美國文學---Week15
*Sam Smith-Have yourself a Merry Christmas
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on your troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on your troubles will be miles away
Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
TGather near to us once more
Through the years we all will be together
If the fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest place
So have yourself a merry little Christmas
*Aesthetic 美學運動
-is a branch ofphilosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature." In modern English, the term aesthetic can also refer to a set of principles underlying the works of a particular art movement or theory: One speaks for example of the Cubistaesthetic.
* Frailty, thy name is woman -- Shakespeare Quotes
Hamlet:
Heaven and earth,
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—
Let me not think on't—Frailty, thy name is woman!—
-was an Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
- Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discoveredtransference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory.
-The concept of id, ego, superego are the key elements of a hypothetical structure of the mind, visualized by Sigmund Freud.His related theories formed the foundation for psychoanalysis, which has become the most widely used method of psychotherapy.
- they are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the three theoretical constructs in terms of whose activity and interaction our mental life is described. According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.[1] The super-ego can stop one from doing certain things that one's id may want to do.
*Free association (psychology)
- is a technique used in psychoanalysis (and also in psychodynamic theory) which was originally devised bySigmund Freud out of the hypnotic method of his mentor and coworker, Josef Breuer.
- was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both theBeat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.
* Howl 被打垮的年代
- is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955, published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled Howl and Other Poems, and dedicated to Carl Solomon.
-There is no foundation to the myth that "Howl" was written as a performance piece and later published by poet Lawrence Ferlinghettiof City Lights Books. This myth was perpetuated by Ferlinghetti as part of the defense's case during the poem's obscenity trial.
*The Patriot 決戰時刻
- is a 2000 American historical fiction war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, Heath Ledger, and Jason Isaacs.
-The film takes place during the real-life events of the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War but attracted controversy over its fictional portrayal of historical figures and atrocities.
The Patriot Movie Trailer
*12Years a Slave 自由之心
- is a 2013 period drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative memoir Twelve Years a Slave bySolomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and sold into slavery.
-The film won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Nyong'o, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Ridley.
12 YEARS A SLAVE - Official Trailer (HD)
*Oliver Stone
-is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Stone came to public prominence between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s for writing and directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an infantry soldier.
-Many of Stone's films primarily focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century, and as such that they were considered dangerous at the times of their releases.
- is a 1993 Vietnam war film directed and written by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor,Joan Chen, and Hiep Thi Le. It is the third and final film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, which also includes Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989).
Heaven & Earth (1993) Official Trailer - Oliver Stone, Tommy Lee Jones Vietnam War Movie HD
-also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was aCold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigonon 30 April 1975.
-was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.
-is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1897, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent.
*Vocabulary
1. gay (adj.) 男同性戀
2. shrine (n.) 去世者的廟
-a place revered as the place of death or burial of a saint or other venerable personage
3. psychiatrist (n.)
-a doctor of medicine specializing in psychiatry after postgraduate training
4. trial (v.)審判
-experimental treatment or operation; experiment
5.execution (n.) 執行
-the act of executing
ex: CEO = Chief of Execution Officer
6. fra- 破碎
EX: frame (work), fragil
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