11/19 美國文學 week 11 Moby Dick & Edgar Allen Poe－JaneJaneLand

1. 葉丙成教授

-Benson’s Flip

→care(很在乎”成績”)

→video(給學生先看，之後再討論)

→工商時間

-“If you can rock the child, you can make them learn.”

*Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prof.yeh

*Blog: 丙紳隨筆

*Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/instructor/benson

*Column: 葉丙成：懊悔，是我能教給學生的最棒功課

2. Gautama Buddha

→The word Buddha means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one". "Buddha" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in an era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha of our age.

3. Moby Dick

-來自遺傳與環境→留下的人，往往都是說出故事的人

(e.g.在文章的開頭→Call me Ishmael)

-人性的荒蕪

*A dark example (Captain Ahab) of leadership into pure disaster.

*Abraham Lincoln’s leadership (The romantic period)

*(p.170 epic theory)

*malevolent gossip (male- : bad)

4. Nathaniel Hawthorne

→an American novelist and short story writer.He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions.

(p.619)

*Salem→第一個和中國廣州通商的港口

5. <Everyman>

→In literature and drama, the term everyman has come to mean an ordinary individual, with whom the audience or reader is supposed to be able to identify easily, and who is often placed in extraordinary circumstances.

*metaphor & simile

6. Puritan 清教徒→嚴以律己

*allegory(使用道德寓言)

→“Young Goodman Brown”

*Arthur Dimmesdale

→A fictional character in the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Puritan minister, he has fathered an illegitimate child, Pearl, with Hester Prynne and seeks to hide the truth of his relationship with her.

7. Edgar Allan Poe (p.688)

→An American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.

-alliteration / magical realism

*indifferent = careless, infamous→漠不關心的

8. Story of Aeneas (*the Aeneid)

9. Nathaniel Philbrick

→ An American author and a member of the Philbrick literary family. He won the year 2000 National Book Award for his maritime history, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.