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cloroxI. Write short notes on: Carlyle, and Lamb.
voaspecialenglish Suggested Reference Books[SRB]
1. The Oxford Companion to English Literature
2. any standard book on the history of English literature
recommend的用法 3. Encyclopaedia Britannica
老友记第八季下载See Additional Background Material for Teachers' Reference, points 6 and 7
1. Carlyle : Thomas Carlyle <1795-1881>, English essayist and historian born at Ecclefechan, a village of the Scotch lowlands. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, he rejected the ministry, for which he had been intended, and determined to he a writer of hooks. In 1826 he married Jane Welsh, a well-informed and ambitious woman who did much to further his career. They moved to Jane' s farm at Craigenputtoeh where th
ey lived for 6 years <1828-1834 >. During this time he produced Sartor Resartus <1833-1834>, a book in which he first developed his char- acteristic style and thought. This book is a veiled sardonic attack upon the shams and pretences of society, upon hollow rank, hollow officialism, hollow custom, out of which life and ufulness have departed. In 1837 he published The French Revolution, a poetic rendering and not a factual account of the great event in history. Besides the two masterpieces, he wrote Chartism <1840>, On Heroes, hero Worship, and the Heroic in History <I841>, Past and Prent <1843> and others. "Carlyle", a peculiar style of his own, was a compound of biblical phras, col loquialisms, Teutonic twists, and his own coinings, arranged in unexpected quences. One of the most important social critics of his day, Carlyle influenced many men of the younger generation, among them were Mathew Arnold and Ruskin.
2. Lamb : Charles Lamb <1775-1834>, English essayist, was born in London and brought up within the precincts of the ancient law courts, his father being a rvant to an advocate of the inner Temple. He went to school at Christ's Hospital, where he had for a classmate Coleridge, his life-long friend. At venteen, he became a clerk in the India Ho
新概念英语听力下载>金山翻译下载u and here he worked for 33 years until he was re-tired on a pension. His devotion to his sister Mary, upon whom rested an hereditary taint of insanity, has done al-most as much as the sweetness and gentle humor of his writings to endear his name. They collaborated on veral books for children, publishing in 1867 their famous Tales from Shakespeare. His dramatic essays, Specimens of English Dramatic Poets <1808>, established his reputation as a critic and did much in reviving the popularity of Eliza-be then drama. The Essays of Ella, published at intervals in London Magazine, were gathered together and republished in two ries, the first in 1823, the cond ten years later. They established Lamb in the title which he still holds, that of the most delightful of English essayists.
II. Questions on content:
1. What, according to the writer, makes good conversation? What spoils it?
A good conversation does not really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where it will go. A good conversation is not for making a point. Argument may often be a part of i
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t, but the purpo of the argument is not to convince. When people become rious and talk as if they have something very important to say, when they argue to convince or to win their point, the conversation is spoilt.
2. Why does the writer like"bar conversation" so much?
The writer likes bar conversation very much becau he has spent a lot of time in pubs and is ud to this kind of conversation. Bar friends are companions, not intimates密友; 挚友. They are friends but not intimate enough to be curious about each other's private life and thoughts.
3. Does a good conversation need a focal subject to talk about?
No. Conversation does not need a focus. But when a focal焦点的subject appears in the natural flow of conversation, the conversation becomes vivid, lively and more interesting.
4. Why did the people talk about Australia? Why did the conversation turn to Norman England?painful
The people talked about Australia becau the speaker who introduced the subject mentioned incidentally that it was an Australian who had given her such a definition of "the King's English. " When the people talked about the resistance in the lower class to any attempt by an upper class to lay down rules for "English as it should be spoken", the conversation moved to Norman England becau at that time a language barrier existed between the Saxon peasants and the Norman conquerors.
5. How does the u of words show class distinction?
The Saxon peasants and their Norman conquerors ud different words for the same thing. For examples e paragraph 9.
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6. Can you guess the writer's views on bilingual education? <para 11>
The writer ems to be in favor of bilingual education. He is against any form of cultural barrier or the cultural humiliation of any ction or group of people.
7. Why was the term "Queen's English" ud in 1593 and "the King' s English'in 16027
The term "the Queen's English" was ud in 1953 by Nash becau at that time the reigning monarch was a queen, Elizabeth I. The term "the King's English" is the more common form becau the ruling monarch is generally a king. Tho who are not very particular may u the term "the King's English", even when the ruling monarch is a queen. In 1602, Dekker ud the term "the King's English", although the reigning monarch was still Queen Elizabeth.
