The Unicorn in the Garden英语教学课件.ppt

The Unicorn in the Garden James Thurber 1894---1961  outline The story: The Unicorn in the Garden （百度文库） Introduce of the author（百度文库） The feature of writing the story《对花园里的独角兽的语篇分析》侯晓华 刘定远(景德镇陶瓷学院外语系） 江西景德镇333001 What unicorn stand of （百度文库） 《花园里的独角兽》（The Unicorn in the Garden）是一篇寓言体的小小说，选自瑟伯的《当代寓言》，它以寓言的形式，喻示了真相不明时，不要自作聪明的道理。 Moral: Dont count your boobies until they are hatched.寓意：雏鸟未孵出，莫急先数蛋。（不要过早地打如意算盘。） The Unicorn in the Garden A brief introduce of the story 一个早晨男人在厨房里独自吃饭，这时候奇怪的事情 发生了，他看见了神圣之物——一只独角兽在花园里吃玫 瑰花。独角兽，是传说中的一种神圣之物，身体像马、头上长角。于是他把这个事情告诉了正在酣睡的妻子，他妻子很不高兴，冷冷地说他是一个神经病，要把他关进疯人院里。 后来丈夫走了，坐在玫瑰丛中睡着了。妻子飞快地起了床，很激动，而且眼光有点幸灾乐祸，赶紧分别给警察和精神病医生打了电话，让他们把自己的丈夫带走。但结局恰恰相反，警察和精神病医生来了，她转述了丈夫的“疯话”，丈夫又不承认自己曾经说过那样的疯话，就这样，妻子被他们带走了，关进了疯人院。从此以后，这个丈夫过得很快活。 He is an American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories. James Grover Thurber詹姆斯?瑟伯 1894~1961 James Grover Thurber詹姆斯?瑟伯 Genres: short stories, cartoons, essays Occupation:Humorist,writer, cartoonist Nationality:American Valuation: Thurber is generally acknowledged as the greatest American humorist since Mark Twain. Thurber wrote over seventy-five?fables, most of which were collected in?Fables for Our Time Famous Poems Illustrated?(1940) and?Further Fables for Our Time?(1956). These were short, featured anthropomorphic animals as main characters, and ended with a moral as a tagline. An exception to this format was his most famous fable, The Unicorn in the Garden, which featured an all-human cast except for the unicorn, which didnt speak. Thurbers fables were?satirical, and the morals served as?punchlines?rather than advice to the reader. The feature of writing the story 1,小说读后给人的感觉是寓言故事又好像不是。故事发生在现实世界，有警察和精神病医生，又有只在神话中出现的动物。但文章的开头和结尾表明作者确实是把它作为寓言故事来写的。 “Once upon a sunny morning” “The husband lived happily ever after” 故事是当着寓言来讲的，而对于寓言而言，重要的不是它的故事内容真实与否