(现代大学英语精读5)love is a fallacy.ppt

Love is a fallacy Max Shulman pre-reading questions what does the narrator think about himself? To exchange for the girl he wanted, what did he have to give? Is Polly a perfect candidate for his future wife? How did his lesson on logic work with Polly? Did he succeed in winning Polly? Why not? On love If to give an individual definition to love, what will your definition be? Max Shulman Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953) Author’s note What does the author think of his own essay compared to those of the Charles Lamb’s? What is this essay like according to the author? And compared with those written by Carlyle and Ruskin? Charles Lamb Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia (Elia was his penname) and for the childrens book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb. Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881) British historian and essayist The French Revolution (1837), On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History (1841) and Past and Present (1843). John Ruskin(1819-1900) artist, scientist, poet, environmentalist, philosopher, and the pre-eminent art critic of his time. …that logic, far from being a dry…passion, and trauma. Metaphor and hyperbole. It’s a metaphor comparing logic to a living human being. It is a hyperbole because it exaggerates for the sake of effect. Logic is not at all a dry, learned branch of learning. It is like a living human being, full of beauty, passion and painful emotional shocks. Hyperbole A figure of speech with the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis. Eg. Hamlet: I love Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. Shakespeare: Hamlet IBM ThinkPad: Where the world’s most innovative people choose to think. (2003 Ad.) Words and expressions Month of Sundays: a long time To unfetter Memorable Limp, flaccid, spongy Without doubt F