Vanessa's Wonderland

Week 13 Joyce Carol Oates

*Joyce Carol Oates (wiki) (FB) (twitter) (official)

+Working Class American Author

+Princeton University 

+ nominated for Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize

+“Where are you going? Where have you been?” 

*  “Where are you going? Where have you been?”

+Connie

è15 year-old girl

èBoring summer vacation (July)

è“pretty is everything”

ètwo sides, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home

èno time for her to grow ßàbildungsroman: secret garden

èif you are not born with silver spoon, than educate yourself =金湯匙  

  +Arnold Friend

èpun (ironic)

ècharmed

èsmooth talking

èdecrepit car= jalopy (wreck, rattle trap)

 +open-ended story

   “She cried out, she cried for her mother, she felt her breath start jerking back and forth in her lungs as if it were something Arnold Friend was stabbing her with again and again with no tenderness.” (spark notes)

à短刀

à性暗示

àMacbeth

= The menacing closing scene, with Connie opening the door to go to Arnold, strongly suggests that if bad things have happened, there are worse things to come; and if bad things have not yet happened, then they surely will.

  +

* Beat generation 打垮、音樂、新行為

+Allen Ginsberg’s Howl (poet) 

+Daniel Radcliff

         
* Lost generation 頹廢

 +Patriot (愛國者) àF. Scott Fitzgerald/ T.S. Eliot

*Bob Dylan “it’s all over now baby blue” “blowing in the wind” 反戰

 (wiki) (bio.) (video)

* etymology

Se: apart from, away from; ex. select, separate, segregation 

  Segregate school(男校或女校)ßàintegrate school

  En: enforce, enlarge

  De: down, away from