英美短篇小说欣赏a new England课件 nun
英美文学欣赏最新版教学课件英国文学Unit 5 Charles Dickens
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他的主要作品有：《匹克威克外传》 (The Posthumous Papers of Pickwick Club, 1836-1837)、《雾都孤儿》 (Oliver Twist, 1838)、《大卫·科波菲尔》(David Copperfield, 1849)、《艰难时世》（Hard Times, 1854）、《双城记》 (A Tale of Two Cities, 1854)、《远大前程》(Great Expectations, 1860)等。
作品欣赏
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—
to this place—then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day’s disfigurement. 那时这里已是一片美景，全没了今天的扭曲和丑恶。
做自己的女王——《新英格兰修女》中象征艺术探析
文学评论·外国文学做自己的女王——《新英格兰修女》中象征艺术探析王盼盼 北京邮电大学李花丽 北京邮电大学摘 要：玛丽•埃莉诺•威尔金斯•弗里曼是十九世纪末二十世纪初美国著名乡土文学作家，其代表作《新英格兰修女》用纪实手法和怜悯情怀，生动刻画了露易莎坚持独身，不受父权世界钳制的心理历程。
弗里曼将象征艺术手法运用得淋漓尽致，女性思想觉醒就是要走出婚姻的牢笼，奋起反抗并寻求自我。
从象征主义角度对小说抽丝剥茧，字里行间弗里曼创作手法的匠心独运。
关键词：弗里曼；《新英格兰修女》；象征主义；寻找自我作者简介：王盼盼（1991.9-），女，山西长治人，硕士研究生，北京邮电大学人文学院研究生院英美文学专业，研究方向：外国语言文学方向，导师：李花丽。
[中图分类号]：I106 [文献标识码]：A[文章编号]：1002-2139(2017)-18-111-01《新英格兰修女》里，女主人公露易萨独守闺房多年，早已习惯修女般生活方式的她对婚姻生活恐惧万分，在发现裘•戴格特和莉莉•戴尔的私密恋情后，她解除婚约，回归隐居生活。
弗里曼用高超的象征创作手法，简单、直接且深邃地刻画人物心理，从小说标题到女工物件，不留痕迹，确实浑然天成。
一、标题的象征主义效果A New England Nun让人眼前一亮，我们猜测露易莎不同常人，修女必须摒弃性欲和社交，追随一种相对高道德的生活方式，露易萨不是修女，而是新英格兰传统女性，为“老处女”。
她有婚约，和未婚夫裘•戴格特距离上的相隔掩盖了露易萨内心对于像修女那样厌弃尘世，隐居遁世生活的渴望，她渴望突破自我但对于突然闯入自己生活并打乱原本秩序的婚姻无限惶恐。
二、摆件物设的象征性效果缝纫刺绣这种传统女工能够很好地表现女性在男权世界为自己出声的精神。
露易莎独守一方田园，闲暇时喜欢在房间和田间忙碌，或静静地坐在窗边做针线活。
家居物件摆放井井有条，可用精致来形容。
这种近乎强迫症被弗里曼刻画地精细入微，露易莎远离外界尘世，通过料理日常来“做自己世界的女王”的生活方式，不但象征着露易莎的女性身份意识觉醒，还暗示着她很享受这种自得其乐的独居生活。
英美文学欣赏(第二版)课件 American Literature Unit 2 American
英美文学欣赏（第二版）
作品欣赏
大学专业英语系列教材
《潮水涨，潮水落》全诗分为三节。第一节 描绘了黄昏时分的海滨，海鸟鸣叫，游人 归去，潮涨潮落的画面；第二节写夜晚时 的海滩，潮水拍岸；第三节描写清晨，马 嘶人叫，游人又来到海滩，潮水依然涨落 的情景。
辑。他熟悉劳苦大众的生活，热爱社会 下层的 普通劳动者。1854 年末，他开 始专事创作，《草叶集》（Leaves of Grass）于 1855 年 7 月问世，只包含 12 首诗。美国南北战争期间，他作为男护 士照顾伤病员，一直在 军队医院工作到
1873 年。后因身体原因，停止工作，与 其兄弟一起生活，继续写作。终身未娶。
那么，让我们起来干吧， 对任何命运要敢于担戴； 不断地进取，不断地追求， 要善于劳动，善于等待。
[1]朗费罗著,杨德豫译. 朗费罗诗选[M]. 桂林: 广西师范大学出版社, 2009.
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大学专业英语系列教材
诗人抱着积极入世的态度，赞美生命，否定人生如梦这一古老的 哀叹，认为不朽的精 神才是人生崇高的境界。这就需要积极的行动，
人生是真切的！人生是实在的！ 它的归宿决不是荒坟；
“你本是尘土，必归于尘土”， 这是指躯壳，不是指灵魂
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大学专业英语系列教材
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.
英美文学选读课件PPT课件
培养人文素养
详细描述
通过对英美文学作品的主题和思想内涵的分析，可以培养 我们的人文素养，提高对文学、文化和社会的认识和理解 。
探讨作品的艺术手法和语言特色
总结词
欣赏文学技巧
详细描述
艺术手法和语言特色是文学作品的重要组成部分，通过 探讨作品的艺术手法和语言特色，可以更好地欣赏文学 的技巧和魅力。
总结词
增强审美能力
详细描述
通过对作品艺术手法和语言特色的探讨，可以增强我们 的审美能力，提高对文学作品的鉴赏水平。
总结词
学习语言表达
详细描述
英美文学作品的语言表达富有特色，通过学习作品的艺 术手法和语言特色，可以学习到地道的语言表达方式， 提高英语语言表达能力。
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英美文学作品在当代的影响和价值
对当代文学的影响
英美文学选读课件ppt课 件
• 英美文学概述 • 英美文学作品选读 • 英美文学作品的赏析方法 • 英美文学作品在当代的影响和价值 • 总结与思考
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英美文学概述
英美文学的发展历程
早期文学
当代文学
从盎格鲁-撒克逊时期到文艺复兴时期， 英美文学逐渐形成和发展，涌现出许 多杰出的作家和作品。
从20世纪末至今，英美文学呈现出多 元化的发展趋势，涵盖了各种文学流 派和风格，如后现代主义、魔幻现实 主义等。
通过阅读英美文学作品，人们可以拓展视野、丰富内心世界，增强自我认知和自我成长的能力。同时 ，文学作品中所蕴含的人生哲理和智慧，也能为人们在生活中提供指导和启示。
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总结与思考
对英美文学的总体评价和思考
英美文学在世界文学中的 地位
英美文学作为世界文学的重要组成部分，具 有深远的影响力和独特的魅力。通过学习和 研究英美文学，可以深入了解西方文化、历 史和社会背景，拓宽视野，提高跨文化交流 的能力。
英美小说课件
(阅读、思考诗歌《鱼、人和精灵 Example ( 鱼 人和精灵》)
1.你这稀奇古怪、面带惊讶、大海里的可怜虫， 1.你这稀奇古怪、面带惊讶、大海里的可怜虫， 你这稀奇古怪 三角眼，耷拉着口角，张着大嘴， 三角眼，耷拉着口角，张着大嘴， 你无止无休地吞进大海中的盐水； 你无止无休地吞进大海中的盐水； 你冷酷，虽然你的血有幸被染成鲜红， 你冷酷，虽然你的血有幸被染成鲜红， 你沉默，虽然你常住在咆哮的海涛中。 你沉默，虽然你常住在咆哮的海涛中。 ……有的圆, 有的扁,有的细长,都像鬼怪, 没有腿，不懂得爱，声名狼藉地清清白白。 没有腿，不懂得爱，声名狼藉地清清白白。
你总是在旱地上阴沉沉地走来走去岔开身躯迈着荒谬可笑的步子一叉又一叉辱没了一切优美的风韵你那废置无用的长鳍毛茸茸直挺挺干巴巴好不迟钝
Lecture 1
British and American Fiction
I. Teaching objectives of this course 1. To train students to read, understand, appreciate, and evaluate original British and American fiction, help students master basic knowledge and methods of writing literature review; 2. To strengthen students’ understanding on western literature and culture, broaden their vision, and improve their linguistic competence and humanistic quality; 3. To lead students to appreciate the exquisite realm of art, enrich their heart and spirit, mould their temperament, develop students thinking in images and creativity.
英美文学欣赏最新版教学课件英国文学Unit 10 James Joyce
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He would create proudly out of the freedom and power of his soul, as the great artificer whose name he bore, a living thing, new and soaring and beautiful, impalpable, imperishable.
（注解：他来到海边，神与物游，纵情于自然的瑰丽和心灵的自由驰骋。 他在经历着一种新生，他将“用他的灵魂的自由和力量，骄傲地创造出 一个新的、向上的、美丽的、摸不着的、永不毁灭的生命。”）
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He started up nervously from the stoneblock for he could no longer quench the flame in his blood. （注解：他脱光了脚，独自站在水中，“一个新的充满野性的生命开始 在他的血管里吟唱了。”）
—James Joyce
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Quotations
You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I donot fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.
MarkTwain马克吐温美国文学PPT课件
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Mary E. W. Freeman, “A New England Nun” Kate Chopin, The Awakening Mark died when he was 12 and then he left school.
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Realism:
➢ Realism originated in France as reálisme. ➢ It called for “reality and truth” in the depiction of ordinary life. ➢ Some representatives are: Zola, Flaubert, Balzac and Dostoyevsky.
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Representative writers:
William Dean Howells (1837—1920), The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) and Criticism and Fiction.
Henry James (1843—1916), Daisy Miller (1878), The Ambassadors (1903), The Wings of the Dove (1902) and The Art of Fiction.
Mark Twain & “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County”
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Historical Background:
A New England Nun
She is sewing now.
What is Louisa doing in her garden?
• Louisa tied a green apron round her waist, and got out a flat straw hat with a green ribbon. Then she went into the garden with a little blue crockery bowl, to pick some currants for her tea. After the currants were picked she sat on the back door-step and stemmed them, collecting the stems carefully in her apron, and afterwards throwing them into the hen-coop. She looked sharply at the grass beside the step to see if any had fallen there.
A New England Nun
tired farmers
• A New England Nun • It was late in the afternoon, and the light was waning. There was a difference in the look of the tree shadows out in the yard. Somewhere in the distance cows were lowing and a little bell was tinkling; now and then a farmwagon tilted by, and the dust flew; some blue-shirted laborers with shovels over their shoulders plodded past; little swarms of flies were dancing up and down before the peoples' faces in the soft air. There seemed to be a gentle stir arising over everything for the mere sake of subsidence -- a very premonition of rest and hush and night.
12th week Mark_Twain 英美文学赏析 教学课件
Local Color
After the Civil War, there was a trend of depicting the particular and the regional in a great number of novels and short stories, instead of the universal and the national.
and California
❖Something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
❖Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
❖Some critics link this change with --the tragic events of his later life, --the failure of his investments, --his fatiguing travels and lectures in order
to pay off his debts, --the death of his wife and two daughters
which left him Differences between Howells, James, and
Twain
❖In thematic terms,
(5) desire ‘simple, clear, direct prose’ style
英美文学欣赏最新版教学课件英国文学 Unit 1 William Shakespeare
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Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name; And for that name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. 狂风把五月宠爱的嫩蕊作践， 夏天出赁的期限又未免太短；
（注解：诗人自答，对朋友的珍爱之情跃然纸上。原因在于：因为狂风会把 五月娇嫩的花蕾摧残，夏天延续的时间又过于短暂。这后两行是为下面作铺 垫。以上四句是诗的第一节，此为起。)
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 我怎么能够把你来比作夏天？ （注解：将朋友比作英国气候最宜人的夏季，通俗自然，让人耳目一新。）
Thou art more lovely and more temperate. 你不独比他可爱也比他温婉；
2. What does it mean when Juliet says “that which we call a rose/By my other name would smell as sweet”?
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作品欣赏
Sonnet 18.
Sonnet：十四行诗（或音译为 “商籁体”）是一种格律比较严谨的 诗体。它起源于文艺复兴初期，有多 种变体。莎士比亚十四行诗为五音步 抑扬格，每行十个音节，全诗共分三 节，按照a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-fg-g 格式押韵。最后两行带有警句性 质，总结全诗内容，为点睛之笔。
英美短篇小说欣赏a new England课件 nun
In other stories, however, she explored the rebellions and triumphs of seemingly meek women, depicting their strategies for gaining and maintaining control over their domestic situations with humor and sensitivity. She provided unflinching portraits of both the difficulties of "spinsterhood" and the often oppressive power dynamics that structured nineteenth-century marriage.
The remaining population was largely female and elderly. Women like Louisa Ellis, who waited many years for husbands, brothers, fathers and boyfriends to return from the West or other places they had gone to seek jobs, were not uncommon. The area was suffering from economic depression and many were forced to leave to support themselves and their families. There were many widows from the war, too, often living hand-tomouth and trying to keep up appearances.
英美文学欣赏最新版教学课件英国文学 Unit 1 William Shakespeare
（注解：当这种比蜜还甜的话源源不断地在耳 边倾诉时，相信没有女孩会不动心。）
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O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By my other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, Retain that dear perfection which he owes
世》（Richard III, 1592）、《亨利四世》（Henry IV, 1597）等；喜剧 《仲夏夜之梦》（A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, 1595）、《威尼斯商人 》（The Merchant of Venice, 1596）、《第十二夜》（Twelfth Night, 1600）等；悲剧《罗密欧与朱丽叶》（Romeo and Juliet, 1594）、《汉 姆雷特》（Hamlet, 1601）、《奥赛罗》（Othello, 1604）、《李尔王》 （King Lear, 1605）、《麦克白》（Macbeth, 1605）等；传奇剧《暴风 雨》（The Tempest, 1612）等。
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An Appreciation of English Literature
Unit 1 William Shakespeare
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作者简介
威廉· 莎士比亚（William Shakespeare, 1564—1616）是英国文艺复兴 时期最伟大的诗人、剧作家，也被认为是 世界文学史上最伟大的诗人和剧作家。莎 士比亚出生于英国中部艾汶河畔的斯特拉 福镇。幼年在当地文法学校学习，20 多岁 只身到伦敦谋生，在剧团里先做杂工，跑 龙套，后成为剧团的演员、编剧和股东。 他的作品共包括37 部剧本、两首长诗和 154 首十四行诗。晚年，他归居故里，颐 养天年，谢世后葬在家乡。斯特拉福镇现 已成为文学爱好者心目中的圣地。
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第一篇：英语短篇小说鉴赏PPTAbout the authorStory presentation"Miss Brill," Katherine Mansfield's short story about a woman's Sunday outing to a park, was published in her 1922 collection of stories entitled The Garden Party. The story's enduring popularity is due in part to its use of a stream-of-consciousness narrative in which Miss Brill's character is revealed through her thoughts about others as she watches a crowd from a park bench. Mansfield's talent as a writer is illustrated by the fact that she at no point tells what Miss Brill is thinking about her own life, yet the story draws one of the most succinct, complete character portraits in twentieth-century short fiction. "Miss Brill" has become one of Mansfield's most popular stories, and has been reprinted in numerous anthologies and collections. The story is typical of Mansfield's style; she often employed stream-of-consciousness narration in order to show the psychological complexity of everyday experience in her characters' lives.About stream-of-consciousnessPlot summaryThe story is about Miss Brill, a middle-aged English teacher in an unnamed French vacation town. It follows her on a regular Sunday afternoon in the park, which she spends walking and sitting in the park, wearing an old but beloved fur. She sees the world as if it was a stage, and enjoys watching the people around her, often judging them condescendingly（谦逊的）. However, she then overhears a young couple's cruel remark about herself, and the story ends with her realizing that she is not really needed in the busy world, and she thinks that she heard the fur crying. Mansfield's personification（化身）throughout the passage reveals a sense of loneliness belonging to Miss Brill for she not only fabricates（构成）a connection with the other park passers-by, but also personifies（使人格化）her inanimate（死气沉沉的）piece of clothing by conversing（谈话）with it as well as feeling for it.CharactersMiss Brill, an English professorMany other passers-by, includingYoung coupleMajor motifslonelinessillusion versus（对（指诉讼、比赛等中），与…相对）realityrejectionisolation（隔绝，孤立，隔离，绝缘，离析）ThemeWhat this story is trying to illustrate is that sometimes people can be happy through living in an illusion. However, this kind of happiness is fragile and can be easily destroyed. Unfortunately, modern society does not provide a place for everyone. Inevitably, there are those people, often elderly, who become marginalized; they live alone, friendless and mostly ignored. Miss Brill is one of these people, which becomes clear in her lack of communication with the people around her in the park. “They did not speak.Literary significanceThe text is written in the modernist mode, third-person limited point of view, without a set structureMy understandingsThe author is very perceptive（有理解的）. She describes the protagonist’s inner mind in detail. Miss Brill is an old, lonely woman (for she always goes to a place where there are a lot of old men and women). She is single all through her years. She has no child, no husband, and no relatives. So she has nobody to talk to when she feels lonely. She is left alone. However, she serves in a community, whose aim is to help the poor people in need. Sometimes she teaches pupils English, sometimes reads the newspaper to the old invalid gentleman. After finishing her work in the community, she goes back home alone. No one shares her joys and sorrows of life. So she always talks to her “little thing”, fur.第二篇：英语说课PPT大学英语说课讲稿课件ppt一、introduction（导言）英语说课是英语教学中的重要一环，也是衡量一位英语教师对教材的把握、分析及教师本人对上课进程的宏观控制能力的有力手段，能从理论上指导教师贯彻教学大纲，真正做到教与学相结合，将教材、大纲、教师、学生、课堂融为有机整体，对不断提高教师教学能力和教研能力，有着突出的作用。
英美文学欣赏最新版教学课件美国文学Unit 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson
（注解：在这里，人与自然已经浑然成为一体。）
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爱默森作过牧师，所以遣词造 句颇为讲究，并带有一种宗教的虔 诚，很有震撼力。文中充满了象征、 比喻，使读者迅速进入到一种意境， 并能静下心来，展开想象的翅膀， 做一次精神上的旅游与思考，去细 细体味爱默森笔下的沐浴着宇宙光 辉的大自然。
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爱默生的作品以散文为主，主要著作有：《论自然》 （Nature, 1836）、《散文集：第一集》（Essays: First Series, 1841）、《散文集：第二集》（Essays: Second Series, 1844）、 《代表性人物》（Representative Men, 1850）、《英国人的性格》 （English Traits, 1856）等。
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本篇选读选自《自然》的导言和第1章。 在导言中，爱默生提出我们 自己亲眼所见生发出我们自己的诗和哲学，要拥有上天的直接启示的 宗教，在这个过程中，直观自然就能给予我们启发。
在第1章中， 他具体化了人与自然沟通的方式。要真正的独处，就应 该凝视星空。感悟“向我们发出意味深长的微笑的星光”。星星能够 唤起崇高之感，能够令我们油然而生诗意。像孩子一样用眼睛去看， 又用心去看，才能得到这种诗意的感悟。自然教我们 成为永恒之美的 热爱者，人沉于自然的和谐之中，就能感悟到自然的精神。
英美文学欣赏第四版英美文学欣赏第四版爱默生出生在美国波士顿一个世代牧师家庭年轻时做过牧师后辞去牧师职务去欧洲旅行在那里结识了英国浪漫主义大诗人柯勒律治samuleltaylorcoleridge17721834华兹华斯williamwordsworth17701850和史学家卡莱尔thomascarlyle17951881深受英国浪漫主义思想的影响
英美文学欣赏最新版教学课件美国文学Unit 4 Emily Dickinson
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We slowly drove — He knew no haste And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility —
我们驾车款款而行—— 他也知道无须匆忙 为了报答他的礼貌，
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An Appreciation of American Literature
Unit 4 Emily Dickinson
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作者简介
艾 米 莉 ·狄 金 森（Emily Dickinson，1830—1886）， 美国19 世纪最杰出的女诗人， 现代派诗歌先驱。
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因为死神的殷勤相邀，诗人便抛开劳作和闲暇，乘坐死神 的马车，依次驶过喧闹的学 校、成熟的原野和落日夕阳，也可 以引申为人生的三个阶段，由生到死的自然历程。随着夕阳驶 去，含意袭来，诗人衣着单薄，感觉出了颤抖和寒冷。死亡临 近了。
终于看到了墓地和坟茔。马车停在了一所房子前，屋檐低 于地面。几个世纪的时间， 仿佛短过那一天。诗人恍然悟出： 死亡马车的马头是朝向永恒的方向。超越时空，死亡即永生。 和开篇主题呼应。
The Roof was scarcely visible — The Cornice — in the Ground —
我们停在一座房舍前 它好似土包隆起在地上——
屋顶几乎模糊难辨—— 檐 口—— 也 隐 没 在 地 中央——
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Since then — 'tis Centuries — and yet Feels shorter than the Day
新编英语小说鉴赏课件ACleanWellLightedPlace
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Summary
Analysis of the story in terms of setting
• Setting: • Time: midnight • Place: a cafe
Analysis of the story in terms of setting
• The atmosphere created by the setting: depressed, lonely.
Idaho.
Earnest Hemingway
• An American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. • A representative of the Lost Generation. • Won Nobel Prize in 1954.
• The third person point of view. • third person dramatic point of view for
most of the story. • third person limited point of view
towards the last few paragraphs.
• Function of setting in the story:
• as a protection and shelter for those feeling lonely.
英美文学欣赏最新版教学课件英国文学Unit 4 Jane Austen
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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. 你误会了我的意思，我一向对你的神经十分尊重，它已经成了我听惯了的 事。 （注解：这句话的意思是贝内特太太总提起她的神经，贝内特先生已经习 以为常了。）
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➢ Questions
1.Do you find Mrs. Bennet an amusing character? What is your opinion of her behavior? 2.Who represents pride? Who embodies prejudice? Why? 3.What makes Elizabeth feel so grateful to Darcy? How does Darcy respond to her?
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Your unexampled kindness to my poor sister 你对我可怜的妹妹的绝无仅有的情谊 （注解：这里指达西为了挽回伊丽莎白家的面子出钱资助韦恩与她 妹妹莉迪亚私奔后成婚之事。）
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You taught me a lesson，hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. 你给了我一个教训，一开始确实叫人受不了，但无疑是有好处的。 （注解：指伊丽莎白的言行举止以及她对达西的态度让一向傲慢自负 的达西难以接受，但对他确实是有益的教训。）
作品欣赏
这里节选的是第 1 章、第 2 章和 第 58 章。
第 1 章是小说的开场白。第 58 章 在小说情节发展上是个转折点。在此前 的第 56 章中，达西的姨妈凯瑟琳夫人 （Lady Catherine）听说达西追求伊丽莎 白后大怒，亲自跑来阻止，结果反而使 伊丽莎白加深了对达西的了解，最终加 速了两人结合的进程。这里选录的 58 章便是描写两人消除误解，言归于好时 的情景。选文结构清晰，文笔流畅。
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Achievements
• In 1926 she was awarded the William Dean Howells Gold Medal for Fiction by the American Academy of Letters, and later that year she was inducted into the prestigious National Institute for Arts and Letters. She died in Metuchen and was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
Narration
• Heterodiegetic narrator who does know the story and thoughts of all the characters, and tells a story different to her own.
• Neutral omniscience-- 3rd person narrator who has voice and knows everything about characters' lives, dreams, thoughts and intentions.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
• She was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, and attended Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, from 1870–1871. Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, causing her to have a very strict childhood. Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. She passed the greater part of her life in Massachusetts and Vermont. Freeman herself married late in life, wedding Dr. Charles Freeman when she was forty-nine. After an initial period of harmony,
The secondary characters are Joe Dagget, Lily Dyer, Joe's mother and the community. They all are classified as flat characters, constructed by a dominant trait.
• As she waits, she thinks about the solitary ways she has adopted during the years spent with Joe. Freeman introduces two characters who don't really know each other. Every time they come together, the meeting is awkward and forced. Joe's presence interrupts Louisa's peaceful solitude. He brings imbalance. By the end of the story, Louisa discovers that Joe is in love with someone else and she calls off the engagement. Although she weeps at the loss, she is grateful to the idea that she doesn't have to give up her personal domain to a
The remaining population was largely female and elderly. Women like Louisa Ellis, who waited many years for husbands, brothers, fathers and boyfriends to return from the West or other places they had gone to seek jobs, were not uncommon. The area was suffering from economic depression and many were forced to leave to support themselves and their families. There were many widows from the war, too, often living hand-to-mouth and trying to keep up
• While Freeman's successful career afforded her financial security and a great deal of autonomy, her best fiction focuses on the plight of women whose lives are bounded by poverty and the social constraints imposed on them by their strict religious beliefs and their position as women. Fascinated by the impact of traditional Puritan values of submissiveness, frugality, and self-denial on New England culture, Freeman often portrayed characters who create obstacles to
Characters
The main character in the story is Louisa Ellis. The plot focuses on her desire for remaining alone and maintaining her lifestyle. This character is classified as a round one, more individualized and belonging to the everyday world. Louisa can be defined as an independent and organized woman.
• In other stories, however, she explored the rebellions and triumphs of seemingly meek women, depicting their strategies for gaining and maintaining control over their domestic situations with humor and sensitivity. She provided unflinching portraits of both the difficulties of "spinsterhood" and the often oppressive power dynamics that structured nineteenth-century marriage.
1974.
The feature of her works
• Narrated in a firm and objective manner with occasional subtle undertones of humor and irony, Freeman’s stories were deft character studies of somehow exceptional people who, trapped by poverty or other handicaps in sterile, restrictive circumstances, react in various ways against their situations. Her use of New England village and countryside settings and dialects placed her stories in the local color movement, and her work thereby enjoyed an added vogue; nevertheless, she avoided the sentimentality then current in popular literature.
Plot
• A New England Nun" is a story about the heroine who learned to live a solitary life, despite her engagement of fifteen years to a fortune hunter. Freeman begins the novel with Louisa Ellis sewing in her sitting room. The lateness of the afternoon causes her to perform chores throughout the house. She is meticulous as she prepares her tea, cooks a meal, feeds the dog, and tidies the house. She is preparing for Joe's return. Joe