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Award
the Lannan Literary Award兰南文
学奖
the Great Lakes Book Award
五大湖书卷奖
the Indiana Humanities Award
the Kenyon Review Literary Award
the John Burroughs Essay Award
The Paradise of Bombs (1987) In Limestone Country (1991) Secrets of the Universe: Scenes from the Journey Home (1991) Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World (1993) Writing from the Center (1995) Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journeys (1998) --unit11 The Country of Language (1999)
• Part III ( Paras.18-21): is beauty a subjective or objective existence
• Part IV ( Para. 22-27): whether biology also plays a role in our pursuit of beauty
• Through the comparison, the writer think that a universe so prodigal of beauty may need us to notice and respond, need our sharp eyes and brimming hearts and teeming minds, in order to close the circuit of Creation.
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• I can summon up hundreds of details from that radiant day, but on the day itself I was aware only of a surpassing joy.(P13)
• summon (up): to call forth; to make an effort (to recall the details of that day)
• 2. What’s your opinion about beauty? Try to give a definition, please.
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What is beauty?
e.g. a delightful quality associated with harmony of form or color, excellence of craftsmanship, truthfulness, originality, etc.
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Structure
• Part I ( Paras.1-13): the recollection of Eva’s wedding and the author’s feeling at that time
• Part II ( Paras.14-17): the recollection of the universe
between ourselves and the underlying order of things, is a momentary glimpse of that order, a reconciliation of inner and outer space.
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• , but because the festival of marriage has slowed time down until, any fool can see their glory.(1)
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Lesson Eleven
Beauty
--By 侯霖 曹婧 郝涵娇 刘轩辰 邢琪
侯林彤
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Introduction
• ment on the following sayings:
• Beauty is only skin deep.
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction
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Scott in Yosemite, August 2009
Scott’s wife, Ruth, a biochemist in 2009
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Sanders family
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Outline
• --Warming up • 1.about the author • 2.brief introduction of text • 3.appreciation of rhetorical devices • 4.analysis of difficult sentences • Notes on the text
Warm as Wool (1992)
Here Comes the Mystery Man (1993)
Meeting Trees (1996)
A Place Called Freedom (1997)
Crawdad Creek (1999)
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• A Private History of Awe: the latest book of him, a coming-age memoir, love story, and spiritual testament, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
The Force of Spirit (2000) A Private History of Awe (2006) A Conservationist Manifesto (2009
Children's books
Hear the Wind Blow (1985)
Aurora Means Dawn (1989)
Short Story Collections
Wilderness Plots (1983) Fetching the Dead (1984)
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Creative non-fiction/essays
“Scott: Towards a Social Theory of Literature”. Telos 18 (Winter 1973-74). New York: Telos Press.
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• so I can make up to my darling for anything she may have lacked in her girlhood.(12)
My daughter may feel she has missed something when she was young. If so, I wish I could make compensation to her now, before she is married.
• : the importance of beauty
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Structure
• Part V ( Para. 28-31): the wedding scene again
• Part VI (Para. 32-35): the beauty of law of nature
• Part VII. (Para. 36): his special feelings about beauty
• radiant: adj. showing great happiness; giving a warm bright light 喜 气洋洋的；灿烂的
• Paraphrase: I can now recall many, many, small things about the wedding but at that time I was so overwhelmed with joy that I did not notice.
years
• Matthew- Eva’s husband • The good friend whom Eva and Scott
know best, pastor of the wedding ceremony
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Theme
• Beauty is truth • Beauty is an intimation of the harmony
Professor of English.
Occupation Professor, novelist and essayist 5
Novels
Terrarium (1985) Bad Man Ballad (1986) The Engineer of Beasts (1986) The Invisible Company (1989)
• His writing examined the human place in mature, the pursuit of social justice, the relation between culture and geography, and the search for a spiritual path.
• Paraphrase: …, but because in wedding ceremony time seems to go slowly to everybody, even a fool could observe things clearly and see how wonderful they are.