现代英国文学 Lesson 2-Joseph Conrad.pptVIP

Beauty of Art: Appeal to Senses艺术之美 “All art, therefore, appeals primarily to the senses.” 艺术美：诉诸感官 -- 视觉、听觉、感觉 The “art of arts”-- “the plasticity of sculpture,” “the colour of painting” and “the magic suggestiveness of music” in colour, sound, rhythm, form, movement 最佳小说艺术效果: 雕塑之美，绘画之彩，音乐之声 “My task is to make you hear, to make you feel -- it is, before all, to make you see” “by the power of the written word.” 文字令读者听到、看到和触到生活 4.2 Symbolic Description of Colour, Sound, Form and Movement 色彩声音形体动态 Dynamic use of colours: a political spectrum: the miserable state of Africa under colonialism 政治色谱： 黑与白 -- 白人殖民统治 下的黑非洲 White vs. Black: symbolic colours -- Europe vs. Africa, white invaders as a “miracle” vs. miserable blacks as a dark black mass; “white ivory” + the “bit of white worsted round the black’s neck” → political power and economic monopoly 黑与白的象征意义 Bright colours: European national flags in the map of the world and in the African continent 欧洲列强国旗 White vs. Black The Colours of European Powers Expression of Sound 声音的表现力 “Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.” 铿锵字句：撬/打动世界 “magic suggestiveness of music”: 小说中的乐感 “written words have their accent, too” 词语也发声 the “ring of sentences” 铿锵作响的句子：锁链当啷 rhythmical clinking of chains: the slavery of blacks Kurtz cry “Horror! Horror!”: white men’s weariness of colonialism Narration -- Intermediate Narrator -- Multiplication of Narrative Point of View -- Reversed Story Time Discourse Time “the Plasticity of Sculpture” in Fiction 小说中的雕塑感 Distorted bodies of blacks in inhuman treatment: “black shadows of disease and starvation” “lying in the greenish gloom,” “black moribund shapes” “as thin as air” under the yoke of “iron collar,” “black rags” revealing every rib “like knots in a rope,” and “sunken e