首页
登录
职称英语
In 1885 Owen Wister (1850~1938) recorded that "it won’t be a century before
In 1885 Owen Wister (1850~1938) recorded that "it won’t be a century before
游客
2025-04-22
30
管理
问题
In 1885 Owen Wister (1850~1938) recorded that "it won’t be a century before the West is simply the true America, with thought, type, and life of its own" and he wanted "to be the hand that once, for all, chronicled and laid bare the virtues and the vices of this extraordinary phase of American social progress." He never became that self-envisioned Tolstoi of the old West, but in 1902 The Virginian was published. It won instant success and skyrocketed its author to fame. It is still the most popular "Western" novel ever published and the master design for the fiction of the Wild West.
The Virginian established a literary form, a formula popularly known as "horse opera", whose conventions, cliches, and values have reappeared in novels and short stories, in movies and television serials, ever since. The romantic cowboy is the hero and gentleman, one of those "good men in the humbler walks of life", who sees through shams, defends justice and a lady’s honor, shoots it out with the villain and conquers evil. Because of The Virginian, Wister created a character who is the original type for the Western folk hero. He represents the embodiment of certain American ideals--a man who is equal to all occasions, who shows independence of action, a man who keeps his word who is "a broad-guage fellow living among narrow-guage folk". But the literary device and cowboy code which Wister established dictated that the hero must kill the bad man. This necessity for sanctioning murder and romanticizing of the cowboy as a gentleman prohibited The Virginian and the genre it created from becoming serious fiction, or even an authentic product of the western experience. Instead of achieving his ambition, therefore, Wister gave us a sort of American folk epic, the cowboy story. [br] Owen Wister believed ______.
选项
A、the way of life in the West in 1885 was a passing phase
B、the cowboy in 1885 symbolized the typical American male.
C、the West would be always isolated from the rest of the country by its moral code.
D、none of these.
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/4048580.html
相关试题推荐
Inthelate20thcentury,informationhasacquiredtwomajorutilitariancon
Inthelate20thcentury,informationhasacquiredtwomajorutilitariancon
In1784,fiveyearsbeforehebecamepresidentoftheUnitedStates,GeorgeWa
In1784,fiveyearsbeforehebecamepresidentoftheUnitedStates,GeorgeWa
In1784,fiveyearsbeforehebecamepresidentoftheUnitedStates,GeorgeWa
BeforehighschoolteacherKimberlyRughgotdowntobusinessatthestarto
BeforehighschoolteacherKimberlyRughgotdowntobusinessatthestarto
Theactorshaveto______beforetheyappearinfrontofthestronglightsonte
Beingagoodparentishardernowthanithaseverbeenbefore.Inpressurizedm
In1885OwenWister(1850~1938)recordedthat"itwon’tbeacenturybefore
随机试题
【B1】[br]【B7】A、handsB、MindC、earsC考查根据上下文填词的能力。听得很清楚,表明耳朵没有题题。
Naturallytheyoungaremoreinclinedtonoveltythantheireldersanditi
[originaltext](22)Askayoungchild"Howwasschooltoday?"andyou’relike
[originaltext]Theworld’spopulationcontinuestogrow.Therenowareabout
明确业务基本事项的目的是对评估业务( )等进行必要的了解,为确定是否承接相关业务
C样式类。每行每列都只有一个轴对称图形。注意图形中部的蝴蝶状图案的对称性。第一行的第三个图形、第三行的第一个图形均为轴对称图形,问号处应填入一个轴对称图形,选
生产岗位技能规范不包含( )内容。A.应知 B.操作 C.应会 D.工作
基础心理学是研究()。 (A)正常成人心理现象的心理学基础学科 (B
A.口服吸收良好,生物利用度100% B.生物利用度20%~36%,食物能促进
根据证券法律制度的规定,关于上市公司收购制度,下列表述错误的是( )。A.投资者
最新回复
(
0
)