Lecture-6-A-Room-of-One’s-Own.ppt

Lecture 5 Lecture 5A Room of Ones OwnA Room of Ones Own(Oct.2124)(Oct.2124)ActivitiesActivitiesI.I.教学目的和教学重点教学目的和教学重点II.About the authorIII.The organization&the styleIV.Text analyses1)Read beyond lines2)Words and understanding 3)Summarization of main ideaI.Teaching Objectives：1.了解作家。2.了解文章结构和风格。3.还词语/句子于语境。理解：Read beyond lines.4.什么是文学和哲学？文学，复杂丰富的表达。哲学，新的眼光。II.About the author Virginia WoolfInnovative novelist,perceptive critic,and pioneering feminist essayist,Virginia Woolf(18821941)made a major contribution to the development of the novel with her impressionistic style.BBC独辟蹊径的小说家、深富洞察的批评家和先锋女权主义作家，弗吉尼亚伍尔夫以其印象主义风格对小说的发展贡献良多。英国广播公司a feminist writer,pioneering essays on artistic theory,literary history,the politics of power and womens writing on women as both writers of fiction and as characters in fiction III.The organization&the style1st-3rd para outlined the awkward situations of women in Elizabethan time,the most conservative periodthe style:an extended essay flooded in misty,slippery and tricky descriptions IV.Text analyses Para 1 1)1st fold:Different versions of awkward situations of woman,being abused and ill-treated 1.1Wife-beating a recognized right of man1.2“the daughter who refused to marry the gentleman of her parents choice was liable to be locked up,beaten and flung about the room,without any shock being inflicted on public opinion”be pushed forcefully around the room?be maltreated in the room Intra-sentential Context:paralleled A,B and C without any shock being inflicted on public opinion”being suffered?without any shock being imposed/forced on public opinion without shocking the public?1.3Marriage not an affair of personal affection but of gamily avarice1.4Betrothal and marriage took placeConclusive statement:That was about 1470,soon after Chaucers time.P125-126 Exercise B:No.1 According to Woolf,Trevelyans History of England _.A.B.C.D.2)2nd fold:The next reference to the position of women is some two hundred years later,in the time of the Stuarts.P125-126 Exercise B:No.2 Woolf agrees with Professor Trevelyan that_.考核句群中的语义重心A.B.C.D.2.1 husband was also assigned by father,not chosen by women2.2 Yet even so,Professor concludes,“neither Shakespeares women nor those of authentic seventeenth-century memoirs seem wanting in personality and character.2.3 Indeed,if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men,one would imagine her a person of utmost importance;very various;heroic and mean;splendid and sordid;infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme;as great as a man,some think even greater.But this is woman in fiction.In fact,as Professor Trevelyan points out,she was locked,beaten and flung about the room.Para 2 A very queer,composite being thus emerges.Topic statement+detailed elaborationImaginatively she is of the highest importance;practically she is completely insignificant.She pervades poetry from cover to cover;she is all but absent from history.She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction;in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents some of the most inspired words,some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips;in real life she could hardly read,could scarcely spell,and was the property of her husband.a very odd woman,with contradictory images,who may be talented/important in fiction while insignificant in real life a very queer composite figure,combining the ever-made imaginary perfection with down-to-earth incapacity Para 3 1st fold It was certainly an odd monster that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle;But these monsters,however amusing to the imagination,had no existence in fact.just an imagination never exists in fact?Inter-sentential Context:information goes before or after the hyphenEagle refers to womens position in poets,powerful and of great importance.The poets endowed women with power as an eagle.a woman who imaginatively is of the highest importance,but practically is completely insignificance Para 3 What one must do to bring her to life was to think poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment life,to Mrs.Martin is poetically in the book,but prosaical in real life?treat her as the woman who was described in fiction and is a vessal in which all sorts of spirits and forces are coursing and flashing perpetuallkeep in touch with fact and not to lose sight of fictionthink imaginatively and practicallythink of her in two extremes 2nd fold The moment,however,that one tries this method with the Elizabethan woman,one branch of illumination fails;one tries to think poetically and prosaically of the Elizabethan womanone tries to think the Elizabethan woman in a way that keeps in touch with both fact and fiction 就无法得到某种启示?One way of getting you intellectually enlightened and illuminated failsP126 Exercise B:No.3.The pity about the Elizabethan woman,according to Woolf,is that _.A.B.C.D.2.1 Occasionally an individual woman is mentioned,an Elizabeth or a Mary;a queen or a great lady.But by no possible means,could middle-class women with nothing but brains and character at their command have take part in any one of the great movements which,brought together,constitute the historians view of the past.2.2 Nor shall we find her in any collection of anecdotes.2.3 Aubrey hardly mentions herwoman3rd fold Woolf did suggest college students rewriting history as their research.Why?P126 Exercise B:No.4.Woolf suggests that college students should rewrite history so that _.A.B.C.D.Reason1:One is held up by the scarcity of facts.One knows nothing detailed,nothing perfectly true and substantial about her.Reason2:Aubrey hardly mentions herwoman All these facts lie somewhere,in parish registers and account books.The life of the average Elizabethan woman must be scattered about somewhere,could one collect it and make a book of it.3.Calling it,so that women might figure there without impropriety?For one often catches a glimpse of them in the lives of the great,whisking away into the background,concealing,I sometimes think,a wink,a laugh,perhaps a tear going lightly and quickly into the background withdrawing quickly and suddenly into the backgroundslipping away into the history hiding herself into the background being absent from the historyfading into the history,being neglected/background lightly and quicklyThe life of the average Elizabethan woman must be scattered about somewhere.Nor shall we find her in any collection of anecdotes.4th fold women before the 18th century:absent from historythe story of the bishopP126 Exercise B:5.The bishop used the example of cat to illustrate that _.A.B.C.D.How the borders of ignorance shrank back at their approach!(What did the author mean by saying so?Read beyond lines.)an irony to satirize the old gentlemens prejudice against women.How the degree of ignorance reduced with their efforts!(课本译文)用他们的方式，无知的边界是怎样地退缩了啊！Cats do not go to heaven.Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare.it was impossible for any woman,past,present,or to come,to have the genius of Shakespeare.1)analogy:Cats do not,though they have souls of a sort.Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare,?2)an irony:though they have genius of a sortsexual discrimination3)alienation:reducing women to cats Main ideaThe text,one out of a series of lectures was delivered at Newnham College and Girton College,two womens colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928,by Woolf,who quoted the two definitions of p_ of women before the 18th century to o_ the awkward situations of woman that woman had no e_ save in the f_ written by m_,which gave the rise for the big gap of images between woman in fiction and in h_.She attempted to re_ the existence of women through the imagined figure of Judith Shakespeare.position/outline/existence/fiction/men/history/reconstructP125 Exercise A:The main purpose of the text is to _.4th para invented a fictional character Judith“Shakespeares Sister”,to illustrate that a woman with Shakespeares gifts would have been denied the same opportunities to develop them because of the doors that were closed to women 5th-6th para stated that talented women,whisking into the background,were a lost novelist,a suppressed poet,a mute and inglorious Jane Austen,being half witch and half wizard,lost in the river of history,Solid evidence of sexual“bias”Historyhis story but not hersAlso flooding in the world of language:He fathered the plan.She mothered the plan.Child is the father of man.Wordsworth Chian Zhongshu:Dead White European Males Why had Elizabethan women gone ignored in the histories?But by no possible means with nothing but at their command economically dependant on their husbands Can you find other adjectives or complete sentences,scattered in the passage,to define the awkward and deplorable situations of women,being lost,forgotten and controlled under the supremacy of men?Echoing with:(*0805 王宇0803陈飞0801筱洁)Para 2 insignificant/suppressed/absent from historyPara 5 when,however,one reads of a witch being ducked,of a woman possessed by devils,of a wise woman selling herbs,or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother,then I think we are on the tracks of a lost novelist,a suppressed poet,of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen,some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to.other adjectives(0804金丽丹阳)lost/suppressed/mute and inglorious Para 4 Very soon he got work in the theatre,became a successful actor,lived at the hub of the universe,meeting everybody,knowing everybody,practicing his art on the boards,exercising his wits in the streets,(Replace the word exercising and then illustrate what did the author mean by saying“exercising his wits in the streets”.lived at the center of the spotlightthe place where he meets everybody,knowing everybody,practises,exercisesshowing his brilliant ability?practicing giving full play toPara 4 He hinted you can imagine what.(Can you imagine what it was?)1)No woman could be an actress2)If she wanted to show her talent,she should satisfy the mangers need of lust.women are used to feed on mens lust.He hinted that she should be his lover.Para 4 Yet her genius was for fiction and lusted to feed abundantly on the lives of men and women and the study of their ways.For women,no matter gifted or not,their value of living in the world lied in fulfilling mens sexual needs and making others live much more smoothly.Yet her genius was not intended for exercising her wits in the streets and desired to feed her self on the sexual relations of men and women and the study of their ways.Interpret the title A Room of Ones OwnWoolf advocated the feminism.The freedom and the rights for women to do what they really wantThe title comes from Woolfs conception that,“a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”(page 4).