高英 背景第五课.pptVIP

Lead-in Lead-in Pittsburgh: a city in Southwest Pennsylvania one of the most important industrial cities of America a center of rail and river transportation. Termed the “Steel City” or “Smoky City” the center of rich bituminous-coal(生煤) region, natural gas, oil and limestone; a large part of U.S. steel and iron is produced here. →→→ wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination Westmoreland county: a county in Southwest Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Greensburg. a mining and manufacturing region. The great wealth of this region the abominable human habitations Westmoreland Coal Company ca.1890 The Old Mill in 1903 Modernism 1920s To get rid of the bondage of traditional architectural forms， To adapt to the conditions in industrialized society rationalism radicalism A piece of subjective, impressionistic or emotional description Description Two kinds of description: 1. objective/impersonal Realistic: The writer paints a verbal picture of the realistic world, like a camera; factual words 2. subjective/personal Impressionistic/emotional: The writer wants to share with the readers a kind of dominant impression. The dominant impression may be a sense impression or an emotion; emotional words Description The dominant impression: Ugliness stands out vividly and prominently. Mencken: very subjective and personal in this lesson. His description: strongly impressionistic and highly emotional. THANK YOU Henry L. Mencken First published in Prejudices: Sixth Series(1927), Menckens essay The Libido for the Ugly stands as a powerful exercise in hyperbole?and?invective. Note his reliance on concrete examples?and precise descriptive details. 1920s in America, so-called the roaring twenties, or the Jazz Ages, is a special age, when the first world war just ended and the great depression had not come yet. In this period, America wa