2014.05.15 note: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (week 13)

1.  “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is a frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story first appeared in the Fall 1966 edition of Epoch Magazine. It was inspired by three Tucson, Arizona murders committed by Charles Schmid, which were profiled in Life magazine in an article written by Don Moser on March 4, 1966. Oates said that she dedicated the story to Bob Dylan because she was inspired to write it after listening to his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."

*"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." (music link)

*some excerpts:

• It was a boy with shaggy black hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold. → convertible 敞篷車、jalopy老爺車
• Her name was Connie. She was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was all right. → Connie is a beautiful, self-absorbed, 15 year-old girl.
•  a feeling, mixed up with the urgent insistent pounding of the music and the humid night air of July. 
•             She went into the kitchen and approached the door slowly, then hung out the screen door, her bare toes curling down off the step. There were two boys in the car and now she recognized the driver: he had shaggy, shabby black hair that looked crazy as a wig and he was grinning at her.→kitchen (vulnerability of woman);shaggy 長滿粗毛的、 shabby 襤褸的

* fly : 三重影像

→1) 揮之不去的思緒 2)媽媽在耳邊的嘮叨 3) 招蜂引蝶
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2.Irwin Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialismand sexual repression. Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States.^[1][2][3]

*Kill Your Darlings (film)


In the early 1940s, Alan Ginsberg is an English major in Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Alan finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together, this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation. However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever. 
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3.Equus(play)

Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.^[1]

*Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town nearSuffolk.^[2] He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The play's action is something of a detective story, involving the attempts of the child psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Dysart, to understand the cause of the boy's actions while wrestling with his own sense of purpose.^[3] The stage show ran in London between 1973 and 1975: later came the Broadway productions that starred Anthony Hopkins as Dysart (later played by Richard Burton,Leonard Nimoy, and Anthony Perkins), and from the London production, Peter Firth as Alan. Tom Hulce replaced Firth during the Broadway run. The Broadway production ran for 1,209 performances. Marian Seldes appeared in every single performance of the Broadway run, first in the role of Hesther and then as Dora.

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4.Beat Generation (垮掉的一代)

The Beat Generation was a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of "Beat" culture included rejection of received standards, innovations in style, experimentation with drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition.^[1]

Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature.^[2] BothHowl and Naked Lunch were the focus of obscenity trials that ultimately helped to liberalize publishing in the United States.^[3][4] The members of the Beat Generation developed a reputation as new bohemian hedonists, who celebrated non-conformity and spontaneous creativity.

In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were incorporated into the hippie and larger counterculture movements.

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5. Lost Generation(失落的一代)

The "Lost Generation" was the generation that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises. 
*This generation included distinguished artists such as F. Scott Fitzgerald,^[2] T. S. Eliot,John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Isadora Duncan, Abraham Walkowitz, Alan Seeger, and Erich Maria Remarque.
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6.The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was inihe tially published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been produced.

*character
Mary Lennox: the most disagreeable-looking child with sour expression (愁眉苦臉又不令人討喜)


Word

1. select se- apart from;  elect e- out

2.expatriate 外籍人士

3.charismatic 有魅力的

4.fretful 焦急的，難以取悅的