Outline

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Literature Review

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Bibliography Part 2

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Bibliography Project Part 1

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Purpose Statement

Purpose Statement:

The purpose of this study is to explore the sentimental responses for the character of Sherlock Holmes in BBC television series.

Central questions:

Why do the playwrights of the series set the sentimental responses for the character of Sherlock Holmes?

What do the sentimental moments of Sherlock mean?

Sub-questions:

Under what circumstances does Sherlock Holmes become sentimental?

What are the consequences of Sherlock’s sentimental responses?

How will the analysis of the sentiment moments lead to the understanding of the character Sherlock Holmes?

Moments

I still have the problem of identifying Y clearly, so these moments are only for the draft.

X：British television show Sherlock Holmes

Y:  the women in the series

Three moments: 1) Molly is a chemistry laboratory assistant. She helped Sherlock survive when Sherlock has a duel with Professor Moriarty. She pulled Sherlock back through a window when Sherlock jumped from the rooftop, and Sherlock kissed her.

2) Mary is Dr. Watson’s wife. In their wedding, Sherlock made a heartfelt speech to wish them forever happiness.

Short analysis final draft - Yang Fengrui

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12hUBD2MDS2-6ICyVFJI3q9Hqfm-J-8Q7Qp_DAS9mLsg/edit?usp=sharing

Three CFPs

Three cfps:

1) Category: Children Literature

“Into the Pensieve: The Harry Potter Generation in Retrospect.” The collection mainly focuses on how the series influence the generation who grow up with Harry Potter Culture.

Topics can be:

l  Fan studies

l  Pedagogical methods

l  Global approaches

l  The narrative and genre concerns of the series

l  The roles of history in the series

2) Category: Children’s Literature

“A Special Issue of the Journal of Popular Film and Television on Holmes Onscreen (Tentative Title)” The collection mainly focuses the reasons behind Holmes’ (onscreen) continuing fascination for viewers and examine their treatments of a wide range of social issues including race, gender, terrorism, and international relations.

Topics:

l  Holmes and woman

l  Holmes and fear

l  Holmes and the form of detective writing

3) Category: Theater

“Shakespeare & Education” The collection in interested in the teaching and learning methods of Shakespeare.

Topic:

l  Re writing Shakespeare in the classroom

l  Digital Shakespeare

l  Integrating performances in teaching Shakespeare

Texts:

1)   X: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Movie

Y: Marketing Approach outside British and the U.S.A.; Chinese Fans groups; British History in Harry Potter

2)   X: BBC television show Sherlock Holmes

Y: the women characters in the show; the family concepts; the ways the shows present Sherlock’s fear

3)   X: King Lear the movie

Y: the teaching methods of King Lear; the advantages of showing a movie for understanding Shakespeare; the disadvantages of showing a movie

4)   X: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Movie

Y: Marketing Approach outside British and the U.S.A.; Chinese Fans groups; British History in Harry Potter

5)   X: CBS’s television show – Elementary

Y: the women characters in the show; the family concepts; the ways the shows present Sherlock’s fear

Short Analysis of Dearth

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Short analysis Q1&3 Dearth

1.     There was the cast-iron pot full of seven normal potatoes, which the woman didn’t know where they were from. The woman asked her neighbor if the potatoes were wrongly delivered like the sunflowers before, but the answer was no. The woman threw the potatoes in the trash, but the next morning they went back in the same cast-iron pot on the stove. The woman took them across the road and dropped them one by one into the trash Dumpster. The next morning, the same potatoes returned, and the woman dropped them on the front stoop of her neighbor, but they returned again in the next morning in the cast-iron pot with slightly differences.

2.     The woman put the potatoes in the oven and made them crispy, ad she took them into the road. The seven-raw, gray, growing potatoes went back again the next morning. The potatoes were sent to Ireland in a box with no return address, but they returned again. The woman tried various methods to destroy the potatoes but she never succeeded. The potatoes became some shapes of human babies. The woman sliced the potatoes up and threw them out of the window, and she ate one piece. The next morning, she found seven little pale gray potato babies with legs and arms.

3.     One day in the autumn, she put the potatoes in the oven for an hour and a half, and she ate one potato and had a stomachache. She found six potatoes in the pot the next morning.

4.     The woman buried two potatoes in the soil because the pot had little room for the six potatoes that were growing bigger. On the eighth month, potato babies were fully formed with nails and feet, with eyelids and ears and potato knots. On the ninth month, the potatoes could move slowly on the floor, open their eyes with white pupils. They were named One, Two, Three and Four, and they always watched the woman go and waited her at the window.

5.     The potatoes were buried in the soil by the woman and never came back. The woman dug them out several weeks later, and they stepped into her arms.

6.     The four potatoes lifted their hands to touch the farmer they met in another county and they found amazing when they saw the farmer’s boy eat popcorn.

7.     It began to rain when the five went halfway home, and when the rain fell on the potatoes’ bodies, the smell reminded the woman of her mother.  

Response to The Forest

Response to The Forest

       The Forest is a short story talks about a special and unique relationship between a twenty-two-year-old girl – Bianca and seventy-nine-year-old scientist – Kryzsztof. Bianca dropped out from her graduate school because she thought the science was too pushy and people who were doing science were eager to gain quick success. Kryzsztof was an eminent but forgetful Polish biochemist who gave a bunch of same talks to American scientists. They met in a scientists’ party, and initially Bianca disliked Kryzsztof due to the misspelling of her name, but after they shared Kryzsztof’s special vodka, they talked about their past and their stories concerning bison and the forest in northeast Poland. After Kryzsztof demonstrated his scientific work of sturdy bubbles, Bianca drove Kryzsztof to a forest and they saw a group of beautiful deer. Kryzsztof fell to the muds but saw the stars from which he found himself back into the most natural one as well as Bianca.

       In the story, Barrett mainly wants to find out the relationship between nature and science. The nature here includes the nature of the environment like the forest as well as the human nature. She collects the scientific and historical data to make her story more vivid and impressive. For example, Kryzsztof’s process of generating large and sturdy bubbles is based on scientific knowledge of surface tension, but through the conversations between Kryzsztof and Bianca, Barrett aims to satire the deteriorative condition of science development nowadays. Another data is a part of Polish history in the background of which Kryzsztof’s mother disappeared. She grew up in the forest where there were bison and bears and many other rare animals, but during the world war I German soldiers destroyed the forest as well as bison, she came back and tried to save the forest. She vanished because of the war, but her spirit still existed in the special vodka made from bison grass and accompanied Kryzstof.

       In the end of the story, Krysztof wanted to go back to his most natural and original life and way of thinking about science like his mother. Bianca wanted to go away from her sister and started her own life like her grandfather. The power of nature saved them and aroused their feeling of living in the most natural way.