Lesson-6-高级英语1第六课自主课件说课讲解

Summary of the main views of the author
• The central theme of “disappearance” • Nature disappears • History disappears • The solid banks disappear.
Lesson-6-高级英语1第六课自 主课件
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O.B. Hardison Jr.
(1928 -1990)
O.B. Hardison, Jr.
• Born in San Diego, California in 1928 • Died in 1990 • B.A 1949 • M.A 1950 • Ph.D 1956
universalizing influence of science and technology. • Paras. 7-8: If man creates machines, machines in turn
shape their creators. And the compelling force of technology to universalize cannot be resisted.
• Part Ⅲ • Para 12-15: The disappearance of history is a form of
liberation which often expressed through play, and the playfulness of science has produced game theory and virtual particles. • Para 16-17: The contrast of architecture styles between the banks of the nineteenth century and today’s banks. • Para 18-19: It shows how far logically modern aesthetic can go. The solid banks can become almost abstract and invisible.
• Part Ⅱ • Para 9: Machine aesthetic(审美) • Para 10-11: Emphiality of the
world and the skepticism of modern science.
Paragraph analysis
• Princeton & the University of North Carolina • He became University Professor of English at
Georgetown in 1984.
O.B. Hardison, Jr.
• numerous books and articles
Paragraph analysis
• Part Ⅰ • Paras.1-2: The universalization of science (technology)
results in the disappearance of history. • Paras. 3-6: The automobile shows very clearly this
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. In the work of D’Arcy Thompson, published around the turn of the century, nature has disappeared. It has become a set of geometric and mathematical relations that lie under the surface of the visible…. ….Today, nature has slipped, perhaps finally, beyond our field of vision.
• 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).
The passage in our book is the excerpts from this book:
• Section Ⅱ (para 9-15): • Science has shown the insubstantiality of the
world.
• Section Ⅲ (para 16-19): • Banks are disappearing through their own
skylights.
Analysis of the text
Ⅰ.Division of the Text Ⅱ.Structure & paragraph analysis Ⅲ.Rhetorical Devices
Structure analysis
• Section Ⅰ (para1-8): • Science is committed to the universals.