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The ballad and the fork song have long been recognized as important keys to
The ballad and the fork song have long been recognized as important keys to
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2023-09-14
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The ballad and the fork song have long been recognized as important keys to the thoughts and feelings of a people, but the dime novel though sought by the collector and referred to in a general way by the social historian, is dismissed with a smile of amusement by almost everyone else. Neither fork songs nor dime novels were actually created by the plain people of America. But in their devotion to these modes of expression, the people made them their own. The dime novel, interested as it was for the great masses and designed to fill the pockets of both author and publisher, quite naturally sought the lowest common denominator (共同点): themes that were found to be popular and attitudes that met with the most general approval became stereotyped. Moreover, the dime novel, reflecting a much wider range of attitudes and ideas than the ballad and the fork song, is the nearest thing we have had in this country to a true "proletarian" literature, that is, a literature written for the great masses of people and actually read by them.
Although a study of our dime novels alone cannot enable anyone to determine what are the essential characteristics of the American tradition, it can contribute materially to that end. Sooner or later, the industrious researchers who have minded so many obscure lodes of American literary expression will almost certainly turn their attention to these novels and all their kind. Let no one think, however, that the salmon-covered paperbacks once so eagerly devoured (贪婪地阅读) by soldiers, lumberjacks (伐木工人), trainmen, hired girl, and adolescent boys now make exciting or agreeable even for the historian, much as the social and historical implications may interest him. As for the crowds today who get their sensational thrills from the movies and the tabloids (小刊,小报), I fear that they would find these hair-raisers of an earlier age deadly dull. [br] What is true about dime novels in nowadays?
选项
A、They are still strongly attractive to those low-class workers.
B、Those hair-raisers can still thrill readers as they did before.
C、Neither historians nor the great masses enjoy reading them for fun.
D、They couldn’t attract any interest in modern society.
答案
C
解析
回答此题应采用排除法。A项的关键词是sociology texts,与本文离题太远。B项在文中有明确的说明,所以不是“implied”。D项说因为流行小说的主题不好,所以不能够得到合法的分配。经过排除,只有C是正确答案。
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