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| 5 senses, weather, motion, emotion, dialogue |
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| philosophy that the individual is solely responsible for giving ones life meaning and living with passion |
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| focuses on the role of women in literature |
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| "a set of culturally definted characteristics" |
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| there is no external meaning in regards to poetry, its only whats in the text that matters |
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| Historical/Biographical Criticism |
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Historical: focusing on the history of the setting and era when written
Biographical: focusing on the life of the author |
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| It emphasized close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work of literature functioned as a self-contained, self-referential object. |
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| magical birth, missing childhood, identity in question, betrayal, tragic flaw, death at the hands of evil, resurrection myth, special powers |
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| Call to Adventure, Refusal of Call, Supernatural Aid, Belly of the Whale, The Road of Trials, Meeting with Goddess, Ultimate Boon, Woman as Temptress, Apotheosis, Atonement with Father, Refusal to Return, Magic Flight, Rescue from Without, Return Threshold, Master of Both Worlds, Sharing Knowledge, Freedom to Live |
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| sage, trusty sidekick, nemesis/nemesi, love interest, adoptive family, warrior, temptress, innocents, nightmare creature, dreamer, fool, rebel |
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| option with the least variables is the best solution |
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| Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First Things First, Think Win-Win, Seek First to Understand, then be Understood, Synergize, Sharpen the Saw |
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| Plato's Allegory of the Cave |
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story, basically leaving cave=knowledge
"seeing the light" |
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Man vs. Self
Man vs. Society
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. God/gods
Man vs. Supermachine |
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| supported civil rights, world peace, freedom, and nonviolence |
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Wrote the Tao Ching, found of Taoism
believe in Tao, the originator of heaven and earth
peaceful, humble, wise
"he who governs best is he who governs least" |
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Italian philosopher, wrote "The Prince" to list his ideas for ruling, how to treat provinces that have been taken over, etc. One of the first political scientists
"the ends justify the means"
"do what it takes to win" |
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| Heroic civil rights leader |
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wrote "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
(crazy anarchist guy) |
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| the usual pyramid we always learn in english class |
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| philosopher who originated the monomyth |
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"make it new",
disillusioned with the Victorian era
post World War I |
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wanted to be newer than the modernists, tried to reflect real life like reality tv
post World War II to 1960s |
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difficult to define- fragmented/circular/disconnected stories, closer to real life
example: Lost
1970 to present |
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| "God is dead, and we killed him" |
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| must take a "leap of faith" for religion |
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| Hemingway, Salinger, Camus, Kafka, T.H. White, Goldman, Covey |
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Victorian Era
(1837-1914) |
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Modernist era
(1914-1945) |
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Lost Generation
Harlem Renaissance
Roaring Twenties
Depressionists |
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Post Modernists
(1945-1965) |
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Greatest Generation
Baby Boomers
Hippies |
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Post-Post Modernists
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Generation X (Cold War kids)
Generation Y (consumeris)
Y2K/Great Recession/Boomerang |
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Kings
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Knight
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| thinking that we are overanalyzing the poem |
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implied- very subtle
expressed- beginning of 1st paragraph
delayed- at the end of essay
thesis first- end of 1st paragraph |
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knowledge is gained by experience, you are not born with anything
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Myth explains why a phenomenon happens
Legend is a story with some fact |
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| part of the unconscious mind that is present in all humans, universal knowledge and fears |
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| Pagan legend vs. Christian legend |
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Pagan: Lancelot is THE knight, Bedivere is the Last Knight, no Holy Grail
Christian: created a knight called Percival who is holy and pure, he is the Last Knight, Avalon "perfection" |
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| 4th wall/willing suspension of disbelief |
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| when an audience lets go of reality to immerse themselves in the play/book |
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| when the narrator/author speaks to the reader |
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trying to live with very few possessions
(100 or less) |
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| Audience is told 10%, must figure out the other 90%. Hemingway wrote this way |
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