文學導讀 week 2

    The five parts of plot               

  

lyric- Apollo

flash·back  [flash-bak] 

noun

1.

a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.

2.

an event or scene so inserted.

3.

Also called flashback hallucinosis. Psychiatry.

a.

the spontaneous recurrence of visual hallucinations or other effects of a drug, as LSD, long after the use of the drug has been discontinued.

b.

recurrent and abnormally vivid recollection of a traumatic experience, as a battle, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations.

fore·shad·ow

  [fawr-shad-oh, fohr-]  

verb (used with object)

to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.

In medias res 

(Latin "in the midst of things") is the literary and artistic narrative technique of relating a story from the midpoint, rather than the beginning.      

文學導讀 week 1

denouement

noun

the final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

pro- in favor of

pro·leg [proh-leg]  

noun

one of the abdominal ambulatory processes of caterpillars and other larvae, as distinct from the trueor thoracic legs.

hero, heroine

Edgar Allan Poe

(born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the AmericanRomantic Movement.

To Helen

by Edgar Poe

Helen, thy beauty is to me

   Like those Nicéan barks of yore,

That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,

   The weary, way-worn wanderer bore

   To his own native shore.

On desperate seas long wont to roam,

   Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,

Thy Naiad airs have brought me home

   To the glory that was Greece,      

   And the grandeur that was Rome.

Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche

   How statue-like I see thee stand,

The agate lamp within thy hand!

   Ah, Psyche, from the regions which

   Are Holy-Land!

Cupid and Psyche

 is a story from the Latin novel Metamorphoses, also known as The Golden Ass, written in the 2nd century AD by Apuleius.

Psyche and Amor, also known as Psyche Receiving Cupid's First Kiss (1798), by François Gérard: a symbolic butterfly hovers over Psyche in a moment of innocence poised before sexual awakening.^[1]