Week 1

青少年文學  Week 1

1.The Catcher in the Rye

                                         













    The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger.A controversial novel
originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation. It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages.Around 1 million copies are sold each year with total sales of more than 65 million books. The novel's protagonist Holden Caulfield has become an icon for teenage rebellion.The novel also deals with complex issues of innocence, identity, belonging, loss, and connection.            


2.coming-of-age story
     In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature and film that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood ("coming of age"). Coming-of-age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past. The subjects of coming-of-age stories are typically teenagers. The Bildungsroman is a specific subgenre of coming-of-age story.        

 example:

.The Telemachy in Homer's Odyssey (8th century BC)

.Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, by Ibn Tufail (12th century)

.The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding (1749)

.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (1759)

.Candide, by Voltaire (1759)

.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

.The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger (1951)

.The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (1964)

.A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck         


3.If a body meet a body coming though the rye.

"Comin' Thro' the Rye" is a poem written in 1782 by Robert Burns (1759–96). It is well known as a traditional children's song, with the words put to the melody of the Scottish Minstrel Common' Frae The Town. This is a variant of the tune to which Auld Lang Syne is usually sung—the melodic shape is almost identical[citation needed], the difference lying in the tempo and rhythm.   

Lyrics:

O, Jenny's a' weet, poor body, Jenny's seldom dry: She draigl't a' her petticoatie, Comin thro' the rye!

Chorus: Comin thro' the rye, poor body, Comin thro' the rye, She draigl't a' her petticoatie, Comin thro' the rye!

Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body, Need a body cry?

Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the glen Gin a body kiss a body, Need the warl' ken?

Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the grain; Gin a body kiss a body, The thing's a body's ain.

.weet – wet

. draigl't – draggled

. gin – if, should

.cry – call out for help

.warl – world

. ken – know

. ain – own               

4.-emia

Word Origin:

a combining form occurring in compound words that denote a condition of the blood, as specified by the initial element: hyperemia.   

(1) hyperemia

an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.

ex:The hyperemia was often attended by hemorrhage into the tumor.

(2) leukemia

any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.

ex:Jack had another daughter who died of leukemia in 1977 when she was 14 years old.

ex:The Bushes lost a treasured first daughter, Robin, to leukemia at age six.

5.J.D.Salinger

    Jerome David "J.D." Salinger was an American writer who is known for his widely-read novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Following his early success publishing short stories and Catcher in the Rye, Salinger led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980.

Salinger was raised in Manhattan and began writing short stories while in secondary school. Several were published in Story magazine in the early 1940s before he began serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his later work.

In 1951, his novel The Catcher in the Rye was an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers.The novel remains widely read and controversial, selling around 250,000 copies a year.

6.-obs
Word Origin:

a prefix meaning “toward,” “to,” “on,” “over,” “against,” originally occurring in loanwords from Latin, but now used also, with the sense of “reversely,” “inversely,” to form Neo-Latin and English scientific terms: object; obligate; oblanceolate.

(1)obligate

to bind or oblige morally or legally:to obligate oneself to purchase a building.

ex:Similarly, he who would be under obligation to none must obligate himself to all in every respect.

(2)oblanceolate

inversely lanceolate, as a leaf.

ex:The flower is composed of twenty petals which are oblanceolate.