美國文學 week17

1/6  Modernist Manifestos

• Ishmael is a fictional character, the protagonist in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). The name has come to symbolize orphans, exiles, and social outcasts.

• Virginia Tech Shooting (massacre)

      The attacks received international media coverage and drew

      widespread criticism of U.S. gun culture.

        University of Iowa shooting

         at the university

•      Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Notice 

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

 Tom’s most well now, and got his bullet around his neck on a

watch-guard for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and

so there ain’t nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of

it, because if I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I

wouldn’t a tackled it, and ain’t a-going to no more. But I reckon I

got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt

Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I

been there before.

      on a raft

      Moon River

Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossin' you in style some day
Old dream maker, you heartbreaker
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend, Moon River, and me

Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend, Moon River, and me

"Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini. 

• Henry Mancini was an Italian-American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. His best known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series.

• Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film starring Audrey Hepburn.

• coliseum

      
      auditorium

•  Four Quartets    T.S. Eliot

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
                              But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know.

   unredeemable : not able to be recovered.

• The West Land

            April is the cruellest month, breeding

         Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

         Memory and desire, stirring

         Dull roots with spring rain.

• "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) is an essay written by poet and literary critic T. S. Eliot.

          literary symbiosis

• Modernist Manifestos

• Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 postcolonial novel by Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys.

•  It is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a white Creole heiress, from the time of her youth in Jamaica to her unhappy marriage to a certain English gentleman—he is never named by the author. 

•     A Thousand Acres: the novel is a modernized retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear and is set on a thousand acre (four hundred hectares) farm in Iowa that is owned by a family of a father and his three daughters. 

•   Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, often referred to as just Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is an absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. 
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• Tennessee Williams was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Millerhe is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th century American drama.

• A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams which received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. 

Blanche DuBois - Stella’s older sister, who was a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi, until she was forced to leave her post.

    (pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask alcoholism and delusions of grandeur)

Stella Kowalski - Blanche’s younger sister, about twenty-five years old and of a mild disposition that visibly sets her apart from her more vulgar neighbors

Stanley Kowalski - The husband of Stella. Stanley is the epitome of vital force. He is loyal to his friends, passionate to his wife, and heartlessly cruel to Blanche. 

Hey Stella

Over the Hedge - STELLAAAAAAA !!!!!

• Geographically, the Old South is a subregion of theAmerican South, differentiated from the Deep by being limited to those Southern states represented among the original thirteen British colonies which became the first thirteen U.S. states.

          Confederate States of America

 ·       Dixie (dix= ten in french)     

               I wish I was in Dixie land

·    The kindness of strangers- I have always depended on the kindness of strangers, a line from Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (1947).

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