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1、Global Village - Utopia Revisited?Marshall W. Fishwick The AuthorMarshall W. Fishwick(19232006) was a university teacher and curriculum writer for over 50 years. He received his PhD from Yale in 1949. He taught variously at Washington and Lee (194962), Lincoln University, Temple University, and Virg

2、inia Tech. He was a multidisciplinary scholar, professor, writer, and editor who started the academic movement known as popular culture studies and established the journal International Popular Culture. In an academic career of more than fifty years, Fishwick wrote or edited more than forty books, i

3、ncluding works on popular culture, Virginia history, and American studies.UtopiaThe term takes its name from Sir Thomas Mores 1516 social critical novel Utopia.An imaginary island enjoying social and political perfectionAny society governed by an ideal social, political and legal systemAs mentioned

4、in the text, the first utopian proposal was made in Platos The Republic.Title AnalysisThe idea of a global village is another utopia invented by human beings.We think that a global village will grant us more freedom, security and bring harmony and peace between cultures and nations.On the contrary,

5、the author thinks it is causing more problems.Text AnalysisPart I (Para. 1-6) While people have dreamed of creating a utopia throughout history, it eluded all of them.Throughout history, history, military, political, religious and literary figures have supported building utopia. Sometimes the dream

6、was almost attainable, but eventually it eluded them all.William Wordsworth(1770 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads抒情歌謠集.The French Revolution as It Appeare

7、d to Enthusiasts at Its CommencementNot in Utopia, subterranean fields,Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!But in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us,-the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all!。不在烏托邦，隱秘的田野或某個秘密的島嶼，天知道在哪兒！而就在這個世界，在這個我們所有人生活的世界在這兒，我們將最終找到幸福，或者干脆

8、沒有！Sentence UnderstandingIt lives throughout history, and it has an alluring title today: Global Village. (Ll. 7-8)Throughout history, humans have cherished the Utopian dream and it has had various names. Today it has an attractive name: Global Village.Sentence UnderstandingIn our century, former En

9、glish colonies, the United States, have inherited and promoted a utopia built on electric technology and the control of cyberspace. (Ll. 16-18)The utopia promoted by the US is based on electric technology and its control of the Internet.Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792 1822) was one of the major English Ro

10、mantic poets and is regarded by critics as amongst the finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. SonnetI met a trav

11、eller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frownAnd wrinkled lip and sneer of cold commandTell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless thin

12、gs,The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.And on the pedestal these words appear:My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.Chinese

13、 Translation1. 奧茲曼迪亞斯（楊絳 譯）2.奧西曼提斯（王佐良 譯）我遇見一位來自古國的旅人 客自海外歸，曾見沙漠古國他說：有兩條巨大的石腿有石像半毀，唯余巨腿半掩于沙漠之間蹲立沙礫間。像頭旁落，近旁的沙土中，有一張破碎的石臉半遭沙埋，但人面依然可畏，抿著嘴，蹙著眉，面孔依舊威嚴(yán)那冷笑，那發(fā)號施令的高傲，想那雕刻者，必定深諳其人情感足見雕匠看透了主人的內(nèi)心，那神態(tài)還留在石頭上才把那石頭刻得神情維肖，而私人已逝，化作塵煙而刻像的手和像主的心看那石座上刻著字句：早成灰燼。像座上大字在目：“我是萬王之王,奧茲曼斯迪亞斯“吾乃萬王之王是也，功業(yè)蓋物,強(qiáng)者折服”蓋世功業(yè)，敢叫天公折服！”此

14、外，蕩然無物此外無一物，但見廢墟周圍，廢墟四周，唯余黃沙莽莽寂寞平沙空莽莽，寂寞荒涼，伸展四方。伸向荒涼的四方。Ozymandias The Greek name for King Ramses II of Egypt (1304-1237 BC). His tomb was in the shape of a male sphinx.Ironic commentary on the fleeting nature of power.Sentence UnderstandingReligious leaders changed the name “utopia” to fit their dr

15、eams and creeds. (Ll. 34-35)Religious leaders wanted to unite the world with faith in a supreme power.Text AnalysisPart II (Para. 7-12)The author raises many questions to challenge the global village dream.A darker side exists to the spectacular changes caused by the Global Village. Globalization ha

16、s serious consequences for millions of common people.Locality and place are losing its power to give life meaning and tradition.Our borders, institutions and allegiances are constantly shifting.People drift from job to job, float from place to place, ing a country of exiles.The dynamo driving us for

17、ward today is technology and consumer capitalism.Sentence UnderstandingOur Global Village Utopia, half a millennium later, would be governed by corporate capitalism and a free-market economy. (Ll. 43-45)Five hundreds years from Sir Thomas Mores times, capitalism shared by most countries on the earth

18、 and a free-market economy would create a new utopia - Global Village.First QuestionIs this new Utopia enveloping and energizing the whole world - or is it causing more harm than good?ImplicationIt possibly causes more harm than good.More QuestionsLl. 50-55Locality and place are what give us a sense

19、 of belonging and connection. But thanks to Global Village we are floating from place to place and drifting from job to job. And we do more things online. It seems that locality is losing its power to give life meaning and tradition. Borders, working places and loyalties keep changing. And it seems

20、that if youre not moving all the time, youre an obstruction in the Global Village.More QuestionsLl. 56-59It means less freedom, less real security, less meaningful information.Dare we criticize the Global Village when everyone else praises it?We dare not.Sentence UnderstandingPlace is something crea

21、ted in time and attachment, from which we draw our sense of well-being and connection. (Ll. 60-61)A place es dear to us because we have spent time there and it reminds us of people and events. We draw our sense of happiness and connection from places.Sentence UnderstandingThat change has been powere

22、d by the Electronic Revolution, cyber-culture, and the creation of overnight fortune. (Ll. 66-67)We drift from job to job, float from place to place because of the inventions during the Electronic Revolution, the Internet and the desire to create a fortune overnight.Sentence UnderstandingSo was Brit

23、ain, when its overwhelming naval power “ruled the waves.” (Ll. 70-71)Britain was a military power when it had a strong navy.but it is Big Mac that is leading our attack. (L.74) a strong economy is our most powerful weapon.Text AnalysisPart III (Para. 13-18)The author traces the history of the Electr

24、onic Revolution and McLuhans oracle of the Electronic Age in which differences between people, art and religions seem to be eliminated.A Brief History of the Electronic RevolutionStage 1: the 18th centuryEvents: electrical experimentsConsequences: linking lightning with electricityStage 2: the 19th

25、centuryEvents: telegraph, telephone, radio inventedConsequences: information is available instantaneously; simultaneous communication between central authority and any number of receivers es possibleStage 3: late 20th centuryEvents: computerizationConsequences: the electronic extensions of everyones

26、 nerves involve them in all other peoples livesSentence UnderstandingLl. 85-89The telegraph enabled information to be communicated instantaneously as if we were given a social nervous system. Before that people had to travel physically a long distance to communicate a piece of information which was

27、like “muscle Culture”. So the telegraph ended the “muscle culture” - the writing and print technology - and started the electronic culture.Sentence UnderstandingBut nothing was as revolutionary as the computerization of the late twentieth century. (Ll. 97-99)Three Ts in the 19th century, the electro

28、nic light bulb and radio did not bring complete or drastic changes as the computerization. Marshall McLuhan (19111980)a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholara professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist. McLuhans work is viewed as one of the

29、cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries.Marshall McLuhanUnderstanding Media was written 20 years before the PC revolution and 30 years before the rise of the Internet.His insights into our engagement with a vari

30、ety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society.He believed that the message of electronic media foretold the end of humanity as it was known.Sentence UnderstandingLl. 100-103McLuhan was the prophet of this electronic age. His book warned people the coming of this age. He wrote in po

31、pular and everyday language employing lots of puns and humor, causing a big stir in the intellectual world.Walt Whitman (18191892)an American poet, essayist and journalist. He is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse自由體. Leaves of GrassSentence

32、 UnderstandingLl. 105-108It was beyond McLuhans college classmates guess that he would e a prophet of the Electronic Age and praised this new age started by Thomas Edison.Whitman had sung the rising America in the 19th century and McLuhan was a singer of the Electronic Age in the 20th century, a so-

33、called belated Whitman.Sentence UnderstandingLl. 109-114At the beginning of his book, Mc Luhan wrote in a classical style . But he soon found a more lively and expressive style and stuck to it. He used big terms and made general statements. For instance, he called the age of coal, mines and factories the Black Age, and the age of electricity, jet