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* __/ Classicism \_Medieval_/ Renaissance \_Neoclassicism_/Romanticism\_ Victoria_/ Modernism \_

* Classicism (Reason)
            - Epic
            - Tragedy
            - Comedy

* Medieval (faith)
            - Dark age
            - Choral
            - Reality play
            - Allegory
            - 3 M: Morality, Mystery, Miracle

* Renaissance (drama)
* Neoclassicism (新古典主義)

* Romanticism
            - Individualism
            - Emotionalism
            - Humanism

* Victoria (high seriousness)
* Modernism
* T.S. Elliot = upper middle class

* Imagism
            - poetic flow inside Russian avant grade which came abou tafte rhte Revolution. 
            - William Carolos Williams
            - Wallace Sterns
            - Marianne Moore

* Tennessee Williams
            - As a child Williams was sickly and overly protected b his mother. 
            - The Glass Menagerie (1945): auto-biographical 和他形象和生命息息相關
            - Pulitzer Prize: The Poker Night; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
            - He acknowledged the influce of Anton Chekhov
            - He shared with O' Neill an impatience over the theatrical conventions of realism
 

* Marianne Moore
            - American Modernist poet and writer noted fo rher irony and wit.
            - run on sentences
            - Poetry: 
                         "imaginary gardens with real toads in then. Shall
                                    we have
                        it. In the mean time, of you demand on the one hand,
                        the raw material of poetry in
                                    all its rawness and
                                    that which is on the other hand
                        genuine, then you are interested in poetry."


* New Year’s Eve (Lea Michele; Auld Lang Syne)
            - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FwS4SQSlfc



* e. e. Cummings
            - letters are not capitalized
            - no spaces between words or commas
            - "I carry your heart with me"
                        - “somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond”
                        - She blossomed for him (Great Gatsby Ch. 6)
                        - 不知道有沒有到達你的心裡，但是你卻控制著我。
                        - rain, snow, flower 都在講述愛情


* A street car named desire
            - Food and Festival (Jazz, Cajun Cuisine)
            - Vampire and Voodoo (Interview with Vampire)
            - Crime and Conspiracy

* Southern Gothic
            - Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1947)
            - Tennessee Williams
            - Blanche, Stella, Stanley, Harold
            - New Orleans


* Blanche
            - a relic of the Old South
            - 用假的東西想營造出自己的形象
            - comparing to Vampire / Southern Belle / Twilight: incapability to connect with the reality             
              people

* Stanley
            - a rising member of the industrial urban working class
            - comparing to Blanche:
                        - primal, rough
            - Desire of the Romantic “Old South”
            - Marlon Brando “Hey Stella”
           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1A0p0F_iH8

* Old South
            - Upper South: Slave, Plantation, Antebellum
            - Deep South: Loner South; Cotton States
            - Dixie: privately issued currency 


* The GI Bill of Rights 
            - provided federal subsidies to support college education for returning WWII veterans,
              democratized American higher education. 


* New Orleans 的車牌適用法國的百合花


* 南方野獸樂園

Happy New Year 2015!