高级英语（第三版）第二册第十五课 Disappearing through the skylight.ppt

省级精品课程 《高级英语》第三版第二册 制作人：徐李洁 Lesson Fifteen Disappearing Through the Skylight --C.B Hardison Teaching Objectives To know the features of scientific writing. To analyse the structure of the text. To understand the deeper meaning of the text. To appreciate the language features The author O.B. Hardison, Jr. (1928 -1990)  born in San Diego, California. He was educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of Wisconsin. He has taught in Princeton and the University of North Carolina. the author of Lyrics and Elegies (1958), The Enduring Monument (1962), English Literary Criticism: The Renaissance (1964), Toward Freedom and Dignity: The Humanities and the Idea of Humanity (1973), Entering the Maze: Identity and Change in Modern Culture (1981) and Disappearing Through the Skylight (1980). About the Book Disappearing Through the Skylight The book has a sub-title, “Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century”. “This book is about the ways culture has changed in the past century, changing the identities of all those born into it. Its metaphor for the effect of change on culture is disappearance”. As for the “disappearance”, the author says, “In the nineteenth century, science presented nature as a group of objects set comfortably and solidly in the middle distance before the eyes of the beholder….Today, nature has slipped, perhaps finally, beyond our field of vision.” Background Knowledge Dada (达达主义） Dada or Dadaism was an international art movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland in the early 20th century, with participants in Europe and North America. The origin of the name Dada is unclear; some believe that it is a nonsensical word. The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of WWI. Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art and literary journals; passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture were topic