Block, 5.14 & 15 - The Class Is Charged with the Grandeur of Your Recitations

  • 3PO
  • GUM: Review your sonnet
  • Recitations
  • 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/dictatorships
    • 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

    FINAL STUDY GUIDE (click on "read more" to . . . read more)


    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, so study those as if your grade depended upon it ; )

     Modernism
    • Historical Overview (or see PDF in Notability)
      • Modern Intellectuals and their influential works
        • Marx (economics)  
          • major work: Das Kapital 
          • belief: traced economic injustices to capitalism and advocated the abolition of private property.
        • Nietzsche (philosophy) 
          • major work: Beyond Good and Evil 
          • belief: attacked the philosophical assumption that there is a stable, ultimate reality supporting us; rather, there is an abyss below the shiny surface of society’s language, religion, and social customs which must be overcome by the ubermensch (or “superman”).
        • Freud (psychology)  
          • major work: The Interpretation of Dreams
          • belief: located human motives not in the rational, conscious mind, but in the irrational and sexually driven realm of the unconscious, a realm manifest mainly in our dreams.
        • Darwin (science)  
          • major work: Origin of Species
          • belief/effect: all species share a common ancestry rather than a common creator. This belief began to undermine people’s faith in a God who created distinct species and in His Word.
    • Authors and their texts
    • 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
Romanticism 
The Restoration and the 18th Century 
  • historical overview
  • 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 - Latin phrase meaning "in the middle of things," the place where classical epics begin: not at the beginning but . . . in the middle of things ; )
    • invocation of the muse - prayer to deity for inspiration to do justice to such an epic . . . epic.
    • 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, 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
GUM: Bedford
  • Study Bedford online (right column of blog) AND your worksheets in Notability
    • Bedford 21: SVA (Subject-Verb Agreement)
    • Bedford 24, 25: Pronoun Case

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