[文学]thelibidofortheugly.ppt

Para.9 Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth. Sarcasm Etiology: the study of the causes of diseases It arises and flourishes in obedience to biological laws. Privat Dozent Pathology: the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases Why should the love of ugliness of the buildings be studied in pathology, sociology and even biology instead of architecture? The Main idea of each paragraph Para 1--- contrast between the great wealth of this region with the abominable human habitations . Para 2 ---the images and examples of the ugliness in the county. Para 3 ---the ugliness of the house design Para 4 ---the ugliness of the color of the bricks Para 5 ---comparison and evaluation. Para 6 ---The writer tries to trace the source of the ugliness from the foreigners Para 7 ---a solution for the puzzle: libido for the ugly Para 8 ---evidence to prove himself right Para 9 --- conclusion. Structure of the text Part I (para 1-5) Description of the ugliness : coverage, design, color; conclusion-championship In ugliness Part II (para 6-9) Analysis of the source of the ugliness—the libido for the ugliness Stylistic Features A piece of subjective, impressionistic or emotional description ( Contrary to Unit Two) Excessive use of strong language, words bordering upon the abusive e.g ugliness described on all levels: adj.: hideous, abominable nouns: abominations, horrors, monstrousness adv + adj: dreadfully hideous; intolerably bleak -ing + n.: revolting monstrousness phrases: like a fat woman with black eye clauses: as one blinked before a face shot away Profuse use of hyperboles, metaphors, similes Images of diseases: leprosy, eczemas, uremia to create the impression of US. Being very sick. Drawbacks: The excessive use of strong language is self-defeating. On the one hand, all the force of diction, structure and figures only to batter his readers into insensitiv