- P&P
- Discuss "The Destructors" (link for Sir Christopher Wren, architect of Old Misery's house)and "Once upon a Time" in light of Modernist trends:
- Totalitarianism
- Critique of established traditions (and institutions)
- truth, goodness, beauty
- The Church, government (colonialism), family
- Literary conventions, romanticism, chivalry
- Nihilism (Materialism)
- Harsh cosmic (situational) irony
- Loss or critique of English colonies
- Read "Eveline" if there is time and discuss in the same (florescent) light
The final will be mainly scantron. I will ask you one question to which you will respond with an extended paragraph (which I will grade according to your support, insight, and grammar).
I will have a section on the scantron that asks you to match authors and their works. I will also have key quotes from texts that will require you to identify the work.
The only historical overview component will be the Modernist (20th Century) and Victorian eras.
- Modernism
- Historical Overview
- Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Darwin (know their works and effects)
- Authors and their texts
- Grahame Greene
- James Joyce
- Nadine Gordimer
- Lit Terms
- Modernism - an early twentieth-century artistic trend marked by the following characteristics: (1) the desire to break away from established traditions, (2) a quest to find fresh ways to view man's position or function in the universe [read "atheistic," (3) experiments in form and style, particularly with fragmentation--as opposed to the "organic" theories of literary unity appearing in the Romantic and Victorian periods (taken from Dr. Wheeler's Lit Terms)
- Irony
- Verbal
- Dramatic
- Situational (or Cosmic)
- Tone - an author's underlying attitudes that control and color
the story as a whole (both his characters and subject).
- Notice that the tone is an adjective: (e.g. formal or informal, playful, ironic, brooding, optimistic, hopeful, pessimistic, bitter, cynical, or sensual.)
- Victorianism
- Historical Overview
- Authors and their texts
- Oscar Wilde
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- An Ideal Husband (film)
- Lit Terms
- Paradox
- Understatement
- Hyperbole
- Comedy of Manners
- Romanticism
- Authors and their texts
- First Generation Romantic poets and their poems
- William Blake
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Second Generation Romantic poets and their poems
- Lit Terms & Romantic Obsessions
- Symbiotic relationship between the imagination and Nature
- The subjective, inner life of the poet
- The Sublime - terrifying beauty (think of a volcano or the rugged Alps jutting up like a great white's dorsal fin)
- Romantic Orientalism - the mysteriousness of the east
- Ancient ruins - man's fleeting grandeur surpassed by Nature's permanence
- Intuition and spontaneous feeling over rationalism and premeditated thought
- Creativity over logic
- Individual freedom over social law
- Mortality, mystery, supernaturalism
- Solitary sufferer
- Imagery
- visual - sight
- aural - sound
- tactile - touch
- olfactory - smell
- gustatory - taste
- kinesthetic - movement
- The Restoration and the 18th Century
- Authors and their texts
- John Milton
- Paradise Lost (epic)
- Samuel Johnson
- "Proposal for a Female Army" (light satire)
- Jonathan Swift
- A Modest Proposal (dark satire)
- Lit Terms
- Satire
- epic simile
- in medias res
- invocation of the muse
- epic
- Premise - an assertion that supports a conclusion
- Conclusion - the main assertion that follows from a premise or premises
- Counterargument - an opposing viewpoint or premise
- Refutation (to refute) - a discrediting of a counterargument
- Concession (to concede) - an acknowledgment of the merit of a counterargument
- Logos (logical), Ethos (ethical), and Pathos (emotional): the three types of appeals into which Aristotle divided the art of rhetoric, argument, or persuasion.
- Logos - logical appeals
- logic (syllogisms), facts, statistics
- Ethos - ethical appeals
- moments when and ways in which a writer or speaker addresses how he is qualified, moral, and charitable (i.e. has the audience's best interests in mind)
- Pathos - emotional appeals
- the use of anecdotes, figurative language, symbols, and images to appeal to an audience's emotions
- Logos - logical appeals
