守護七星潭活動

The following message is from 荒野保護協會花蓮分會：

各位關心七星潭未來發展的朋友們大家好:
不知道各位元旦三天連假打算去哪跨年？
感謝前一陣子媒體積極報導七星潭相關訊息，但我們擔心熱潮一退，明年七星潭議題將不被關注，所以邀請大家參加完跨年活動，元旦睡到飽、玩的開心，99.1.2下午到七星潭觀星廣場和搶救七星潭聯盟一起許下「我愛七星潭、用愛守護七星潭」的新年心希望！
本活動朝集體排愛心、牽手行為、音樂表演形式進行，邀請所有關心七星潭、愛七星潭的朋友身穿紅色系衣服到觀星廣場，一起排愛心、牽手，和搶救七星潭聯盟、七星潭社區發展協會共同表達「我愛七星潭，牽手護七星潭」的決心，現場我們也會說明接下來的初步規劃和蒐集到的最新資訊！

活動時間：99.01.02(六)13:14
活動地點：七星潭賞星廣場
活動流程(視天候及到場人數多寡調整)

13:14 活動開始
Pm 2: 10 開始用身體填滿海洋之心、牽手護七星潭
15:30 表演活動---(目前確定邀請到老林家樂團、湯姆、農村武裝青年到場表演，其他表演團體持續邀約中...)

活動聯絡人：江珮瑾0910951113、蔡中岳0912521216
聯絡信箱：lovehualien@gmail.com
搶救七星潭聯盟
搶救七星潭連署
※搶救七星潭聯盟為一群志願工作者(本聯盟成員包括全國性和地方性民間社團和組織、七星潭社區發展協會、花蓮在地和外地大專院校學生、學者專家、中小學老師與環保團體等)組成，秉持「溫柔而堅定、愛與非暴力」理念自主發起本活動，邀請認同此理念的朋友身著紅色系衣服到場參與，敬請自備雨具、防寒用品，和我們一起抱持著風雨無阻、天冷心暖的態度來參加~
※敬請轉貼facebook活動連結，邀請越多人來越好，讓政府看看大家愛七星潭的心有多大！

星期三 (12/30) 和星期五(1/1)導生面談

這禮拜的導生面談，時段如下：
Wednesday, 12/30
2:00-2:30
2:30-3:00
3:00-3:30
3:30-4:00

Friday, 1/1/2010
2:00-2:30 (Ted, Grace, Vivian Tu)
2:30-3:00
3:00-3:30
3:30-4:00 (Sue)
歡迎啾團 or 個人參加。

Questions for Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas" (deadline: 1/1/2010, 12 p.m.)

Choose one of the following questions to answer:
1)What are the benefits of Laura's relationship with Braggioni?
2) How is Laura different from the other people around her?
3) What kind of a person is Braggioni? Is he capable of salvation?
4) In the story, Braggioni says to Laura: "We are more alike than you realize in some things. Wait and see" (539). Can you find any hidden similarities between them?
5) What do the flowers of the Judas tree symbolize?
6) What is the purpose of the dream at the end of the story?

Frida Kahlo and Surrealism

"The art of Frida Kahlo,"André Breton wrote in 1938, "is a ribbon around a bomb." Scarecely known outside surrealist circles for many years, Kahlo is today the most renowned of all the women who have been involved in the movement. Born in 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico, of a Hungarian-Jewish faher and a Spanish-Mexican mother, she was stricken with polio as a child; a later streetcar accident, and its attendant operations, left her an invalid for life. She took up painting in the mid-1920s, met Diego Rivera in 1928, and married him a year later. Her own course as an artist, however, was very different from that of her muralist husband.

In recent years, with the rise of a lucrative Frida Kahlo industry, it has become the fashion to belittle her association with surrealism. The facts remain: Not only did Breton arrange her first exhibition in Paris (1938) and write the first important (and often reprinted) text about her work, but Kahlo herself took part in the 1940 International Surrealist Exhibition in Mexico City, frequented in surrealist exiles' milieu in Mexico during the war, and for a time used the term surrealist as a self-description. The fact that she made some abrasive comments about Breton in letters counts for little, for it is well known that Kahlo made abrasive comments regarding practically everyone she knew.

However, well before her final capitulation to Stalinism in 1948, Kahlo had distanced herself from surrealism. Her last works include portraits of Stalin and other works "to serve the Party." After her death in 1954, her home in Coyoacán became the Museo Frida Kahlo.

Excerpted from Surrealist Women: An International Anthology (1998) edited with introductions by Penelope Rosemont.

〈演講公告〉蔡明亮導演創作甘苦談

拿了免費票 (及沒拿票) 的同學不要忘記這星期五的演講。難得邀請到國際級導演蔡明亮來東華跟我們談創作。大家星期五見！

演講地點:文一講堂C203
演講時間:12月11日(星期五)14:00-16:30

Civilization and Alienation (deadline: (12/14, 12 p.m.)

In D. H. Lawrence's short story "Odour of Chrysanthemums," he attempts to portray the antagonism between the natural world and the mechanical world. Industrialization, originally a project aiming at emancipating humankind, turns out to become a merciless monster which devours human beings and alienates them from their essential qualities. Technology's promise of happiness and peace is bankrupt. Machines, rather than an emacipator of humankind, become war machines or devices used by human beings to kill or to exploit their fellow human beings. This is the epochal milieu of the production of modernist literature and arts; writers unanimously felt pessimistic about Western culture which subscribed to the myth of progress and grotesquely turned into irrationality and barbarism.

Enclosed is the picture (source: http://www.onlineinvestingai.com/blog/2009/04/27/wage-slave-freedom-hard-work-never-works/) of three Welsh coal miners who are just up from the pits after a day's work in coal mine in Wales. Look at the picture and try to feel the pain and disenchantment of Elizabeth the wife. Can you imagine the reasons why her miner husband Walter turns into an abusive and angry drunkard? What kind of sentimental reasons does Elizabeth have when she seems to care so much about the presence of pink chrysanthemums throughout the story?

"A Rose for Emily"--a student production

I found this interesting clip from YouTube, which is based on Faulker's acclaimed short story and looks like a student's school project. Although the production is crude, the story is narrated beautifully. I post this for your reference; feel free to leave comments (which are optional).

"A Rose for Emily" by The Zombies (deadline: 12/8, 12 p.m.)

In Today's class, we talked about Faulkner's famous short story "A Rose for Emily" (1931) , his presentation of the conflict between the North and the South, Miss Emily as a symbol of a bygone era, and the tragic decline of southern sensibility. The title "A Rose for Emily" indicates a chilvaric gesture toward a "lady," who is given a rose as a homage to her "ladyship." However, making her a "lady" (by her authoritative father and the traditional antebellum southern society) also cripples her for life. Her status as a "lady" brings about the tragic ending of the story.

Faulkner's story is so famous as to become an inspiration for a British music band "The Zombies." They adapted the story for their song, in which Miss Emily's fate is being lamented:

The summer is here at last
The sky is overcast
And no one brings a rose for Emily

She watches her flowers grow
While lovers come and go
To give each other roses from her tree
But not a rose for Emily...

Emily, can't you see
There's nothing you can do?
There's loving everywhere
But none for you...

Her roses are fading now
She keeps her pride somehow
That's all she has protecting her from pain

And as the years go by
She will grow old and die
The roses in her garden fade away
Not one left for her grave
Not a rose for Emily...

Emily, can't you see
There's nothing you can do?
There's loving everywhere
But none for you...

Her roses are fading now
She keeps her pride somehow
That's all she has protecting her from pain

And as the years go by
She will grow old and die
The roses in her garden fade away
Not one left for her grave
Not a rose for Emily...

Listen to the music. Do you think the music (and its lyrics) convey the similar feelings you have when you read the story itself? Desribe your feelings.

星期五導生面談 (12/4)

這禮拜五下午我們來安排導生面談，時段如下：
2:00-2:30
2:30-3:00
3:00-3:30
3:30-4:00
有興趣的同學趕快登記。老師會準備每個人兩百元圖書禮券，交換條件是：要準備至少一個問題問老師。