唯美主义.ppt

Lesson 4
The Nightingale and the Rose
by Oscar Wilde
Contents
Warm-up
Background InformationWord Study
Text Analysis
Detailed Analysis
Exercises
Warming-up Questions
What’s your opinion of true love?
Do you think love is better than life?
Background Information
I. The author--- Oscar Wilde
II. Works of Oscar Wilde
Photographs of Oscar Wilde
Date: probably 1892
Place: Oxford Date: summer 1893
Place: Oxford Date: summer 1893
Photographs of Oscar Wilde
& Lord Alfred Douglas
The author
Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) : Irish poet and playwright. He was born in Dublin and studied at Trinity College and then at Oxford. Even before he left the University in 1878 Wilde had e known as one of the most affected of the professors and of the aesthetic craze.
The author
In 1878 Oscar Wilde moved to London. His lifestyle and humorous wit soon made him the spokesman for Aestheticism 唯美主义, the late 19th century movement in England that advocate art for art’s sake.
The author
Oscar Wilde was famous for ic masterpiece Lady Windermere's Fan (1892). Among Wilde’s other best-known works are his only novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”(1891), and his fairy tales especially “ The happy Prince”.
Works of Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
An Ideal Husband (1894)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)