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| the tendency to emphasize and value the qualties and particulers of a geographicrea exemplifies |
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| is a philosophical doctrine according to which there is no absolute truth. all truths change thir truenes as their practical utility increases or decreases |
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| Pragmatism: A New Way for some old ways of thinking |
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| Published by William James, 1907 |
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philoshopy acoording to which god is omnipresent in the world, everything is god and god is everything
ex Spinoza, Wordsworth, Shelly, emerson |
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movement in american art
began in 1940s with artists such as Kooning and Gorky |
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diversity and quality of literature
Dickens-- Oliver twist, great expectations, misery and complexities of society
Browning-- My last Duchess
Robert Louise Stevenson-- treasure island, dr jekyll mr hyde |
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Chaucer, medievel england
first english literature. written in street english |
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epic poem
anglo-saxon period
archetypal hero |
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first feminist play.
door slamming symobilzes leads emanipation from traditional society |
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Hedda gabler- feminist shoots herself
the wild duck-- deals with conflict betwen idealism and family secrets
ghosts-- most controversial, social ills: alcholism incest and religious hypocrisy |
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| Benjamin Franklin; Rules by Which a Great Empire May be Reduced to a Small One |
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ironic tone
warn british of probable outcome in the colonies if they persist with their policies. discussed one by one |
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american colonial writers primarily
Content was american but style was british. in larity and balance |
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| Examples of neoclassicists |
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William Bradford, The myflowers compact
Anne Bradstreet's poetry
wiliam byrd a history of the dividing line |
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| The cricible by Arthur miller runs parrallel to which real life event |
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Senator Mccarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee Hearing
1950's
witch hunts= communist hunts |
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Poet and fomaous black memoirist
I Know why the caged bird sings (1970)
And i still rise (1978)
All God's children need travelling shoes (1986) |
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| POET AND TRANSLATOR OF FRENCH DRAMATISTS RACINE AND MOLiere |
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| african american novelist of Native Son and Black Boy |
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the house on mango street
latina female literature |
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| Native American Literature |
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started as oral traditions- 15th century
characteristics: hardiness of body and soul. remorsefor destruction of thenative American way of life, and th genocide of many tribes. |
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Examples of Modern Native American Fiction
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| Duane Niatum, Gunn Allen, Louise Erdich, N Scott Momaday |
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| Russian Naturalism characteristics |
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started with Belinsky in 1840s
best know from: Dstoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekov, and Turgenev
Anna Karenina and Crime and Punishment--dark outlook |
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| intended to teach some lesson |
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| A visit from st nicholas-- Clement Moore |
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| children's literature that was didactic, cheery non threatening child's view of the night before xmas |
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SE Hinton
six grade reading level |
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| Grade level appeal of the Outsiders |
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9th grade
faced with changing bodies and relationships. has tehm face issues just sprouting
universal to adolescents |
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| Children's literature establisment |
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| 17th century chldrens lit writers |
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France
jean de La Fontaine- fables
pierre Perreailts Tales
d'Aulnoye's novels
Beaumont- beauty and the beast
England
oliver Smith- the renowned history of little goody two shoes |
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religious writer
Grace Abounding to the cheifof sinners (Autobiography)
the hoy city, or the new jerusale, (1665)
A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice (1672)
the holy war (1682) |
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founded the spectator mag. with Richard steele
play: Cato (1712) |
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Tatler, Spectator--mags
play- the funeral |
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Satircal Poet and Essayist
The Rape of the Lock |
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| Characteristics of first American Literature |
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| Maudlin and self pitying egocentricism |
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classical literature compared to pop literature
ex: Harry Potter and greek/roman myths |
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| common themes that center on the universal truths of love, fear, and hate |
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19th century
Romantic poet
My heart Leaps up |
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19th century
emphasis on feelings, emotions and passions
- William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- William Wordsworth – The Prelude
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- George Gordon, Lord Byron – Don Juan "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound "Adonais" "Ode to the West Wind" "Ozymandias"
- John Keats – Great Odes "Hyperion" "Endymion"
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| neoclassicism chararcteristics |
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| classical ideals of proportians, common sense, and reason |
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| Victorian lit characteristics |
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late 19th century
exerted more restraint on emotions and feelings |
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| world is depicted harshly and objectively |
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