Disappearing Through the Skylight ----Osborne Bennet Hardison Jr. Group members: 魏萍 (captain) 王琦 卢琴 李尚蓉.

Disappearing Through the Skylight

----Osborne Bennet Hardison Jr.

Group members: 魏萍 (captain)

王琦 卢琴

李尚蓉

Disappearing Through the Skylight

Content Theme of the Passage

Stylistic Features

Background Information

About the author

Osborne Bennet Hardison Jr. was born in San Diego,California in 1928.He was educated at University of North Carolina and the University of Wisconsin.He was taught at Princeton,the University of North Carolina and Georgetown University.He is the author of Lyrics and Elegies (1958),The Enduring Monument (1962),Disappearing Through the Skylight (1980) and so on.He is a professor of English,a Shakespeare scholar and an amateur physicist.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Spanish artistone of the recognized masters of 20th

century art.most famous as the founder of Cubism

Cubism （立体派）

A nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes.20 世纪初出现于巴黎的一个绘画和雕刻抽象流派，其特征是把各种自然形态简化并分裂成抽象的、通常为几何形状的结构，并常被描绘成一系列互不相联的平面

Demoiselles d’Avignon( 亚维农的少女）

Guernica( 格尔尼卡 )

Leonardo da vinci

Italian artist & scientist

He dabbled in sculpture,architecture,,engineerin

g,geology,hydraulics & the military arts,all with success.

He also made detailed drawings of human anatomy

The last supper

Mona lisa

Dada 达达主义运动 A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.

•Mechanical Head (The Spirit of Our Age),was meant to symbolize the empty spirit of the post-World War I era

About Ford

Ford Motor Company:a global company Two business sectors:

Automobile sector : sells cars and trucks ;2→3segments

Financial Services sector: the operations of Ford Motor Credit Company(Ford Credit);provider

About Structuralism

Structuralism is a mode of thinking and a method of analysis practiced in 20th-century social sciences and humanities ( 社会科学和人文科学 ).

Examining the relations and functions of the smallest constituent elements.

Model:Ferdinand de Saussure’ work

postmodernism

Its view is cool, ironic, and accepting of the fragmentation of contemporary existence It concentrate on surface rather than depths, to blur the distinctions between high and low culture.It challenge a wide variety of traditional culture values.

Neomodernism

Universalism and critical thinking are the two essential elements of human rightsHuman rights create a superiority of some cultures over others.Equality and relativism are “mutually contradictory”

Theme of the Passage

The central theme of this passage is “disappearance”.Another important idea is the universalizing tendency of science and technology. The third concept is, “if man creates machines, machines in turn shape their creators.”Finally, the disappearance of history is a form of liberation and this feeling of liberation is often expressed through play.

Stylistic Features

Scientific English.

The simple present tense.

The language of this passage is clear, concise, objective and logical.

figurative language to make his ideas more vivid and forceful.

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