FrancisBaconPPT教学课件

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Of studies
purpose of reading attitudes towards study principles of studies study method study develop your character/effect of study on
Subjects: truth, death, love, beauty, marriage, garden, man& manners, etc.
Language: conversational and for clear idea, communication, reveal truth about man & manners
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Bacon as a prose writer
A constant battle in English prose: elaborate, flowering vs. attic, terse, clear form
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Bacon’s Writings & Subjects
experimenter
very much European mind
contributing to the spread of the New learning & for the changes of development in education
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Bacon as a prose writer
c. The simple metaphors have deep implications. d. The omission makes the essay concise, clear and coherent. e. The natural flow of parallels makes his logic and philosophical
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
went to Cambridge, studied law in court to become a lawyer at 16.
Had an impressive political career. Became Lord Chancellor in the end
One of the finest prose writers, clear, clean & crisp prose, particularly in essays: sharp, terse, direct brevity, no great digression, no long sentences, extremely lucid, yet not dull at all, also very imaginative by using poetic imagery, & also because he was a man of his time: change towards good, clear language in terse form from Ciceronian prose.
human character
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Style
a. The arguments are well arranged in unity and coherence in one paragraph.
b. the conciseness of expressions and phrases presents a plain style as well as his simple language.
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The University Wits
In 1621, fell out of favor because of bribery
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Bacon as a Man
thinker, philosopher, statesman
a corrupted man, who was described as “wisest, brightest & meanest man.”
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
of noble birth, son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord keeper of the Seal and of the learned Ann Cook, sister-in-law to Lord Burleigh, greatest of the Queen’s statesmen
argument convincing and forceful. E.g. To spend too much time in study… man… simple man….
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Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 93)
a great dramatist and Shakespeare’s contemporary
The Advancement of Learning, 1605 Novum Organura, 1620 New Atlantis, 1627 Essays, 1625
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Bacon’s Writings & Subjects
Impersonal essays as well as practical, giving advice how to behave.
killed in a tavern brawl wrote 4 great plays:
Tamburlaine the Great (1587) Doctor Faustus (1588) The Jew of Malta (1589) Edward II (1593)
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