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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,A Wagner Matinee,Willa Cather,1/78,Willa Cather,Born in Virginia(Shenandoah Valley),Raised in Red Cloud,Nebraska,An editor first in Pittsburgh,then New York,To visit Europe,return to Nebraska annually,love the Southwestern United States,To vacation in Maine and New Brunswick,2/78,3/78,4/78,5/78,Willa Cather,A young girl“bound up in the woods and hills and meadow around it”,“thrown out into the country as bare as a piece of sheet iron”,(Woodress,Willa Cather:Her Life and Art,31),6/78,Nebraska,“I was little and homesick and lonely.So the country and I had it out together and by the end of the first autumn the shaggy grass country had gripped me with a passion that I have never been able to shake.It has been the happiness and curse of my life.”,7/78,8/78,9/78,Willa Cather,One of the turn of the centurys“New Women”,“single,highly-educated,economically autonomous”(historian Carroll Smith-Rosenberg),10/78,She writes about,the history of the American West,the harsh realities of pioneer life,uprooting and exile,immigrant/American;city/country,the clash,between old values of simple faith,individuality and integrity associated with early pioneer life,and the new gods of money and conformity in modern society,strong and heroic womanhood,11/78,12/78,Her style,Her fiction is unique in,its powerful representation of setting and character and rich in its language and imagery,.,Her style of writing is condensed and subtle,but nonetheless tremendously expressive.,13/78,Historical setting,Westward expansion,The 1862 Homestead Act,O Pioneers!,14/78,A Wagner Matinee,-Characters,Whose story is it?,“I”,Aunt Georgiana,Uncle Howard,“My”landlady Mrs.Springer,15/78,Aunt GeorgianasLost Pleasures,A pleasure given up deliberately,A pleasure taken away,A pleasure appreciated too late,16/78,Paragraph 1-Introduction,What does the letter say about Uncle Howard?,How does the letter introduce the story?,17/78,None too,The service in the restaurant is,none,too,fast.,You have come,none,too,early.,高英考试不太难,这个冬天/杀手不太冷,这个虎妈不太凶,Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,18/78,Obsessive parenting,“There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming,callous,overdriven people indifferent to their kids true interests”,Amy Chua,19/78,The not-to-do list,attend a sleepover,have a playdate,be in a school play,complain about not being in a school play,watch TV or play computer games,choose their own extracurricular activities,get any grade less than an A not be the No.1 student in every subject except gym and drama,play any instrument other than the piano or violin,not play the piano or violin,20/78,Paragraphs 2-4-Memory(flashback),Paragraph 2:all alone with my memory,Paragraph 3:burnt out ends of smokey days,Paragraph 4:I can smile at the old days,21/78,To behold,Behold,I have told you beforehand.,The babe was a wonder to,behold,.,Lo and,behold,everything they needed was there.,“My heart leaps up when I,behold,/A rainbow in the sky”(William Wordsworth).,这人长得惨不忍睹。,22/78,Franz-Joseph Land,23/78,The Upper Congo,24/78,To kindle,kindle,this faith,Kindle,not a fire that you cannot extinguish.,A careless word may,kindle,strife；a cruel word may wreck a life；a timely word may level stress；a loving word may heal and bless.,星星之火能够燎原。,空袭点燃利比亚民众反西方情绪,25/78,To elude,What these people are trying to,elude,is their own souls,or,as we say today,the Unconscious.,During those days men will seek death,but will not find it;they will long to die,but death will,elude,them.,(,The Cop and the Anthem,),哈利波特躲过了伏地魔(Voldemort)致命攻击。,不过这位百万富翁相信这是他创新统计最好机会，在此之前，他已经失败了5次。(Millionaire American adventurer Steve Fossett,ambition:to complete a solo balloon navigation of the earth,),26/78,At the mercy of,The,barbecue was,at,the,mercy,of,the,weather.,To be chess,at,the,mercy,of,others is,the,biggest catastrophe to most,of,us.,日本是个脆弱国家，在自然面前毫无方法。,人在江湖身不由己(人在江湖飘啊，哪有不挨刀啊)。,27/78,The Green MountainsThe Appalachian Mountains,28/78,The Trail of TearsThe Cherokee,29/78,No so much as,He did,not,so,much,as,thank me.,He had,not,so,much,as,his fare home.,How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will,not,so,much,as,take warning?,他连头也不回。,我连题目都没读懂,。,这些关于英语秘密很多美国人连听都没听说过。,30/78,SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?,Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand and lollipop with your right.,No word in the English language rhymes with month,orange,silver,or purple.,Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.,The sentence:The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses every letter of the alphabet.,The words racecar,kayak and level are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left(palindromes).,31/78,I owed to this woman most of the good that ever came my way in my boyhood,and a reverential affection for her.,32/78,Dont love it so well,Clark,or it may be taken from you.Oh,dear boy,pray that whatever your sacrifice may be,it be not that.,33/78,Paragraphs 5-7-“My”well-meant plan V“my”regret,Paragraphs 5-6:“My”plan,Paragraph 7:“my”regret,34/78,To all intents and purposes,For all practical purposes;virtually;as a matter of fact,in all important respects,The book was,to,all,intents,and,purposes,a mere duplication of her earlier efforts.,We still need to check your references,but for all intents and purposes,the job is yours.,35/78,A few hours of nightmare,36/78,Wagner,the most German of men,the German spirit,13 operas,numerous other compositions,books and articles,music dramas,Libretto,(libretti):the text and lyrics,Leitmotifs,Harmonies and orchestration,37/78,Wagner,Der Fliegende Hollnder,(The Flying Dutchman),Tannhuser,Lohengrin,Tristan und Isolde,Die Meistersingervon Nrnberg,Der Ring des Nibelungen,Parsifal,38/78,Walkure/Ride of the Valkyries,39/78,“Old Maggies calf,you know,Clark”,I began to think it would be best to get her back to Red Willow County without waking her,and regretted having suggested the concert.,40/78,Paragraphs 8-10-Right before the matinee,Paragraphs 8-9:“My”aunt vs.the other attendees,Paragraph 10:slight revival of“my”aunt,41/78,Inert,Rocks are,inert,objects.,Relate:George Berkeley-,esse est percipi,(,to be,is to be,perceived,),Master Shifu lay there,inert,Po thought he must be dead.,42/78,Lest,She had to learn and practice day and night without any breathing space,lest,she should disappoint her mother.,He covered his face with his hand,lest,he shall be photographed.,提醒我以防我忘记。(提醒我提醒你。),济南部分市民抢购“活人墓”以防涨价,43/78,Lest,I have felt some trepidation lest she might become aware of her queer country clothes,or might experience some painful embarrassment at stepping suddenly into the world to which she had been dead for a quarter of a century.,44/78,Ebb and flow,the,ebb,and,flow,of the sea/relations,Setbacks,roadblocks,and,disappointments are just part of the natural,ebb,and,flow,of life.,罗马帝国盛衰 变幻莫测政治风云,黑暗与光明消长 正邪势力消长,她情绪一时高涨一时低落。,45/78,Rameses,46/78,OZYMANDIAS,Percy Shelley,I met a traveller from an antique land,Who said:Two vast and trunkless legs of stone,Stand in the desert.Near them,on the sand,Half sunk,a shattered visage lies,whose frown,And wrinkled lip,and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,Which yet survive,stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.,And on the pedestal these words appear:,My name is Ozymandias,king of kings:,Look on my works,ye Mighty,and despair!“,Nothing beside remains.Round the decay,Of that colossal wreck,boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.,47/78,“My”aunt,She sat looking about her with eyes as,impersonal,almost as,stony,as those with which the granite Rameses in a museum watches the,froth and fret,that,ebbs and flows,about his pedestal.,48/78,Impressionism,“just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen,we take death to reach a star”,49/78,Claud Monet,50/78,Starry,Starry Night,Starry,starry night.Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,Swirling clouds in violet haze,Reflect in Vincents eyes of china blue.Colors changing hue,morning field of amber grain,Weathered faces lined in pain,Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand.,51/78,Starry,Starry Night,For they could not love you,But still your love was true.And when no hope was left in sightOn that starry,starry night,You took your life,as lovers often do.But I could have told you,Vincent,This world was never meant for oneAs beautiful as you.,52/78,“My”aunt vs.other attendees,One lost the,contour,of faces and figures,indeed any effect of,line,whatever,and there was only the,color,of bodies past counting,the shimmer of fabrics soft and,fine,silky and sheer,here and there the dead shadow of a frock coat,so many daubs of tube-paint on a palette,53/78,54/78,A little stir of anticipation,I could feel how all those details,sank into,her soul(vs.plowing forever and forever in a treadmill from daybreak to dusk without perceiving a shadow of change),The restless,wind-tossed forest,draw the heart out of me,55/78,Paragraphs 11-18-The matinee,Paragraphs 11-13:What,I wondered,did she get from it?,Paragraph 14-16:her weeping&question,Paragraph 17-18:world of death vaster yet,56/78,Frenzy,In a,frenzy,of hate/fright,Zeal without prudence is,frenzy,.,so that it was like being inside an enclosure,always inside.Life always a dream or a,frenzy,inside an enclosure.(,Lady Chatterleys Lover,),His game-winning goal sent the crowd into a,frenzy,.,他人笑我太疯癫，我笑他人看不穿。,57/78,To overwhelm,To vanquish/crush,inundate/flood,astonish/amaze,To overcome(sb.)with power/burdens,an,overwhelming,majority/victory,Former president George Bush notoriously said American families should be“closer to the Waltons than the Simpsons”,but Homer was,overwhelming,favorite in a Radio Times magazine poll on which U.S.TV character should take over at the White House.,58/78,To overwhelm,an,overwhelming,sense of duty,He was,overwhelmed,with gratitude.,I was,overwhelmed,by his generosity.,同情心泛滥,物质极大丰富,受不鸟啦受不鸟啦完全受不鸟,骂得狗血喷头,我对你仰慕之情如同滔滔江水，绵绵不绝,。,59/78,With the battle between the,two motives,with the frenzy of the Venusberg theme and its,ripping,(c.f.Para 13:seething turmoil,pelting)of strings,there came to me an overwhelming sense of the,waste and wear,we are so powerless to combat.,60/78,The flat world of the ancients,A corral that reached to sunset,A cornfield that stretched to daybreak,The conquests of peace,dearer-bought than those of war,61/78,To conjecture,I looked intently at them and tried to,conjecture,from their faces and movements what sort of men they were,and what were their characters.,猜测迈克尔杰克逊死因,Goldbach,conjecture,Before he could entertain a,conjecture,to imagine how these fatal accidents had fallen out,Juliet awoke out of her trance.(Romeo and Juliet),62/78,Seething,seething,with hatred,怒火中烧,Lovers and madmen have such,seething,brains-Shakespeare.,首都充满了节日欢跃气氛。,U.S.capital seething with grand Independence Day celebration.,63/78,What did she get from it?,A good pianist in her day,musical education,Had she enough left to at all comprehend this power which had kindled the world since she had left it?,Utter immobility vs groping hands(para 13),64/78,In so far as,On the contrary,we have seen that most children are ill-prepared for employment,in so far as,they know little about what to expect when they start work.,Having a good self-image might make someone more likable,insofar,as,people prefer to associate with confident,positive individuals and generally avoid those who suffer from self-doubts and insecurities.,Looking back helps,insofar as,it helps you learn from your mistakes.,65/78,In so far as,Brainstorming:Forgetfulness/Insanity is a good thing in so far as,国学教育热是件好事，这是中国文化自我身份意识觉醒,就业机会多“民工荒”是件好事,You will learn you lessons only,in,so,far,as,(insofar as),you are willing to keep studying them.,只有老师说才是正确。(,只要,是老师说，就是正确),66/78,It never really dies,Her tears(para 14),the soul which can suffer so excruciatingly and so interminably;it withers to the outward eye only,The tramp cow-puncher&the“Prize Song”,“And you have been hearing this ever since you left me,Clark?”,67/78,To renounce,renounce,ones nationality/faith,to,renounce,a son/right/claim,Judge your level of success from what you have had to,renounce,to achieve it.,背义求全,绝圣弃智，民利百倍；绝仁弃义，民复孝慈；绝巧弃利，盗贼无有。,(道德经),68/78,The deluge of sound,The shining current,The myriad graves,Nameless burying grounds,World of death vaster yet,69/78,The deluge of sound,from the beginning of the world,hope had lain down with hope and dream with dream and,renouncing,slept.,70/78,Paragraphs 19-20-The concert was over.,Paragraphs 19:What it meant to the other attendees,Paragraph 20:What it meant to Aunt Georgiana,71/78,The people:glad to find the living level again,The musicians:leaving,My kinswoman:no effort to rise,“I dont want to go,Clark,I dont want to go!”,72/78,Which impressed you most?,“Dont love it so well,Clark,or it may be taken from you.”,“old Maggies calf,you know,Clark”,“And you have been hearing this ever since you left me,Clark?”,“I dont want to go,Clark,I dont want to go!”,73/78,Roads Not Takenby Robert Frost,Two roads diverged in a wood,and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.,74/78,Albus Dumbledore,It is our choices,Harry,that show what we truly are,far more than our abilities.,Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,page 333,75/78,Willa Cather on,The human cost of their bold decisions to journey to the New World,The difficult struggle to survive,The pioneer heroine,76/78,A Wagner Matinee,-Techniques,Description(imagery),Flashbacks(memories of the past),Comparison between,“My”aunt&explorers,“My”aunt&old miners,“My”aunt&Rameses,77/78,A Wagner Matinee,-Techniques,Contrast between,The past&the present,Different stages of Aunt Georgianas life,Different stages of“my”life,78/78,
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