Araby- 年齡在國中小孩: "Araby" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners

 Detective fiction偵探小說:

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective - either professional or amateur - investigates a crime, often murder.

Ex: Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the most famous of all fictional detectives.

Sherlock Holmes: The little details are by far the most important.

Golden Age of Detective Fiction: Female writer- Agatha Christie: She wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name.

 Sentimental novel, relied on emotional response, both from their readers and characters. They feature scenes of distress and tenderness, and the plot is arranged to advance emotions rather than action. The result is a valorization of "fine feeling," displaying the characters as a model for refined, sensitive emotional effect. The ability to display feelings was thought to show character and experience, and to shape social life and relations. For example, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded.

Don Quixote: fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quixano, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthly wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote is met by the world as it is, initiating such themes as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation. 騎士精神的一種嘲諷

Anti romance:

代表- 以前: Don Quixote

     現在: Shrek

point of view(literature):

First-person view: In a first-person narrative the story is relayed by a narrator who is also a character within the story, so that the narrator reveals the plot by referring to this viewpoint character as "I". First-person narrations may be told like third-person (or omniscient)(The Great Gatsby- 以Nick 的角度) ones, in the guise of a person experiencing the events in the story without being aware of conveying that experience to an audience

For example: I could picture it. I have a habit of imagining the conversations between my friends. We went out to the Cafe Napolitain to have an aperitif and watch the evening crowd on the Boulevard.  

—  Ernest Hemingway as the protagonist Jake Barnes, The Sun Also Rises

第一人稱不一定很客觀，會包含主述者的主觀偏見。

D.H. Lawrence- 現代文學裡的英國人

D.H. Lawrence: David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence.

三本被討論知名的作品:

1. Lady Chatterley's Lover被說是 tedious, hideous, erotic但未到 pornography

Lady Chatterley's Lover: sexual frustration, an affair with gamekeeper.

The story is said to have originated from events in Lawrence's own unhappy domestic life, and he took inspiration for the settings of the book from Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, where he grew up.

__bury/ __shire: 聚落名稱

For example: Canterbury, Salisbury(8 miles (13 km) north of Stonehenge)

2. The White Peacock

3. Sons& Lovers

The Rocking-Horse Winner: 故事描寫與張愛玲的「花凋」相像

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles 維多利亞時期最晚

Joseph Conrad: was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, his works are viewed as modernist literature.(影響D.H. Lawrence)

Heart of darkness: is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow’s life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa.