欧洲文化入门课后习题答案

欧洲文化入门课后习题答案:

Divisionone: Greek culture and Roman culture

希腊、罗马文化

Ⅰ、Greekculture 希腊文化

1.What are themajor elements in European culture?

There are two main elements——the Greco-Romanelement andtheJudeo-Christian element、

2.What were the main features of ancient Greek society?

InGreek society, only adult male citizen hadreal powerand the citizenship wasaset of rightswhichamaninherited from hisfather、The economy ofAthens rested on animmense amount ofslave labor、Slaves worked fortheirmast ers、The exploitation was a serious social problem、The Greeksloved sports、Theyoften took part in the contests ofsportsin Olympus Mount,thus Olympic Games came intobeing、

3.What did Homerdo? Whyishe important in the history ofEuropean liter

ature?

He depicted thegreat Greek men wholivedin the period 1200-1100B、C、and warshappening atthat time、Asan author of epics, he employed fine literary l anguage to describe wars and men, eventhough they weredull、He stoodin t he peekofGreek literature and exerted a great influenceon his followers、

4.Who were the outstanding dramatists ofancient Greece?Whatimpo

rtant plays dideach of themwrite?

Aeschylus,SophoclesandEuripideswerethree outstanding dramatists of ancientGreece、

Aeschylus:Prometheus Bound, Persians,Agamemnon

Sophocles:Oedipus the King,Electra, Antigone

Euripides: Andromache, Medea,TrojanWomen

5.Weretherehistoriansthen?Who werethey?What did each of them

writeabout?

Yes, thereare、They were Herodotus andThucydides、

Herodotus wroteabout thewars between Greeks and Persians、Thucydides wroteabout the war between Athensand Sparta andbetween Athens and Syracuse、

6、Would you say that philosophywashighly developedthen? Who were the m ajorphilosophers?

No, Iwouldn’t、Because thosephilosophicalideas were only idealism or simple materialism or metaphysics、Socrates,Plato and Aristotle werethe majorphilosophersat that time、

7、DidSocrates write any book? How thendo weknowabout him? Whatdisting uished his philosophy?

No,hedidn’t、We knowSocrateschieflythroughwhat Plato recordedof him in the famous Dialogues written by Plato、He considered that philosophy rested wit

hthe dissectofoneself and virtue washigh worth of life、His methodof ar gument, by questionsand answers, was known asthe dialectical method、

8、Tellsome of Plato’s ideas、Why do people call him an idealist?

(1) Men have knowledge becauseof theexistence of certain general“ideas”, like b eauty, truth, and goodness、(2) Weshouldnot look at the things whichare not seen: for t he things which are not seen eternal、Becausehe emphasizedtheimportance of “id eas” and believed that“thought”hadcreated the world, peoplecall him an ideali st、

9、Inwhat importantways wasAristotledifferent from Plato? Whatare some of Aristotle’s works that are still influential today?

(1)Aristotleemphasizeddirectobservation ofnature and insisted that theory sh ould follow fact、This is different from Plato’s reliance on subjective thinking、(2) He thought that “idea” and matter together made concrete individual realities in which hediffered fromPlato who heldthat ideas had higher reality thanthe political world、His significant works includes: Ethics,Politics and Rhetoric、

10、Whowere some ofthe otherphilosophers active inthat period?Doesthe word “Epicurean” in its modern sense convey thetrue meaning ofthep hilosophyof the ancientEpicureans?What were their views on pleasure? (1)They were Heracleitue,Democritus,Diogenes, Pyrrhon, Epicurus and Zeno、(2)No, it doesn’t、The ancient Epicureans believed pleasure to be thehighestworth of life,butby pleasure theymeant,notsensual enjoyment butthat attained by the practice of virtue、But this idea wasmisled by modern people, in their sense,the word“Epicurean”has e to mean indulgenceinluxuriousliving、

11、Say somethingaboutGreek sculpture, potteryand architecture、What was the most famous Greek temple?Isit still there?

(1) Along withtheformation of Greekcivilization,Greeksculpture, pottery and architecture gotmany great achievements、Greeks putinto works of art the things they admired and worshiped,the scientificrules they discovered、Greekart evolvedfromthearchaic period to theclassicalperiodwhichmarked itsmaturity、(2) the most famoustemplewas theAcropolisatAthens、(3)Yes, it is still there、

12、Givesome examplestoshow the enormous influence of Greek culture on English literature、

Some examples:

(1) A Freudian term “Oedipus plex”of19thcentury originating from aGreek tragedy in which king Oedipus unknowingly killed his father and marriedhismother、(2) In the early partof the 19thcentury, in England alone, threeyoungRomantic poetsexpressedtheiradmirationofGreek culture in works whichhavethemselves bee classics:Byron’sIsle ofGreece, Shelley’sHellasand PrometheusUnbound and Keats’ s Ode on a GrecianUrn、(3) In the 20thcent ury,there are Homeric parallels in the IrishmanJames Joyce’s modernist ma sterpieceUlysses、

Ⅱ、Roman culture 罗马文化

1.What did the Romanhave in monwiththe Greeks? And whatwas the chief di

fferencebetween them?

(1)The Romans had a lot in mon withthe Greeks、Both peoples hadtraditions rooted in the ideaofthe citizen-assembly, hostile to monarchyandto ser vility、Their religions were alike enoughfor most oftheirdeitiestob ereadily identified —GreekZeus withRomanJupiter, Greek Aphrodite with Roman Venus, andsoon—and theirmyths to be fused、Theirlanguages work ed in similar ways andwere ultimately related,both being members of theIndo-European language familywhich stretches from Bangladesh toIceland、

(2)There wasone big difference、The Romans built up a vast empire、The Greeks didn’t, excepted forthebrief moment of Alexander’s conquests, which soon disintegrated、

2.Explain PaxRomana、

In the year 27B、C、, Octavius tooksupreme power as emperor with the titl eof Augustus、Two centuries later, theRoman empire reached its greatest exten tin theNorth andEast、Theemperors mainly relied ona strong army—thef amous Roman Legions and an influentialbureaucracyto exert theirrules、Thus the Romans enjoyed a long period of peace lasting200years、This remarkable phenomenon inthe history isknown asPaxRomana、

3.Whatcontributions didthe Romans make to theruleoflaw?

InRoman’s earlieststage, only a number of patricians knewthe customary legalprocedure、When the rules were put into writing in themiddle of thethird centuryB、C、it marked a victoryforthe plebeians、There was further developmentoflawunder theemperors until it was codified, eventuallyto bee the core of moderncivil andmerciallaw in many Western countries、

4.Who were theimportant prosewriters inancientRome?What does“Cic

eronian”mean? Did Cicero write that kind ofrhetoricalprose all the time?

<1>Marcus Tullius Cicero and JuliusCaesar weretwoimportantprose writers、<2> Ciceronianmeans Cicero’s eloquentoratoricalmannerof writing, Which has had an enormous influenceon the development ofEuropean prose、<3> No, hedidn’t、Because Cicero appears as a different man withadifferent style,far less rhetorical,but colloquial and intimate、

5.Give the exampleof the tersestyleof JuliusCaesar’sprose、

An example:I came,I saw, Iconquered (models of succinct Latin)、

6.Who was Lucretius? What did hedo?

(1)Lucretius was a poet of ancient Rome、(2)He wrote the philosophical poem Onthe Natureof Thingto expoundthe ideas ofEpicurustheGreek atomist、

7.What is the book for which Virgil hasbeen famous throughout the countries?

Inwhatwaysis thebook linked with the Greek past?

(1)Thebook was Aeneid、(2)The story was about Aeneas, oneof the princes of Troy,who escaped fromthat burning citywhen it fell to the Greeks, to carry onthe Trojan causein a new place,Rome、He didn’t goalone, but,carryinghis fath eron his shoulders andleading hislittleson by the hand,afamily groupofthree generationsmoved together、Thusin thisway the book is linked withthe Greek past、

8.Why do wesayAeneus is atrulytragic hero?

Because Aeneas had to betraythe greatpassion of his life, hislove for Dido,queenofCarthage,sothathe could fulfill hishistoric mission、

9.What is the chief Roman achievement in architecture? Give some examples、

(1)The Romans were great engineers、They covered their world from one endto t

he otherwith roads, bridges, aqueducts,theatres and arenas、

(2)Someexamples:

A.The Pantheon: the greatest the bestpreserved Romantemplebuilt i

n 27B、C、、

B.Pont du Gard:it is anexceptionally well-preserved aqueduct that spans a

wide valley in southernFrance、

10.Whyare the wall-paintings of the ancientRomans still significant to us today?

Roman painting was strongly influenced by the art of Greece、Andit also had pecularitiesof its own、Unfortunately much ofthe painting no longer exists、There are, however, somewall-paintings fromPompeii and othertowns nearNaples、These wall-paintings includestill lives, landscape paintings andfigure pain tings、Amongthem were Lady MusicianandYoungGirl, the Maiden Gathering Flowers and theLandscape、

Division two: theBibleand Christianity

基督教及其《圣经》

1.What was the Hebrew’s major contribution toworld civilization?

The history of the Hebrews was handed down orally fromone generation to another in theform offolktales and stories,which were recorded later inthe Old Te stament, which stilllaterbecamethe first part of theChristian Bible、Th us the Hebrews made one of the greatest contributions to the world civilization、

2.Why do wesay JudaismandChristianity areclosely related?

Judaism and Christianity are closely related:⑴it wasthe Jewish tradition which gavebirth toChristianity;⑵both originated in Palestine—the hubof migration andtraderoute, whichled to exchangeideas over wide areas、

3.When did the great exodustake place?

Around 1300B、C、,Moses, the famous Hebrew leader, wenttoseethepharaoh ofEgypt, telling him thatYahwehwanted the pharaohto end Hebrewslavery andlet the Hebrewleave Egypt、Withthisbegan theExodus, which lasted forty years、

4.Who wasMoses? Whatdid he dofor the Hebrews?

Moses was a famous Hebrew leader、Around 1300 B、C、, Mosesled the Hebrews to leave Egypt for the Promised Land、This was calledtheExoduswhich last ed forty years、When the wandering Hebrews leftthedesertandenteredthe mountainous Sinai, Moses climbedto the topof the mountain toreceive form god message,which came tobe known as the Ten mandments、He died shortly be fore the Hebrewsarrived at their homeland、

5.What are the Ten mandmentsabout?

The Ten mandment are a setofrulesMoses mands allIsrael to obey in thenam

e o

f God:⑴Yahwehis theonly Godall Israel shouldworship;⑵Do not carve an dserveany idol to worship;⑶Do not take the nameof God in vain;⑷Keep th eSabbath day and labor inthe other sixdays;⑸Honor andrespectone’s parents;⑹Do not kill;⑺Donot mitadultery;⑻Donotsteal;⑼Donotbear false witness against people;⑽Do not desire one’s neighbor’swife,norhishouse,nor his field, norhis servants,nor hislivestock,noranythin

g else、

6.What writings make up the New Testament?

TheNew Testament consists of 14books、Thefouraccounts, which were be lievedto havebeenwritten by Matthew,Mark,Luke,andJohn, four of Jesus’ earlyfollowers,are the first part ofthe New Testament and tellofthe birth,teaching,death andResurrectionof Jesus、Then e: theActs of the Apostles, a history of theearly Christianmovement:theEpistles, or letter sto thechurch groups around the Mediterranean; and lastly the book of Revelation,

a visionary accountofthe final triumphof God’spurpose、

7.How didthe relationsbetweenChristiansandtheRoman government c

hange?

The early Christian were subject to persecutionsby the Roman government、Jesus C hrist wascrucified by the Roman government、AfterJesus died, hisdiscipl ines St、Peter and St.Paul suffered martyrdom under the Roman EmperorNero a bout65A、D、Nero evenburnedChristians in his garden in64A、D、For 240yearsafterthe martyrdomsof Peter and Paul,persecutions ofChristians continued、The chief persecutions were under Nero, Domitian, Trajan,Valerian and Diocletian、Despitethesepersecutions,Christians continuedtospreadsteadily over the Mediterraneanregion、It beganto drawmen andwomen from allclasses and the attitude ofthe Roman governmenttoward Christianitybegan tochange、By 305Diocletian gaveuphiseffort todestroy theyoung re ligion、When ConstantineⅠwon the throne fromhis rivals, he believed that Godhad helped him, and in313heissuedtheEdict of Milan which granted religious freedom to allandmade Christianitylegal、UnderConstantine Christianitymade greatcontribution of theempire、Theemperors whofollowed ConstantineⅠcontinuedpro-Christianpolicies、In392A、D、, Emperor Theodosius madeChristianitythe official religion of the empire andoutlawed al lother religions、NowChristianity had changedfroman objectofoppressionto a weaponin the hands of the ruling classto crushtheir opponents、

8.How did Christianmonks help Westerncivilization survive?

The Christianmonkshelpedwestern civilization survive in many ways: ⑴The Christian monksspread Christianity tothe Mediterranean regionand someofthemeven sufferedmartyrdom;⑵Some monkstranslatedthe Old Testament into Greek and St、Jerome translated the whole Bibleinto Latin、Later some such as John Wycliffe and WilliamTyndale translatedtheBibleinto the v ernacular; ⑶In theMiddleAges,people inWestern Europewere mainlydividedinto threeclasses:clergy,lords and peasants、Of these three classes, t he onlyliteratesection was theclergy、TheChristian monksdid a lot to he

lp preserve and transmit a large part of thetraditional heritage of the western culture、Theynot only translated the Bibleinto Latinor the Vernacularbut also copied or translated theancient worksinto thevernacular, suchas the monks inthese monasteriessetupby Charlemagne and Alfredthe Great、

9.Whydo we saythe Bible hasshapedWesternculturemoredecisivelytha

nanything else ever written?

Judeo-Christian traditionconstitutes one of the twomajorponentsof Europeanculture、The Bible whichis virtuallyrelatedto every phase of humanlifegreatly influencespeople’sdaily life, especially in the Middle Ageswhen almost everyone was a Christian; The Biblehas great impact upon westernliter ature、For a long period oftime, theLatin Bible wasaccepted as theauthor ityand Latinwas official languageofthe Roman CatholicChurch, so mostEuropeliteratureat that time was inLatin、Besidesitis generally accepted that the English Bible andShakespeareare twogreat reservoirs of ModernEnglish、Furthermore, the use of Biblicalthemes has beena literary tradition、In factfew great English andAmericanwriters ofthe 17th,18th, 19th and20thcentury can be re ad and appreciated with satisfaction without a sufficientknowledge of the Bible; The s tudy of the Christian teaching especially the Bible has bee an important branch of knowledge—scholasticism which has been prevalent for centuries;The Bible has also infl uencedwestern philosophies andscience、Thus the Bible has shapedwester nculture moredecisively than anythingelse ever written、

Divisionthree: The Middle Ages

中世纪

1.Whathappened in Western Europe after the decline ofthe Roman Empire?

After the Roman Empire lost its predominance, a greatmany Germanic Kingdomsb egan to grow into the nations know asEngland,France, Italy,and Germany inits place、Thesenations of WesternEurope werein thesceneof frequentw ars andinvasions、The political unityhad given way towidespread destruction and confusion、Hungerand disease killed many lives and villagefell intoruinand great areas of landlaywaste、Therewas no centralgovernmen tto keep the order、The only organization thatseemed to unite Europe was the Christi anchurch、Christianitywas almost the all and the oneof Medievallives in western Europeand tookleadinpolitics,law,art,and learning forhundreds years、

2.What were the cultural characteristics ofthe periodfrom 500to 1000? Above all, theculturalcharacters of thisperiod were theheritage and achievement of Roman cultureand the emergenceof HebrewandGothicculture、

3.Who was Charles Martel?

Charles Martelwasa Frankish ruler who gavehis soldiers estates known as fiefsas a reward fortheir services in732、

4.What was therelationship betweenlordandvassal?

Lords grantedparts oftheir landsknown as fiefsto vassals、In return, the v

assals promised to fight for thelords、

5.Intowhatthreegroupswere people divided under feudalism?

Under feudalism, people oftheir Western Europewere mainly divided into thr ee classes:clergy,lords,and peasants、

6.Whatwas the differentbetweenaserf anda freeman?

A serfhadnoland andno freedom、He was bondto the land where he had been born、A freeman was apeasant who usually was aworker who made the ploughs,shodthehorses,andmade harnesses for oxen andhorses、

7.What is theimportance of the usingofvernacularlanguages in

Medievalliterature?

Inthe MiddleAges,some “nationalepics”werewritten invernacularlanguage—the language ofvariousnationalstatesthat came into being atthat p eriod,and some monksadvocated translating theBibleinvernacular、Literary works werenolongerall written inLatin、It wasthestarting pointofa gradual transition of Europeanliterature fromLatin culture that was thebination of avariety odnational characteristics、

8.Inwhat ways didGothic art differ from Romanesque art?

⑴Although Gothic wasan outgrowthof the Romanesque, it wasgiven directions by a differentaesthetic and philosophical spirit and reflected a much more ordered feudal societywith full confidence、

⑵Romanesque architectureis characterized by massiveness,solidity, andmonument ality with an overall blocky appearance、Sculpture and painting, primary inchurches,developed awonderful unity with architecture、Both arts often areimbued withsymbolismandallegory、They are not based onnatural forms but us edeliberate distortions for expressive impact、

⑶Gothiccathedrals soaredhigh,their windows, arched and towers reaching heavenward,flinging theirpassion againstthe sky、Theyweredecorated with beautiful stained glasswindows andsculptures morelifelike than any sinc eancient Rome、

9.What was the merit which Charlemagne and Alfred the Great share?

Both Charlemagneand Alfred the Great contribution greatly to theEuropean culture、Bothof them encouragedlearning bysettingup monastery schools、The scholars inAlfred theGreat’s monasteries translatedthe Latin works into the vernacular、Thus both helpedpreservetheancient classics andculture、

Divisionfour:Renaissanceand Reformation

文艺复兴与宗教改革

1.What made Italy the birthplace of the Renaissance?

Because of its geographical position,foreigntrade developed early inItaly、Thisbrought Italy into contact with other culturesand gave rise to urban economy and helped Italyaccumulate wealthwhich was an essentialfactor for the floweringof artand literature、

Fortwocenturies beginning fromthe late 15th century,Florence was the gold en city whichgave birth to a whole generation ofpoets, scholars, artists and

sculptors、Therewas in Florence a revival ofinterestin classical learning and rising of humanistideas、And to spread the new ideas,libraries and academieswere founded、Inthe 15th century printing was inventedand helped to spread humanist ideas、2.What are the main elements of humanism?How arethese elements reflec

ted in art and literature during the Italian Renaissance?

Humanist is theessence of Renaissance、Humanistsinrenaissancebelieved that humanbeingshadrightsto pursuewealthand pleasureand theyadmires the beauty of human body、This belief ran counter tothemedieval ascetical i dea of poverty andstoicism,and shifted man’s interest fromChristianityto human ity,from religionto philosophy,fromheaven to earth,from the beauty of Godto thebeauty of human inall its joy,senses and feeling、

Thephilosophy of humanism is reflectedin the art and literatureduring th eItalian Renaissancein the literature works ofBoccaccio and Petrarch and in the art of Giotto,Brunelleschi, Donatello, Giorgione,da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, andTitian, etc、In their works theydid notstress death and otherworld butcall onman to liveand workfor thepresent、

3.Whydowelookupon Petrarch asthe father of modernpoetry?

Petrarch was a prominent figure of his time, a greatfigure in Italianliteratureand one of the great humanistsduring the Renaissance、He has writtennumerous l yrics, sonnets and canzonets、Petrarch rejected medieval country conventions and s ang for true love and earthlyhappiness in his sonnets、Later sonnets becamea v ery importantliterary formofpoetry in Europeandalot of poets,such as Shakespeare,Spencer,and Mrs、Browning, wereindebted tohim、Thus we l ook upon him as the father of modern poetry

4.How didItalianRenaissance art and architecture break away from medieval

traditions?

TheItalian Renaissance art and architecture radically broke away fromthe medi eval methods ofrepresentingthevisible world、pared with the latter,the formerhas the following distinct features:

⑴Art broke away from thedomination ofchurchand artistwhousedto be craftsmenmissionedby thechurchbecame a separatestrata doing noble and creative works;

⑵Themes of painting and architecture changed frompurely celestial realm focusing on the stories oftheBible,ofGodandMary toanappreciatio nof all aspectsof natureand man;

⑶The artists studied the ruins ofRomanandGreek temples and put many of the principles of ancient civilization into their works;

⑷Artists introduced in theirworks scientific theoriesofanatomy and perspective、

5.In what waywas Da Vinci important during theRenaissance?

Leonado daVinci wasa man ofmany talents, a Renaissance manin the truesense of the word、He was a painter,asculptor, anarchitect, amusician,anengineer, and ascientist all in one、

As anartist, he was veryimportant、He has left tothe worldfamousworks such as

Last Supper and MonaLisa、Thenhis excellentuse of contrast betweenlight a nd darkness showedhim asanexcellent painter、Most importantof all,d aVinci had profoundunderstanding ofart、In his 5000 notebooks,he put down h is observationsof life andhis sketch drawing、Inhispainting he stress ed the expression of emotional states、His understandings of art exerted greatinfluence upon painters of his own generationand generations to follow、

He was also very important in the scienceof medicine、Duringhislife he dissected more than thirty corpses andwas agreatanatomist inItaly、He placed art inthe serviceof anatomyas a science based on extensive research、

6.What are thedoctrinesof MartinLuther? What was the significance of the r

eformation in European civilization?

InReformation began in 1517,Martin Luther putforth the following doctrines: ⑴Herejected the absolute authority of theRoman Catholic church and replace it withabsoluteof the Bible、People can municatewithGod directly instead o fthroughthechurch;

⑵Heopposed thepurchase ofindulgencesandcalled for institutionalreform ofthe church;

⑶advocated translating the whole Bibleinto vernaculars and madethe Bible accessible toeveryman;

⑷Hepreached loveand idealsof equality,and hewas a fighter fordemo cracy andnationalism, a humanistwhohelped to build a petent educational system in Germany、

TheReformationwas significantin the European civilization、Before Reformation, Europewasessentially feudal andmedieval、Inallaspects ofpolitics, economyand spirit, it was under the absolute rule of the Roman Catholic Church and theHoly Roman Empire、But after theReformation thingswere different、Ineducational and cultural matters, the monopoly ofthechurch was broken、In religion,Protestantism brought into beingdifferentformsofChristianityto challenge theabsolute rule of theRoman CatholicChurch、In language, the dominant position ofLatin had to givewayto the national languages asa resultofvarious translationsofBible into vernacular、Inspirit, absolute obedience became out-modeand the spiritof quest, debate,wasushered in bythere formists、In word,after the reformation Europe wasto take a new course of development, ascientific revolution was to be under way and capitalism was to setin withitsdynamic economic principles、

7.What was Counter—Reformation? Whowere the Jesuits? Are they stil

lactive now?

The counter the Reformationand tobring back its vitality, the Roman Catholic Churchmustered their forcestoexamine theChurch institutionsand introducereformsandimprovements、In time, the Roman Catholic Churchdid re-establishitself as a dynamic force in European affairs、This recoveryof power iso ften calledbyhistorians theCounter-Reformation、The seed-bed for thisCath olicreformation wasSpain withthe Spanish monarchy establishing theinquisition tocarry out cruel suppression ofheresyand unorthodoxy、

Ignatius,aSpaniard who devotedhis lifeto defending the Roman Catholic Church, and his followers called them the Jesuits membersof the Society of Jesus、

Today the Society of Jesus isstill active withamembership of 31,000, havin

g institutionsin various parts of the world、

8.What did FrenchRenaissance writers propose in their writings?

⑴The French Renaissance writerRabelais expressed hid ideasinGargantua and Pantagruelthat the onlyrule of the housewas“DoAs ThouWilt”—to follow our natural instinct;

⑵Ronsard held that man of lettersshould writeinastyle that was clear andfree from useless rhetoric;

⑶TheEssaisof Montaignerecords hisviews on life,death and hisskepticismtowards knowledge, in simple, straightforward style, his famous motto is “What doIknow?”

9.Why did England e later than othercountries during the Renaissance?In what

waywasEnglish Renaissancedifferentfromthatof other countries?

Who were the major figures andwhat their contributions?

BecauseoftheWar of Roseswithin the countryand itsweak and unimpo rtant positionin world trade, Renaissance came later in Englandthan oth erEuropean countries、paredwiththeRenaissance in othercountries, theRenaissancein England has thefollowing features:

⑴Itcame later;but whenit did e, it wasto produce sometoweringfigu resinEnglish literature and the world literature;

⑵TheRenaissance in Englandfounditsfinestexpression in drama, crowned by Shakespeare;

⑶The Renaissance in England enjoyed a period of politicaland religious stability underthe reign ofElizabeth Ⅰ、

Themajor figures of this period wereWilliamShakespeare, Edmund Spencer, Sir Thomas more,Francis Bacon,and etc、Shakespeare hascontributedto thew orldalegacy ofliteratureheritage byturningoutso many outstanding plays andpoems、He was oneof the two reservoirs ofmodernEnglish language、Thomas More has written Utopia and depicted inthiswork anideal non-Christian state where everybody lives a simple life and sharesthe goods in mon、He contrib uted to the westerntradition of envisioning anidealstate、Spencerhas in fluenced many English poets、

10.Whatweresome of scientific advancesduringthe Renaissance?

During the Renaissance,manysciences has madegreat progress、

Firstly, it was an age of geographicaldiscoveries: Columbus hasdiscovere dthe New World in1492;Dias discovered the Cape of Good Hopein1487; daGamadiscovered the routeto Indiaround theCape of GoodHope in1497;Amerigo discovered and explored themouthof the Amazon and acceptedSouth America as a newcontinent、

Secondly, Copernicus believed that the earth and otherplanets orbit about thesun and t hat earthis notat the center of the universe、Here began the modern astronomy、Thirdly, both daVinciand Vesalius were good at anatomy、Vesaliuswrote

Fabrica and wasregardedasthe founderof modernmedicine、

Fourthly,printing was invented in Italy、

Finally,Dante,Machiavelli, and Vosari have contributed agreat deal to political s cience andhistoriography、Machiavelli was called “Fatherof political science”in the west、

Division five: TheseventeenthCentury

17世纪

1.WhatwereGalileo’s contributions to modern science?

Galileo is the greatestnameinphysics in the 17th century、He has madecontribu tionsto the world:

⑴Hewasthe first to apply telescopeto the studyof theskies、He even made atelescope for himself and used ittoobserve the stars;

⑵In 1609he announcedaseries ofastronomical discoveries whichcaughttheattention of thewhole of Europe、Withthe helpof telescope, e provedthat Ptolemy’ssystem would not workand that Copernicus’s hypothesis hadb een right;

⑶Galileo discovered theimportance of accelerationin dynamics and the law ofinertia;

⑷Galileowasthe first toestablish the law of falling bodies;

⑸Heinvented thermometer、

2.HowdidKepler’s laws clarifyandamend Copernicantheory?

Copernicusheliocentric theory was putforward only asa hypothesis、Itwas Keplerwho supported him scientifically、Kepler isbest known forhis discovery of ht threelaws of planetary motion,the three laws being called Kepler’slaws publishedin 1609an 1619、Theymaybe statedas follows:

①Each planet movesinan ellipse,not a perfect circle, withthesun at one focus;

②Each planet moves more rapidlywhen nearthesunthanfarther fromit;

③The distance ofeachplanetfrom the sunbears a definite relationtothe timeperiod theplanettookto pletea revolution around the sun、This lawwas reducedto amathematical formula: the square of the period ofrevolutionofa planetaboutthe sunis proportional to the cube of themeandistance ofthe planet from the sun、

Kepler’s laws supported, clarifiedand amendedtheCopernicansystemandturned the system from a general description ofthe sun and the planets into a precise mathematical formula/these three laws formed the basisof allmodernplanetary astronomy and ledto Newton’s discovery of thelawsof gravitation、

3.Why Newton is generally considered to be the greatest scientistthat ever lived? Newton has madegreatcontributions to history of science:

①As amathematician, heinvented calculus;

②In optics, hediscovered that whilelightis posed of all the colorsof the spectrum;

③Mostimportant of all, he discovered the lawof the universal gravitation、

According tothis law, every body attracts everyotherwith aforce directlyproportionalto the product of their masses and inverselyproportional to the squar eof the distancebetween them、To put it simply, the sun, the moon,the earth,th eplanets,and allother bodies in the universe move inaccordance withthe same basic force, which is called gravitation、The law of gravitationis considered tobe one of the most important discoveries inthehistory of science andhad not beenquestioned until Einstein discovered thelawofrelativity;

④Newton’s influence was not limited to the physical universe、His analytical metho d,theway heapproachednaturallaws by observation, experimentand calculation, began to be appliedtohuman society,to all branchesofknowledgeand thought、Thus he was generally considered to bethegreatest scientistthate ver lived、

4.Why do we saythatBaconwas afounder of modern philosophy?

Bacon was regarded as the founder of modern philosophy:

The whole basis of hisphilosophy waspractical、He held the philosophy should be kept separate from theology instead of being blended withit astheScholasticism;

Bacon maintained that it was crucialto supply mankind with a scientific method of inquiry into nature、He rejected the traditionaldeductive method and founded moderninductivemethod;

Toexpert any great advancement in science,bacon held that wemust begin anew、The fresh start requiredthe mind toovereall thepreconceptions,allprejudic es,allthe assumption, to sweep awayall the fallaciesandfalsebeliefs, in aword,to break with the past,and torestore man to his lost mastery ofthe natural world、This was what Bacon calledthe Great Instauration、

5.What were themajor differencesbetween Locke’sconceptof “social contr

act” and Hobbes’s?

①Hobbes’sconceptof “socialcontract”is asfollows、Toescape anarch y,men enter into a socialcontrast,by whichthey submit tothe sovereign、Inreturn, men attain peaceandsecurity、In his theory, thepowers of the sovereign must be absolute, and it is only by thecentralization of authority in one p erson that theevil can beavoided、And the sovereign is not a partyhimself to the socialcontract、The subjectsofthesovereigncannot either changethe formof the governmentor repudiate the authority ofthe sovereign、Astotheform of government,Hobbespreferredmonarchy、

②Locke tried toshow the rational foundationof politicalsocietyand government、He emphasizedthat the social contract mustbeunderstood as involving theindividual’s consent to submitto the will of themajority and that the willof the majority must prevail、For him, absolute monarchywas contrary to theoriginalsocial contract and dangerous to liberty、For him, therulerofgovernmentis one partner of the social contract、

③Although both Hobbes and Locke used the term “socialcontract”,they diffe rfundamentally、First, Hobbesargued that men enter intoa social contract to escape thestate of war,for,in hisview,men are enemies and atwar with each ot her、Locke argued thatmen are equal andthatindividualssurrender t

heirrightsto one man,thesovereignwhose power is absolute、Locke argued that the individuals surrender their rights to themunity as a whole、Accordingto him, by majority votea representative is chosen,but his poweris notabsolute、If he fails to implementthe people’s will,the peoplehave theright to overthrow him、

6.How did Lockejustifyrebellion againstgovernment?

Locke believed that the ruler ofgovernmentis onepartner ofthe socialcontract、Ifthe rulersubstitutes hisarbitrary will for thelawsandshows no regard for people’s wills, in aword, ifhe violatesthe socialcontract,the governmentis effectivelydissolved、Whenthe governmentisdissolved、Rebellionis justified、As towho istojudgewhen circumstance render rebellionlegitimate,Lockereplied, “The peopleshallbe the judge、”

7.Whatis the theme ofJohn Milton’s Paradise Lost?

The theme of Milton’s Paradise Lost is the fall of men:man’s disobedienceand the loss thereuponof the Paradise,with its prime cause-Satan、In this epicpoem, theevil, rebellious, courageous, heroicandtragic Satan is themost successfully portrayedcharacter and is different from thetraditional image、

8.Whatis Descartes’ methodof Cartesiandoubt? What isits significance?

Descartesemployedmethodic doubtwitha viewto discoveringwheth erthere was anindubitabletruth、And he expressed this truth in this famous motto: “Idoubt, therefore I think: I think,therefore I am、” This Cartesian doubtis themostimportant point in his philosophy、Accordingto Descartes,“Ithink therefore I am” makes mind more certainthanmatter、He believedthat is thinking is one that doubts,understands,conceives, affirms,denies, wills, imagines,and feels、Doubting is thinking, thinking is the essence of mind、So he concluded that knowledge ofthings that we conceiveveryclearly and distinctly aretrue, andthatknowledgeof thingsmust be by the mind、As to the senses, hebelieved thatthey are not dependable、

9.Who was the most well—known writerin the 17th century French literature?Sa

ysomething about oneof his major works、

Corneille, Racine and Molierewerethemost well-known writersinthe 17th century French literature、Corneille’s masterpiecewas LeCidwhichshowstheintense conflict between love and duty、Oneof the representativetragedies of Racine isPhaedrawhich tells the story of the overwhelmingpassionof Phaedra for her stepson、Thetheme ofthe play is theconflict of passion with reason、Tartuffe is one ofMoliere’s best knownedies、Inthis play, he exposesreligious hypocr isy、

10.What are someof the characteristics of Baroque art?

Baroque art,flourished firstin Italy, and thenspread to Spain,Portugal, FranceinsouthEurope and toFlanderand the Netherland in theNorth、Itwas characterized by dramatic intensity and sentimental appeal with a lotof emphasis o nlightand color、Therepresentativeswere Bernini, Michelangelo Caravaggio,Borromini, Rubens, Velazquez, Rembrandt, etc、

In architecture,it referred to architecture of theperiod with its proliferati

on ofornament、Laterthe term “baroque” wasappliedto paintingsand music、Inmusic,the new art representedatransformationof itselements into a sw elling,emotional style、

Divisionsix:the Ageof Enlightenment

启蒙运动

1.When andwhere did the Enlightenment take place?

TheEnlightenment wasanintellectualmovementoriginating inFrance, whic hattracted widespread supportamong theruling and intellectual classes of Europe and North America inthe second half of the18thcentury、

2.Why the Enlightenment isalso called“theAge ofReason”?

The Enlightenment characterizesthe efforts by certainEuropeanwritersto use criticalreasonto free mindsfromprejudice, unexamined authorityandoppression byChurchorState、Therefore it iscalledthe Ageof Reason、

3.What wereLocke and Newton’sinfluence on the Enlightenment?

Locke and Newtonwerethe twomost important forerunners of the Enlightenment in the17thcentury、Locke’s materialisttheoryattributed theoriginif ideas tose nsations inscribed on the blankslate of mind、Newton’s theory of gravitatio nfurtherdemonstratedto the world that the universe wasgoverned bylaws thatcould be understood byhuman mind、Theirtheories fosteredthebelief in n atural law and universal order and establishedconfidencein human reason、

4.Whowere thephilosophes?

Thephilosophes refer to thesewell —knownFrench philosophers in he 18thcentury: Montesquieu, V oltaire and Rousseau、Theypopularized and propagated ne wideasfor the general reading public and were the majorforceof the Enlightenment、

5.Who wrote TheSpirit of the laws?

Montesquieu wrote TheSpirit of the laws、

6.Whatkindof book is Candide?

Candide isthe mostfamous of Voltaire’s novel、Itis a satire onthe pr eviousadventure novelsof the age, anattack upon the claims of unlimited optimism、It is the storyof a na?ve andinnocent young manwho bees gradually disillusioned、

7.In which book did Montesquieu discuss the separation of powers?

BothMontesquieu and Rousseautouched upon theseparation of powers, Montesquieu in hisThe Spirit oftheLawsand Rousseau in hisThe Social Contract、8.What is Diderot famous for?

Diderotis the best known as theeditor of the Encyclopédie、

9.Was Pope a famousprosewriter? Which movement ofart and literature was

he known to represent?

Popewas not a famous prose writerbut a greatpoet、He represented the rationali stic neoclassical movementin literature andhas oftenbeen called the spokesmaninverse of the Ageof Reason,

10.Whois the author of Gulliver’sTravels? What is thestoryabout?

JonathanSwift is theauthor ofGulliver’s Travels、It is a social and political prosesatire,inthe form ofa bookoftravels、It tells the four voyages by Gulliver, an honest, blunt English ship’s captain,to Lilliput(alandof Pygmies), Brobdingnag (a land of giants), the flyingislandof Laputa, and finally to the lan dofthe Houyhnhnms ,araceof supremely intelligent horses, who are servedby theYahoos, reasonless and conscienceless beasts in the shape of men、

11.Whichbook(s) was Defoe chiefly knownfor?

Defoe waschieflyknown for hisnovel Robinson Crusoe、

12.What was Fielding’smajor contribution to English literature?Name o

ne of his novels、

Henry Fielding’s major contributiontoEnglishliterature was hiscreation anddevelopment of modern novel—a new artfrom which isrealistic,ic, unsentimental, showing contemporary life and manners、He wasalso thefirstperson toapproach the genrewith afully worked-out theory of the novel l、The HistoryofTom Jones, aFoundling is one of his novels、

13.Whatis an epistolary novel?

Anepistolary novelis a novel in which the stories are told in a series of letters、14.Whatis Dr、Johnson well knownfor?

Dr、Johnsonis well known for being the editorof ADictionary of theEnglish Language,thefirstgreat Englishdictionary、

15.What werethe two periodicalto whichAddison and Steele contributed

essays?

The twoperiodicals to whichAddison and Steele contributed essayswere The Talter and The Spectator、

16.WhichessaywasLessing’s major contribution toaesthetic theory?

Lessing’s major contributionto aesthetic theory was his essay Laocoon、

17.Are Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werthernovels? Who wrotethem? Faustand The Sorrows of Young Wertherwere both writtenby Geothe、Faustis a tragedy chiefly in verse、TheSorrowsof YoungWertheris an epistolarynovel、

18.Which play by Schiller iswidely knownin China?

Schiller’s play Cabal and Loveis widely known in China,

19.Who first proposed the nebulahypothesis?

Kant was the first one to proposethenebular hypothesis、

20.Give thefulltitles of Kant’s three mostimportant critiques、

Kant’sthree most important critiques are: Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, andCritique ofJudgment、

21.Whatare themajorcharacteristics ofRococoArt?

Rococo art is characterizes byelaborate ornamentation imitating shellwork andfoliage and ithas a curving andelasticpattern、Itwasluxurious, sensual anddelicate, characterizing thetaste of apleasure class、It was not a sty le infine arts, but a stylein suchminor arts as furniture, tapestries,clocks andceiling chandeliers、

22.Whowere the threebest—known posersof the“Viennese School”? Do you k

nowanyof Mozart’s works?

The three best-known posers ofthe “VienneseSchool” are Haydn, Mozart and Beet hoven、

Divisionnine: Realism

现实主义

1.Whenandin whatcountry did realism movement arise?

The Realist movementarose in the 50s of the19th centuryandhad itsorigin in France、

2.What is the chief difference betweenRomanticismandRealism?

①Inart andliterature realism cameasaprotestagainst the falsenessand se ntimentality which realists thought they saw inromantic fiction

②Ifromanticismallows full play tothe imaginationand stresseslove of beauty and interestin the past,the central issues of life for realists tendtobe ethical or issues ofconduct

③And theirdemocratic attitudetended to make them valuetheindividual very highly and to regard characterization asthecentre of thenovel、

④In this sense,realismmeans more than a literary method; it definesa particular kind of subject matter –the surface details,themon—placeactions and the tragedies of the ordinary people constitute the chiefmatter if realist movement、

⑤Its language was simple,clear, and direct,while the tone wasoftenic, frequently satiric、

3.Whatwere the conditions in western Europein the1840s?

In 1848 there was revolution throughoutEurope、And once again the revolution started in Franceand was followedby a series of revolution inother partsof Europe、

4.Whowere the important French andEnglish realistnovelists?Name a few of

their works、

⑴The important Francewriters andsomeof theirworks:

Stendhal: TheRed andthe Black

Balzac: LePere Goriot,LaCousine Bette,The Human edy

Flaubert:Madame Bovary

Zola:LesRougen-Macquarts

Maupassant:The Necklace,ThePiece of String

⑵English realist novelistsand some of theirworks:

Dickens: HardTimes, Black House, David Copperfield

George Eliot: The Mill onthe Floss, Middlemarch

Thackeray: VanityFair

Hardy:Jude the Obscure,Tessofthe D’Urberyvilles,FarfromtheMaddingCrown, The Return of theNative

George BernardShaw:Heartbreak House, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Major Barbara5.Who has beencalled“the French Dickens” and who “theEnglish Balzac”?W

hy?

CharlesDickenshas been called“the EnglishBalzac,” and Balzac has beencalled“the French Dickens、”Botharerealist writers, both depict many walks of

life in their novels and toucheson most fields of knowledge、

6.Explain “Anovel is amirror walking along theroad、”

This is Stendhal’s words、It tells that the realists wanted a truthfulrepresentation intheirworks of contemporary life and manners、Theythoughtoft heirmethod as observationaland objective、

7.Can youaccount for the greatachievement of Russian literature in the

nineteenthcentury?

It was no until the eighteenthcentury,whenPeter the Great carriedthrough the reforms that Russiansreally cameinto contactwith the literature of Western Europe、Between1700and1815 Russiaabsorbed what she could ofth eclassical Renaissance,classicism, neo-classicism,etc、after1815modern Russianliteraturebegan at once withan enormous power and full ofvigour、Gogolwasborn in 1821and Tolstoy, in1828、besides themwasa host ofother writers、At onestep, literaturein Russiaraised itselffrom nothingness to the centre of Russian life、

The beginnings of modern Russian literature are to betraced to the Napoleon ic wars、Napoleon had tried to invade Moscow、Thearmy wasdefeatednot by the Russian army but by theunfavorable conditions: coldandhunger、Later the Russian participatedin the battleof Waterloo and many intelligent young Russiansspent enough time in France to bee acquainted with the ideas of democracy、They became “dangerousmen”when they returned toRussia, where anyone who should say anything against the government was punishedby severe sentences tolabour in Siberia、Thereforethe politicalandphilosophical aspirations of the Rus sian people expressed themselves in the formof literature, and literature became the voice of the people、

8.Who among all the European novelistsof thetwentiethcentury?

Dostoyevsky、

9.Whatis the book for which Whitman is famousthroughout theworld? Leaves of Grass、

10.Who isregardedas the father ofAmericanliterature? What didHemingw

aysay abouthim?

Mark Twainwas regarded as thefather of American literature、Hemingway thought high lyof him,as he put it, “All modernliterature es from one book by Mark Twain, called Huckleberry Finn…”

Division ten:Modernism and Other Trends

现代主义及其她

1.What are the most salient characteristicsofthemodernist movement?

①Modernism hasbeen called“thetradition ofthe new”、It was characterizedby a consciousrejectionof establishment rules, traditionsand conventions、Itstrove to reflect 20th century’s socialand political changes、It provided fresh ways of looking atman’s position and function inthe universal、

②Modernism hasalso been called the“dehumanization ofart”、It pushes intothe backgroundtraditionalhumanisticnotions of theindividual andsociety、

Yet, it is not divorced from thepast、Itrestates, in new terms, the same questionsabout existence andhuman nature found in former works ofart、

③Modernism has alsobee the synonymof revolution in form、Theterm“moder nism” is reservedfor more experimental and innovativemodernworks、

④Modernism isindebted muchtoFreud and manyother theorists、The moderntraditionispluralistic,marked by different ways, experimentaland traditional,in which itembodies 20thcentury、

2.Inwhat historical context didthe Modernist movement take place?

①TheWorld WarⅠtookplace from 1914to 1918、Ten million people wereki lledor missing andmany more were wounded during the war、When thismassi ve manslaughterwas going on in mostpartsof Europe, asocialist Russia was born in1917、From then on, theRussian working class establishedthe world’sfirstdemocratic government of the workers and peasant、

②After theWorld War, economic crisisinallthe imperialist countriesdeepe ned、Everywhereprices were alteredand internationaltensionsmounted、All aspects of Westernculture,including art,literature, theatre,education and science were shaken and given new direction

③The World WarⅡ, the mostdestructive war in history, was fought between 1939—1945、This time,thewarwasnot confined to European continent、More than17million members of thearmed forces ofthe various countries were killed、

④The war turnedout tobeavictoryfor democracy over fascism; it strained the economiccapabilitiesof the major nationsand leftmany countrieson the vergeof collapse、

3.WhowasFreud?Inwhatways didhistheory influence the modernists? Modernists were very much indebted toSigmundFreud、Hewasthe“father” ofpsychoanalysis, a newschoolof psychology embodying revolution and controversialviewsof human behavior、His booksentitled The Interpretation ofDreams,Three Contributionsto the Sexual Theory and The Egoand Id hada pro found influence upon themodernistmovement、Inhis theory,theunconscious is emphasizedand humansexuality is given primeimportance inanalyzin ghuman behavior、His discovery opened upa new dimension for the modernists, who laterstrove to explore this new “inner”realityin many of their works、

4.Whois the author of TheWasteland?

T、S、Eliot is the author of The Wasteland

5.Who wrotethenovel Remembranceof Things Past?

MarcelProust wrote thenovel Remembranceof Things Past、

6.Which book(s)is Joyce famous for?

Joyce is famousfor hisUlysses,Finnegans Wake,Dubliners,and A portrait ofaArtist asa YoungMan.

7.What is the Bloomsbury group?

Virginia Woolf was a very famouswriter、Quite earlyin her career, herhouse inBloomsburybecame a literary and art centre、The artists,criticsand writers w howere attracted to it became known as theBloomsbury group、

8.What are the major characteristics of Faulkner’s novels?

①Faulknerwrote aboutAmerica’s south and used the methodofthe stream of consciousness and multiple—narrators、

②Inhis novels,he created a Mississippi munitymodeled on hisown country、Inthis munity, he put thecharacters he observed, using brilliant and plicated literary techniques to tell their stories、

③Hewrote of conflicts: the conflicts of different generations, of social classes, of r aces,and of men、

④His philosophy was that the brotherhood of man would triumph、

9.What makes outHemingway’s styleof writing?

Hemingway is known for hismastery of the art ofmodern narration、He helped t oacplish a revolutioninliterary style and language、He tried to cut out all w ordsthat werenotstrictly necessary、His styleis characterized by short and simple sentenceswithveryfew adjectives and adverbs、Butthey arefull o

f emotion、

10.Whois the major figure in 20thcentury German literature?

Thomas Mann is the major figure inthe20th century German literature、

11.Whatplace does Gorky hold in 20th century Russian literature?

Gorky was thefounder oftheliterary doctrine of socialist realismandhasbeen regardedasthegreatestRussian Literary figure of the 20thcentur y、Many of this works are largely autobiographical、Mother,is now considere dto a classic ofsocialist realism、The trilogy containing Childhood,My ApprenticeshipandMy University depicts apanorama ofRussiansocietyof his time、12.How doyou describe“Angry Young Men” in England?

“Angry Young Men”was atermreferringto agroupof English writers who found theyto be social misfits、They feltthey were socially stateless, even thoughtheywere universitygraduates、They were very sensitive to theundesirablethings of the society、The term“AngryYoungMen”came tobe widely used onlyafter the publication of JohnOsborne’s play Look Back inAnger、

13.Who belonged totheBeatGeneration?

Allen Ginsberg and JackKerouacbelonged tothe BeatGeneration、

14.Whowrote the poemHowl?

Allen Ginsberg wrotethe poem Howl、

15.Whatis newabout the Noveau Roman?

①The NewNovel paysmuch attention “to theties that exist betweenobjects,gest

ures,andsituations,avoiding all psychological and ideologicalmentaryon theactionsofthe characters”、

②TheNewNovel tends to be objective、Human characters are on an equal footing wit

hthings、Things and theirinteractionsare themajorinterest of these novelists、Plot,action, narrative, ideas and analysisof characters are no lon ger important、They try to avoid takingsideswhen theye to description of characters,making nodistinction betweengood and bad or betweenimporta nt andtrivial、Their characters are often shapeless and sometimes even nameless、16.What is the keyconceptof Existentialism?

The keyconcept of Existentialism isthat the manis nothing butwhat he makes of

himself、Existence is believedto precede and decide essence、As an individualand acti ve existence, each man must have the freedom ofchoice, and create hisown existence、

17.What do Beckett and Ionescointendto convey through their plays?

They wanted to convey the idea of irrationalityof events、

18.Whatcharacterizes BlackHumour? Which particular bookrepresents

Black Humour?

Black Humour is a tern derived from Blackedy、Its origincanbetraced backtoShakespeare’s time、But now the termis usually used to refer to some Western, especiallyAmerican post-World WarⅡwriters、Black Humouris a k indof desperatehumour、It is the laughter at tragicthings、In his meanin glessworld, man’s fate is decided by inprehensible powers、We can’t do anything a bout it, therefore we mayaswell laugh、Joseph Heller’sNovel Catch-22is regarded as the majorwork of Black Hunour、

19.Who are thebestknown artists and musicians in modern times? What do you

knowabout masterpieces?

Fauvism

Henri Matisse: The Joy of Life and Harmony in Red

Expressionism

Emil Nolde:TheProphet,Christ AmongChildren

Max Beckmann: Dream

Paul Klee:Twittering Birds

Wassily Kandinsky: SketchⅠfor positionⅦ

Cubism

Pablo Picasso:Demoiselles d’ Avignon, The Musicians

Georges Braque: Le Courrier

Fururism

UmbertoBoccioni:The City Rises

Dadaism

Marcel Duchamp:The Bride

Surrealism

Salvador Dali: PersistenceofMemory

Music

ArnoldSchoenberg:Violin Concerto,Op、36,Piano Concerto,Op、42 Igor Stravinsky:The RiteofSpring,The Firebird

BelaBartok: Concertofor Orchestra、

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