《英语短篇小说选读》讲义(第八周)详解课件

1、Photo by DarkElfPhoto - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License /photos/12925338N07Created with Haiku DeckWelcome to my class!第1页，共24页。Photo by Zitona - Creative Commons Attribution License /photos/zitonaCreated with Haiku DeckInstructor: Wang Jiumin25th October, 2016Week 8第2页，

2、共24页。Photo by 55Laney69 - Creative Commons Attribution License /photos/42875184N08Created with Haiku DeckTodays Agendaabout the courseChapter 1 Plot (I)第3页，共24页。Photo by 55Laney69 - Creative Commons Attribution License /photos/42875184N08Created with Haiku Deck Definition of plotII. FunctionsIII. Ca

3、se StudyChapter 4 Setting (I)第4页，共24页。 Setting refers both to the time and place in which the action of a story takes place. In other words, it is the background against which the action of story occurs. The elements of setting may include ：geographic location specific time period: the time of day o

4、r year or centuryDefinition of setting第5页，共24页。(3) General environment of the characters, such as historical background, religion, occupation, moral and emotional conditions.The characters occupation and daily manner of living.第6页，共24页。II. Function of setting As the background, it is of great signif

5、icance in the story, not only gives the reader the impression of verisimilitude, but also may functions as follows:create a certain atmosphere e.g. Poes stories, Japan horror movies (midnight, desolate house/lift)reveal the inner thought of the character Setting is often established by description,

6、but it may also be shown through characters action, dialogue or thinking. 第7页，共24页。(3) help portray the characters and develop the theme either through symbolic suggestion or more direct imagery. 第8页，共24页。 It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires

7、 and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emilys house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay

8、 above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores.Case study I: A Rose for Emily第9页，共24页。那是一幢过去漆成白色的四方形大木屋，坐落在当年一条最考究的街道上，还装点着有十九世纪七十年代风味的圆形屋顶、尖塔和涡形花纹的阳台，带有浓厚的轻盈气息。可是汽车间和轧棉机之类的东西侵犯了这一带庄严的名字，把它们涂抹得一干二净。只有爱米丽小姐的屋子岿然独存，四周簇拥着棉花车和汽油泵。房子虽已破败，却还是执拗不驯，装模作样，真是丑中之丑。第10页，共24页。Case study

9、 I: A Rose for EmilyAfter civil war, the Souths outdated plantationeconomy, based so long upon slave labor, was devastated. The northern industry invaded and became widespread. With widespreadindustrialization, Southern aristocratic family declined and lost its honor and authority.People hold a mixe

10、d feeling towards the Old South Culture, respect/question , and gradually forgotthe life of Emily (1861-1935) witnessed the great change of the south. 第11页，共24页。Case study I: A Rose for EmilyShe tried hard to cling to the past, which meant privilege and glory to her. She cut herself off from the cha

11、nging world and lived in complete self-isolation. Gradually, her characters distorted.Over the years, she was transformed from a subordinate young lady controlled by her domineering father to a middle-aged woman courting a laborer against the accusation of the community and then to a crazy murderer

12、who not only killed her love but also slept with the dead body. 第12页，共24页。Setting: helping to understand the motivations, actions and reactions of Miss Emily/othersa small American Southern town after civil war (18611865)Case study I: A Rose for Emily第13页，共24页。Case study II: The story of an Hourthe

13、story takes place in one hour in the Mallard home.Detailed information: season/ historical background. She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was cr

14、ying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled above the other in the west facing her window.第14页，共24页。Cas

15、e study II: The story of an Hour透过窗口，她可以看到屋前广场上的树梢在新春的气息中兴奋地颤抖着。空气中弥漫着芬芳的雨的气息。窗下的街道上，一个小贩正在叫卖他的器皿。远处依稀传来缥缈的歌声，数不清的麻雀也在屋檐下叽叽喳喳地唱个不停。 对着她窗口西边的天空上，云朵层层叠叠地堆积着，间或露出一绺绺蔚蓝的天空。第15页，共24页。SpringWhen Mrs. Mallard sits down in the room she becomes calm. She looks out of the window and see a new spring life outs

16、ide. The beautiful images represent her feeling of new life (Spring: Easter, rebirth of Jesus, new life, full of vitality and hope)setting symbolizes a new beginning for Mrs. MallardTime 第16页，共24页。The historical backgroundKate Chopin, the last part of the 19th century the setting is a middle class i

17、n the USA in the late 1800s the social status of women in the late 19th-century?Generally, women werent liberated. Female liberation wasnt put on the agenda until the 1960s. “angel in the house” they did all the hard work in the house. had subordinate and oppressive positions in the marriage第17页，共24

18、页。Though her husband loved her, Mrs. Mallard is trapped in the marriage, losing freedom.imagine a new life filled with happiness and freedom after her husbands death 第18页，共24页。 the story describes the one hour she spends dreaming about her new life in freedom, from getting the incorrect death messag

19、e until tragically passing away herself. She lived in the true sense of the world, with will, ambition and joy, for one hour only. In this way, setting helps to develop the theme 第19页，共24页。Case III. Hills Like White ElephantsThe hills across the valley of the Ebro1 were long and white. On this side

20、there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and a curtain, made of strings of bamboo beads, hung across the open door into the bar, to keep out flies. The American and the g

21、irl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building. It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went on to Madrid . 第20页，共24页。埃布罗河河谷的那一边，白色的山冈起伏连绵。这一边，白地一片，没有树木，车站在阳光下两条铁路线中间。紧靠着车站的一边，是一幢笼罩在闷热的阴影中的房屋，一串串竹珠子编成

22、的门帘挂在酒吧间敞开着的门口挡苍蝇。那个美国人和那个跟他一道的姑娘坐在那幢房屋外面阴凉处的一张桌子旁边。天气非常热，巴塞罗那来的快车还有四十分钟才能到站。列车在这个中转站停靠两分钟，然后继续行驶，开往马德里。第21页，共24页。The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees. 铁路对面，在那一边，埃布罗河两岸是农田和树木。远处，在河的那一边，便是起伏的山峦。一片云影掠过粮田；透过树木，她看到了大河。第22页，共24页。a hot summer, in a Hispanic small railway station. A couple