振翮上升,高唱着圣歌在天门:
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings一想起你的爱使我那么富有,That then I scorn to change my state with kings和帝王换位我也不屑于屈就。
赏析:对社会、对自己的命运的不满和无奈。格律是五音步抑扬格(iambic pentameter).韵式,即abab
cdcd efef gg。
To a Waterfowl《 致 水 鸟 》
-----by William Cullen Bryant威廉·卡伦·布赖恩特
Whither, 'midst falling dew,披着滴落的露珠,While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,天空灿烂,白日的行程就要结束;
Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue穿过玫瑰色的遥远空际,Thy solitary way?你往何方把孤单的前程追逐?
总结:As the dew falls and the sun sets in the rosy depths of the heavens, I wonder where you(waterfowl)are
going?
Vainly the fowler's eye看你远远飞翔而无计可施,Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,捕鸟人的眼光徒劳眷顾;
As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,满天红霞把你映衬,Thy figure floats along.暗黑的身影飘飘飞舞。
总结:the hunter can bring no harm to you ,you are free and safe.Without success, a hunter(fowler)might try to
bring you down as you float in silhouette against the crimson evening sky.Seek'st thou the plashy brink你是在寻找开阔的大河之滨,Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,还是波浪拍岸的水草之湖?
Or where the rocking billows rise and sink或者潮水冲刷的海滩,On the chafed ocean side?那里的巨浪奔腾起伏?
• 总结:are you seeking for a place that is suitable for rest? Are you looking for the marshy edge of a lake,the bank of a river, or the shore of the ocean?
There is a Power whose care有上苍把你关照,Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,--在无路的海岸为你指路,The desert and illimitable air,--在荒漠和无边的空际,Lone wandering, but not lost.你孤单的飘荡不致迷途。
• 总结:There is a Power that leads you on your way across deserts and through unlimited expanses of air.You may be wandering and alone, but you are not lost.All day thy wings have fann'd你成天翕动翅膀,At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere:任空气稀薄暴风寒冷,飞在高处,Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,疲乏中你不肯降落舒适的大地,Though the dark night is near.即使黑夜即将紧闭它的帷幕。
总结:you have been flying the whole day, but do not stop and have a rest though dark is coming.You have been flapping your wings all day high in the sky, yet you continue on even though night is near and land beckons beneath you.And soon that toil shall end,你很快就会结束这样的劳苦,Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest,你即将找到你夏天的住处;
And scream among thy fellows;reeds shall bend休息中呼唤自己的伙伴,Soon o'er thy sheltered nest.芦苇也会躬身把你的窝巢遮护。
• 总结:you have a strong desire to be with your family;or, to achieve your goal.Soon your journey will
end.Soon you will descend to your summer home.There, you will scream among others of your kind and find secure shelter among the tall grasses.Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven你的身躯全被吞没,Hath swallowed up thy form;yet, on my heart天堂深渊里,你踪影全无;
Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,然而你的启迪深深留在我的心底,And shall not soon depart.我将久久地久久地把它记住。
• 总结:I can no longer see you, but I will never forget the lesson you taught me.He, who, from zone to zone,谁,从一个地方到另一个地方,Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,指引你穿越无限的天空作必然的飞翔,In the long way that I must tread alone,也会在我必须独自跋涉的长途上,Will lead my steps aright.正确地引导我的脚步。
赏析:There are eight 4-line stanzas, in each stanza, their rhyme is abab.