文档介绍：Love is a fallacy
Max Shulman
讲课人:苏安梅
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pre-reading questions
what does the narrator think about himself?
To exchange for the girl he wanted, what did he have to give?
Is Polly a perfect candidate for his future wife?
How did his lesson on logic work with Polly?
Did he eed in winning Polly? Why not?
讲课人:苏安梅
On love
If to give an individual definition to love, what will your definition be?
讲课人:苏安梅
Max Shulman
Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
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Author’s note
What does the author think of his own pared to those of the Charles Lamb’s?
What is this essay like according to the author?
pared with those written by Carlyle and Ruskin?
讲课人:苏安梅
Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia (Elia was his penname) and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb.
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Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
British historian and essayist
The French Revolution (1837),
On Heroes, Hero Worship and
the Heroic in History (1841)
and Past and Present (1843).
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John Ruskin(1819-1900)
artist, scientist, poet, environmentalist, philosopher, and the pre-eminent art critic of his time.
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…that logic, far from being a dry…passion, and trauma.
Metaphor and hyperbole. It’s a paring logic to a living human being. It is a hyperbole because it exaggerates for the sake of effect. Logic is not at all a dry, learned branch of learning. It is like a living human being, full of beauty, passion and painful emotional shocks.
Hyperbole
A figure of speech with the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis. Eg.
Hamlet: I love Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.
Shakespeare: Hamlet
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