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* Literature = Genre vs. Period  (1. Greek; 2. Rome; 3. Hebrew)
* Theme = Subject matter, general idea authors wanted to deliver
* Vulnerable = Fragile, easy to be hurt
* Where are you going, where have you been?
            - Themes: Struggle over women, sexuality, violence, freedom (free will) and
               confinement, Vision of America
                        - The literature of their own, British women novelists, Critical novels
                        - Jane Austen (Female; 女性的崛起); Charlotte Bronte (Feminist; 女性從
                           零開始 build up themselves); George Eliot (Famine; 受害女性)
                                       
                                        
                                       
                        - Elaine Showalter (Sister’s choice) = tradition and change in American
                           women’s writing

                                       
* Paul’s Case
            - Willa Cather = Author of O’ Pioneer,  My Antonia, Paul’s Case (一開始他的書
               都不賣座，但是後來 she starts to write about her home country, Omaha
               Nebraska
                           

            - Omaha, Nebraska = 出了很多名人
                    
            - Pittsburgh = 公演城; Paul 很愛藝文
            - Paul = Very thin, with high, cramped shoulders and a narrow chest. His eyes
               were remarkable for a certain hysterical brilliancy, and he continuously used
               them in a conscious, theatrical sort of way, peculiarly offensive in a boy =
               accustomed to lying (都是為了回答到老師的問題才能快點逃避老師，所以
               她決定說謊，也變成習慣)
            - Symbolism in Paul’s Case: Augustus (authority); Camations (Defiance); Purple
               (the superiority of kings and emperors); Red (defiance, the luxurious lifestyle of
               kings and emperors); Violets (superiority)
                                          
* High school = principle; Middle school or lower = Director
* Blue veined = 青旌
* Program = 節目表
* Temperament = 氣質
* Carnegie Hall