Children's Literature(Week 7) 上課筆記

Topic : The Tale of Peter Rabbit

1. syllabus

(1)Beatrice

(2)Florence

    Florence is the capital city of the Italian regionof Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area.

(3)Dante

    Dante was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later calledDivina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

(4)Divine Comedy

    The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between c. 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church. It helped establish the Tuscan dialect, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

(5)Virgil : The Aeneid 

a. is a story about Aeneas

b.改編自Odyssey

(6)Literature epic and oral epic

(7)Inferno

a. Inferno(Dante)

    Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil.

b.Inferno (Dan Brown)

(8)Virgil 1   +33Hell(Inferno)+33

Inferno , Purgatory , Paradise

(9)Satam天使長 (7大死罪，是環狀的)

(10) hubris 傲慢

a. Up in The Air (型男飛行日誌)

(11)Adam's descents (Original Sin)

(12) camomile tea楊甘菊茶

(13)The Tale of Peter Rabbit

    The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother who puts him to bed after dosing him with camomile tea.

(14)Your father had an accident there ; he was put in a pie. (understatement口吻)

(15)on his hands and knees

      on his belly

(16)onomatopoeia

     onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises such as "oink", "meow", "roar" or "chirp".

a.quake
b.oink
c.roar
d.chirp
e.boom
f.rush crush hour

g. kertyschoo