文學就是記每個period
Victorian Literature(high seriousness)
While in the preceding Romantic period poetry had been the dominant genre, it was the novel that was most important in the Victorian period. Charles Dickens (1812–1870) dominated the first part of Victoria's reign: his first novel, Pickwick Papers, was published in 1836, and his last Our Mutual Friend between 1864–5. William Thackeray's (1811–1863) most famous work Vanity Fair appeared in 1848, and the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte (1816–55), Emily (1818–48) and Anne (1820–49), also published significant works in the 1840s. A major later novel was George Eliot's (1819–80) Middlemarch(1872), while the major novelist of the later part of Queen Victoria's reign was Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), whose first novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, appeared in 1872 and his last, Jude the Obscure, in 1895.
Neoclasscism---courtly love / morality play
Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos and κλασσικός klassikòs classicus)[1] is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome. The main Neoclassical movement coincided with the 18th century Age of Enlightenment, and continued into the early 19th century, latterly competing with Romanticism. In architecture, the style continued throughout the 19th, 20th and up to the 21st century.
中世紀是騎士文學,大部分的戲劇都以神為主
戲劇三元素:
內容多有聖經典故
中世紀末,多數人強調我不要寫實主義!我要現代主義(imagination 很重要)
每一個period的反動都是成為下一個period的動力
以1960年為分界 後現代主義
現代主義:
T.S. Eliot 上流社會人物
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets."[1] He was born in St. Louis, Missouri to an old Yankeefamily. However he emigrated to England in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39, renouncing his American citizenship.[2]
Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930) and Four Quartets (1945).[3] He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.
作品:
"The Waste Land", by T.S. Eliot, is widely regarded as "one of the most important poems of the 20th century" and a central text in Modernist poetry.[1][2] Published in 1922, the 434-line[B] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "Shantih shantih shantih".
Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published individually over a six-year period. The first poem, Burnt Norton, was written and published with a collection of his early works following the production of Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral. After a few years, Eliot composed the other three poems, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, which were written during World War II and the air-raids on Great Britain. The poems were not collected until Eliot's New York publisher printed them together in 1943. They were first published as a series in Great Britain in 1944 towards the end of Eliot's poetic career.
Imagism –poam<Marianne Moore >較簡單
Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It has been described as the most influential movement in English poetry since the activity of the Pre-Raphaelites.[1] As a poetic style it gave Modernism its start in the early 20th century,[2] and is considered to be the first organized Modernist literary movement in the English language.[3] Imagism is sometimes viewed as 'a succession of creative moments' rather than any continuous or sustained period of development.[4] René Taupin remarked that 'It is more accurate to consider Imagism not as a doctrine, nor even as a poetic school, but as the association of a few poets who were for a certain time in agreement on a small number of important principles'.
Song: Auld Lang Syne movie:101次新年快樂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FwS4SQSlfc
Movie:101次新年快樂
《101次新年快樂》(英語:New Year's Eve)是2011年上映的一部浪漫喜劇電影,由蓋瑞·馬歇爾導演。這部電影的很多演員和工作人員都和2010年電影《情人節快樂》的陣容相同
E.E Cummings 特色: i 和signature 全都小寫,而且單字間、標點符號後沒有空格
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cummings (in the style of some of his poems—seename and capitalization, below), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century English literature.
有名作品:
In Just(p.2137)
聯想到
“Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
FROM<< THE Great Gatsby (Chapter VI) F. Scott Fitzgerald >>
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
特色:free verse / 重複字句
表示以柔克剛的愛的力量
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence:(無力感) in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near近鄉情怯,看到異性的心跳 your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose(性暗示) or if your wish be to close me,i and my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
經典名句:
Voc:
1.relic:神聖的遺物,遺跡,紀念物,遺風,殘片=remain
2.Marlon Brando –“Hey Stella”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1A0p0F_iH8
老師介紹:紐奧良-南方野蠻樂園
新 年 快 樂 H A P P Y N E W Y E A R!!!!!!
These classes broaden my worldview!
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