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发表于 2011-7-5 18:26:12 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

Shaw’s defense of a theater of ideas brought him up against (bring up against: v.遭遇) both his great bugbears—commercialized art on the one hand and Art for Art’s Sake on the other. His teaching is that beauty is a by-product of other activity; that the artist writes out of moral passion (in forms varying from political conviction to religious zeal), not out of love of art; that the pursuit of art for its own sake is a form of self-indulgence as bad as any other sort of sensuality. In the end, the errors of “pure” art and of commercialized art are identical: they both appeal primarily to the senses. True art, on the other hand, is not merely a matter of pleasure. It may be unpleasant. A favorite Shavian metaphor for the function of the arts is that of tooth-pulling. Even if the patient is under laughing gas, the tooth is still pulled.
The history of aesthetics affords more examples of a didactic than of a hedonist view. But Shaw’s didacticism takes an unusual turn in its application to the history of arts. If, as Shaw holds, ideas are a most important part of a work of art, and if, as he also holds, ideas go out of date (go out of date: 过时), it follows that even the best works of art go out of date in some important respects and that the generally held view that great works are in all respects eternal is not shared by Shaw. In the preface to Three Plays for Puritans, he maintains that renewal in the arts means renewal in philosophy, that the first great artist who comes along after a renewal gives to the new philosophy full and final form, that subsequent artists, though even more gifted, can do nothing but refine upon the master without matching him. Shaw, whose essential modesty is as disarming as his pose of vanity is disconcerting, assigns to himself the role, not of the master, but of the pioneer, the role of a Marlowe rather than of a Shakespeare. “The whirligig of time will soon bring my audiences to my own point of view,” he writes, “and then the next Shakespeare that comes along will turn these petty tentatives of mine into masterpieces final for their epoch.”
“Final for their epoch”—even Shakespearean masterpieces are not final beyond that. No one, says Shaw, will ever write a better tragedy than Lear or a better opera than Don Giovanni or a better music drama than Der Ring des Nibelungen; but just as essential to a play as this aesthetic merit is moral relevance which, if we take a naturalistic and historical view of morals, it loses, or partly loses, in time. Shaw, who has the courage of his historicism, consistently withstands the view that moral problems do not change, and argues therefore that for us modern literature and music form a Bible surpassing in significance the Hebrew Bible. That is Shaw’s anticipatory challenge to the neo-orthodoxy of today.

这个文章大家记得吧
就是什么Shaw对待艺术的看法和态度
觉得艺术不是out of aesthetic 也包含一些pain 的那篇
有一个问题是问

The ideas attributed to Shaw in the passage suggest that he would most likely agree with which of the following statements?
(A) Every great poet digs down to a level where human nature is always and everywhere alike.
(B) A play cannot be comprehended fully without some knowledge and imaginative understanding of its context.
(C) A great music drama like Der Ring des Nibelungen springs from a love of beauty, not from a love of art.
(D) Morality is immutable; it is not something to be discussed and worked out.（B）
(E) Don Giovanni is a masterpiece because it is as relevant today as it was when it was created.
8.
The passage contains information that answers which of the following questions?
I.
According to Shaw, what is the most important part of a work of art?
II.
In Shaw’s view, what does the Hebrew Bible have in common with Don Giovanni?
III.
According to the author, what was Shaw’s assessment of himself as a playwright?
(A) I only
(B) III only
(C) I and II only
(D) II and III only（D）
(E) I, II, and III

蓝色是正确答案
我根本没有在里面发现可以定位的信息啊！
如果有人熟悉这篇文章
再能帮我解答一下我就感激不尽了！

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发表于 2011-7-5 20:09:55 |只看该作者

表示没看过Gmat的文章，表示机考定位不方便，因为我喜欢标记。。。。
第一题只能看选项去定位了，因为题目就是废话，只要记住是Shaw赞成的就好。最好定位的E，找到Don Giovanni ，然后发现because后面是胡诌的。也很好定位的C，找到Der Ring des Nibelungen，选项后面的“springs from a love of beauty, not from a love of art”有点变态啊，因为首段Shaw是这样认为的（第三行），不过单纯定位，你也许忘了之前的内容，就不会选这个了。D的关键字Morality，但文章中对应的是moral，对应的是最后几行“Shaw, who has the courage of his historicism, consistently withstands the view that moral problems do not change, and argues therefore that for us modern literature and music form a Bible surpassing in significance the Hebrew Bible. ”这里是有改写的。

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发表于 2011-7-5 20:19:51 |只看该作者

接上面，第一题的A，看到every我就会排除了，还有那个“where human nature is always and everywhere alike.“是和Shaw的观点相反的“but just as essential to a play as this aesthetic merit is moral relevance which, if we take a naturalistic and historical view of morals, it loses, or partly loses, in time. ”
B是答案么？好难定位啊。。。。“If, as Shaw holds, ideas are a most important part of a work of art, and if, as he also holds, ideas go out of date (go out of date: 过时), it follows that even the best works of art go out of date in some important respects and that the generally held view that great works are in all respects eternal is not shared by Shaw.”

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发表于 2011-7-5 21:32:22 |只看该作者

休息一下，来了，第二题，选项找线索
II“Hebrew Bible”“Don Giovanni”，定位到快结束处，“No one, says Shaw, will ever write a better tragedy than Lear or a better opera than Don Giovanni ......... Shaw........and argues therefore that for us modern literature and music form a Bible surpassing in significance the Hebrew Bible. ”这就是Shaw关于两个东西in common的，是变化也
III"assessment of himself"定位至“Shaw, whose essential modesty is as disarming as his pose of vanity is disconcerting, assigns to himself the role, not of the master, but of the pioneer, the role of a Marlowe rather than of a Shakespeare. ”
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非常感谢！ 4# 萝卜须根多

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发表于 2011-7-6 23:09:11 |只看该作者

If, as Shaw holds, ideas are a most important part of a work of art, and if, as he also holds, ideas go out of date (go out of date: 过时), it follows that even the best works of art go out of date in some important respects
但是这一句不是可以回答I这个问题么？为什么答案说只能选II III？？？？？？ 4# 萝卜须根多