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The Libido for the Ugly 张汉熙高级英语第二册课件
Henry Louis Mencken
His life
He was born and spent most of his life in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of German immigrant parents. He completed high school but did not attend university, only graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute at 16. He became a reporter on the Baltimore Morning Herald.
Henry later, he joined the staff of its rival newspaper, the Baltimore Sun or Evening Sun, first as a reporter, then as its drama critic and editor, a position which he held until 1941.
Teaching Contents
1. Henry Louis Mencken 2. Description 2. Detailed study of the text 3. Organizational pattern 4. Language features 5. Exercises
Henry Louis Mencken
In caustic, witty essays, he derided (mock) the institution which supported the middle class. He enjoyed controversy and tried to arouse his antagonists with his direct and devastating attacks.
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A cynic is a person who believes that all men are selfish. He sees little or no good in
anything and shows this by making unkind and unfair remarks about people and things.
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Introduction to the Passage
•Emotional description: The Libido for the Ugly is a piece of subjective, impressionistic or emotional description. Description conveys the sensations, emotions and impressions that affect a writer experiencing a person, place, object or idea. The writer describes what hesees, feels or tastes, and it often includes his emotional reactions to the physical sensations of the experience.
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Mencken's Creed
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious. I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty... I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect. I - But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant. He jeered at American sham, pretension, provincialism, and prudery, and he ridiculed the nation‘s organized religion, business and middle class.
The Libido for the Ugly 课件讲义教材
-----Richard Wright
Mencken’s Writing Style
• Rip-roaring, witty, humorous, ironical, combative,
with unrestrained hyperbole, extravagant accentuation, fond of pairing adjectives, playful, comical.
institution which supported the middle class. He
enjoyed, met and challenged his antagonists with his
direct and devastating attacks.
H. L. Menken’s Great Concerns
felt the greatest threat of literature was the country’s
prevailing religion “fundamentalism”, the opinions of
which were based on the literary interpretation of the
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
• Became a reporter on Baltimore Herald • Joined Sunpaper • Edited Smart Set • Edited American Mercury
H. L. Mencken’s Great Concerns
• He was a central figure in American intellectual life
The-Libido-for-the-Ugly-讲义PPT课件
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H. L. Menken’s Great Concerns
• He hated narrowed-minded religions and strongly supported intellectual freedom. He fought with every effort to maintain the independence of literature. He felt the greatest threat of literature was the country’s prevailing religion “fundamentalism”, the opinions of which were based on the literary interpretation of the Bible.
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Mencken’s Writing Style
• “I opened A Book of Prejudices and began to read. I was jarred and shocked by the style, the clear, clean, sweeping sentences. Why did he write like that? And how did one write like that? I pictured the man as a raging demon, slashing with his pen. I read on and what amazed me was not what he said, but how on earth anybody had the courage to say it…I identified myself with that book.” -----Richard Wright 9
H. L. Menken’s Great Concerns
• He hated narrowed-minded religions and strongly supported intellectual freedom. He fought with every effort to maintain the independence of literature. He felt the greatest threat of literature was the country’s prevailing religion “fundamentalism”, the opinions of which were based on the literary interpretation of the Bible.
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Mencken’s Writing Style
• “I opened A Book of Prejudices and began to read. I was jarred and shocked by the style, the clear, clean, sweeping sentences. Why did he write like that? And how did one write like that? I pictured the man as a raging demon, slashing with his pen. I read on and what amazed me was not what he said, but how on earth anybody had the courage to say it…I identified myself with that book.” -----Richard Wright 9
The Libido for the Ugly 课件讲义
reality essentially by specific and concrete words that
appeal to the reader’s sense of sight, smell, sound, taste and touch.
What is the order of organization for a description?
exert “democracy” wisely.
Mencken’s Writing Style
• “I opened A Book of Prejudices and began to read. I
was jarred and shocked by the style, the clear, clean,
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The Libido for the Ugly
(爱丑之欲)
Henry Louis Mencken
Outline of Class Teaching
• An introduction to Henry Louis Mencken His early life and career His writing style
James Lowell (詹姆斯· 洛威尔)
Edgar Allan Poe (埃德加· 爱伦· 坡)
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
• Born in Baltimore
• Privately educated there
• Graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
What is a description?
• Description conveys the sensations, emotions and impressions that affect a writer experiencing a person,
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His Style
He employed a huge vocabulary and liked to insert unusual or unexpected words, for surprise or comic effect, into otherwise normal sentences. Although his style is occasionally difficult to read, Mencken is still considered one of the best and liveliest essayists of this century.
"The American Language"
a) It examined the development of the English language in America,
b) It contrasted English and American expressions and usage.
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Description
Description is painting a picture in words of a person, place, object and scene.
Description
It conveys the sensations, emotions and impressions that affect a writer experiencing a person, place, object or idea. The writer describes what he sees, hears, smells, feels or tastes, and it often includes his emotional reactions to the physical sensation of the experience.
(完整版)the_libido_for_the_ugly讲解解读
Many figures of speech to create dreadful images, to reinforce his verbal attack: hyperbole, sarcasm, ridicule, irony, metaphors, similes.
A piece of subjective, impressionistic or emotional description
Description
Description is painting a picture in words of a person, place, object and scene.
Description
It conveys the sensations, emotions and impressions. The writer describes what he sees, hears, smells, feels or tastes, and it often includes his emotional reactions.
Lesson Seven
-- H.L. Mencken
Aims
1. To acquaint students with subjective
description writing.
2. To help students to understand the
author’s real intention behind the description.
Author --Henry Louis Mencken
(1880--1956) American educator, author, critic
Henry Louis Mencken
A piece of subjective, impressionistic or emotional description
Description
Description is painting a picture in words of a person, place, object and scene.
Description
It conveys the sensations, emotions and impressions. The writer describes what he sees, hears, smells, feels or tastes, and it often includes his emotional reactions.
Lesson Seven
-- H.L. Mencken
Aims
1. To acquaint students with subjective
description writing.
2. To help students to understand the
author’s real intention behind the description.
Author --Henry Louis Mencken
(1880--1956) American educator, author, critic
Henry Louis Mencken
The Libido for the Ugly 讲义(课堂PPT)
• Reading theory on “Description”
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Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
• The 1st American to be widely read as a critic (批评家)
James Lowell (詹姆斯·洛威尔)
Edgar Allan Poe (埃德加·爱伦·坡 )
Mencken’s Writing Style
• Rip-roaring, witty, humorous, ironical, combative, with unrestrained hyperbole, extravagant accentuation, fond of pairing adjectives, playful, comical.
• Mencken’s writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it.
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Mencken’s Writing Style
• No other entertainment gave him greater pleasure than reporting from the conventions; nor did anyone appreciate his efforts more than Mencken himself. One reporter, peering through Mencken's window late at night after one rally, recalled watching him at work alone in his hotel room, pounding out copy on a typewriter propped on a desk. He would type a few sentences, read them, slap his thigh, toss his head back, and roar with laughter. Then he would type some more lines, guffaw, and so on until the end of the article.
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Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
• The 1st American to be widely read as a critic (批评家)
James Lowell (詹姆斯·洛威尔)
Edgar Allan Poe (埃德加·爱伦·坡 )
Mencken’s Writing Style
• Rip-roaring, witty, humorous, ironical, combative, with unrestrained hyperbole, extravagant accentuation, fond of pairing adjectives, playful, comical.
• Mencken’s writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it.
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Mencken’s Writing Style
• No other entertainment gave him greater pleasure than reporting from the conventions; nor did anyone appreciate his efforts more than Mencken himself. One reporter, peering through Mencken's window late at night after one rally, recalled watching him at work alone in his hotel room, pounding out copy on a typewriter propped on a desk. He would type a few sentences, read them, slap his thigh, toss his head back, and roar with laughter. Then he would type some more lines, guffaw, and so on until the end of the article.
Lesson-five-the-libido-for-the-uglyPPT课件
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Description
Two kinds of description:
1. objective/impersonal
Realistic: The writer paints a verbal picture of
the realistic world, like a camera; factual words
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Stylistic Features
Bombastic(夸大的) style and acid language Not just the ugliness of Westmoreland,
but the whole American race--a race that loves ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable; a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
Lesson Five
-- H.L. Mencken
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The Libido for the Ugly General word?
No. It is a specific word used in psychoanalysis. It is a technical term in psychology.
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Libido
Meaning?
strong desire, great passion, great lust
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Why does பைடு நூலகம்encken choose the term?
To give his subject a scientific coloring, to create the impression that his description and analysis have some scientific foundation.
The-libido-for-the-ugly-课文翻译
爱丑之欲几年前的一个冬日，我乘坐宾夕法尼亚铁路公司的一班快车离开匹兹堡，向东行驶一小时，穿越了威斯特摩兰县的煤城和钢都。
这是我熟悉的地方，无论是童年时期还是成年时期，我常常经过这一带。
但以前我从来没有感到这地方荒凉得这么可怕。
这儿正是工业化美国的心脏，是其最赚钱、最典型活动的中心，世界上最富裕、最伟大的国家的自豪和骄傲——然而这儿的景象却又丑陋得这样可怕，凄凉悲惨得这么令人无法忍受，以致人的抱负和壮志在这儿成了令人毛骨悚然的、令人沮丧的笑料。
这儿的财富多得无法计算，简直都无法想象——也是在这儿，人们的居住条件又是如此之糟，连那些流浪街头的野猫也为之害羞。
我说的不仅仅是脏。
钢铁城镇的脏是人们意料之中的事。
我指的是所看到的房子没有一幢不是丑陋得令人难受，畸形古怪得让人作呕的。
从东自由镇到格林斯堡，在这全长25英里的路上，从火车上看去，没有一幢房子不让人看了感到眼睛不舒服和难受。
有的房子糟得吓人，而这些房子竞还是一些最重要的建筑——教堂、商店、仓库等等。
人们惊愕地看着这些房子，就像是看见一个脸给子弹崩掉的人一样。
有的留在记忆里，甚至回忆起来也是可怕的：珍尼特西面的一所样子稀奇古怪的小教堂，就像一扇老虎窗贴在一面光秃秃的、似有麻风散鳞的山坡上；参加过国外战争的退伍军人总部，设在珍尼特过去不远的另一个凄凉的小镇上。
沿铁路线向东不远处的一座钢架，就像一个巨大的捕鼠器。
但我回忆里出现的三要还是一个总的印象——连绵不断的丑陋。
从匹兹堡到格林斯堡火车调车场，放眼望去，没有一幢像样的房子。
没有一幢不是歪歪扭扭的，没有一幢不是破破烂烂的。
尽管到处是林立的工厂，遍地弥漫着烟尘，这一地区的自然霉仟并不差。
就地形而论，这儿是一条狭窄的河谷，其中流淌着一道道发源自山间的深溪。
这儿的人口虽然稠密，但并无过分拥挤的迹象，即使在一些较大的城镇中，建筑方面也还大有发展的余地。
这儿很少见到有高密度排列的建筑楼群，几乎每一幢房屋，无论大小，其四周都还有剩余的空地。
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description
• description is painting a verbal picture of a person, a place, an object, a scene, etc. in order to enable his reader to perceive the reality of the original, the writer reproduces an image and invokes that reality essencially by specific and concrete words that appeal to the reader's sense of sight, smell, sound, taste and touch.
Unit Seven
Libido for the
Ugly
-- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Henry Louis Mencken (1880–1956)
• an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century
Mencken’s quotation:
A cynic is a man who, when he smells a flower, looks around for a coffin.
Mencken's Creed
• I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
• I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty... I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
the title
• this is a piece of subjective, impressionistic or emotional description.
• libido: concept originated by Sigmund Freud to
signify the instinctual physiological or psychic energy associated with sexual urgesactivity. In the text, it means psychic energy generally; specifically, a basic form of psychic energy, comprising the positive, loving instincts manifested variously at different stages of personality development. Drive, desire.
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• I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech...
• I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run. I believe in the reality of progress. I - But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.