现代大学英语精读2 lesson4.ppt

Unit 4 The Nightingale and the Rose Background Information Fairy tales What is it? Hans Andersen Grimm Brothers Features Oscar O’Wilde Art’s for art’s sake Fairy Tales What is your favourite fairy tale? What is it????? Witches and Queens giants and elves (精灵) princes and princesses talking animals What is it????? Marvelous and magical things happen: a boy may become a bird a princess may sleep for a hundred years What is it????? Always same ending and similar theme: truth prevails over deception generosity is ultimately rewarded hard work overcomes obstacles love, mercy and kindness are the greatest powers of all Hans Christian Andersen “The King of Tales” The Little Mermaid The Emperor’s New Clothes The Ugly Duckling The Princess and The Pea Grimm Brothers Cinderella Sleeping Beauty The Frog King The Fisherman His Wife Snow White Little Red-Cap Features of fairy tales frequent use of personification symbolic meaning given to words vivid, simple narration repetitive pattern used Oscar O’Wilde (1854-1900) Oscar O’Wilde Irish-born novelist, playwright, poet, and critic Known for witty, often paradoxical, sayings that lampoon the social modes and behavior of the English upper classes of his time Championing the aesthetic movement, which is based on the idea of art for art’s sake Oscar O’Wilde “As a youngster he was exposed to the brilliant literary talk of the day at his mother’s Dublin salon.”? “As an aesthete, the eccentric young Wilde wore long hair and velvet knee breeches （天鹅绒及膝马裤）. His rooms were filled with various objects such as sunflowers, peacock feathers, and blue china; Wilde claimed to aspire to the perfection of the china.”? Oscar O’Wilde Only novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) Four most distinctive and engaging comedies: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) A Woman of No Importance (1893) An Ideal Husband (1895) The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Quotes from Wilde Men become old, but they never become good.? Lady Windermeres Fa