2014年5月21日 星期三

文學導讀 week 13

Chivalric romance
As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe.  They often of a knight errant portrayed as having heroic qualities.

e.g.
Don Quixote  anti-romance
Don Mr.
Sancho Pan is a fictional character in the novel Don Quixote.

感性主人 Frodo The lord of the rings
理性僕人

             
      最早→ Don Quixote

The lord of the rings high fantasy 自成一個王國
Low fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy fiction involving "nonrational happenings that are without causality or rationality. It’s contrasted with high fantasy.

Frank Sinatra - The Impossible dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjI7VeIA7ZI


Excalibur
Excalibur is the legendary sword of King Arthur.

 Mort- death

1.      mortal
Definitions of mortal
a.       - Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
2.      mortify
Definitions of mortify
v. t. - To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.


Courtly love was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry.

Ballad 重複性 故事性
e.g.
La Belle Dame sans Merci (French: "The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy") is a ballad written by the English poet John Keats.

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.

"Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads
Synecdoche部分代表全部
One stand for all

The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction.

No man is an island by John Donne


“ She blossom for him “ The Great Gastby

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