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第一段
1 .Listen to part of the lecture in a children's literature class.
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第二段
1 .Today we'll start looking at the most important children's book authors of the twentieth century.
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2 .And I'd like to start with an author illustrator whom some of you probably grew up reading:Dr. Seuss.
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第三段
1 .His actual name was Theodor Seuss Geisel.
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2 .Geisel's work was hugely popular among beginning readers and their parents, but it wasn't always considered literature or subjected to serious academic inquiry until relatively recently.
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3 .In fact, not only weren't his books considered literature, but they weren't always considered good school books.
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1 .In the late 1950s and even through the 60s, US teachers resisted Seuss's books because they perceived them as having a comic book style...fine, maybe, but not...not appropriate for the classroom.
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第五段
1 .None of Geisel's books individually won him a Pulitzer Prize.
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2 .And he didn't receive any top children's literary awards either.
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3 .Although the Pulitzer Prize committee did give him a citation in 1984 for his...uh..."special contribution over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America's children and their parents."
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4 .But again, that wasn't until 1984.
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第六段
1 .Perhaps one reason his books weren't taken seriously is that even though they often rhyme, you wouldn't call him a great poet.
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2 .Geisel's rhyme schemes are very simple.
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3 .And often, to make things rhyme, he used silly names for his imaginary creatures, like the Grinch and Sneetches.
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4 .In fact, one book features 34 pairs of rhymed words, but only eight of those pairs consist entirely of real words.
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5 .The rest are made-up words.
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1 .Geisel also illustrated his own books and created a lot of highly memorable characters from a visual standpoint.
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2 .Yet as far as his artistic talent, no one's ever called him a great artist or a great illustrator.
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第八段
1 .For his human characters, he pretty much drew the same face over and over.
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2 .Except for minor accessories, all the people in his books look the same.
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3 .Not exactly something you'd be encouraged to do in art school. And the way he drew even nonhuman characters was dismissed by many critics as being overly simplistic.
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4 .His landscapes, on the other hand, they are simple but they are also extremely clever.
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5 .He had this uncanny knack for creating the illusion of great distance with some very simple shapes and lines.
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第九段
1 .But what about from a pedagogical standpoint?
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第十段
1 .Well, let's consider Geisel's most famous book: The Cat in the Hat.
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2 .Now, in a way, this book, The Cat in the Hat, captures the essence of Geisel's particular genius as a children's author.
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3 .Geisel actually wrote it in response to an article written in 1954 by an acclaimed novelist named John Hersey.
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4 .In this article, Hersey criticized the textbooks being used in elementary schools to teach children to read.
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5 .He called the books 'boring, contrived, and utterly humorless'.
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第十一段
1 .After seeing Hersey's article, Geisel must have wondered what made the books so dull.
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2 .And one thing he found was they use only words from the Dolch List.
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3 .The Dolch List contained a few hundred common sight words, words like, well, cat and hat.
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4 .At the time, the Dolch List was widely adhered to by publishers of textbooks for beginning readers.
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第十二段
1 .Well, using only words from the Dolch List, Geisel tapped into his fertile imagination.
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2 .And the result was an incredibly funny and engaging storyline about a talking cat that convinces a brother and sister to let him make a huge mess in their house while their mother is away.
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3 .Another character, a talking fish, tries to warn the children that they'll be blamed for the cat's crazy antics.
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4 .You can really feel the tension building up in those kids as the cat makes the house messier and messier.
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5 .Ultimately the house gets straightened up in the nick of time.
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6 .And the kids are left speechless when their mom shows up and casually asks if anything interesting happened in her absence.
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7 .The kids, and presumably, Geisel's readers are left thinking: Should they tell the truth? And that's where the book ends.
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第十三段
1 .Brilliant! There aren't too many authors who can set up a moral dilemma like this and then get children to think about it for themselves.
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