1. Extension: 

1.1 From The Pickwick Papers back to The Canterbury Tales

Watch the following video clip to learn more about The Canterbury Tales; you are strongly suggested to watch all the episodes in this program:

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1.2 The anxiety of Influence:

Try to understand and translate the following two groups of sentences:

Intertexuality：互文性•

互文性阅读的产生源于一种“影响的焦虑”，即当代诗人或作家就像一个具有俄狄浦斯恋母情结的儿子，面对“诗的传统”这一父亲形象，在受前代伟人影响与压抑的焦虑中，只能采取各种有意识或无意识的“误读”方式来贬低前人或否定传统，达到树立自己形象的目的。

2. Structural Analysis

2.1 Narration & narrative strategies: 

• Perspectives: alternating between first-person and third-person point-of views;

• The close relation between the first and last paragraphs;

2.2 Advantages of first-person and third-person narrative:

2.3 The relation between the first and last paras.：

• 1st. Para.: the writer makes it clear that she has owed Charles Dickens a heavy debt by reading his novels. And the only way to honor her obligation is to write down what Dickens did for her. 

• Last para.: the writer says she was deeply influenced by him.

3. Structure and Main Ideas：