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* Detective Fiction – also called crime fiction and mystery fiction including three characteristics: 1. Crime; 2. Murder; 3. Logical Reasoning.
                        ex. a) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe),
                              b) The Mousetrap (Agatha Christie),
                              c) Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
 

* Romance novel – relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have “emotional satisfying and optimistic endings
                        ex. a) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen),
                              b) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cerrantes) 騎士精神、推崇女性、嘲諷
* Bildungsroman – mentally and spiritually growth
* Fairy tale – short story typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves.. etc.
* Point of View – the perspective of the narrative voice, the power use in the story, but it doesn’t necessary have to be the protagonist of the story. There are basically two kinds of POV: 1. First-person (自我現身說法); 2. Third-person (“He/She” perspective, 客觀)
                        ex. a) First person: Nick and omniscient (the eye) perspective in The Great
                                 Gatsby; omniscient (神的觀念)

                              b) Third-person: Harry Potter

* Sh[ire], Cante[bury], Salis[bury] = 祖先埋骨造帆的地方
* Sanator[ium] = 框限住的 area
* D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930) 
                        - English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist  
                        - Once a teacher, a former pupil teacher just like his mother
                        - His works are usually reflection upon the effects of modernity and 
                        industrialization
                        - His sexual orientation is still unknown even after his death, however,
                        when he was about to pass away, his wife was the one that stayed beside
                        him
                        - “The White Peacock” is the first novel by D.W. Lawrence
                        - 曾經因為他的作品太過於露骨而被驅逐 ex. The Piano

* “The Piano”; "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" 
                        - 展現出他對女性的排斥
                        - Tedious; erotic; Porngraphy (sexual matter, 色情的)  
                        - 家庭因素：作者的家境貧窮，母親一直嫌棄他的父親，作者與母親
                        的關係也一直沒有處理好
* “The Rocking-Horse Winner”
                        - D.H. Lawrence = narrator; Paul = Central character
                        - What POV? Third-person omniscient narration
                        - A story about: a working-class man with a upper-class woman
                        - The man with injury from the war, leading the woman to have sexual
                        frustration, so she has an affair with the garn keeper
                        - Suggesting how love can only happen with the element of the body, not
                        the mind
                        - In what respect is the story like a fairly tale? How is it different?
                                    1. Similarity: beginning with “There was a woman who was
                                    beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck”,
                                    it is fairy-tale like to introduce the woman as beautiful and
                                    comments on her luck, which is an element of magic in the story of
                                    a fairy tale
                                    2. Difference: beginning like a fairy-tale but ending with a
                                    important message
                        - What journey does Paul goes on? Is it successful?
                        - In what way does the phrase “haunt” the house?
                                    1. "There should be more money!"
                                    2. Can’t get out of your ear, but it is not here
                        - Theme: the economic fear of the family; the ambition of the family; the
                        undercurrent of sexual tension in the desire
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