英语通识阅读教程 文学篇 Unit 6 Tradition and Change.pptx

Unit6TraditionandChangeTextATheLotteryTextBEverydayUse

BeforeReadingAbouttheAuthorandHerWorksExploretheWriter’sIdeasUnderstandingtheTextReadingBetweentheLinesExploretheWriter’sTechniquesIncreaseYourLanguageProficiencyFurtherExplorationTextA

1.AbouttheAuthorBiographyLiteraryStylesandThemes2.AboutHerWorksNovelsBeforeReadingWriter’sIdeasWriter’sTechniquesLanguageProficiencyFurtherExploration

BiographyShirleyJackson(1916-1965),anAmericannovelistandshort-storywriter,wasamasterofgothichorrorandpsychologicalsuspense.JacksongraduatedfromSyracuseUniversityin1940andmarriedtheAmericanliterarycriticStanleyEdgarHyman.Sheisbestknownfortheshortstory“TheLottery”(1948)andthenovelTheHauntingofHillHouse.“TheLottery”isregardedasoneofthemonumentalshortfictionalworksofthe20thcentury.1.AbouttheAuthor

LiteraryStylesandThemesThegeneralthemeofherworksisthepresenceofevilandthechaosbeneaththesurfaceofordinaryeverydaylife.Mysterious,sinister,andsupernaturalelementsplayimportantrolesinherworks.Shehasinfluencedsomeofthemajorcontemporaryhorrorfictionwriters.eg.“TheLottery”isapowerfulallegoryofbarbarismandsocialsacrifice,whosemeaninghasbeenmuchdebated,andprovokedwidespreadpublicoutragewhenitwasfirstpublishedinTheNewYorkerin1948.1.AbouttheAuthor

NovelsLifeAmongtheSavages(1953)andRaisingDemons(1957)arewittyandhumorousfictionalizedmemoirsabouttheirlifewiththeirfourchildren.ThelightcomictoneofthosebookscontrastssharplywiththedarkpessimismofJackson’sotherworks.Jackson’ssixfinishednovels,especiallyTheHauntingofHillHouse(1959)andWeHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle(1962),furtherestablishedherreputationasamasterofgothichorrorandpsychologicalsuspense.2.AboutHerWorks

Writer’sIdeasWriter’sTechniquesLanguageProficiencyFurther