现代大学英语精读5_第五课professions_for_women（宝典）

现代大学英语精读5_第五课professions_for_women（宝典） 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 professions for women Virginia Woolf 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Women’s issue rights. Do you think it necessary to do the same in china ? e history, does chinese women have a high status? other families around you, whose, husband’s or wife’s opinions are likely to prevail ? In which are not ? 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 The speech by Woolf problems that prohibit her from pursuing her career as a writer? share the same problem? e? Can you find the her in the Chinese family? 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Research topic 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Reference reading t a wife by Judy Syfers,1971. -- by Lois Gould ? 1972 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Virginia Woolf –1941, English novelist and essayist; in the form of the novel, she is considered a significant force in 20th- century fiction. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Woolf, a critic and writer on economics, with whom she set up the Hogarth Press in 1917. Their home became a gathering place for a circle of artists, critics, and writers known as the Bloomsbury group. primary concern was to represent the flow of ordinary experience. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Virginia s works e story is about a day in the life of a London society hostess, Clarissa, who’s preparing for a party. The themes she explores are the nature of personal identity, memory and consciousness, the passage of time, and the tensions between the forces of Life and Death. She gives a very lyrical response to the fundamental question, 'What is it like to be alive?' The novel also features her rich expression of the 'interior monologue' and offers a subtle critique of society recovering in the aftermath of the first world war. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 the Hours adaptation of Michael Cunningham's fictional take on Mrs Dalloway. Fragments of Woolf's biography are interwoven with stories from 1950's small town America, and contemporary New York. It's not a direct adaptation but a stunning interpretation of Woolf and her world, her themes, and even her narrative techniques. Nicole Kidman creates a very sympathetic portrayal of Virginia, Julian Moore glues the plot together with a magnificent performance as a woman at the end of her tether, and Meryl Streep is a slightly over-the-top but acceptable modern Clarissa. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Orlando To the Light House the waves 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Questions on the Guide to Reading Woolf’s writing career? 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Professions for women League in 1931. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Paragraph 1 and 2 experiences in the profession of literature for women? Why/why not? to her? y women have succeeded as writers before they have succeeded in the other professions‖ from writing? 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 …there were very few material obstacles in my way this statement? suggested that there are other obstacles in her way, probably obstacles opposed to material, that is, obstacles of a spiritual, mental or psychological nature. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Women writers before Woolf - 1840) Burney's four novels have earned her favorable comparisons to other giants of the genre-Austen, Richardson, Dickens-and Virginia Woolf's declaration that she is "the mother of English fiction." 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Aphra Behn, (1640-1689) professional English woman writer and playwright later applauded by Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own, but during her own time she was suspected of plagiarism and accused of lewdness because of her gender. Abbey 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876), characterized by advanced views on social, economic, and religious questions, caused considerable controversy in her time. - 1834), Poor Laws and Paupers (1833), and Illustrations of Taxation (1834) Present and Past (1848), Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development (1851) 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Austen, Jane (1775-1817) witty studies of early-19th- century English society. With meticulous detail, Austen portrayed the quiet, day-to-day life of members of the upper middle class. Her works combine romantic comedy with social satire and psychological insight. Sense and Sensibility Emma 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Eliot, George (1819-1880), Evans, English novelist, whose books, with their profound feeling and accurate portrayals of simple lives, give her a place in the first rank of 19th-century English writers. Her fame was international, and her work greatly influenced the development of French naturalism. Floss (1860), and Silas Marner (1861). 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Paragraph 3 killing the angel in the house s Woolf’s first article easy to write? writing process? ve to do the same battle.? 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 The phantom literary meaning and a figurative meaning. appear to the sight but has no physical existence, a specter something feared or dread, something that exists only in the mind , an illusion, any mental image or representation phantom appears to the sight in the form of an angel; and figuratively, it is a mental representation of the stereotyped Victorian woman. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 The angel in the house "The Angel in the House" Oil Painting by John Brett, B. A. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 -part domestic epic celebrating married love as the highest form of love between a man and a woman was published over eight years, from 1854- 1862. Though critics disparaged its saccharine sentimentality, it was a great favorite with the reading public, and was the most popular poem of its time. Perhaps more known than read, the poem contributed to Victorian rhetoric about a woman's proper role and the cult of domesticity. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Victorian era literally describes things and events in the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), conveyed connotations of "prudish," "repressed," and "old fashioned." Although such associations have some basis in fact, they do not adequately indicate the nature of this complex, paradoxical age that was a second English Renaissance. Victorian England saw great expansion of wealth, power, and culture. e monarchy, this era was represented by such 19th-century ideals as devotion to family life, public and private responsibility, and obedience to the law. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 If there is draught, she sat in it n a room. it is not pleasant to sit in the draught. The most comfortable place in an english house is by the fireplace. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 She was so constituted that she never had a mind or wish of her own. way, but the traditional values that were so deeply planted in her mind deprived her a mind (independent opinions) of her own. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Above all—I need not say it —she was pure. important one. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 In those days—the last days of Queen Victoria—every house had its angel. e interpreted on two levels. Victoria, every house had a woman like that, who was sympathetic, charming, unselfish, charming and above all pure. reign of Queen Victoria, the belief that every woman should have the above qualities, and above all, must be pure. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Be sympathetic; be tender;…be pure. the traditional Victorian values about gender roles. As soon as the author began to write her review, she seemed to hear a voice telling her what to do. and not to disagree with them criticism order to please the reading public she really thought; she would have to tell lies instead of telling the truth. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 All the arts and wiles of our sex the same thing ― the sly and cunning tricks‖. the female sex because a woman has to do so in order to be successful in a men-dominated profession 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Had I not killed her she would have killed me. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing. attitudes and values completely heart out of my writing: the Victorian conventions of being a woman will take the essence of her writing, which is, as explained in the next sentence, having a mind of your own, expressing what you think to be the truth about human relations, morality, and sex. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 She died hard. killed. fight against the Victorian traditions bravely and resolutely in order to get rid of them. Words and expressions Words and expressions l Befall Do battle with Do battle with something something the throat the throat 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Para 4 what is a woman? and stopped telling lies. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 I mean, what is a woman? The seemingly simple question of what is a woman addressed the very basic question about the identity and the role of a woman in society. When traditional values are criticized, it takes time for new values to be shaped and accepted. It is a long process. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 I do not believe that anybody can know until …human skill. we women have to participate in all the arts and professions open to human knowledge and understanding and to give expressions open to human knowledge and understanding and to give expressions to our feelings in creative forms. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 express oneself means to state one’s thoughts; to give expressions to one's feelings, imagination, etc, in creative or artistic activity knowledge, understanding, judgment. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Para 5 men in women writer’s mind with the utmost quiet and regularity? Why does he want to do the same thins day after day and month after month? writer from her trance, her imagination? their body and passion? 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 The Mind as an Iceberg the founder of psychoanalysis, compared the human mind to an iceberg. The tip above the water represents consciousness, and the vast region below the surface symbolizes the unconscious mind. Of Freud’s three basic personality structures—id, ego, and superego—only the id is totally unconscious. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Id , ego, superego psychic life: 本我):the instinctual force of life— unconscious, uncontrollable, and isolated 自我):the external force that has contact with the real world; 超我):the governing force, or maral conscience, that seeks to control and direct the ego into socially acceptable patterns of behavior. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 A novelist’s chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible? concept, which reflect the ancient angers and anxieties James’ realistic ideas on fiction in ― the Art of Fiction‖, she explored the psychological nature of consciousness. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 plot or action but on the psychological realm occupied by her characters. For woolf, the description of the immediate flow of her characters’ thoughts and their feelings of the moment was more important than the realistic depiction of their physical behavior. Basically she conceives of the imagination as shy and hidden so that the writer can only draw the deepest inspiration by suspending everyday rational consciousness in order to liberate an imaginative expression of their deepest creativity. So the ―unconscious‖ state would allow her to bring her imagination into the fullest play, to see and express her ralit in stream of consciousness, fragmentation, or to develop her feminine writing. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 He wants his life proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity…that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination. the ego manage the external factors of her life----the routine, the predictable social events, etc.----so that the id (or unconscious) would be unrestrained. from her creative work of writing, a writer should reduce his everyday life to unchanging routine to avoid paying much attention to the people or the events. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 The illusion in which he is living world a write is creating in words and living in his imagination. unconscious flow of the narrative, of the expression. the unconscious and responding to it through language----new words and sentences, new images and characters----he does not want the routine of this ordinary life to interfere, and yet he needs these routines to maintain his life. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 She was letting her imagination sweep unchecked…our unconscious being. freely every corner of her inner world that lies hidden in the deepest parts of our unconscious existence. 讲课人:苏安梅 华南农业大学外国语学院 Something about the body telling the truth about my own experiences as a body about a woman’s sense of her sexuality. house help clear the decks for inner