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20th century fiction CSU FINAL
20th century fiction CSU FINAL
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English
Undergraduate 1
05/11/2008

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Term
Aethetics
Definition
Aesthetics: the study of the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty
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WHat area is aethetics studied in?
Definition
1. political content in literature
2. political activities of writers/organizations
3. censorship
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What are the two types of political content in literature?
Definition
-the authors political message
-literary theory
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Moral censorship
Definition
any maaterial of questionable moreality is removed
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Political cencorship
Definition
governments holding back secret information from their citizens
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Religious
Definition
any material objectionable to a certain faith is removed.
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most notable case of religious cencorship
Definition
salman rushdie
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Corpporate censorhsip
Definition
editors in corporate media outlets intervene to halt the publishing of information
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Critics in political literature?
Definition
1920-60 dislike odeas of overtpolitical message in both literary works and critism, others believe it the primary goal of criticism
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The Western Canon
Definition
Best of Vestern Civilization
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Conflicts concerning canon
Definition
since 1960's, attacked because its narrow viewpoint
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where did magical realism come from?
Definition
Franz Roh, a German art critic as an art category representing and responding to reality and subjectivity.
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Hybridity
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Linked to post-colonialism: illustrated in the harmonious arenas of such opposites as urban and rural, and Western and indigenous
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Irony Regarding Author’s Perspective
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• Author must have ironic distance from the magical world view for the realism not to be compromised and does not comment/pass moral judgments on what has happened
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Authorial reticence
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• Authorial reticence refers to the lack of clear opinions about the accuracy of events and the credibility of the world views expressed by the characters in the text which promotes acceptance in magical realism.
author shows, not tells
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The Supernatural and Natural
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• In magical realism, the supernatural is not displayed as questionable
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Orientalism
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Edward Said
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poststructuralism
Definition
dominates, new emphases on somatic criticism, sensuouness and genealogy
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hypertext
Definition
hypermedia or multimedia and often inforporates interactive narrative forms
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three major digital movements
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1- word processing and desltop publishing
2- hypertext
3- text adventure games
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microfilm?
Definition
vannevar bush 1945
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what are the murders used?`
Definition
Elegant is murdered with rock. Uncle is murdered with ink pot.
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What yellow things occur and when?
Definition
butterflies when babolonia is around
flowers abd jose arcadio buendia dies
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