专业型硕士研究生英语课文讲义unit 8.ppt

Prepare Yourself Sentimentality Narrator Measured style Section irony 感伤 叙述者 审慎稳重的风格 节 冷嘲，反语 书评 残疾 女主人公 出版商 听觉 情节 Book review Disabled Heroine Publisher Hearing plot Textual Organization 1. At the age of five, she was robbed of her hearing. 2. At about 7years old, she was taught by her grandmother to read. 3. She was sent to a progressive school for the deaf. 4. Soon after she graduated, she met Jim Lloyd, and they got married. 5. Two weeks after the marriage, Lloyd was sent to Europe as a stretcher-bearer while she stayed at home, missing her husband and fighting against the influenza epidemic. 6. She and Lloyd finally reunited. Paragraph 1 There’s not a single false gesture in Frances Itani’s “Deafening.” Despite its subjects-war, romance, disability-it’s a story of careful, measured emotion, bleached of all sentimentality. The publisher has positioned the novel as a debut in America, but Canadians have been reading Itani for decades, and every page of this story betrays the hands of a mature writer. Paragraph 2 The heroine, Grania O’Neill, was robbed of her hearing at the age of 5 in the early 20th century. Itani narrates her life in a voice filled with the rhythm of the deaf girl’s thoughts and sensibilities, a technique that submerges us in Grania’s silent but vivid world, a place “divided into things that move and things that don’t move.” Paragraph 3 Her parents are too burdened by guilt and too involved in difficulty in hopes for a miracle to work with their daughter’s obvious intelligence, but her grandmother remains determined to teach Grania to read. The process involves studying simple pictures and words, feeling her grandmother’s throat, and attending to the slight fluttering of others’ lips. Paragraph 3 Everywhere, there are traps and tricks, puns and homonyms, silent k’s and g’s, and, worst of all, mustaches that hide speakers’ words. Paragraph 4 But “nothing will stop Grania,” Itani writes. “when she is alone she stands on tiptoe on the stoop at the