英语专业 高级英语第11课 beauty ppt

Scott Russell Sanders
Sanders was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1945. His father came from a family of cotton farmers in Mississippi, his mother from an immigrant doctor’s family in Chicago. He spent his early childhood in Tennessee and his school years in Ohio. He studied physics and English at Brown University, graduating in 1967. With the aid of a Marshall Scholarship, he pursued graduate work at Cambridge University, where he completed his Ph.D. in English in 1971. From 1971 until his retirement in 2009, he taught at Indiana University, from 1995 onward as Distinguished Professor of English.
• A Private History of Awe: the latest book of him, a coming-age memoir, love story, and spiritual testament, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
• radiant: adj. showing great happiness; giving a warm bright light 喜 气洋洋的；灿烂的
• Paraphrase: I can now recall many, many, small things about the wedding but at that time I was so overwhelmed with joy that I did not notice.
• , but because the festival of marriage has slowed time down until, any fool can see their glory.(1)
• Paraphrase: …, but because in wedding ceremony time seems to go slowly to everybody, even a fool could observe things clearly and see how wonderful they are.
Scott in Yosemite, August 2009
Scott’s wife, Ruth, a biochemist in 2009
Sanders family
Story
• ―beauty‖ is a chapter in Scott Sanders’ book Hunting for Hope, published in 1998. In this essay, sanders makes a comparison of his daughter’s shinning beauty on her wedding day to the beauty of physics and cosmos. • Through the comparison, the writer think thwk.baidu.comt a universe so prodigal of beauty may need us to notice and respond, need our sharp eyes and brimming hearts and teeming minds, in order to close the circuit of Creation.
Lesson Eleven
Beauty
--By 侯霖 曹婧 郝涵娇 刘轩辰 邢琪 侯林彤
Introduction
• 1.Comment on the following sayings:
• • Beauty is only skin deep. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
• His writing examined the human place in mature, the pursuit of social justice, the relation between culture and geography, and the search for a spiritual path.
• so I can make up to my darling for anything she may have lacked in her girlhood.(12)
My daughter may feel she has missed something when she was young. If so, I wish I could make compensation to her now, before she is married.
Structure
• Part I ( Paras.1-13): the recollection of Eva’s wedding and the author’s feeling at that time • Part II ( Paras.14-17): the recollection of the universe • Part III ( Paras.18-21): is beauty a subjective or objective existence • Part IV ( Para. 22-27): whether biology also plays a role in our pursuit of beauty • : the importance of beauty
Characters
• Scott sander –the writer and narrator of the text • Eva— his daughter • Ruth— his wife, to whom he has been married thirty
years
• Matthew- Eva’s husband • The good friend whom Eva and Scott know best, pastor of the wedding ceremony
Scott at age 2
Occupation Professor, novelist and essayist
Novels
Terrarium (1985) Bad Man Ballad (1986) The Engineer of Beasts (1986) The Invisible Company (1989)
Structure
• Part V ( Para. 28-31): the wedding scene again • Part VI (Para. 32-35): the beauty of law of nature • Part VII. (Para. 36): his special feelings about beauty • Part VIII. (Para. 37-39): in order to perceive beauty, we need training • Part IX. (Para. 40) conclusion
Award

the Lannan Literary Award兰南文
学奖
the Great Lakes Book Award
五大湖书卷奖
the Indiana Humanities Award the Kenyon Review Literary Award the John Burroughs Essay Award the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction
• 2. What’s your opinion about beauty? Try to give a definition, please.
What is beauty?
e.g. a delightful quality associated with harmony of form or color, excellence of craftsmanship, truthfulness, originality, etc.
Short Story Collections
Wilderness Plots (1983) Fetching the Dead (1984)
Creative non-fiction/essays
―Scott: Towards a Social Theory of Literature‖. Telos 18 (Winter 1973-74). New York: Telos Press. The Paradise of Bombs (1987) In Limestone Country (1991) Secrets of the Universe: Scenes from the Journey Home (1991) Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World (1993) Writing from the Center (1995) Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journeys (1998) --unit11 The Country of Language (1999) The Force of Spirit (2000) A Private History of Awe (2006) A Conservationist Manifesto (2009
Children's books
Hear the Wind Blow (1985) Aurora Means Dawn (1989) Warm as Wool (1992) Here Comes the Mystery Man (1993) Meeting Trees (1996) A Place Called Freedom (1997) Crawdad Creek (1999)
Theme
• Beauty is truth • Beauty is an intimation of the harmony between ourselves and the underlying order of things, is a momentary glimpse of that order, a reconciliation of inner and outer space.
Outline
• • • • • • --Warming up 1.about the author 2.brief introduction of text 3.appreciation of rhetorical devices 4.analysis of difficult sentences Notes on the text
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I can summon up hundreds of details from that radiant day, but on the day itself I was aware only of a surpassing joy.(P13)
• summon (up): to call forth; to make an effort (to recall the details of that day)