文學作品導讀 week3

1.2015竹塹文學獎(明信片)

文學獎頒獎新聞(連結)

 

2. Charles Dickens

 

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He

created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded

as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented

popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars

had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy

lasting popularity.

 

A Christmas Carol

 

a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall on

19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim.

A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge

and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the

ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas

Past, Present and Yet to Come.

 

 

A Tale of Two Cities

 

a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the

French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry

demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution,

the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the

former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering

social parallels with life in London during the same period.

 

3. Harold bloom

 

Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American literary critic and

Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication

of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than 20 books of literary

criticism, several books discussing religion, and a novel. He has edited

hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical

figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been

translated into more than 40 languages.

 

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

 

is a 1994 book by Harold Bloom on Western literature, in which he defends

the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as

central to the canon. The Western Canon is Bloom's best-known book alongside

The Anxiety of Influence, and was a surprise bestseller upon its release in the

United States. in the arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture.

 

 

Music: Canon(連結)

 

4.chapel (l) vs. church(r)

In Christianity, a church is intended to gather all the faithful of a specific

denomination together for worship, whereas a chapel serves a more specific

population such as a convent, school, prison or hospital.