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| Enlist some of the main trends in BritLit of the 2nd half of the 20th Century |
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| Angry Young Men, the Movement Poetry, theatre of the absurd, working class novel, British poetry from Auden to Harris |
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| Characterize Angry Young Men. |
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| Movement named after John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger; group of writers, college educated, dissatisfied with social stratification and indifference of middle-aged generation. Frustrated by the discrepancy between their ambition and actual possibilities. Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim (1954). John Braine: Room at the Top (1967) |
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| Working Class Novel: Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning |
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| Arthur keeps a string of girlfriends, drinks a lot. Later he is beaten by one of his gf's husband. |
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| Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead; Joseph Heller - Catch 22 |
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| Literature of the American South |
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| Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man Is Hard to Find; Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. |
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| American Jewish Literature |
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| Bernard Mallamud - The Assistant; Philip Roth - American Pastoral, The Human Stain, Portnoy's Complaint...; Henry Roth - Call it Sleep; |
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| Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow, V., The Crying of Lot 49; William Gaddis - Recognitions; Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 |
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| Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead; Joseph Heller - Catch 22 |
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| Literature of the American South |
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| Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man Is Hard to Find; Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. |
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| American Jewish Literature |
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| Bernard Mallamud - The Assistant; Philip Roth - American Pastoral, The Human Stain, Portnoy's Complaint...; Henry Roth - Call it Sleep; |
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| Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow, V., The Crying of Lot 49; William Gaddis - Recognitions; Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 |
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| New Literatures in English (writers and works): |
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| Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things; Anita Desai - The Village by the Sea; R.K.Narayan - The English Teacher, The Financial Expert; J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace, Life and Times of Michael K; Chinua Achebe - Things fall apart; Keri Hulme - The Bone people; Alice Munro - short stories (The Beggar Maid); Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin; Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith |
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| Verbatim theatre is a form of documentary theatre in which plays are constructed from the precise words spoken by people interviewed about a particular event or topic. Talking to terrorists - Robin Soans |
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| Theatre of the Absurd in UK |
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| Beckett - Waiting for Godot, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
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| British Theatre in the first half of the 20th Century |
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| Formed by Irish playwrights. Shaw, Yates and Synge. Ibsen a major influence - seriousness. Shaw - turned theatre into place of serious discussion - many of his plays have socially satirical undertones. Auden and T.S.Eliot - poetic drama. |
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| British drama of the 2nd half of the 20th century |
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| Kitchen sink realism, 'comedy of menace' - Harold Pinter (The Birthday Party), Tom Stoppard, Verbatim theatre, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, |
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| Outline the development of fictional genres in British literature |
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| Chaucer --> early novels: Swift, Defoe --> historical novel: Walter Scott --> Victorian period: Dickens, Bronte sisters /the development of realism/, Thomas Hardy --> Rudyard Kipling, A.C.Doyle --> Modernism: E.M.Forster, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D.H.Lawrence --> British postmodernism: John Fowles, A.S.Byatt |
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| Outline the development of fictional genres in American literature |
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| First, the foundational myths: John Smith, Wiliam Bradford --> James Fenimore Cooper --> Hawthorne, Melville --> Frederick Douglass --> Mark Twain --> Henry James --> Theodore Dreisser --> Jack London --> Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLilo |
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| Outline the development of dramatic genres in American Theatre |
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| First, political satire: Androborus by Robert Hunter (1714). Satire strong during War years: Mercy Ottis warren = The Group. Royall Tyler - The Contrast: a comedy of manners. 19th century: spread of melodrama: frontier melodrama, temperance play, melodramatic comedy. Slowly, ascent of realism: James Herne - Margaret Fleming. Langdon Mitchell - The New York Idea. --> Then O'Neill - Strange Interlude, The Hairy Ape, Long Day's Journey into Night, Williams, Albee, Mamet... |
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| Compare iambic pentameter, blank verse, heroic couplet, alexandrine |
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| An alexandrine (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁin]) is a line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables. Iambic pentameter is a five-foot verse. Blank verse is the use of, predominantly, iambic pentameter in an unrhymed pattern. A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter. Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales,[1] and was perfected by John Dryden in the Restoration Age. |
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| Outline the development of genres of poetry in British literature |
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| Beowulf --> Chivalrous epic --> Rennaisance: influence of Petrarca - sonnets. Shakespeare --> 17th century: Metaphysical poets (conceits, surprising similes), Cavalier poets(very formal and light-hearted), John Milton, Dryden (heroic couplet and alexandrine) --> Augustan period: ideally imitate the ancient Greek and Latin predecessors --> Robert Burns and others: shift to subjective notions of nature --> Lake poets, romanticism: Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake: subjective aesthetics, more common language, inclination towards philosophy --> Victorian poets: development in dramatic monologue: Robert Browning and Alfred Lord Tennyson --> paved way for modernism --> Ezra Pound, T.S.Eliot --> W.H.Auden rejecction of strict experimentation --> The Movement poetry: Philip Larkin |
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| Outline the development of genres of poetry in American literature |
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| Puritan beginnings: Edward Taylor <-- connection to Metaphysical poets --> Revolutionary era patriotic poetry --> Philip Freneau: The Rising Glory of America --> Romanticism: to be as good as the British, but then to better them. Progressive forces: Longfellow (of the Fireside poets), Whitman and Dickinson. --> abolitionist poetry: Longfellow - The poems of slavery, George Moses Horton: The Hope of LIberty(first southern black poet) --> Transcendentalists --> Whitman, Dickinson --> Poe, Melville --> Regionalism: Robert Frost --> Modernists --> Beats --> Confessionalists = counterposition to detached modernism, as well as subversive force to the mainstream narrative of family stability |
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