首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
In 1885 Owen Wister (1850~1938) recorded that "it won’t be a century before the West is simply the true America, with thought, t
In 1885 Owen Wister (1850~1938) recorded that "it won’t be a century before the West is simply the true America, with thought, t
admin
2013-01-25
23
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.
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:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ZG1O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Therearestillmanyproblemsaheadofus,butbythistimenextyearwecanseelightattheendofthe____.
FirsttherewasaWashingtonPostarticlepublishedshortlyaftertheelectionsonthepresumptivenewHousespeaker,"MutedTon
Thiswatchis____toalltheotherwatchesonthemarket.
____scientistshaveobservedincreasedpollutioninthewatersupply.
In1784,fiveyearsbeforehebecamepresidentoftheUnitedStates,GeorgeWashington,52,wasnearlytoothless.Sohehireda
Terrorismhasbecomesowidespreadthatitisnowimpossibletodismissitastheactionofafewcrazypeople.Infact,terroris
Stratford-on-Avon,asweallknow,hasonlyoneindustry—WilliamShakespeare—buttherearetwodistinctlyseparateandincreasingl
Thirty-onemillionAmericansareover60yearsofage,andtwenty-ninemillionofthemarehealthy,busy,productivecitizens.B
Inrecentyears,manyAmericansofbothsexesandvariousageshavebecomeinterestedinimprovingtheirbodies.Theyhavebecom
Researcherswhorefusetosharedatawithothersmay【51】otherstowithholdresultsfromthem,【52】astudybyhealth-policyanalys
随机试题
影响配送中心库存的数量和时间的主要因素有哪些?
a______vt.废止,废除
袁宏道所属的文学流派是()
“精明”的捕食者不能对猎物_______,总是在系统反馈调节机制的作用下,控制在一定的水平上。
女性,21岁患者,因发热、干咳、乏力20天,咯血2天入院。查体:T38.5℃,消瘦,右上肺触觉语颤增强、叩诊浊音、可闻及支气管呼吸音。PPD(1单位)硬结20mm,表面有水泡。x线胸片于右上2-4前肋处见密度高、浓淡不均阴影。最可能的诊断是
以下关于在新三板挂牌的公司采取做市转让方式转让股票的说法正确的有()。Ⅰ.申请挂牌公司股票拟采取做市转让方式的,应当有2家以上做市商为其提供做市报价服务,其中一家做市商应为推荐其股票挂牌的主办券商或该主办券商的母公司,该主办券商的子公司不
甲、乙合作开发完成了一项技术成果。若甲希望申请专利,而乙不同意,则甲有权单独申请,但将来实施该々利获得的收应当在甲、乙之间合理分配。()
甲股份有限公司是一家在深圳证券交易所上市交易的上市公司(以下简称“甲公司”),股本总额为100亿元人民币。大华公司为甲公司的第一大股东,持有甲公司18%的股份。乙公司拟对甲公司进行收购,自2015年7月1日起,乙公司及其控股子公司丙公司通过证券交易所的证券
下列不属于牛顿研究领域的一项是()。
下列关于宪法发展历程的说法,正确的是()
最新回复
(
0
)