BronteSisters勃朗特姐妹.ppt

Emily’s Writing Features 1) She expresses the feelings of the hero in terms of spiritual suppress, tension and conflicts and the result to which such a feeling would lead. 2) Her novel is unique in its structure and its vision. Emily’s Writing Features 3) In her novel, there is the combination of extremely simple, austere (简朴的) and an adorned (修饰的) language with the most mighty and intensified effects (强大而有力的作用). Exercises 1. Remember the representative works of the three Bronte Sisters. 2. What are the writing features of Charlotte and Emily? 3. What are the main idea of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Height? Aestheticism The basic theory of the aesthetic – “art for art’s sake” – was set forth by a French poet, Theophile Gautier. The first Englishman who wrote about the theory of aestheticism was Walter Pater, the most important critical writer of the late Victorian period, whose most important works were studies in the History of Renaissance and Appreciations. The chief representative of the movement in England was Oscar Wilde, with his The Picture of Dorian Gray. Aestheticism places art above life, and holds that life should imitate art, not art imitate life. According to aesthetes, all artistic creation is absolutely subjective as opposed to objective. Art should be free from any influence of egoism. Only when art is for art’s sake can it be immortal. It should be restricted to contributing beauty in a highly polished style. * * * misfortunes 1848, Emily died a victim of consumption(肺结核) 1848, Branwell died of the illness; 1849, Anne died of the same illness; Father lost his eyesight Charlotte decided not to be married to look after Father; Later married to Father’s curate /ˊkju?reit/(副牧师) Charlotte died less than a year after her marriage. Representative works Emily: Wuthering Heights,《呼啸山庄》 Anne: Agnes Grey,《安格尼斯·格雷》 The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall 《王尔德费尔庄园的佃户》 Charlotte’s Representative works 1) The Professor,《教授》 (based on her Brussels experie