高级英语第一册15课 No Signposts In The Sea.ppt

1、No Signposts in the Sea （excerpts） 海上无路标（节选）,By Vita Sackville-West,Group Member,Materials： 金贵阳 熊媛媛 代青秀 李晓念 刘 忻 龚晓丽 代璐璐 孙 敏 毛亚停 钟 玮 田郸琦 蒲彦君 钟晓园 张婷君 肖 谧 Exhibitors： 刘 忻 田郸琦 代璐璐,About the Author,Vita Sackville-West 薇塔萨克维尔韦斯特,一. Brief introduction,An English poet and novelist.,二. Something in detail,Ea

2、rly life,born at Knole House in Sevenoaks Kent in 1892 . the only child of Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville and his wife Victoria Sackville-West, who were cousins. the daughter of the 3rd Baron Sackville. educated at home.,Marriage,In 1913, at age 21, married the 27 year-old diploma

3、t and journalist Harold George Nicolson. The couple had an open marriage. Both Sackville-West and her husband had consecutive same-sex relations. But these were no impediments(障碍) to a true closeness between Sackville-West and Nicolson. The couple had two children: Benedict, born in 1914, an art his

4、torian, Nigel, born in 1917, a well known editor, politician, and writer.,Affairs and Bisexuality （双性恋）,Rosamund Grosvenor first real friend -Rosamund Grosvenor (London, England, September 1888-30 June 1944), who was 4 years Vitas senior. Vita met Rosamund at Miss Woolfs school in 1899, when Rosamun

5、d had been invited to cheer Vita up while her father was fighting in the Boer war(布尔战争) (1899-1902年英国人与布尔人的战争) Rosamund and Vita later shared a governess for their morning lessons. Vita fell in love with Rosamund, whom she called Roddie or Rose or the Rubens lady. Rosamund, in turn, was equally ench

6、anted with Vita.,Violet Trefusis Novelist Violet Trefusis, (daughter of the Hon. George Keppel. ) - the same-sex relationship that had the deepest and most lasting effect on Sackville-Wests personal life. They first met when Vita Sackville-West was 12 and Violet was 10. Both married, she and Trefusi

7、s had eloped(私奔) several times from 1918 on, mostly to France, where Sackville-West would dress as a young man when they went out. Vitas novel Challenge also bears witness to this affair: Sackville-West and Trefusis had started writing this book as a collaborative endeavor.,Violet Trefusis,Virginia

8、Woolf Most remembered affair was with the prominent writer Virginia Woolf in the late 1920s. Woolf, founder of the monumental British Dictionary of National Biography, wrote one of her most famous novels, Orlando, described by Sackville-Wests son Nigel Nicolson as the longest and most charming love-

9、letter in literature, as a result of this affair. The ethos(风气) of the Bloomsbury group(布卢姆茨伯里派)encouraged a liberal approach to sexuality, and in 1922 she met the writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West, wife of Harold Nicolson. After a tentative(尝试性的) start, they began a sexual relationship, which

10、, according to Sackville- West, was only twice consummated.,Woolf: Her relationship with Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf,In 1928, Woolf presented Sackville-West with Orlando, a fantastical biography in which the famous heros life spans three centuries and both genders. Orlando (1928) is one of Vi

11、rginia Woolfs lightest novels. The book is in part a portrait of Woolfs lover Vita Sackville-West. It was meant to console(安慰) Vita for the loss of her ancestral home, though it is also a satirical treatment of Vita and her work.,Other affairs Vita Sackville-West also had a passionate affair with Hi

12、lda Matheson, head of the BBC Talks Department. Stoker was the pet name given to Hilda by Sackville-West, during their brief affair between 1929 and 1931. In 1931 Sackville-West became involved in an affair with journalist Evelyn Irons, who had interviewed her after The Edwardians became a bestselle

13、r. She was also involved with her sister-in-law Gwen St. Aubyn, Mary Garman and others not listed here.,Well known writings,A prolific writer. She was viewed as one of the Britains promising young writers in the 1920s.,Novels: Heritage(1919) Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour(1932) The Dragon in Shallow

14、Waters(1921) Family History(1932) The Heir(1922) The Dark Island(1934) Challenge(1923) Grand Canyon(1942) Grey Waters(1923) Devil at Westease(1947) Seducers in Ecuador(1924) The Easter Party(1953) Passenger to Teheran(1926) No Signposts in the Sea(1961) The Edwardians(1930) All Passion Spent(1931) T

15、he Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Knstler(1932),Best Known Novels,The Edwardians(1930) (belongs to the genre of the Bildungsroman 成长小说) describes the development of the main character Sebastian within his social world . a clear critique of the Edwardian aristocratic society& a reflection of h

16、er own childhood experiences.,All Passion Spent,( adapted for television by the BBC ) Lady Slane who, after her husband dies, defies the wishes of her children and grandchildren and retreats to a cottage in the countryside, where she rediscovers herself and her passions. addresses peoples, especiall

17、y womens, control of their own lives.,Poetry,Chatterton(1909) A Dancing Elf(1912) Constantinople: Eight Poems(1915) Poems of West and East(1917) Orchard and Vineyard(1921) The Land(1926) ( theHawthornden Prizein 1927) Kings Daughter (1929) Sissinghurst(1931) Invitation to Cast out Care(1931) Collect

18、ed Poems ( theHawthornden Prizein 1933) Solitude(1938) The Garden(1946),Biographies/Other works Passenger to Teheran( 1926) Knole and the Sackvilles(1922) Saint Joan of Arc(1936) Pepita(1937)(biography of her own grandmother ) The Eagle and The Dove(1943) (a biography of the authorAphra Behn ) Twelv

19、e Days: an account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains of South-western Persia(1987),No Signposts in the Sea （excerpts）,Brief Introduction,Text background: First published in 1961, this passage is Vita Sackville-Wests final novel before her death in 1962, and its a fitting farewell.,The novel is divided into small fragments of text, which could be seen as the fading in and fading out of a movie. We get snapshots of the scenes and of the mind of Edmund Carr contemplating on the experiences he has on the ship and the land.,Little book of ideas, could be the very subt