《英语短篇小说选读》讲义(第十四周给学生的)
《英美报刊文章阅读》第三版课件---第十四课
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Part I. The U.S. President Election
• Under the U.S. Constitution, the popular vote on Election Day is conducted by the various states and not directly by the federal government.
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Star Wars: The Next Version
The New York Times, May 4, 2004
Part I. The U.S. President Election
• Elections for President and Vice President of the United States
• The former American President George W. Bush made the decision to mount the Antimissile Defense System, which is simply another version of Star Wars.
• The judicial branch interprets the law. (It may declare that the law is unconstitutional. )
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Part II. Text:Star Wars: The Next Version
• 1. Introductory Remarks:
人教版高中语文选修“外国小说欣赏”第七单元第14课《礼拜二午睡时刻》优秀课件(29张)(共29张)
一开始读《百年孤独》时，可能会被它庞 杂的家族系统和让人头晕目眩的名字吓倒，像 许多人所说的那样，觉得这是一本难懂难读、 非常混乱的书。这部书的篇幅不长，可是我读 了很久，书中一直充斥着那种死亡的沉重，压 抑得我无法自由自在地呼吸，一边读就一边有 许多许多的念头纷至杳来，像冰雹一样不停息 地砸过来，却觉得茫然没有完整的思路。但或 许也正是那种孤独和宿命的感觉，让我像着了 魔一样死死被缚住。
小说开篇描写了怎样的景物特征，为什么这样写， 有什么作用？
小说开篇的景物描写 灰暗压抑 是因为人物内心的悲痛和忧伤决定了她们
眼中不可能有可爱美丽的风景，暗合了文 中人物的心情。预示了与小说情节相关的 肃穆氛围。
交代故事发生的时代背景，渲染气氛。
对车厢的描写是为了说明什么？
说明了母女生活条件的拮据。
掺杂其间。.——法国
同样是儿子被杀，同样是母 亲上坟，《礼拜二午睡时刻》 中的母亲和《药》中的夏四 奶奶对儿子的看法有什么不 同？
药
西关外靠着城根的地面，本是一块官地；中间歪歪 斜斜一条细路，是贪走便道的人，用鞋底造成的，但 却成了自然的界限。路的左边，都埋着死刑和瘐毙的 人，右边是穷人的丛冢。
这种爱体现在对儿子形象的维护上。
如果说一个做小偷的儿子给予母亲的“屈 辱”只是观念中的话，那么随着神父窗外 人群的聚集，“屈辱”已然成为现实了。 连神父都感受到压力，和妹妹一起力劝母 女俩避开这一场面，但母亲在得知真相后， 却表现出更为果断和坚强。对神父和妹妹 的善意，只是礼貌地拒绝。母爱的力量使 她冲破道德的谴责，不惧怕自以为有着道 德优势的人们投来种种异样的目光。
对于这个问题，文章一直没有明确地 回答，但从母亲的陈述、事件的回放 以及神父的尴尬来看，我们可以很明 确地判断出那只是一个饥寒交迫的过 路人。
《英语短篇小说选读》讲义(第一周)(12英本2班) (1)
Today‟s Agenda
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A woman is sitting in her old, shuttered house. She knows that she is alone in the whole world; every other thing is dead. The doorbell rings.
Story? Essay? Poem? Play?
Novel
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Expected duration: 16 weeks Overview Selected readings of English short stories is a class that uses famous short stories in both American and British literature to help students enhance their reading ability, get to know the cultures of foreign countries, and most importantly, master the basic literary criticism skills. Students in this course will focus on the function and significance of basic elements of the short stories upon various selected readings.
《英语短篇小说选读》讲义(13周)
Theme:
•The statement about views of life. •It is an abstract concept (general ideas) (particular)
Theme Versus Subject
• Subject: what a work is about. It can usually
• When you have stated the theme of a story, would you say that the theme of that particular story reinforces values you hold, or does it to some degree challenge them?
II. Difference between theme and
subject
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Subject:
•The focal point of the story. •Such as fate, love, war, death, growth, racial prejudice, etc. (universal)
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III. Finding the theme
How can we identify the theme of a story? • Asking questions
In other words, what specific details, characters, actions, incidents, etc, suggest the truth of the theme statement?
英语泛读教程第二册翻译 Unit 14 Overdue Interest
十四、迟来的关注马特•米勒在美国，许多人并不了解日本帝国军队在侵略中国时所犯下的滔天罪行。
在日本，许多人甚至试图否认南京大屠杀。
艾里斯•张写的《南京大屠杀》，就是要提醒人们牢记六十年前犯下的罪行。
下面这篇文章是对这本书的评论。
六十年前，日本帝国军队发动的南京大屠杀，在人类所犯下的集体罪行记录中位置醒目。
在不到两个月的时间里，日军杀害了15-30万手无寸铁的中国公民，强奸折磨了10多万中国妇女。
这是一次野蛮的集体暴行，至今许多日本人不能解释，或根本不承认曾经发生过这样的事情。
在美国，有一系列会议安排在南京大屠杀周年日召开-- 自12月13日起持续近六周的时间-- 试图重新激起对这一恐怖事件长期冷漠了的兴趣。
多数美国人根本不了解发生于1937年12月至1938年1月的大屠杀，也不清楚它与二战之间的关系。
在这次试图重新激起人们关注活动中起中心作用的，是伊瑞斯•张的新作《南京的强奸》。
张，二十九岁，住在加利福尼亚矽谷桑尼威尔市，它位于旧金山以南一百公里。
一位美籍华人作家在美国科技腹地正率先对日军进行谴责，既要求日方承认罪行，担负责任，又要求得到美国大众的认可，这并非偶然。
张和她的著作是美国国内的一场重大运动的标志。
它要求共享历史。
随着少数民族群体逐渐在经济、社会和政治方面树立起了信心，他们努力工作，向前迈进，好让人们听到自己的历史故事。
“这是对全体美国人提出的要求，要他们融合其他民族的历史，壮大自己，”薇拉•施瓦茨说。
她是康涅狄格州韦斯勒因大学的中国历史教授。
这场运动在任何地方都比不上在加利福尼亚的一些富有的亚裔美国人社区更引人注目。
“我去了学校图书馆，发现这方面的资料竟如此之少，非常震惊。
”住在洛杉矶的韩裔美国作家李赫利说。
她那本颇受批评家好评的回忆录《生存之粮》，讲述了她祖母在落入日军魔掌后战胜巨大困难的故事，非常引人入胜。
她说：“作为亚裔美国人，我们应该提供资料，应该说出来。
”南京大屠杀为美籍华人提供了一个令人信服的兴趣点，他们施加压力，使旧金山联合校区把大屠杀写入高中的历史课程。
英美短篇小 说Unit 14 MS Found in a Bottle-文档资料
II. Major Works: • Poetry:
1 The Raven (1844) 《乌鸦》
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Annabel Lee 《安娜贝尔丽》 The Sleeper 《睡美人》 A Dream Within a Dream 《梦中梦》 Israfel 《伊斯拉菲尔》 The Bells 《钟》 Sonnet – To Science 《十四行诗--致科学》 To Helen 《献给海伦》 The City in the Sea 《海中的城市》
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Technique
1.isolated and horrifying setting
2.FOR horror
3.metaphpor and personification
4.mystery，ominous feelings（repetition o them also）
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repetition of mystery，ominous feelings
• I went below—not without a full presentiment of evil. • 我回到舱房——心中不无一种大祸临头的预感。 • I went as passenger—having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend • 我这次旅行只有一个原因，那就是我感到了一种像是魔鬼附身似的心神不定。. • I went below—not without a full presentiment of evil.Why I did so I can hardly tell. An indefinite sense of awe, which at first sight of the navigators of the ship had taken hold of my mind, was perhaps the principle of my concealment.
英美短篇小说选读 what is literature
What is Literature?College of Foreign LanguagesZheng BorenDefinition of Literature⏹For centuries, writers, literary historians, and others have debated bout butfailed to agree on a definition for this term.⏹Some assume that literature is simply anything that is written, therebydeclaring a city telephone book, a cook book, and a road atlas to be literary works along with David Copperfield and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.⏹Derived from the Latin littera, meanin g “letter,” the root meaning of literaturerefers primarily to the written word and seems to support this broad definition.However, such a definition eliminates the important oral traditions on which much of western literature based, including Homer’s Ili ad and Odyssey, the English epic Beowulf, and many Native legends.⏹To solve this problem, others choose to define literature as an art, therebyleaving open the question of its being written or oral. This further narrows its meaning, equating literature to works of the imagination or creative writing.⏹Whether one accepts this definition, many argue that a text must have certainpeculiar qualities before it can be dubbed literature. For example, the artist’s creation or secondary world often mirrors the au thor’s primary world, the world in which the creator lives and moves and breathes. Because reality or the primary world is highly structured, so must be the secondary world. To achieve this structure, the artist must create plot, character, tone, symbols, conflict, anda host of other elements or parts of the artistic story, with all of these elementsworking in a dynamic relationship to produce a literary work.⏹Some would argue that it is the creation of these elements—how they are usedand in what context—that determines whether a piece of writing is literature.⏹What literary work may contain is a peculiar aesthetic quality—that is, someelement of beauty—that distinguishes it as literature from other forms of writing.⏹Still other critics add the test-of-time criterion to their essential components ofliterature. if a work withstands the passage of time and is still being read centuries after its creation, it is deemed valuable and worthy to be called literature.Functions of Literature (1)⏹Literature helps us grow, both personally and intellectually;⏹it helps us connect ourselves to the broader cultural, philosophic, and religiousworld of which we are a part;⏹it enables us to recognize human dreams and struggles in different places andtimes that we would never otherwise know;⏹it gives us the knowledge and perception needed to appreciate the beauty oforder and arrangement, just as a well-structured song or a beautifully done painting can;⏹it provides the comparative basis from which we can see worthiness in the aimsof all people, therefore helping us see beauty in the world around us;Functions of Literature (2)⏹it exercises our emotions through interest, concern, tension, excitement, hope,fear, regret, laughter, and sympathy.⏹Through cumulative experience in reading, great literature shapes our goals andvalues by helping us clarify our own identities, both positively, through acceptance of the admirable in human beings, and negatively, through rejection of the sinister. It helps us shape our judgments through the comparison of the good and the bad.⏹Both in our everyday activities and in the decisions we make as individuals andas citizens, it enables us to develop a perspective on the events that occur around us and in the world at large, thereby enabling us to gain understanding and control.Types of Literature: the Genres⏹1) narrative,⏹2) poetry,⏹3) drama,⏹4) nonfiction prose⏹All are art forms, each with its own internal requirements of structure and style. Narrative⏹ A narrative is an account of a series of events, usually fictional, althoughsometimes events in fiction may also be historical.⏹The two kinds of narrative fiction you will read most often are s hort stories andnovels. Myths, parables, romances, and epics are also part of the genre.Short Story⏹ A short story is usually about one or two characters undergoing difficulty orfacing a problem.⏹The relationships among the characters are described briefly, for the shortenedform of the story does not permit leisurely or extensive development of gradual changes in character.Novel⏹the full and sometimes exhaustive development of interactions, for it is adeliberately longer form.⏹Like the short story, the novel usually focuses on a small number of characters. Poetry⏹Poetry is a broad term that includes many subtypes, such as sonnet, lyric,pastoral, ballad, song, ode, drama, epic, and dramatic monologue.⏹Poetry is a compressed, and often deeply emotional, form.⏹It is this compactness of expression, combined with the broadness of application,that makes poetry unique.Drama⏹ A drama or play is designed to be performed on a stage by living actors.⏹Drama presents speech and action which render the interactions that causechange in the characters and resolve the conflicts among the characters.⏹The dramatic types are tragedy, comedy, and farce.⏹Tragedy: human disasters/ elevate human values/ show the most admirablequalities of human beings⏹Comedy: treats people as they are/ laughing at them or sympathizing with them/showing them to be loving and successful.⏹Farce: exaggerates human foolishness/ gets the characters into improbable andlunatic situations, and laughs at everyone in sight.Nonfiction Prose⏹This is a broad term including short forms like essays and articles and alsolonger non-fictional and non-dramatic works.⏹The essay or article is a form for idea, interpretations, and descriptions.⏹The topics are unlimited; they may be on social, political, artistic, scientific, andother subjects.Literary Studies⏹Literary Study is not innocent, but sophisticated. It includes following threeaspects:⏹Study of Literary history⏹Study of Literary works⏹Study of Literary criticismLiterary History⏹It traces the development of literature in a chronological order from a historicalpoint of view.⏹Every individual writer exists in a certain milieu—the political and economiccontext, the social institutions, the emotional and intellectual climate.Literary Works⏹A work of literature is written by an individual, marked by his special personalityand personal past.⏹The literary work represents in a deep way the writer’s attempt to confront andfind meaning in his experience.Literary Criticism⏹“Three R’s”—the writer, the writing, and the reader⏹Relationships: complex rather than simple, dynamic rather than static⏹Assumption 1: there is no such thing as an innocent reading of a text.⏹Whether our responses to a text are emotional and spontaneous or will-reasonedand highly structured, all such interactions are based upon some underlying factors that cause us to respond in a particular fashion. What elicits these responses and how a reader makes sense out of a text is what really matters. And it is the domain of literary theory to question our initial and final responses, our beliefs, our feelings, and our overall interpretation.⏹Assumption 2: Since our responses to a text have theoretical bases, I presumethat all readers have a literary theory.⏹Consciously or unconsciously, we as readers have developed a mind-setconcerning our expectations when reading any text (be it a novel, a short story, a poem, or any other type of literature). Somehow, we make sense out of printedmaterial. The methods we use to frame our personal interpretations of any text involve us in the process of literary criticism and theory, and automatically make us practicing literary critics whether we know it or not.⏹My third assumption rests on the observation that each reader’s literary theoryand accompanying methodology is either conscious or unconscious, complete or incomplete, informed or ill-informed, eclectic or unified.⏹Since an unconscious, incomplete, ill-formed, eclectic literary theory morefrequently than not leads to illogical, unsound, and disorganized interpretations, I believe that a well-defined, logical, and clearly articulated theory will enable readers to develop their own methods of interpretation, permitting them to order, clarify, and justify their personal appraisals of any text in a consistent and rational manner.Can a story have multiple meanings?(can a text have more than one interpretation?)⏹Not all readers interpret texts in the same way. In fact, they voiced theirunderstandings of the story gave fundamentally different interpretations.⏹Our response to any text is largely a conditioned or socially constructed one; thatis, how we arrive at meaning in fiction is in part determined by our past experiences. Consciously or unconsciously, we have developed a mindset or framework concerning our expectations when reading a novel, short story, poem, or any other type of literature. In addition, what we choose to value or uphold as good or bad, moral or immoral, or beautiful or ugly within a given text actually depends on this ever-evolving framework. When we can clearly articulate our mental framework when reading a text and explain how this mindset directly influences our values and aesthetic judgments about the text, we are well on our way to developing a coherent, unified literary theory.⏹The relationship between literary theory and a reader’s per sonal worldview isbest illustrated in the act of reading itself. When reading, we are constantly interacting with the text.⏹According to Rosenblatt’s text The Reader, the Text, the Poem (1978), during theact or event of reading, “A reader brings to the text his or her past experience and present personality. Under the magnetism of the ordered symbols of the text, the reader marshals his or her resources and crystallizes out from the stuff of memory, thought, and feeling a new order, a new experience, which he/she sees as the poem.This becomes part of the ongoing stream of the reader’s life experience, to be reflected on from any angle important to him or her as a human being.”⏹Accordingly, Rosenblatt declares that the relationship between the reader and thetext is not linear, but transactional; that is, it is a process or event that takes place at a particular time and place in which the text and the reader condition each other. The reader and the text transact, creating meaning, for meaning does not ex ist solely within the reader’s mind or within the text, Rosenblatt maintains, but in the transaction between them. To arrive at an interpretation of a text, readers bring their own “temperament and fund of past transactions to the text and live through a process of handling new situations, new attitudes, new personalities,[and] new conflicts in value. They can reject, revise, or assimilate into the resource with which they engage their world.” Through this transactional experience, readers consciously and unconsciously amend their worldview.How to Analyze and Approach an English Poem?⏹I. Suggestions:⏹ 1. Read not only once⏹ 2. look into reference books (dictionary, Bible, etc.)⏹ 3. Read so as to hear the sound yourself⏹ 4. Pay a careful attention to what the poem is saying⏹ 5. Read affectionatelyII. A Number of Questions :⏹ 1. Who is the speaker? What kind of person is he?⏹ 2. To whom is he/she speaking?⏹ 3. What is the occasion?⏹ 4. What is the setting in time?⏹ 5. What is the setting in place?⏹ 6. What is the central purpose of the poem? State a central idea.⏹7. Discuss the theme of the poem.⏹8. How does it achieve?⏹9. a. Outline the poem so as to show the structure of the poem/ b. Summarize theevents of the poem⏹10. Paraphrase the poem⏹11. Discuss the diction of the poem. Point out words that are particularlywell-chosen and explain why.⏹12. Discuss the imagery of the poem. What kind of imagery is used?⏹13. Point out examples of metaphor, simile, personification, and metonymy;explain their appropriateness.⏹14. Point out and explain any symbols. Explain allegory⏹15. Point out and explain examples of paradox, overstatement, understatement& irony. What are their functions?⏹16. Compare the poetic language involved in a poem with the common language.⏹17. What have you learned from the poem in terms of its moral, aesthetic andartistic value?⏹18. Do you like or dislike the poem? Give a brief account for your response.⏹19. Could you liken/ compare this English poem to certain Chinese poetic work?⏹20. Try to translate the English poem into Chinese.How to Read Novels (6 Parts)⏹I. Narrator: Two types1. First person narrator (First Person Point of View)⏹1). First Person as Central Character: David Copperfield⏹2). First Person as Secondary Character: The Great Gatsby2. Third Person⏹1). Omniscient narrator⏹2). Narration limited to the point of view of major characterII. Plot + Structure:⏹Is there a direction? Where is it going? How does it develop? (Four Patterns) III. Character⏹How are characters introduced? (age, name, appearance, morality, etc.)⏹Who is the central character? (protagonist vs. antagonist)⏹What are his or her distinguished characteristics?⏹By what means the author demonstrate?⏹To what extent is the character defines by contrast with minor characters? Orby conflict with his or her environment?⏹Does the novel or story show the growth of change of character?⏹How much of the meaning (theme) depends on the growth of change?IV. Theme/ Purpose⏹Does the novel or story make a general statement about life or experience?V. Techniques:⏹What techniques or devices has the author employed? Any symbols? Anyallusions?⏹ 1. allusion- The Bible, the Greek or Roman Mythology, the Classical works⏹ 2. Stream of consciousness⏹ 3. Rhetoric devices (metaphor, simile)IV. Language + Style⏹What is the style of the novel?⏹What are the characteristics of the language? (simple words?/bigwords?/repetition?/ colloquial or formal?)。
阅读解读英文短篇小说
阅读解读英文短篇小说英文短篇小说是文学作品中的一种，其特点在于篇幅较短、情节紧凑、语言简练。
每个故事都有其独特的主题和寓意，通过阅读和解读，我们可以领略其中的内涵，并且从中获得启示和思考。
在解读英文短篇小说时，首先需要理解作者传递的核心信息和主题思想。
了解故事的背景、人物和情节发展是理解故事意义的基础。
观察作者在故事中所传达的情感和情绪，并分析作者的写作手法和语言表达。
通过解读故事中个别情节和对话，我们可以挖掘出更多的细节和隐含意义。
举个例子，我们选取一篇经典的英文短篇小说《The Necklace》，这是法国作家莫泊桑创作的一部作品。
故事讲述了一个美丽但贫穷的女主人公，由于偷偷借了朋友的一条项链，却在还给朋友时遗失了。
女主人公隐瞒了事实，并且与丈夫共同工作多年，还清了债务，可是此时才意识到毫无意义的努力。
最后，她发现原本那条被视为珍贵的项链其实只是一条廉价的仿制品。
这个故事通过一个简单的情节展现了人们对物质的追逐和欲望的盲目，对真实价值的误判。
女主人公沉溺于虚荣和奢侈，却最终失去了自己的幸福和快乐。
故事通过暗示和隐喻，给我们提供了对生活的深刻思考。
莫泊桑通过这个故事告诫读者，不要为了追求虚荣和物质而忽略了身边的真正价值。
解读英文短篇小说并不仅仅是理解故事本身，还需要将故事中展现的主题和情感联系到现实生活中。
我们可以从中获得启示，思考人生，反思自己的行为和价值观。
通过阅读解读英文短篇小说，我们可以扩展自己的词汇量，提升阅读理解能力和英语写作水平。
同时，我们还可以感受到不同文化的魅力和多样性，从而开阔自己的思维。
阅读英文短篇小说也是学习英语的一种有效方式，通过阅读和分析英文原文，我们可以更好地理解和运用英语语言。
总结来说，阅读解读英文短篇小说是提升自己的阅读能力和文学品味的一种方式。
通过理解故事的主题和情感，我们可以丰富自己的思维和认知，同时也可以提升自己的英语水平。
愿每个人在阅读解读英文短篇小说的过程中，都能够获得满满的收获和惊喜。
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Symbols
Related literary terms —allegory —metaphor —analogy
Symbols
柯尔律治曾说过：“一个思想，在这个词的最高意 义上，只有一个象征才能传达。”象征又分为寓言 式象征和非寓言式象征。寓言式象征是指象征物与 被象征物不是靠暗示和联想，而是靠固定的替代， 这样的象征往往形成一个固定的型式。非寓言式象 征则是在特定语境下，靠暗示和联想而实现的象征。 象征还可分为公共象征和私设象征：公共象征是某 种文化传统中约定俗成的，读者都明白是何所指的 象征。而私设象征则是指作者在作品中靠一定的方 法建立起来的象征。
Instructor: Esther Lv
2nd December, 2014
Week 14
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Discussion on story 13
Historical background • The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1846 to a boomtown of about 36,000 by 1852. Roads and other towns were built throughout California. In 1849 a state constitution was written, and a governor and legislature were chosen. Overnight California gained the international reputation as the "golden state". Generations of immigrants have been attracted by the California Dream.
Identify Symbols
Symbols in fiction are inanimate objects
—The Story of an Hour: sky; trees; rain; twittering sparrows The spring is not just a bit of detail added for realism. It is rich with suggestions of renewal, of the new life that Louise achieves for a moment.
Discussion on story 13
Historical background • The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848. All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. Of the 300,000, approximately half arrived by sea, and half came overland from the east.
Symbolism
• Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent things such as ideas and emotions.
Symbolism in Literature
Scarlet Letter—Nathaniel Hawthorne —Letter A conveys a multiple of senses Moby-Dick—Herman Melville —an amplitude of meanings
Identify Symbols
Symbols in fiction are inanimate objects —A Clean, Well-lighted Place: café An island of refuge from sleepless night, chaos, loneliness, old age, the meaninglessness of life, and impeding death
Types of Symbols
• Flowing water—time & eternity • Journey into the underworld and return from it—spiritual experience/ redemptive odyssey →universal symbols used widely & unconsciously
The rose as a symbol
• Simile: ―O my love’s like a red, red rose‖
• Metaphor: ―She was our queen, our rose, our star;/And then she danced—O heaven, her dancing!‖ the word ―rose‖ is used as a metaphor.
Identify Symbols
Characters are symbolic
—A Rose for Emily: Miss Emily “like the carven torso of an idol in the niche” She seems to personify the vanishing arstocracy of the South, still maintaining a black servant and being ruthless betrayed by a moneymaking Yankee.
Identify Symbols
Symbolic act —Moby Dick: the Captain deliberately snaps his tobacco pipe and throws it away before setting out He is determined to take his revenge and will let nothing ton distract him
Types of Symbols
• The other type of symbol (literary symbols) secures its suggestiveness not from qualities inherent in itself but from the way in which it is used in a given work, in a special context.
Discussion on story 13
Historical background • Gold rushes were typically marked by a general buoyant feeling of a "free for all" in income mobility, in which any single individual might become abundantly wealthy almost instantly, as expressed in the California Dream.
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Symbol
• What is symbol? • A symbol is a special kind of image, for it exceeds the image in the richness of its connotations. • Like images, a symbol can be an object, a sound, or a bodily sensation. It can also be a character, or an act.
Today’s Agenda
—Students Presentation
—Chapter 7 Symbol —The Luck of Roaring Camp
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Symbols
Discussion on story 13 The Luck of Roaring Camp —about the author —historical & literary background —close-reading
Discussion on story 13
About the author
background A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers to an area that has had a dramatic discovery of gold deposits. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, while smaller gold rushes took place elsewhere.