The Libido for the Ugly 张汉熙高级英语第二册课件
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The Queen’s English:
(old-fashioned) the form of spoken and written British English that is considered correct by most people (Macmillan English Dictionary)
Summary Justice Shallow, Master Slender, and Sir Hugh Evans enter, discussing
Shallow's anger at Sir John Falstaff. Evans changes the topic to the young Anne Page, whom he would like to see Slender marry. They arrive at Master Page's door, where Shallow confronts Falstaff and his entourage. The men enter to dine, but Slender drifts around outside, trying unsuccessfully to converse with Anne Page until he goes inside. //Falstaff and his entourage settle in at the Garter Inn, whereFalstaff reveals his plan to seduce Mistress Page and Mistress Ford, both of whom have control over their husband's money, which he desires. He sends Pistol and Nim to deliver letters to the women, but they refuse. Instead they plot to stymie Falstaff's plans by telling Page and Ford of his intentions.
The-Libido-for-the-Ugly-讲义PPT课件
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,
Lesson 2 高英第二册PPT教学课件
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Teaching plan
• About the author • Introduction to the passage • Background • Stylistic Analysis
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About the Author
George Orwell: pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair (1903-50), an English writer. born in Motihari, Bengal, India. Concerned with the sociopolitical conditions of his time.
• P.9 Working conditions, dress: ... all dressed in the long black robe, and black cap, working in dark cave-like flyinfested booths. Example 1: a carpenter
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IV. The Old Women
P.16 Topic/statement All people who work with their hands are
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dormer-window a bare leprous hill
a hillside was bare and looked as repulsive as the skin of a leper
pent house
Lesson Seven
The Libido for the Ugly
Pre-Text Questions
What do you know about the author? What kind of writing is this one? Why does Mencken uses such a pathological term like libido?
What literary device is used in this sentence?
sarcasm The color and design were so bad that one couldn’t find any which was worse.
It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius,…the making of them.
the U. S., the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth, both boasts about and feels proud of this center of industrial activity
it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a … joke
张汉熙高级英语2课件-PPT精品文档
The English are Different
1. The dominant intention or the
controversial topic of his argument is stated early in paragraph one in one unambiguous sentence: “ The English are different”.
1) The English can soon feel bored and
that’s why they gamble and booze so much and enjoy any dramatic change in public life. 2) The English have a sense of community, decent fellow feeling, fairness. 3) The English are at heart and at root an imaginative people immediately responsive to any suggestion of drama in their lives.
The Future of the English
J . B. Priestley
Aims:
Improving students’ ability to read between lines and understand the text properly; 2) Cultivating students’ ability to make a creative reading; 3) Enhancing students’ ability to appreciate the text from different perspectives
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Teaching Contents
I. II. III. IV. V. Background Knowledge Exposition and Argument Detailed Study of The Essay Organization Pattern Style and Language Features
Detailed Study of the Essay
Pre-class work:
1. What do you think the author is going to focus on: the future of the English as an international language, the future of the English as a nation or the future of the English people? 2. You are supposed to figure out the type of the essay from the title. It’s an imaginary fiction forecasting the future of the English or not? 3. What do you think the future of your own country and people would be like?
Time Allocation:
1) Background knowledge (15 min.) 2) Detailed study of the text (180 min.) 3) Structure analysis (15 min.) 4) Language appreciation (15 min.) 5) Free talk (30 min)
The Libido for the Ugly 讲义(课堂PPT)
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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.
高级英语 张汉熙 第二课 课件
Orwell’s Political point
Orwell was a keen critic of imperialism , fascism ,Stalinism, and capitalism.
His works are concerned with the sociopolitical conditions of his time, notably with the problem of human freedom.
Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the
b. A territory thus settled.
2. A region politically controlled by a distant country; a dependency.
3. A group of people who have been institutionalized in a relatively remote area
Colonize vt. e.g. Britain colonized Australia.
Colonist (殖民地居民， 移民）， colonialism,
colonialist, Colonization, colonizationist (主张开拓殖民
地者）
Colonial country Colony （殖民地， 居住区）
Scene 1: The burial of the poor inhabitants (para 1-3) The idea: Life is cheap. People are so poor that they can not
张汉熙高级英语第二册第六课PPT课件
He becomes a cosmopolitan, a citizen of the world.
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Finally, the disappearance of history is a form of liberation and this feeling of liberation is often expressed through play.
宝马标志中间的蓝白相间图案代表蓝天白云和旋转不停的螺旋桨喻示宝马公司渊源悠久的历史象征该公司过去在航空发动机技术方面的领先地位又象征在广阔的时空中以先进的精湛技术最新的观念满足顾客的最大愿望
Lesson6 Disappearing Through the Skylight
Osborne Bennet Hardison Jr.
▪ "As surely as nature is being swallowed up by the mind, the banks, you might say, are disappearing through their own skylights.
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▪ As for the central theme of this book, the writer says:
describe the changed appearance of
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▪ The second important idea he puts forward is the universalizing tendency of science and technology.
高级英语第2册(张汉熙)2
bumpy (adj.) : full of bumps；rough；jolting崎岖不平的；颠簸的；震摇的
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bier (n.) : a platform or portable framework on which a coffin or corpse is placed棺材架；尸体架
The libido of the ugly
Henry L.MenckenPennsylvania:located inthe Northeatern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S,and the Great Lakes region,the Appalachian Mountains run through the middle of thestate,Pennsylvania University is one of the Ivy League SchoolSentence 1: On a Winter day some years ago, coming out of Pittsburgh on one of the expresses of the PennsylvaniaRailroad, I rolled eastward for an hour through the coal and steel towns of Westmoreland county.Westmoreland county:a county in southwest Pennsylvania,it is a mining andmanufacturing region.roll: travelPittsburgh: a city in Southwest Pennsylvania and second largest city of it,it is one of the most important industrial cities of America,and a center of rail and river transportation. Termedd the'Steel City' or 'Smoky City', 'the city of bridge'.It is the center of rich bituminous-coal region, producing also natural gas,oil and milestone,a large part of American steel and iron is produced hereSentence 2: It was familiar ground; boy and man, I had been through it often before.as a boybecame an adultParaphrase:As a boy and later when I was a grown-up man I had often traveled through the regionSentence 3: But somehow I had never quite sensed its appalling desolation.appalling: shocking; extremely baddesolation: the state of a place that is ruined or destroyed and offers no joy or hope to peopleSentence 4: Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth--and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous , so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke .lucrative: producing a large amount of many; making a large profitboast: to have sth that is impressive and that you can be proud ofdreadfully: extremely; very muchbleak: exposed,empty,or with nopleasantmacabre:unpleasant and strange becausemetaphor:comparing this important center of industrial America to the heart of a human bodyhyperbole:exaggerating the richness and grandeur of this region and of America as a whole --the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earthantithetical contrast :the richest and grandest region & hideous.bleak,forlorn scene•Paraphrase:the scene of this place was terribly ugly and the whole region was so miserable and gloomy that itwas unbearable,this dreadful scene makes all human’s aspiration become a joke.Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination--and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.computation: calculationabominable: appalling,disgusting;extremely unpleasant or of very bad qualityally cats: cats live in the street without homehyperbole: wealth was beyond computation and imagination;and habitations so abominable that even homeless cats would have felt ashamed to live in them.antithetical contrast : great wealth & human habitation Paraphrase:the environment of this region was so terrible that even homeless cats would not live in here.Paragraph 2Sentence 1: I am not speaking of mere filth.What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revoltingmonstrousness, of every house in sight.•filth: disgustingly offensive dirt，garbage，etc．•allude : refer in a casual or indirect way•revolting: disgusting•unbroken ugliness: ugliness is continuous and uninterrupted •agonizing ugliness: ugliness that caused great pain to people who saw it•monstrousness: strange shapeSentence 2: From East Liberty to Greensburg, a distance of twenty-five miles, there was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the eye.lacerate: to cut skin or fresh with sth sharp.East Liberty: East liberty is a culturally diverse neighborhood in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania’s East endGreensburg: Greensburg is a city in Westmorelandcounty,Pennsylvania’s and part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area.Sentence 3: Some were so bad, and they were among the most pretentious--churches, stores, warehouses, and the like--that they were down-right startling;one blinked before them as one blinks before a man with his face shot away.pretentious : making claim to or creating an appearance of importance or distinction.down-right: complete and without restrictionstartling: so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm.simileSentence 4: A few linger in memory, horrible even there: a crazy little church just west of Jeannette, set like a dormer-window on the side ofa bare leprous hill; the headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign Warsat another forlorn town, a steel stadium like a huge rat-trapsomewhere further down the line. But most of all I recall the general effect--of hideousness without a break.leprous :like leprosy麻风病, having ulcers (溃疡) and white scaly(鳞状的) scabs(疥疮)linger: remain present although waning or gradually dying; forlorn: marked by or showing hopelessness;simileSentence 5: There was not a single decent house within eye range from the Pittsburgh to the Greensburg yards. There was not one that was not misshapen,and there was no one that was not shabby.Misshapen(adj): not the normal or natural shape•The repetition of the same structural pattern and the use of double negatives help to emphasize the two words“misshapen”and “shabby”.Paragraph 3Sentence 1:The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of theendless mills. It is, in form, a narrow river valley, with deep gullies running up into the hills.uncomely: improper, uglygrime: soot or dirt, dustSentence 2: It is thickly settled, but not noticeably overcrowded. There is still plenty of room for building, even in the larger towns, and there are very few solid blocks.overcrowded: some places are excessively filled by people, buildings or thingssolid blocks: refers to a group of buildings which settled together extremely tightSentence 3:Nearly every house, big and little, has space on all four sides. Obviously, if there were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides-a chalet with a high-pitched roof, to throw off the heavy winter snows, but still essentially a low and clinging building, wider than it was tall.chalet: a kind of small suburbanhousehigh-pitched roof: the roof with abig angle of slopeHere is kind of irony that these architects don’t deserve profession in the region. Because they couldn’t realize the perfect design of the country and built it with chalet clinging the mountains.Sentence 4:But what have they done? They have taken as their model a brick set on end. This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof.a brick set on end: meansdingy: dirty-looking, drab, dull-coloredclapboard: a covering to protest the wallSentence 5:And the whole they have set upon thin, preposterous brick piers. By the hundreds and thousands these abominable houses over the bare hillsides, like gravestones in some gigantic and decaying cemetery. preposterous: completely unreasonable in manner orappearanceabominable: detestable, very bad or unpleasantcemetery: a burial groundSimileSentence 6 :On their deep sides they are three, four and even five stores high; on their low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud.swinishly: extremely unpleasant or difficult to deal withSentence 7:Not a fifth of them are perpendicular. They lean this way and that, hanging on to their bases precariously. And one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks.perpendicular: at right angle to the plane of the ground precariously: not firm or steadyone and all: all of them, completestreak: n.&v. mark with long, thin lineeczematous 湿疹的peep: emerge or come slowly into viewParagraph 4:When it is new it is the color of a fried egg.When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope orcaring.patina:a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metalfried egg: eggs cooked by sauteing in oil or butter; sometimes turned and cooked on both sidesBut in Westmoreland they prefer that uremic yellow, and so they have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye.uremic:of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency)loathsome :highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgustParagraph 5Sentence 1: I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.championship: use this word ironically to describe not the best but the worst.laborious:industrious; hardworkingprayer: asking God to help him come to a correct decision.I have given Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness only after visiting and comparing many places not only in the U. S. but also in other countries and after constantly praying God for guidance.Sentence 2:I have seen, I believe, all of the most unlovely towns of the world; they are all to be found in the United States.This sentence use the rhetorical device is the hyperbole Hyperbole is used to strengthen the power of what the author said, so it usually pay attention to express the subjective emotion while pay no attention to tell the objective facts. So it can also express the ridicule.These places are all to be found in the United States.Sentence 4: But nowhere on this earth, at home or abroad, have I seen anything to compare to the villages that huddle along the line of the Pennsylvania from the Pittsburgh yards to Greensburg. They are incomparable in color, and they are incomparable in design.In the author’s eyes, the houses along the Pennsylvania are so terrible that people can’t found worse in everywhere else.Sentence 5:They are incomparable in color, and they are incomparable in design. incomparable:beyond comparison; unequaled; matchless.This word has the connotative meaning of superb excellence but Mencken uses it ironically to mean that the color and design were so bad that you couldn’t find any which was worse.Paraphrase:People can’t find such terrible color and design in any otherSentence 6:It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all theingenuity of Hell to the making of them.titanic ：of great strength, size or poweraberrant: unusual and not normal, straying away from the right path; deviating from what is normalgenius: used ironically to mean an evil geniusuncompromising: firm, steadfast , rigidinimical：hostile and harmfulingenuity：inventive skill or imagination; clevernessHell: the powers of evil or darknessparaphrase:It is as if some genius of great power, who didn’t like to do the right things and who was an inflexible enemy of man, employed all the cleverness and skill of hell to build these ugly houses.hyperbole and ironySentence 7:They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical.grotesquerie: strangeness, ugliness怪诞，古怪in retrospect:thinking about a past event or situation, often with a different opinion of it from the one you had at the time回想起来diabolical: dreadfulparaphrase:When one looks back at these houses whose ugliness is so fantastic and bizarre one feels they must be the work of the devil himself.Sentence 8:One cannot imagine mere human beings concocting such dreadful things ,and one can scarcely imagine human bings bearing life in them concoct：to make sth. by mixing or combining partsunconscious , concious,unconsciousParaphrase:One can not imagine that human being s alone could make such dreadful things :There must have been the power of the Devil of work. And one can scarcely imagine people living in these houses and bearing and bringing up children in them or tolerating life in themParagraph 6This paragraph is about to compare the ugly building among America ,the Europe and England. It this way to emphasize how ugly the American’s building was.Sentence 1: Are they so frightful because the valley is full of foreigners --dull, insensate brutes, with no love of beauty in them?insensate: devoid of feeling and consciousnessbrute: a person who is brutal or very stupid，gross etcRhetorical sentence--Are the houses so frightfully ugly because the valley is inhabited by a lot of foreigners who are stupid and unfeeling like animals and who have no love of bearty inthem?characterized by beauty of movementsuggesting taste, ease, and wealthThis is sentence can shows that even the farmers in Spain who are almost focus on sowing wanted their house to be graceful and charming. It is a contrast, to satirize some people who pursue the ugliness in their life, though they are live in the big city..The peasants, however poor, somehow manage to makethemselves graceful and charming habitations, even in Spain.Sentence 5Sentence 6:But in the American village and small town the pull is always toward ugliness, and in that Westmoreland valley it has been yielded to with an eagerness bordering upon passion.pull:drawing force, appealyield: to give inSarcasmTo compare the village between America and England. We can draw the conclusion. America is uglier. But when compare to the Westmoreland valley, the author use the words”eagerness, passion ”can totally show the crazy of the people who lived there. So the Westmoreland is the ugliest.Sentence 7mere ：means onlyhorror:a feeling of great shock,fear,and worry caused by something extremely unpleasant.sarcasm and irony.It is hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just because they did not know what beautiful houses were like.In other word,this sentence can emphasize that Westmoreland is the ugliest spot.It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror .Paragraph 71.On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be apositive libido for the ugly, as on other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful.positive: complete; definiteless Christian: pagans---a person who is not a believer in Christianity; heathen; agnosticAntithesis the libido of the uglythe libido of the beautifulLanguage points:Mencken mocks at the Christians and attacks their code of behavior. The Christians are supposed to have the qualities of love, kindness, humility, etc. but Mencken thinks they do not know what is beautiful. However it is pagans not Christians know what is beautiful.2.It is impossible to put down the wallpaper that defaces theaverage American home of the lower middle class to mereinadvertence, or to the obscene humor of the manufacturers.put down: attribute...to; state that sth is caused by stheg: I put his bad temper down to his illness.deface: to spoil the surface or appearance of sth, especially by writing on it or breaking itinadvertence: carelessness; do sth unintentionally without thinking or realizing; paying no attention toobscene: nasty; dirty; wanton; indecentIt is impossible to attribute the wallpaper that makes the average American home of the lower middle class so ugly tomere oversight or to the indecent taste of the manufactures.3.Such ghastly designs, it must be obvious, give a genuinedelight to a certain type of mind.ghastly: horrible•sarcasm•sense of humor4.They meet, in some unfathomable way, its obscure and unintelligible demands.unintelligible: impossible to understand unfathomable: too difficult to understand obscure: vague; not clearly understood※These ugly desighs, in some way that people cannot understand, satisfy the hidden and unintelligible demands of this type of minds.5. The taste for them is as enigmatical and yet as common as thetaste for dogmatic theology and the poetry of Edgar A Guest. enigmatical: puzzling; mysterious※the love for ugliness of the people in Westmoreland is mysterious to many people, but common and natural from their point of view dogmatic: opinionatedtheology: the study of the of God; of God’s influence on people and religious beliefsDogmatic theology: the scientific exposition of the entire theoretical doctrine concerning God Himself and his external activity, based on the dogmas of the Church.Edgar Albert Guest•British-born US newspaper poet •immgrated to the US when hewas 10•worked for Detroit Free Press asa reporter•write about daily sentimental rhymes• A Heap O' Livin•optimistic verse on home, mother and the virtue of hardworkThe reason of the ugliness:the Amerian raceParagraph 8Sentence 1:Thus I suspect (though confessedly without knowing) that the vast majority of the honest folk of Westmoreland county, and especially the 100% Americans among them, actually admire the houses they live in, and are proud of them.•folk:people in general.•admire: to respect sb for what they have done,to look at sth and think that it is attractive or i mpressive.Sentence 3:Certainly there was no pressure upon the Veterans of Foreign Wars to choose the dreadful edifice that bears their banner, for there are plenty of vacant buildings along the trackside, and some of them are appreciably better. edifice : a building，esp.a large，imposing onebear: to be able to accept and deal with sth unpleasant.not be suitable for sth.Of course,there are lots of empty buildings along the railway,and some are much more good-looking.So we cannot understand why the Veterans of Foreign Wars chose the horrible building as their office site.Sentence 5: But they chose that clapboardedhorror with their eyes open, and 7havingchosen it, they let it mellow into its presentshocking depravity.With their eyes open: with full understanding of what is involvedMellow: to make full, rich, soft, gentle.Mencken uses this word ironically to mean, “to letdeteriorate, to let it go from bad to worse.”Depravity: the state of being morally corruptedSentence 6: They like it as it is: beside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them.•Parthenon: A beautiful Doric temple built in honorof the virgin (Parthenon) goddess Athena on the Acropolis in Athena around 5h century B.C.•Sarcastic tone here indicates their aesthetic sense have been twisted.Sentence 7: In precisely the same way the authors of the rat-trap stadium that I have mentioned made a deliberatechoice:Metaphor here, author implies the ugly style of the building is designed and erected by themdeliberately.。
高英Lesson7(Book 2)The Libido for the Ugly
The most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day, Henry Louis Mencken was a libertarian before the word came into usage. His prose is as clear as an azure sky, and his rhetoric as deadly as a rifle shot. 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. Mencken's writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it.
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▪ The striking contrast between admass and Englishness to show how inevitable the battle is.
▪ Admass
1. Already conquered most of the western world
2.receive vast subsidies of dollars, francs, Deutschmarks and the rest for public relations and advertising campaigns
▪ 3.offers more and more things for more and more money, creates the so-called “Good Life”
▪ 4.operates in the outer visible world
▪ 5.a poster in full colour
▪ http://homepages.iol.ie/~laoistec/LENGLIS H/lpers.html
▪ Difference between exposition and argument
▪ Difference between persuasion and argument
张汉熙《高级英语》第二册第6课课件
2) About New York City
How much do you know about New York City?
New York is located at the mouth of Hudson River and borders on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the largest city and commercial center not only in America but also in the world.
3. Organization of the text
1)What’s the main thesis? (discussion) ---- It is stated by the title “Loving and hating New York”, or more specifically by the first sentence of the last paragraph “Loving and hating New York becomes a matter of alternating moods, often in the same day”. 2) How is the thesis developed? The thesis is developed by both objective and emotional description of New York and the life and struggle of New Yorkers. 3) The structural organization of this essay: clear and simple.
2. Writing style:
----- exposition; expository writing
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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.
Henry Louis Mencken
2) He hated commercialism. 3) He did not support democracy
because he considered the masses too ignorant and greedy to exercise it wisely.
His works
The American Language 1918 Prejudices (6 vols) 1919--1927 Happy days Newspaper Days 1940--1943 autobiography Heathen Days 25 Books and thousands of articles
Lesson Seven
The Libido for the Ugly
--- H.L. Mencken
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Henry Louis Mencken
He was a central figure in American intellectual life during the 1920's. He launched the most cutting attacks of any writer against America's middle class culture. He invented the word"booboisie", combining the two words "bourgeoisie" and "booby" (an awkward, foolish person).
His works
Mencken's essays were received with delight or horror, depending on the reader's point of view, he was also highly respected for his literary criticism and he exerted a powerful influence on American literature.
Henry Louis Mencken
He helped to found and edit two literary magazines which were highly influential among intellectuals.
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Henry Louis Mencken
1) He hated narrow-minded religion. He believed strongly in intellectual freedom and fought all attempts to censor literature and drama. He felt that the greatest threat of censorship came from the country's religion "fundamentalists", whose opinions were all based on their interpretation of the Bible.