1.Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences self-understanding or illumination.
*Dubliners 影響了台灣文學(異界影響):
1)白先勇與臺灣大學同學歐陽子、陳若曦、王文興、李歐梵、劉紹銘等共同創辦《現代文學》雜誌，並在此發表了多篇文章。
2)《台北人》--白先勇
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2. format of English writing
for example:
title of a book:The Great Gatsby or The Great Gatsby
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald(人名不畫線)
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3.the themes in young-adult fiction
life/ death/ adventure/ love/ lost
*young-adult fiction(coming to age)
*categories
- (a) Problem novel (at the beginning: explosion of the problem and the gradual recognition of self identity)
- (b) Initiation and Quest (Journey)
- (c) Bildungsroman(溫馨勵志/成長療癒小說)
- (d) Fantasy/Adventure (genre) 幻想/冒險
- (e) Detective fiction (懸疑/推理小說)
1. Who am I?
2. What is my place in the universe?
3. What would I do if I were the protagonist/antagonist in the story?
4. Do I like the story? Why or why not? Which episode or character interests me the most and why?
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4. Hugo:雨果的冒險
Hugo Cabret: I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.
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5.western literature:
Don't advocate the didacticism but for entertainment, imitation, representation.
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6. The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger.[3] Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation.[4][5] It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages.[6] Around 250,000 copies are sold each year with total sales of more than 65 million books.[7] The novel's protagonistHolden Caulfield has become an icon for teenage rebellion
*Holden Caulfield
*為何「麥田」所謂「捕手」
“It's 'If a body meet a body coming
through the rye'!” old Phoebe
“I know it's a
poem by Robert Burns.”
She was right,
though. It is "If a body meet a body coming through the
rye." I didn't know it then, though.
“I thought it was
'If a body catch a body,'" I said. "Anyway, I keep
picturing all these little kids playing some
game in this big
field of rye
and all. Thousands of little kids, and
nobody's around — nobody big, I
mean—except me.
*"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to
die nobly for a cause,
一個不成熟男子的標記,是他願意為某種原因英勇的死去
while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
一個成熟男子的標記,是他願意為某種原因謙卑的活著
(Wilhelm Stekel, Chap. 24)
while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
一個成熟男子的標記,是他願意為某種原因謙卑的活著
(Wilhelm Stekel, Chap. 24)
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7.The Secret Garden
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The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially 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.
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8. The Cherry Orchard(櫻桃園)
The Cherry Orchard (Вишнëвый сад or Vishnevyi sad in Russian) is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It opened at theMoscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Although Chekhov intended it as a comedy, and it does contain some elements of farce, Stanislavski insisted on directing the play as a tragedy. Since this initial production, directorshave had to contend with the dual nature of the play.
*The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her family as they return to their family estate (which includes a large and well-known cherry orchard) just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. While presented with options to save the estate, the family essentially does nothing and the play ends with the sale of the estate to the son of a former serf; the family leaves to the sound of the cherry orchard being cut down.
* The story presents themes of cultural futility – both the futile attempts of the aristocracy to maintain its status and of the bourgeoisie to find meaning in its new found materialism. In reflecting the socio-economic forces at work in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, including the rise of the middle class after the abolition of serfdom in the mid-19th century and the sinking of the aristocracy, the play reflects forces at work around the globe in that period.
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9.The Reader
The Reader is a 2008 German-American romantic drama film based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink.
It tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who as a mid-teenager in 1958 had an affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past – a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the trial.
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*The novel explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist, Charles Smithson, and the former governess and independent woman, Sarah Woodruff, with whom he falls in love.
Word
1. ori →beginning
* original(a.)
1) always used before a noun : happening or existing first or at the beginning
▪ Their original idea was to fix their old car, but they decided to buy a new one instead. ▪ The word's original meaning was very different from its current meaning. ▪ That piece of furniture is still in its original condition. [=the furniture is in the same condition it was in when we first bought it] ▪ We were the original [=first] owners of that van.
▪ I gave her a copy and kept the original document myself. ▪ The book has been translated into English from the original Spanish.
▪ The concept is very original. ▪ The car has a highly original design.
b : able to think of or make new and creative things
▪ She has a very original and creative mind. ▪ He is admired as an original American composer.
* oriental(n.)
old-fashioned : of, relating to, or from Asia and especially eastern Asia
▪ I like oriental food. ▪ oriental art ◊The adjective Oriental is now often considered offensive when it is used to describe a person. The adjective Asian should be used instead.
2. leukemia 血癌
3. governess 女家庭教師
4.protagonist 主角: pro- in favor of
antagonist 反角: anti- against...
5.puberty 青春期, 開花期
6.路考: road test
7. confirmation 堅證禮
confirm 確認
e.g, You have to confirm your flight ticket in 72 hrs before the departure.
