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Questions and Answers: Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction? And what is his favourite approach in characterization，which makes him different from Mark Twain and W·D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.
【正确答案】：

JAMES TOOK GREAT INTEREST IN INTERNATIONAL THEMES-----THE CLASHES BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT CULTURES AND THE EMOTIONAL AND MORAL PROBLEMS OF AMERICANS IN EUROPE, OR EUROPEANS IN AMERICA IN HIS FIRST PERIOD.
HE FOCUSES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH . HIS FICTIONAL WORLD IS CONCERNED MORE WITH THE INNER LIFE OF HUMAN BEINGS----THIS EMPHASIS ON PSYCHOLOGY AND ON THE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS PROVES TO BE A BIG BREAKTHROUGH IN NOVEL WRITING.
THE WORKS: THE AMERICAN, DAISY MILLER, THE EUROPEANS, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY  

【题目解析】：詹姆斯对国际主题非常感兴趣——两种不同文化之间的冲突，以及第一个时期美国人在欧洲或欧洲人在美国的情感和道德问题。他注重心理方法。他的小说世界更多地关注人的内心生活——这种对心理学和人的意识的强调，是小说创作的一个重大突破。作品:《美国人》、《黛西·米勒》、《欧洲人》、《贵妇画像》