张汉熙高级英语第二册第六课PPT课件

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▪ " This book is about the ways culture has changed in the past century, changing the identities of all those born into it. Its metaphor for the effect of change on culture is "disappearance".
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▪ 1. Disappearing Through the Skylight ▪ is not only the title of this chapter ▪ but also the title of the book. ▪ This shows the importance the writer
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▪ He is the author of Lyrics and Elegies (1958), The Enduring Monument (1962), English Literary Criticism: The Renaissance (1964), Toward Freedom and Dignity: The Humanities and the Idea of Humanity (1973), Entering the Maze: Identity and Change in Modern Culture (1981) and Disappearing Through the Skylight (1980).
Lesson6 Disappearing Through the Skylight
Osborne Bennet Hardison Jr.
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O.B. Hardison, Jr. (1928 -1990)
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▪ Background information
▪ 1) The author ▪ O.B. Hardison, Jr. (1928 -1990) was born in San Diego,
attaches to this chapter. ▪ The book, however, also has a sub-title,
"Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century".
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▪ As for "disappearance", he says, "In the nineteenth century, science presented nature as a group of objects set comfortably and solidly in the middle distance before the eyes of the beholder.
▪ We can imitate it in mathematics—we can even produce convincing images of it—but we can never know it.
▪ We can only know our own creations. "
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▪ As a logical conclusion of this idea, the writer, in the final paragraph of this key chapter we are studying, states,
Besides expressing the central theme of
the book, the metaphorical phrase,
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▪ It has become a set of geometric and mathematical relations that lie under the surface of the visible. It is still, however, indubitably there.
▪ Today, nature has slipped, perhaps finally, beyond our field of vision.
▪ "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:
California in 1928. He was educated at the University of North Carolina and the Universtiy of Wisconsin. ▪ English professor, Shakespearean scholar, and amateur physicist, is always entertaining and often thought-provoking. A scholarly writer ▪ Mr.hardison wrote numerous books and articles, as well as poetry and book reviews. His scholarly concerns ranged from Renaissance literature to technology and change in modern society.
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as the title suggests, the writer puts forward his central theme of " disappearance " —nature disappears, history disappears and even the solid banks disappear.
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