英美短篇小-说Unit-11-Rose-coloured-Teacups.ppt

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,*,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,*,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,*,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,*,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,*,*,*,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,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,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,*,*,Antonia Susan,Byatt,Unit 11,About the,A,uthor,Important,W,orks,Warm up,Q,uestions,Background Information,Plot,S,ummary,Analysis,Critical,R,esponse and,I,mpact,Born on 24 August 1936 in Sheffield,England.,Internationally known for her novels and short stories.,Booker Prize winner,（,Possession,）,.,Appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.,Born,Antonia Susan Drabble,24 August 1936,in Sheffield,Yorkshire.Daughter of John Drabble,QC and Kathleen Marie Bloor,a judge and the sister of novelist Margaret Drabble.,Family,Daughter of His Honour John Frederick Drabble,QC and late Kathleen Marie Bloor.Sister of novelist Margaret Drabble.,Education,Sheffield High School;The Mount School,York;Newnham College,Cambridge(BA Hons;Hon.Fellow 1999);Bryn Mawr College,Philadelphia,USA;Somerville College,Oxford.,Influences,Byatt has been influenced by Henry James and George Eliot as well as Emily Dickinson,T.S.Eliot,and Robert Browning,in merging realism and naturalism with fantasy.In her quartet of novels about mid-century England,she is clearly indebted to D.H.Lawrence,particularly,The Rainbow,and,Women in Love,.There and in other works,Byatt alludes to,and builds upon,themes from Romantic and Victorian literature.Byatt conceives of fantasy as as an alternative to-rather than an escape from-everyday life,and often it is difficult to tell if what is fantastic in her work is actually the irruption of psychosis.More recent books by Byatt have brought to fore her interest in science,particularly cognitive science and zoology.,Critical Reception,Byatt has been both praised and criticized for her intellectual scope and her willingness to deal with complex ideas in her fiction.Reviewers often note Byatts fascination with the creative process and the artists craft.Critics have also called attention to her interest in painting as an artistic expression and her use of painterly language to create a visual picture.Merle Rubin stated,“A.S.Byatt is an artful writer,craftsman like in her approach and drawn to themes involving art and artists.,An academic critic as well as a novelist,she has a painters eye for form and color,a scholars respect for significant detail.”Several reviewers credit Byatt for her scholarship,but some complain that her fiction gets bogged down under the weight of her erudition.However,many critics assert that the strength of her storytelling keeps her narratives compelling.Byatts recreation of the Victorian novel of manners has also sparked discussions concerning the role of the postmodern novel and the relationship between history and contemporary fiction.,Rose-coloured Teacups,Comes from A.S.Byatts,The sugar and other stories,.A.S.Byatts short fictions,collected in paperback for the first time.,A short story which describes something trivial between Veronica and her daughterJane,.,Rose-coloured Teacups is a short story which describes something trivial between Veronica and her daughterJane.Jane treats the old sewing-machine roughly.Veronica,“she”in the story,feels rage and decides to blame her.At the same time,she reminds the similar thing when she is young.This story talks about generation gap between mother and daughter.However,further,the author talks about the feminine living circumstances.The author wants to tell us that the feminine living circumstances is unchanged,but the situation will be changed at last.,13,Jane,Traditional contempt,Alive Fashionable,15,veronica,Traditional,，,Housewifery,，,Nostalgic,The feminine living circumstances,The author puts three women from different times in one scene.At the beginning,“she”sees,three women in one room-,Veronica,Veronicas mother and Veronicas grandmother.Then,“she”also sees the furniture in the room.,Three women use the familiar chairs,covers and other things together.,They even talk about with each other happily.,Three women from different times have the similar life and the same way to live.,That is to say,the living circumstances is unchanged so that they can live peacefully,even though the times is different.,The room still stands for the confined living space to women.Many novelists make use of a room to symbolize a prison.Women live there without freedom forever.The room blocks the development of females.,The room in Rose-colored Teacups has the same metaphorical meaning.The confined situation is unchanged.,The teacups are given by Veronicas mothers old college friends.For Veronicas mother,the teacups stand for a new generation.But for Veronica,the teacups are out-dated.When“she”breaks the teacups into piece,her mother feels angry.“She”could not understand why the out-dated teacups are so important.This the generation gap between Veronica and her mother.The sewing-machine is a wedding present sent by Veronicas grandmother to Veronicas mother.When Jane,Veronicas daughter,makes the sewing-machine bad incautiously,Veronica feels angry.,This is the generation gap between Veronica and her daughter.Then“she”reminds the similar thing happened on her.Suddenly,Veronica understands that Janes mind is different from her.Jane,herself,stands for a new generation.She considers the sewing-machine is out-dated.It is not important.And at the same time,Veronica realizes that she does not escape from the tradition.,Rose-colored cups and sewing-machine,symbolizes the tradition,the unchanged feminism living circumstances.,Veronica breaks the rose-colored teacups and Jane damages the sewing-machine.Their behavior,symbolizes the ruin of tradition.,To some degree,their behavior rebels the original living style.The author quotes such a sentence,“no one steps into the same river twice”.It means that time is flying.The mind is changing.The times is different.Even though the situation looks like the same,it can not be same completely.,In reality,the feminine living circumstance is changing quietly.At last,the situation will be changed.At the end of the story,Veronica sees her daughters face with pure pleasure,pure hope and almost content.It points out that the author has hope and confidence to the future.,The teacups,are given by Veronicas mothers old college friends.For Veronicas mother,the teacups stand for a new generation.But for Veronica,the teacups are out-dated.When“she”breaks the teacups into piece,her mother feels angry.“She”could not understand why the out-dated teacups are so important.This is,the generation gap between Veronica and her mother.,The sewing-machine,is a wedding present sent by Veronicas grandmother to Veronicas mother.When Jane,Veronicas daughter,makes the sewing-machine bad incautiously,Veronica feels angry.This is,the generation gap between Veronica and her daughter.,Then“she”reminds the similar thing happened on her.Suddenly,Veronica understands that Janes mind is different from her.Jane,herself,stands for a new generation.She considers the sewing-machine is out-dated.It is not important.And at the same time,Veronica realizes that she does not escape from the tradition.,She is skillful at integrating everyday life into her reflection over female existence and the relationship between females.,By the psychological activity through time space,the work,RoseColored Teacup,exposes the generation gap between mothers and daughters;and it deeply reflects females living condition and historical fate.,With symbols and metaphor,A.S.Byatt expresses women s longings for breaking down the fetters of traditional lives and seeking new value of life,.,The coloured rose teacup comes from A.S.Byatts The sugar and other stories,exploring the fragile ties between generations,the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it,resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge,compassion,and a sense of wonder.,In the novel Rose-Colored Teacups,by surveying the generation gaps between mother and daughter through the study of the heroine s mental activities at different times,Byatt,reflects deeply on women s living condition and historical fate,and displays women s strong determination to break the restrictions of traditional life and to pursue a new life value,with the writing techniques of symbolism and metaphor.,1.陈巍.清教徒的想象力与1692年塞勒姆巫术恐慌,霍桑的小布朗先生J.外国文学,2007(1):43-52.,2.任晓晋,程宝燕.林中的噩梦成长的厉程,小伙子古德蒙,布朗新解J.外国文学研究，1998(4):25-28,