閱讀題記(2)

一頭栽入讀書世界，先在此做個記號。

• 《異數：超凡與平凡的界線在哪裡？》麥坎爾‧格拉威爾(Malcolm Gladwell)著

       其實這些科普人文系列對我而言，如果不是特別有所感觸，就會輕飄飄地劃過心田，然後消失無蹤。但這本卻是佳作， 我將會為了我與我家族的文化遺澤深深努力者(笑)。

• 《奧杜邦的祈禱》 伊坂幸太郎 著 

    伊坂的作品中，算是我相當喜歡的一部。閱讀前面時，有時會覺得這些情節有點瑣碎，不太能明白其中隱隱呼之欲出的事物。但到了後半部，所有的一切又巧妙連結起來，而最後稻草人與少女對話，自然流暢，宛如倒映著藍天的淺淺美麗水田，優雅自在。

• 《摩登時代：MODERN TIMES》 伊坂幸太郎 著

           接續《魔王》的故事背景架構，建議先看《魔王》再閱讀，就會發現伊坂幸太郎的功力之巧妙，娛樂之中你會發現自己正確實在思考些什麼。強力推薦。

• 《天生嫩骨：餐桌邊的成長記事》露絲‧雷舒爾(Ruth Reichl)著

          想吃!!!

•  《共生蟲》村上隆 著

• 《在森崎書店的日子》八木澤里志 著
• 《續‧在森崎書店的日子》八木澤里志 著

輕鬆治癒系的戀愛故事，在續集裡又對親情加以著墨，加深不少它的深度。不到兩小時就能解決，又毫無負擔的作品。

Young-adult fiction：week(8)

• Continue notes on Araby

• W.H.Auden〈When I was one –and –twenty〉

 

• When I was one-and-twenty
  I heard a wise man say,
  "Give crowns and pounds and guineas
  But not your heart away;
  Give pearls away and rubies
  But keep your fancy free."
  But I was one-and-twenty,
  No use to talk to me.
  When I was one-and-twenty
  I heard him say again,
  "The heart out of the bosom
  Was never given in vain;
  'Tis paid with sighs aplenty
  And sold for endless rue."
  And I am two-and-twenty
  And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
  
  ── by A.E. Housman
   

 

Young-adult fiction：week(7)

•  James Joyce’s Araby from Dubliners  

James Joycewas an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he perfected. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels  Finnegans Wake (1939).

•  Text

•    Stream of consciousness(意識流) is a narrative device used in literature "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind. 

 For example
 Marcel Proust is often presented as an early example of a writer using the stream of consciousness technique in his novel sequence À la recherche du temps perdu(1913–1927).

 James Joyce in Ulysses(1922)
Virginia Woolf inMrs Dalloway (1925) and To the  Lighthouse (1927).

•  單字
  

         madam(女老師)
         sir(男老師)

•  Epiphany

         a. A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

         b. A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden

•  Covent

n.

A convent or monastery.

•  Initiation journey 

•  Charon ominous signs (ferryman) 冥河渡者

• finnegans wake

      is a work of comic proseby Irish writer James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language.

• 電影筆記：
• Freedom Writers 
• Mona Lisa Smile
• Dangerous Mind

Young-adult fiction：week(6)

•   Edgar AllanPoe’s The Tell-Tale Heart 

•  Longfellow(爐邊詩人)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri'sThe Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets.

• 〈a psalm of life〉is a poem written by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

• 〈The Raven〉 is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

             Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,             Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —
             While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
              As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
              "'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door —
               Only this and nothing more."

                                                                                                           —Edgar Allan Poe  

•   英文文學史

           Renaissance 文藝復興
           Classicism     古典主義
           Romanticism 浪漫主義
           Modernism    現代主義
           Post─modern 後現代主義

• 〈To Helen〉by Edgar Allan Poe 

•  reveal  , enveloped
• conceal
• mortal (人) imortal(不朽的神)
• neurotic .neurosis

• Life is but a walking shadow.──Macbeth