Week Ten (2015.4.30) --- D. H. Lawrence's The Rocking-Horse Winner
Week Nine --- Midterm-exam
Notice: final blog due 5/10
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct.
D. H. Lawrence is best known for his novel: Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lawrence's best-known short stories: ''The Captain's Doll'', ''The Fox'', ''The Ladybird'', ''Odour of Chrysanthemums'', ''The Princess'', ''The Rocking-Horse Winner'', ''St Mawr'', ''The Virgin and the Gypsy'', ''The Woman who Rode Away''
"The Rocking-Horse Winner"
is a short story by D. H. Lawrence. It was first published in July 1926, in Harper's Bazaar and subsequently appeared in the first volume of Lawrence's collected short stories. It was made into a full-length film directed by Anthony Pelissier and starring John Howard Davies, Valerie Hobson and John Mills; the film was released in the United Kingdom in 1949 and in 1950 in the United States.
Note:
1. cred is a prefix stands for believe, for example: credo (an idea or set of beliefs that guides the actions of a person or group), incredible (difficult or impossible to believe)
2. Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson (poem)
3. The Riddle of the Sphinx: What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
4. mentor vs. admire
5. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan Poe born Edgar Poe)
6. Classicsm → Renaissance → Romanticism → (Victorian) → Modernism
7. history of western literature is based on faith & reason
8. frame story:
is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers from a first story into another, smaller one (or several ones) within it.
for example: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
9. The Decameron: is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city.
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
10. British English: colour vs. color: American English
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