Henry L. Mencken----Emily
高英--Henry Louis Mencken简介
Introduction
• When he was nine years old, he read Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, which he described it as the most stupendous(惊人的) event in his life and He determined to become century journalist satirist, social critic, cynic, freethinker .he is known as the sage of Baltimore. and he is often regard as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century
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Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Introduction
• Mencken was born in September 12, 1880, When Mencken was three, his family moved into a new home in the Union Square neighborhood of Baltimore(巴尔的摩,美国一座港市).
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• Mencken was the most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day.
• Mencken's writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it.
2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试卷+答案(修订)
2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试卷+答案请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. T. S. Eliot’ s ______ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot’ s poems.A. “Gerontion”B. “Prufrock”C. Murder in the CathedralD. The Hollow Men2. Shell ey’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England”3. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.A. the middle - classB. the lower - classC. the upper - middle - classD. the upper - class4. All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______.A. The Return of the NativeB. Tess of the D’ UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. Far from the Madding Crowd5. Jane Austen’ s practical ideali sm is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.A. reasonB. senseC. rationalityD. sensibility6. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A. The Winter’s TaleB. The TempestC. The Taming of the ShrewD. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. John Keats8. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ,/And by opposing e nd then?” These lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet9. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas10. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding11. Daniel Defoe’s ______ is universally cons idered as his masterpiece.A. Colonel JackB. Robinson CrusoeC. Captain SingletonD. A Journal of the Plague Year12. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey13. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.A. Gulliver’s Trav elsB. The Battle of the BooksC. “A Modest Proposal”D. A Tale of a Tub14. All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT ______.A. England was the “workshop of the world”.B. The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems.C. Towards the mid -century, England had reached its highest point of development as a world power.D. Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened.15. George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.A. Widower’ s HouseB. Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionC. The Apple CartD. Getting Married16. Dickens’ s first child hero is ______.A. Little NellB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Little Dorrit17. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Laurence Sterne18. D. H. Lawrence’ s ______ is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Women in LoveD. Lady Chatterley’ s Love19. Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds in ______.A. Hand TimesB. Great ExpectationsC. Our Mutual FriendD. Bleak House20. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.A. proportionB. unityC. harmonyD. spirit21. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist22. The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B. the Great Plague of 1665C. the Great London Fire in 1666D. the Wars of Roses in 168923. With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.A. HawthorneB. DreiserC. JamesD. Faulkner24. The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is ______.A. FaulknerB. DreiserC. JamesD. Whitman25. In Tender is the Night, ______ traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage toa beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.A. DreiserB. FaulknerC. FitzgeraldD. Jack London26. Melville is best - known as the author of his mighty book, ________, which is one of the world’ s greatest masterpieces.A. Song of MyselfB. Moby - DickC. The Marble FaunD. Mosses from an Old Manse27. The theme of Henry James’ essay “______” clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life, so it is not surprising to find in his writings human experiences explored in every possible form.A. The AmericanB. The EuropeansC. The Art of FictionD. The Golden Bowl28. During WWI, ______ served as an honorable junior officer in the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps and in 1918 was severely wounded in both legs.A. AndersonB. FaulknerC. HemingwayD. Dreiser29. In order to protest against America’ s failure to join England in WWI, ______ became a naturalized British citizen in 1915.A. William FaulknerB. Henry JamesC. Earnest HemingwayD. Ezra Pound30. Robert Frost described ______as “a book of people,” which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background that formed it.A. North of BostonB. A Boy’s WillC. A Witness TreeD. A Further Range31. We can easily find in Dreiser’ s fiction a world of jungle, and ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote.A. naturalismB. romanticismC. transcendentalismD. cubism32. As an active participant of his age, Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______.A. Jazz AgeB. Age of ReasonC. Lost GenerationD. Beat Generation33. From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be: ______ to the core.A. altruisticB. politicalC. religiousD. materialistic34. The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ______ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A. HemingwayB. FrostC. FaulknerD. Whitman35. With the help of his friends Phil Stone and Sherwood Anderson, ______ published a volume of poetry The Marble Faun and his first novel Soldiers’ Pay.A. FaulknerB. HemingwayC. Ezra PoundD. Fitzgerald36. The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way ofa vivid portrait of “______.”A. the Beat GenerationB. the Lost GenerationC. the Babybooming AgeD. the Jazz Age37. Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern ______, which include religion, death, immorality, love and nature.A. the whole human beingsB. the frontiersC. the African AmericansD. her relatives38. H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”A. Hamlin GarlandB. Joseph KirklandC. Mark TwainD. Henry James39. In his poetry, Whitman shows concern for ______ and the burgeoning life of cities.A. the colonistsB. the capitalistsC. the whole hard -working peopleD. the intellectuals40. In 1837, ______ published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of short stories which attracted critical attention.A. EmersonB. MelvilleC. WhitmanD. HawthorneII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore, Bees of England, forgeMany a weapon, chain, and scourge,That these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your toil?Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the lines are taken.B. What do you know about the poem’ s writing background?C. What do you think the poet intends to say in the poem?42. Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go, through certain half- deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one -night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster- shells:(The lines above are taken from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S E liot. )Questions:A. What does the poem present?B. What form is the poem composed in?C. What does the poem suggest?43. This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me -The simple News that Nature told -With tender MajestyQuestions:A. Identify the poet.B. What idea does the poem express?C. Why does the poet use dashes and capital letters in the poem?44. There was music from my neighbor’ s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motorboats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week - ends his Rolls - Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing- brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. (The passage above is taken from The Great Gatsby )Questions:A. What time does the story reflect?B. What does the novel evoke?C. What does Gatsby’ s failure magnify?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men. ” What is Milton’ s fundamental concern in Paradise Lost?46. Briefly introduce Blake’ s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.47. What are the factors that gave rise to American naturalism?48. Briefly state Mark Twain’ s magic power with language in his novels.IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.50. Please discuss Henry James’ contribution to American literature in regard to his representative works, themes, writing techniques and language.英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考（课程代码0604）I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.01-05:DDADA 06-10:BBDCB 11-15:BACDA 16-20:CACAD21-25:BDADC 26-30:BCCBA 31-35:AADCA 36-40:BACCDII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.A. Shelley & A Song : Men of England.B. This poem was written in 1819, the year of the *Peterloo Massacre(彼得卢屠杀).* 1819年8月16日发生在英国曼彻斯特圣彼得广场上的一场流血惨案。
美国文学作家及作品汇总(英语)
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 加拉维拉县有名的跳蛙;The Innocent’s Abroad 傻瓜出国记;The Gilded Age 镀金时代;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 汤姆· 索耶历险记;The Prince and the Pauper 王子与贫儿;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 哈克贝利· 费恩历险记;A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 亚瑟王宫中的美国佬;The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson 傻瓜威尔逊;Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc 冉· 达克;The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 败坏哈德莱堡的人 How to Tell a Story 怎样讲故事---对美国早期幽默文学的总结 The Luck of Roaring Camp 咆哮营的幸运儿------乡土文学作家 The Rise of Silas Lapham 赛拉斯· 拉帕姆的发迹;A Modern Instance 现代婚姻; A Hazard of Now Fortunes 时来运转;A Traveller from Altruia 从 利他国来的旅客;Through the Eye of the Needle 透过针眼----乌托邦小说;Criticism and Fiction;Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading 小说创作与小说 阅读 History of the United States During the Administration of Jefferson and Madison( 历史著作 )；The Education of Henry Adams:An Autobiography 享利· 亚当斯的教育 Principles of Psychology 心理学原理；The Will to Believe 信仰的意志；Pragmatism:A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking 实用主义：某 些旧思想方法的新名称；The Meaning of Truth 真理的意义 小说：Daisy Miller 苔瑟· 米乐；The Portrait of a Lady 贵妇人画像；The Bostonians 波士顿人；The Real Thing and Other Tales 真货色及其他故 事；The Wings of the Dove 鸽翼；The Ambassadors 大使；The Golden Bowl 金碗 评论集：French Poets and Novelists 法国诗人和小说家;Hawthorne 霍桑;Partial Portraits 不完全的画像;Notes and Reviews 札记与评论;Art of Fiction and Other Essays 小说艺术 小品集： The Fiend’s Deligh 魔鬼的乐趣;Nuggests and Dust Panned out in California 在加利福尼亚淘出的金块和金粉;Cobwebs from an Empty Skull 来自空脑壳的蜘蛛网 短篇小说集：Tales of Soldiers and Civilians 军民故事;In the Midst of Life 在人生中间;Can Such Things Be?这种事情可能吗？The Devil’s Dictionary 魔鬼词典(The Applicant 申请者) Looking Backward:2000-1887 回顾：从 2000 看 1887 年；Equality 平等；The Duke of Sockbridge:A Romance of Shay’s Rebellion 斯托克布里 奇的公爵：雪司起义的故事;The Blindman’s World and Other Stories 育人的世界及其他 The Man With the Hoe 荷锄人
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John Scopes (1900~1970) He was an American teacher who violated a state law by teaching the theory of evolution in a Tennessee high school.His trial was a highly publicized confrontation between defense attorney Clarence Darrow and director of the prosecution ,William Jennings Byran.Scopes was found guilty and fined a nominal sum,but his conviction was later reversed on technical grounds
William Jennings Bryan • William Jennings Bryan(1860年-1925年）
• 中产阶级家庭，不仅在自己的个人生活，而且在政治和国家 事务中都把重点放在宗教和道德上。后来在芝加哥伊利诺伊 州大学法学院毕业后，他开了一家律师事务所.在1887年， 他搬到林肯，内布拉斯加，研究法律并同时转向政治。他曾 经3次代表美国民主党竞选总统。1912年他帮助伍德罗威尔 逊，以确保其总统职位。1913年，威尔逊任命他为国务卿。 在第一次世界大战中，他主张中立政策，希望美国在可以对 立的双方扮演仲裁员的角色.然而Wilson，没有遵循他的意 见，1915年6月他便辞职。1925年,他执行猴子审判，反对在 公立学校教授进化论。在这次审判中，他那天真幼稚与狭隘 的思想暴露的淋漓尽致。这也是布莱恩最后出现在公众面前。 他去世于1925年。布赖恩被命名为“银舌辩士” ，因为自 己的口才和逻辑思维。在审判期间，尽管达罗苛刻专探，他 仍坚定自己的信念，。布莱恩认为，这不是一个科学的问题， 而是神学和哲学。
美国文学精华
美国文学精华HIGHLIGHTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE目录Table Of Contents国家萌芽期National Beginnings第一章班杰明•富兰克林Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)第二章华盛顿•欧文Washington Irving (1783-1859)第三章詹姆斯•费尼莫•库珀James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)第四章飞利浦•佛瑞诺Philip Freneau (1752-1832)第五章威廉•卡伦•布莱恩特William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)第六章埃德加•爱伦坡Edgar Allan Poe (1809- 1849)第七章纳撒尼尔•霍桑Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)浪漫主义与理智判断Romanticism and Reason第八章拉尔夫•沃多•埃默森Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)第九章亨利•戴维梭罗Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)第十章赫曼•梅维尔Herman Melville (1819-1891)第十一章亨利•卫兹伍•郎费罗Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) 第十二章华特•惠特曼Walt Whitman (1819-1892)第十三章爱蜜丽•迪克生Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)第十四章马克•吐温Mark Twain (1835-1910)第十五章史蒂芬•克莱恩Stephen Crane (1871 -1900)第十六章亨利•詹姆斯Henry James (1843-1916)美国短篇小说：19世纪的发展The American Short Story: 19th Century Developments第十七章安布鲁斯•毕尔斯Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)第十八章史帝芬•克莱恩Stephen Crane (1871-1900)第十九章埃德加•爱伦坡Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)第二十章法兰克•史塔顿Frank R Stockton (1834-1902)现实与反应主义Realism and Reaction第二十一章西尔多•德莱塞Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)第二十二章爱德恩•阿灵顿•罗宾森Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) 第二十三章卡尔•山博格Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)第二十四章辛克莱•刘易斯Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)第二十五章亨利•门肯Henry L. Mencken (1880-1956)第二十六章史考特•费兹杰罗 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1886-1940)第二十七章约翰•史坦贝克John Steinback (1902-1968)散文与诗歌中的现代声音Modern Voices in Prose and Poetry第二十八章厄年斯特•海明威Ernest Hemingway第二十九章威廉•福克纳William Faulkner第三十章罗柏特•佛斯特Robert Frost第三十一章阿契博得•麦克列许Archibald MacLeish威廉•卡洛斯•威廉斯William Carlos Williams and 蓝斯顿•休斯Langston Hughes第三十二章凯瑟琳•安•波特Katherine Ann Porter第三十三章索尔•贝罗Saul Bellow第三十四章雷夫•艾利森Ralph Ellison第三十五章罗伯•罗威尔Robert Lowell西尔多•罗特克Theodore Roethke兰德尔．贾雷尔Randall Jarrell and 詹姆斯．赖特James Wright当代美国戏剧作品Modern American Drama第三十六章「回归尘土」Return to Dust第三十七章「其它的演员」The Other Player国家萌芽期National Beginnings美国早期的文学既非美国人所著也非真正的文学，这些著作不属于美国的原因就是因为它们都是从英国流传进来的。
英文情话
"Paradise is always where love dwells." - Jean Paul F. Richter"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Herman Hesse"I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them." - Anais Nin to Henry Miller"Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." - anonymous quotation"Till I loved I never lived—enough." - Emily Dickenson"O happy hours when I may once more encircle within these arms the dearest object of my love- when I shall again feel the pressure of that 'aching head' which will delight to recline upon my bosom, when I may again press to my heart which palpitates with the purest affection that loved one who has so long shared its undivided devotion." - Alexander Hamilton Rice"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." - Josiah G. Holland"Love me without fear / Trust me without questioning / Need me without demanding / Want me without restrictions / Accept me without change / Desire me without inhibitions." - Dick Sutphen"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Nietzsche"Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered — and I was delivered to you —to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet." - Zelda Fitzgerald"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." -George Sands"My love for you is a journey;Starting at forever,And ending at never."- anonymous quotation"You're nothing short of my everything." - Ralph Block"All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love." - Marquis de Lafayette"Thou art to me a delicious torment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson"I tell you I love you every day for fear that tomorrow isn't another." - anonymous quotation"There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me." - Gretchen Kemp"I never, till now, had a friend who could give me repose; all have disturbed me, and, whether for pleasure or pain, it was still disturbance. But peace overflows from your heart into mine." - Nathaniel Hawthorne, letter to Sophia Hawthorne"She walks in beauty,Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes."- Byron"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other." - Lucian de Croszonza"We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire." - Marge Piercy"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me." - Sarah Bernhardt"I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again. My life seems to stop there, I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving. I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion... I have shudder'd at it... I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion: Love is my religion. I could die for that. I could die for you. My creed is love, and you are its only tenet. You have ravish'd me away by a power I cannot resist." - letter written by John Keats"It is not night when I do see your face."- Shakespeare"Love conquers all things; let us surrender to Love."- Virgil"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."- Antoine De Saint"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."- Peter Ustinov"My heart is ever at your service."- William Shakespeare"If I know what love is, it is because of you."- Herman Hesse"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."- Karen Sunde"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."- Plato"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."- Robert Frost"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."- Jalaluddin Rumi"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."- Aristotle"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."- Saint Thomas Aquinas"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."- Henry Louis Mencken"Love doesn?t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."- Franklin P. Jones"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."- Ralph Waldo EmersonTrue love stories never have endings.-Richard BachI love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.-John KeatsIf you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.-Oscar WildeLove planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.-Katharine Lee BatesThe real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.-Marilyn MonroeA tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.-Charlie ChaplinLove recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.-Maya AngelouWhen you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.-William Makepeace ThackerayThe romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.-Joan ChenAll that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan PoeKiss me and you will see how important I am. - Sylvia PlathMy dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.-Wild Bill HickokWhen I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. - William Makepeace ThackerayToday I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.-Edmond de GoncourtVulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'-Ashton KutcherBeauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.-Samuel DanielThere is no instinct like that of the heart. - Lord ByronAnd ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.-Khalil GibranWhat is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.- Robert HerrickThere is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. - Jane AustenNow I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.-Conor OberstI believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.-Max MullerThe word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.Billy GrahamI'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.-F. Scott FitzgeraldFrench is the language that turns dirt into romance.-Stephen KingIf I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. - Emily Dickinson。
The_Fair_Lady_Summary_中文版
《窈窕淑女》是一部根据萧伯纳的《皮格马利翁》改编的音乐剧，由艾伦·杰伊·勒纳作词，弗雷德里克·洛韦作曲。
这个故事与伊丽莎·杜立特有关，她是伦敦的一个花童，她从一位语音学家亨利·希金斯教授那里学习语言，这样她就可以作为一个淑女过世了。
最初的百老汇和伦敦演出由雷克斯·哈里森和朱莉·安德鲁斯主演。
这部音乐剧1956年的百老汇制作是一个引人注目的关键和流行的成功。
它创下了迄今为止百老汇所有节目中播放时间最长的纪录。
接下来是一部轰动一时的伦敦电影，一部受欢迎的电影版本，以及许多复兴。
我美丽的女士被称为“完美的音乐剧”。
PlotAct I它是爱德华七世时代的伦敦，皇家歌剧院，考文特花园。
主角伊丽莎·杜利特是个伦敦人，口音很重，听不懂。
亨利·希金斯教授邀请皮克林上校作为他的房客。
不久之后，伊丽莎·杜利特来到希金斯教授的家里，寻求演讲课。
希金斯教授打赌皮克林上校，六个月后他会教伊丽莎说话得体，把她变成一个淑女。
伊丽莎是希金斯家庭的一名英语学生。
几周后，伊丽莎被介绍给弗雷迪·埃恩斯福德山。
弗雷迪坠入爱河。
伊丽莎的口音现在变得优雅了，她正在接受教育，如何在上流社会中作为一个初出茅庐的人。
伊丽莎最后的考试要求她在大使馆舞会上以淑女的身份通过。
经过几周的准备，她已经准备好了。
舞会上所有的女士们先生们都很佩服她，特兰西瓦尼亚女王邀请她和王子跳舞。
Act II球打得很成功。
皮克林上校和希金斯教授陶醉于他们的胜利，直到希金斯让伊丽莎去取拖鞋，才注意到伊丽莎。
伊丽莎被侮辱了，然后打包离开希金斯家。
她花在学习口语课上的所有努力都没有得到任何赞扬。
希金斯第二天早上醒来。
他发现没有伊莱扎，他只能喝茶而不是咖啡，找不到他的档案。
皮克林上校注意到教授缺乏考虑。
皮克林找到另一个主人，也离开了希金斯家。
希金斯教授很沮丧，去看望他的母亲。
亨利。路易斯。门肯 简介
STYLE
Mencken is well-known for his bombastic style and acid tongue and in this piece he doesn’t just berate and revile the ugliness of Westmoreland, he attacks the whole American race --- a race that loves ugliness for its own sake, that lusts to make the world intolerable; a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
* He chooses the strongest words possible, words bordering on the abusive--dreadfully hideous abominable, agonizing ugliness, revolting monstrousness, leprous hill, and so on ad nauseam.
COMMENTS
American Editor & Satirist The “Sage（哲人，贤人） of Baltimore （巴尔
的摩） The most prominent newspaperman Book reviewer Political commentator
美国文学中英文名称对照
美国文学中英文名称对照e Broad-Axe阔斧之歌;I hear America Singing我听见美洲在歌唱;When Lilacs Lost in the Dooryard Bloom'd小院丁香花开时;Democratic Vistas民主的前景;The Tramp and Strike Question流浪汉和罢工问题;Song of Myself自我之歌12、Herman Melville赫尔曼·梅尔维尔1819-1891Moby Dick/The White Whale莫比·迪克/白鲸；Typee泰比;Omoo奥穆;Mardi玛地;Redburn雷得本;White Jacket白外衣;Pierre皮尔埃;Piazza广场故事;Billy Budd比利·巴德13、Henry Wadsworth Longfellow亨利·沃兹沃思·朗费罗1807-1882The Song of Hiawatha 海华沙之歌——美国人写的第一部印第安人史诗;V oices of the Night夜吟;Ballads and Other Poens民谣及其他诗;Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems布鲁茨的钟楼及其他诗;Tales of a Wayside Inn路边客栈的故事——诗集：An April Day四月的一天/A Psalm of Life人生礼物/Paul Revere's Ride保罗·里维尔的夜奔;Evangeline伊凡吉琳;The Courtship of Miles Standish迈尔斯·斯坦迪什的求婚——叙事长诗；Poems on Slavery奴役篇——反蓄奴组诗14、John Greenleaf Whittier约翰·格林里夫·惠蒂埃1807-1892Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question废奴问题;Voice of Freedom自由之声;In War Time and Other Poems内战时期所作;Snow-Bound大雪封门;The Tent on the Beach and Other Poems海滩的帐篷;Ichabod艾卡博德;A Winter Idyl冬日田园诗15、Harriet Beecher Stowe哈丽特·比彻·斯托1811-1896Uncle Tom's Cabin汤姆叔叔的小屋;A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp德雷德阴暗大沼地的故事片;The Minister's Wooing牧师的求婚;The Pearl of Orr's Island奥尔岛的珍珠;Oldtown Folks老城的人们16、Frederick Douglass弗莱德里克·道格拉斯1817-1895Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave弗莱德里克·道格拉斯，一个美国黑人的自述/My Bondage and My Freedom我的枷锁与我的自由/The life and Time of Frederick Douglass弗莱德里克·道格拉斯的生平与时代17、Emily Dickinson埃米莉·迪金森1830-1886The Poems of Emily Dichenson埃米莉·迪金森诗集——"Tell all the truth and tell it slant"迂回曲折的，玄学的18、Mark Twain马克·吐温（Samuel Longhorne Clemens）——美国文学的一大里程碑The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County加拉维拉县有名的跳蛙；The Innocent's Abroad傻瓜出国记；The Gilded Age镀金时代；The Adventures of Tom Sawyer汤姆。
Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken（亨利·路易斯·门肯）Henry Louis Mencken（1880-1956) was born into a German-American family in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a twentieth-century journalist, magazine editor, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker. He was known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche" He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century.Mencken was born into a family of cigar makers. While he spent his youth and early adulthood following his father's footsteps in the cigar trade, he spent his free time writing and reading voraciously. By the age of eight, he had already become interested in literature, and owned his first library card by the age of nine. When he was 18 years old, Mencken got a job in the Baltimore Morning Herald and became the youngest reporter on the paper. After the Herald closed down, Mencken joined the Baltimore Sun. By 1910, he was publishing a regular column, The Free Lance, in which he took on everything and everyone.In 1924, Mencken began a new journal, called The American Mercury. Aimed at the "civilized minority"; the magazine blended politics, the arts, and sciences. It was the first magazine edited by whites to publish the work of African American authors. The American Mercury influenced other magazines that followed it, including The New Yorker.Mencken wrote many articles about the social scene, literature, music, ethics, women, religion, prominent politicians, pseudo-experts, temperance, etc. He was particularly critical of anti-intellectualism, bigotry, populism, Christian fundamentalism, creationism, organized religion, and the existence of God.Of his books, Mencken is best known for his monumental study, The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. It is ranked as one of the top 100 influential books in the United States, and lets him enjoy an authoritative status as an expert on American English. It is his three volumes of reminiscences of his childhood and newspaper years that have turned out to be his most popular;namely, Happy Days, Newspaper Days and Heathen Days.He continues to be recognized throughout the world as an influential critic of literature who helped launch the Southern and Harlem literary renaissances.。
英美文学史上最尖酸刻薄的13条书评
英美文学史上最尖酸刻薄的13条书评一、《红衣主教的情人》"The Cardinal's Mistress" by Benito Mussolini作者贝尼托·墨索里尼评论者：桃乐丝·帕克尔（Dorothy Parker）读罢墨索里尼的小说《红衣主教的情人》，帕克尔说：“这本小说可不能随手扔到一边；应该狠狠甩飞！”In response to reading Benito Mussolini's "The Cardinal's Mistress", Dorothy Parker said, "this is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."二、亨利·詹姆斯Henry James代表作：《悲剧缪斯》（The Tragic Muse）等评论者：马克·吐温（Mark Twain）针对詹姆斯，马克·吐温曾说：“读他的书不能停，你一旦放下，就再也拿不起来了。
”Of Henry James, Mark Twain said, "Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again."三、乔治·梅瑞狄斯（George Meredith）代表作：《利己主义者》（The Egoist）等评论者：奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde）针对梅瑞狄斯，王尔德曾说：“作为一个作家，他掌握了一切，除了语言；作为一个小说家，他几乎万能，可就是不会讲故事；作为一个艺术家，他简直就是上帝，唯独搞不懂说话的艺术。
”Of George Meredith, Oscar Wilde said, "as a writer he has mastered everything except language; as a novelist he can do everything except tell a story; as an artist he is everything except articulate."四、赫尔曼·梅尔维尔（Herman Melville）代表作：《白鲸》、《皮埃尔》等《白鲸》刚放表的时候就是个哑炮，大多数批评都十分严厉。
A Rose for Emily
A Rose for EmilyWilliam FaulknerIWHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant--a combined gardener and cook--had seen in at least ten years.It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor--he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity. Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily's father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction. On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. February came, and there was no reply. They wrote her a formal letter, asking her to call at the sheriff's office at her convenience. A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment.They called a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen. A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier. They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow. It smelled of dust and disuse--a close, dank smell. The Negro led them into the parlor. It was furnished in heavy, leather-covered furniture. When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray. On a tarnished gilt easel before the fireplace stood a crayon portrait of Miss Emily's father. They rose when she entered--a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand.She did not ask them to sit. She just stood in the door and listened quietly until the spokesman came to a stumbling halt. Then they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain.Her voice was dry and cold. "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris explained it to me. Perhaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy yourselves.""But we have. We are the city authorities, Miss Emily. Didn't you get a notice from the sheriff, signed by him?""I received a paper, yes," Miss Emily said. "Perhaps he considers himself the sheriff . . . I have no taxes in Jefferson.""But there is nothing on the books to show that, you see We must go by the--""See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson.""But, Miss Emily--""See Colonel Sartoris." (Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.) "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!" The Negro appeared. "Show these gentlemen out."IISo SHE vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell.That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart--the one we believed would marry her --had deserted her. After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the temerity to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man--a young man then--going in and out with a market basket."Just as if a man--any man--could keep a kitchen properly, "the ladies said; so they were not surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.A neighbor, a woman, complained to the mayor, Judge Stevens, eighty years old."But what will you have me do about it, madam?" he said."Why, send her word to stop it," the woman said. "Isn't there a law? ""I'm sure that won't be necessary," Judge Stevens said. "It's probably just a snake or a rat that nigger of hers killed in the yard. I'll speak to him about it."The next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in diffident deprecation. "We really must do something about it, Judge. I'd be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we've got to do something." That night the Board of Aldermen met--three graybeards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation."It's simple enough," he said. "Send her word to have her place cleaned up. Give her a certain time to do it in, and if she don't. ..""Dammit, sir," Judge Stevens said, "will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?"So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily's lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regularsowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been dark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol. They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away.That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her. People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were. None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door. So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized.When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At last they could pity Miss Emily. Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized. Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less.The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly.We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.IIISHE WAS SICK for a long time. When we saw her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows--sort of tragic and serene.The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks, and in the summer after her father's death they began the work. The construction company came with riggers and mules and machinery, and a foreman named Homer Barron, a Yankee--a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face. The little boys would follow in groups to hear him cuss the riggers, and the riggers singing in time to the rise and fall of picks. Pretty soon he knew everybody in town. Whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the square, Homer Barron would be in the center of the group. Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable.At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, "Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer." But there were still others, older people, who said that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige- -without calling it noblesse oblige. They just said, "Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk should come to her." She had some kin in Alabama; but years ago her father had fallen out with them over the estate of old lady Wyatt, the crazy woman, and there was no communication between the two families. They had not even been represented at the funeral.And as soon as the old people said, "Poor Emily," the whispering began. "Do you suppose it's really so?" they said to one another. "Of course it is. What else could . . ." This behind their hands; rustling of craned silk and satin behind jalousies closed upon the sun of Sunday afternoon as the thin, swift clop-clop-clop of the matched team passed: "Poor Emily."She carried her head high enough--even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness. Like when she bought the rat poison, the arsenic. That was over a year after they had begun to say "Poor Emily," and while the two female cousins were visiting her."I want some poison," she said to the druggist. She was over thirty then, still a slight woman, though thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of which was strained across the temples and about the eyesockets as you imagine a lighthouse-keeper's face ought to look. "I want some poison," she said."Yes, Miss Emily. What kind? For rats and such? I'd recom--""I want the best you have. I don't care what kind."The druggist named several. "They'll kill anything up to an elephant. But what you want is--""Arsenic," Miss Emily said. "Is that a good one?""Is . . . arsenic? Yes, ma'am. But what you want--""I want arsenic."The druggist looked down at her. She looked back at him, erect, her face like a strained flag. "Why, of course," the druggist said. "If that's what you want. But the law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for." Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up. The Negro delivery boy brought her the package; the druggist didn't come back. When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones: "For rats."IVSo THE NEXT day we all said, "She will kill herself"; and we said it would be the best thing. When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, "She will marry him." Then we said, "She will persuade him yet," because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man. Later we said, "Poor Emily" behind the jalousies as they passed on Sunday afternoon in the glittering buggy, Miss Emily with her head high and Homer Barron with his hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth, reins and whip in a yellow glove.Then some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people. The men did not want to interfere, but at last the ladies forced the Baptist minister--Miss Emily's people were Episcopal-- to call upon her. He would never divulge what happened during that interview, but he refused to go back again. The next Sunday they again drove about the streets, and the following day the minister's wife wrote to Miss Emily's relations in Alabama.So she had blood-kin under her roof again and we sat back to watch developments. At first nothing happened. Then we were sure that they were to be married. We learned that Miss Emily had been to the jeweler's andordered a man's toilet set in silver, with the letters H. B. on each piece. Two days later we learned that she had bought a complete outfit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt, and we said, "They are married." We were really glad. We were glad because the two female cousins were even more Grierson than Miss Emily had ever been.So we were not surprised when Homer Barron--the streets had been finished some time since--was gone. We were a little disappointed that there was not a public blowing-off, but we believed that he had gone on to prepare for Miss Emily's coming, or to give her a chance to get rid of the cousins. (By that time it was a cabal, and we were all Miss Emily's allies to help circumvent the cousins.) Sure enough, after another week they departed. And, as we had expected all along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening.And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time. The Negro man went in and out with the market basket, but the front door remained closed. Now and then we would see her at a window for a moment, as the men did that night when they sprinkled the lime, but for almost six months she did not appear on the streets. Then we knew that this was to be expected too; as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman's life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die.When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. During the next few years it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray, when it ceased turning. Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still that vigorous iron-gray, like the hair of an active man.From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting. She fitted up a studio in one of the downstairs rooms, where the daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris' contemporaries were sent to her with the same regularity and in the same spirit that they were sent to church on Sundays with a twenty-five-cent piece for the collection plate. Meanwhile her taxes had been remitted.Then the newer generation became the backbone and the spirit of the town, and the painting pupils grew up and fell away and did not send their children to her with boxes of color and tedious brushes and pictures cut from the ladies' magazines. The front door closed upon the last one and remained closed for good. When the town got free postal delivery, Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it. She would not listen to them.Daily, monthly, yearly we watched the Negro grow grayer and more stooped, going in and out with the market basket. Each December we sent her a tax notice, which would be returned by the post office a week later, unclaimed. Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows--she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house--like the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking at us, we could never tell which. Thus she passed from generation to generation--dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse. And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her. We did not even know she was sick; we had long since given up trying to get any information from the NegroHe talked to no one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse.She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight.VTHE NEGRO met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then he disappeared. He walked right through the house and out the back and was not seen again.The two female cousins came at once. They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men --some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years.Already we knew that there was one room in that region above stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced. They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened it. The violence of breaking down the door seemed to fill this room with pervading dust. A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the man's toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured. Among them lay a collar and tie, as if they had just been removed, which, lifted, left upon the surface a pale crescent in the dust. Upon a chair hung the suit, carefully folded; beneath it the two mute shoes and the discarded socks.The man himself lay in the bed.For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.Questions:1.What happened? And why did it happen?2.Who are “we”,” the narrator? Why is the story told in this perspective?3.How to understand Miss Emily? Could you work out a chronicle of her life?4.How to understand the title?。
第八讲 美国现实主义时期
B ) American Naturalism is a more advanced stage of realism. The naturalists accepted the more negative implications of Darwin’s theory and used it to account for the behavior of those characters in literary works. C) The American naturalists also followed the French novelist and theorist Emile Zola's call. D) They chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society and portrayed the people who were demonstrably victims of society and nature. E) One of the most familiar themes in Naturalism is the theme of human “bestiality”, especially as an explanation of sexual desire.
What is Local Colorism?
“ Local colorism” is a unique variation of American literary realism. A) Generally, the works by local colorists are concerned with the life of a small, well-defined region or province. This kind of fiction depicts the characters from a specific setting or of an era, which are marked by its customs, dialects, costumes, landscape, or other peculiarities that have escaped standardizing cultural influence. B) Yet for all their sentimentality, they dedicated themselves to minutely accurate descriptions of the life of their regions. They worked from personal experience; they recorded the facts of a unique environment and suggested that the native life was shaped by the curious conditions of the locale. Their materials were necessarily limited and topics disparate, yet they had certain common artistic concerns. C) Writers whose works are characterized with local colors are Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Joseph Kirkland and Hamlin Garland.
美女与野兽的咏叹 “歌剧魅影”双碟收藏版
美女与野兽的咏叹“歌剧魅影”双碟收藏版
Pumpkin
【期刊名称】《电影评介》
【年(卷),期】2005(0)5
【摘要】关于影片这部来源于歌剧的电影以故事和音乐两重视角叙述了一个爱的往事:1870 年代在巴黎歌剧院的地窖深处,传说游荡着一个戴着古怪面具、鬼魂一般恐怖却极具音乐天赋的“魅影”,他使自己爱慕已久并长期暗地里予以音乐指导的群舞演员克莉丝汀成为了新的歌剧明星。
克莉斯汀惊人的天赋和动人的容貌也打动了英俊的莱欧子爵,两个年轻人迅速坠入甜蜜的爱河中。
因爱而走火入魔的“魅影”无法忍受自己悉心调教的心上人别有所属,竟然用暴力的手段劫走克莉丝汀。
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【关键词】影片;电影;导演;面具;歌剧院;演员;巴黎;明星;观众;舞台剧
【作者】Pumpkin
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