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The poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the premier Black writer of poetry that used the dialect of rural African American

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问题     The poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the premier Black writer of poetry that used the dialect of rural African American of the southern United States. Although Dunbar’s works were both popular with readers and acclaimed by literary critics during his lifetime, after the First World War a radical shift occurred, at least in critical opinion of his poetry, and twentieth-century critical evaluation of his work has been generally negative. Some critics attacked his work on social grounds for failing to challenge plantation stereotypes of African Americans. Other critics, such as the post James Weldon Johnson, argued from aesthetic grounds that dialect poetry in general was too limited as an artistic medium, and capable of producing only two effects: pathos and humor. The negative critical trend only began to reverse itself in the 1970s, when scholars began to emphasize the importance of mythic, psychological, and historical dimensions of Dunbar’s works, focusing on the interior and exterior realities of African American life after the Civil War.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage concerning scholars’ use of mythic, psychological, and historical considerations in evaluating Dunbar’s works?
选项 A、Such use disputes the claim that Dunbar’s work failed to challenge plantation stereotypes of African Americans.
B、Such use challenges the claim that dialect poetry is well suited to producing effects of pathos and humor.
C、Such use supports the claim that Dunbar’s poetry was aesthetically more limited when written in dialect.
D、Such use suggests that the initial recognition accorded to Dunbar’s poetry may have been too positive.
E、Such use suggests that earlier twentieth-century evaluations of Dunbar’s poetry may have been too negative.
答案E
解析 评论家使用神秘等维度给出的是对邓巴诗歌的正评价，而这一点导致20世纪早期对邓巴诗歌的负评价发生了转变，因此选项E正确。A项认为邓巴的诗歌没有挑战非裔美国人对种植园的成见是第三句的评论家的观点，但是对这些维度的使用本身没有直接针对第三句的观点。B项方言诗歌只能传达伤感和幽默，这一点也没有被批判。C项认为方言诗歌在审美上有局限性，这是负评价，但是对这些维度的使用是正评价。D项文章没提及一开始的正评价是不是“过于正面”。
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