Western Literature(Week 1 ) 上課筆記

Topic : Orientation: blog, genre, period, approaches

1. Before the formal class

(1) class time : 08:20-10:00
(2) textbook:
Lawall, Sarah, et al, eds. The Norton Anthology Of Western Literature: The Ancient World Through the Renaissance. Vol. I. 8^th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.

Please READ/watch the assignment before you attend the lectures!

(3) Quiz are all in syllabus

(4) Orientation is fresher's week and is the begin of the semaster.

(5) Faust  

2. Acient Greek God

(1) God is arbitrary and capricious toward human. (視人類為芻狗)
     anthro → human
     anthropomorphism

3. Cupid and Psyche butterfly :  Love cannot dwell with suspicion

(1) 喜劇結尾的愛情故事 英文版  中文版

a.  Psyche use the lamp to see Cupid.

       One night after Cupid falls asleep, Psyche carries out the plan her sisters devised: she brings out a dagger and a lamp she had hidden in the room, in order to see and kill the monster. But when the light instead reveals the most beautiful creature she has ever seen, she is so startled that she wounds herself on one of the arrows in Cupid's cast-aside quiver. Struck with a feverish passion, she spills hot oil from the lamp and wakes him. He flees, and though she tries to pursue, he flies away and leaves her on the bank of a river.

(2) The meaning of Psyche is spirit and butterfly.

The Awakening of Psyche




(3)邱比特身上有3枝箭(Arrow，音似error)，因此，
     羅馬字Cupid、希臘字Eros。

4. After class...

(1) Remember to take notes.
(2) moives:

 a.  Alexander 

 b.  Helen of Troy 

 c.  The Odyssey 

(3) Notes on Trojan War and Greek Immortals

(4) Lyrics.com

 a.  Lyre → string strument 

(5) 叮嚀

 a. Virgil 

     Vi — / Ve —  = truth

     ex. verification

 b. textbook : P.116 希臘字念法

 c. 看到神，要知道是哪一個陣營。

 d. 木馬屠城記 Cassandra says ,"If he lives , Troy will burn ." 

 e. Pre — = before

     ex. predict

 f. Penelope

   

g. blog : 聖誕節繳交notes