1865-1914
1. International theme (transatlan theme): Edith Wharton, Henry James
=> free will 的概念 (origin: Bible裡的Adam and Eve)
2. 中產階級地位的提升跟文藝復興後商人的興起有關
3. Henry James, Setephen Crane, Mark Twain 三人共同的經歷: newspaper jounalist => objective of society
4. new conscious 講義P173
About Edith Wharton
1. She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
2. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight.
About Henry James
1. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.
2. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.
1. Free will is the ability of agents to make choices unimpeded by certain prevailing factors. Such prevailing factors that have been studied in the past have included metaphysical constraints,physical constraints, social constraints, and mental constraints.
2. The principle of free will has religious, legal, ethical, and scientific implications.
About Stephen Crane
1.Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism.
2. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.
About Mark Twain
1. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel".
2. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada.
1914-1945 Modernism
1. Modernist poetries are mostly influenced by French Symbolic
2. Yeats Williams,Wallace Stevens
3. 電影 少年PI的奇幻漂流 原形為The open boat
4. Robert Frost (Classic type of American) , Wallace Stevens
About Robert Frost
1. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.
2. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
3. His famous work: The Road not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
About Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (P1923)
1. The use of alliteration 押尾韻
2. There are two meaning of sleep: one means sleep, the other means die
3. movie: 刺激1995
About Wallace Stevens
1. His famous works: Anecdote of the Jar, Sunday Morning
About Anecdote of the Jar (P1957)
1. This famous, much-anthologized poem succinctly accommodates a remarkable number of different and plausible interpretations
2. From a poststructuralist perspective the poem is concerned with temporal and linguistic disjunction, especially in the convoluted syntax of the last two lines.
3. A feminist perspective reveals a poem concerned with male dominance over a traditionally feminized landscape.
4. A cultural critic might find a sense of industrial imperialism.
5. The style of frgamentation
現代主義=> John Keats: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
=> Piping Song 豐饒之歌 (牧神Pan/Dionysus)
=> free association 對美的沉思
"I placed a jar in Tennessee,
About Sunday Morning (P1954)
1. Encroachment of that "old catastrophe": 猶太人殺死 Jesus
2. Winding across wide water, without sound
-> Jesue 傳教的神蹟
=> empty wine-skin: Jesus的神蹟，把水變成酒
3. Dominion of the blood and sepulchre
-> 對精神文明的破產 => T.S. Eliot "The Journey of Magi"
=> six hands at an open door...pieces of silver
(聖經典故 Jesus 被釘在十字架上，下頭有三個士兵在選誰要拿他的袍子)
About fragamentation=> T.S. Eliot "The Journey of Magi"
=> T.S Eliot "The Waste Land"
practice
malpractice 醫療不當
mal- 負面 => bene 正面
mig- move into
example: migration
se- apart from
example: seperate
segregate
-ant: person
example: contestant
protagitant
accountant
immagrant
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