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• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
  is a 1973 short story by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is a philosophical parable with a sparse plot featuring bare and abstract descriptions of characters; the city of Omelas is the primary focus of the narrative.
  

•   Ursula K. Le Guin( October 21, 1929~)

       is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography.   

•  Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( 1865 – 1936) 

was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children.Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"),  and his poems, including  "The White Man's Burden" (1899) .

• ''The Way through the Woods''(點入連結)by Joseph Rudyard Kipling

 

• Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941)

         was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

•   Bloomsbury Group

          was an influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, the best known members of which included Virginia Woolf,. This loose collective of friends and relatives lived, worked or studied together near Bloomsbury, London, during the first half of the 20th century.

•   Roald Dahl (1916 –  1990)

         was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.His works include James and the Giant Peach(飛天巨桃), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(巧克力工廠),  and The BFG(吹夢巨人).

•  Brontë family

 The Brontës  were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, are well known as poets and novelists. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature.

•  utopia(烏托邦)

  is a community or society possessing highly desirable or perfect qualities. The word was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. It has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia.

• dystopia(反烏托邦)

       is a community or society, usually fictional, that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. It is the opposite of a utopia. Such societies appear in many works of fiction, particularly in stories set in a speculative future. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. 

 For example :Brave New World  by Aldous Huxley ,The Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins.

•  The Prince( 君王論)

       is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli.The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal.

• ''as vicious as lion ,as cunning as fox '' from The Prince.

• allegory：寓托／託寓／諷喻
• parable：比喻／寓言
• fable：寓言

• more''寓言－fable, parable, and allegory''(點入連結)

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• Fantasy/Adventure

        ex 千と千尋の神隠し, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan

• Dylan Thomas 〈Do not gentle into that good night〉(點入連結)

        a villanelle(詩的形式) 3*5, 4*1

              ''Do not go gentle into that good night,
       Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
         Rage, rage against the dying of the light.''

      stanza： 詩的停頓處
      ballad ：A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

     outrageous： 
     1.  Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

     2. Being well beyond the bounds of good taste: outrageous epithets.

     3. Having no regard for morality.

     4. Violent or unrestrained in temperament or behavior.

     5. Extremely unusual or unconventional; extraordinary

   

• 〈death thou shalt not be proud  〉(點入連結)by John  Donne

      conceit(巧喻)
       n. 
       1. An ingenious or witty turn of phrase or thought.
       2.A fanciful poetic image, especially an elaborate or exaggerated comparison.
       3. A poem or passage consisting of such an image.
 

•  thinkst (德文殘留語法)

• 〈To the Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 〉(點入連結)by John  Donne  

                       第25行 compasses

                       If they be two, they are two so                                          25
                       As stiff twin compasses are two ; 
                     Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show 
                      To move, but doth, if th' other do.  

• 《The Great Gatsby》

• ''Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning ——
  So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.''

•  "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
  

• 五段論證

        introduction(thesis statement) +3supporting
        paragraphs(topic sentences)+conelusion

• 文章類型

       1.exposition
       2Argumentation (辯證)
       3.description   
       4.narration

•  (1). what is this?(2).what is that for? (3). what should we care?

          

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• Joyce Carol Oates  life and work 

• where are you going, where have you been?

• 採用 open end 
• is a frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates.  It was inspired by three Tucson, Arizona murders committed by Charles Schmid, which were profiled in Life magazine in an article written by Don Moser on March 4, 1966. Oates said that she dedicated the story to Bob Dylan because she had been inspired to write it after listening to his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."

• Paul's Case(點入連結)  by Willa Cather

•  Willa Sibert Cather (1873 – , 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark.

• O Pioneers! 

''We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.''  

                                                                          Part V, Ch. 3

• 女性主義 

       A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf.

• vocabulary 
  
  
  
  • high ─pitched 高調的
  
  
  • high ─portfolio 高調的
  
  
  
  • porfolio (n)講義夾；投資組合
  
  
  
  • deterred...from +V─ing 延遲...做某事
  
  
  
  • reveal (v.)顯現
  
  
  • suggest(v.)顯現
  
  
  
  • irrevocably(adv.) 不須言語地
  
  
  • jalopy(n.) a decrepit car is often old and  neglected and is in a barely functional state.
  
  
   
  

  
  

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• Jane Eyre  (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography)

 is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England.
 Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.

• you owe me an apology.(含有對方錯了之意)  

             apologize to me.       
        I am (feel) sorry for your lost.(同情之意 ''我沒錯'')
        I am deeply feel regretful for your lost.     

• exclude(他人排外)
• seclude(自己排外)
• include 
• segregate
• intgregate 
• chivalry 騎士精神 

      

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•   Continue Lawrence
  

• vocabulary
  

     Pornography           
     n.

     1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.

     2. The presentation or production of this material.

     pornographer     ( Porn writer)
     n.

     1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.

     2. The presentation or production of this material.

     obscenity
        n. pl. 
      1. The state or quality of being obscene.

       2. Indecency, lewdness, or offensiveness in behavior, expression, or appearance.

       3. Something, such as a word, act, or expression, that is indecent or lewd.

      obstacle
      n

    1. a person or thing that opposes or hinders something

    2. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Training, Riding & Manège) Brit a fence or hedge used in showjumping

     obituary

      adj. n.

     1. a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.

      adj.

     2. of, pertaining to, or recording obituaries.

    emeritus

      1. retired or honorably discharged from active professional duty but retaining the title of one's office or position: professor emeritus of history.
     2. an emeritus professor, minister, etc.

    elope

    intr.v. e·loped, e·lop·ing, e·lopes

   1. To run away with a lover, especially with the intention of getting married.

   2. To run away; abscond.

•   Chapel east of Taos, New Mexico, where Lawrence's ashes are interred

• 快遞(ups,fedrex,dhl)

•   Saul Bass (5/8 Google doodle)平面設計大師

•   Hitchcock《Vertigo》海報 and Martin Scorsese《純真年代》

•   Marcel Proust(馬塞爾·普魯斯特)was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu《追憶逝水年華》(In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past).

• Share this song
  

• Much ado about nothing (庸人自擾)
• You do not bring me flower

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• Festival、 Holiday、Day的差別

1.Festival.(n) 節日、喜慶日(與 feast.(n)盛宴, 筵席 有關的)
ex： Moon Festival 、 Dragon Boat Festival

2.Holiday.(n) 假日、休息日、(holy + day "神聖的日子")
ex：Moon Festival is a national holiday.、St. Patrick's holiday is in March.

3. Day.(n) 特定日、 節日(常大寫) ex： Independence Day、Mother's Day

• H.D.Lawrence's''The Rocking─ Horse Winner''

''horse''的意象帶有''性''，文中也顯示男孩Paul的 ''Oedipus Complex''。
西方花園(garden)的意象''Fall'：''成熟到掉落''、''自身墮落''等含意。

• 創世記《Genesis》

Forbidden fruit → Enlightenment → knowledge、free will、Temptation

•    莎士比亞《暴風雨》nature V.S. narture 

•    Flat character (平板角色)(stock stereo type)    

• Round character

•  Manual  manufactory   manipulate(操縱)

• 〈The piano〉

•  Born Nottinghamshire(燒、埋之意)

• You are all lost generation(1920)

•   Beat generation (1960)

• 單字解釋

1. tedious
2. clash、crash crack clamour 
3. confront 
4. censorship 
5. glamour 
6. dumpling 
7. rice dumpling 
8. expatriate

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• 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
   

 

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•  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.

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