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 12/31 美國文學 week 17: American Literature Modernism and wrap up |
| 知識學習｜隨堂筆記 2015/01/01 23:26:33 |
Literature period （每個時期都有每個時期的反動） 1. The classicism (epic, tragedy, comidy) 2. The dark age (Medieval) (moral play->allegory) 3. Renaissance (drama) 4. Neoclassicism (fragamenteation) 5. Romanism individualism + emotionalism + humanism 6. Victorian literature high seriousness 7. Modernism 現代與後現代的分界 1960
學文學史: We study literature with two major things: period and genre. Genre divided into author and works. About T.S. Eliot 1. He was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets." 2. He emigrated to England in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39, renouncing his American citizenship. 3. His best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922)
About The Waste Land 1. "The Waste Land", by T.S. Eliot, is widely regarded as "one of the most important poems of the 20th century" and a central text in Modernist poetry.
2. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust".
About Modernism 1. Major point: Imagism 2. Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 3. Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, activities of daily life, and even the sciences, were becoming ill-fitted to their tasks and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world About Marianne moore 1. She was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.
About Marianne moore's "Poetry" (P1998) 1. fragamentation: 依據意識的流動串連文字 2. Use many run-on sentences 3. What is poetry? "imaginary gardens wih real toads in them." About Ezra Pound 1.He was an expatriate American poet and critic who was a major figure of the early modernist movement. 2.His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language.
About E.E Cummings 1. known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cummings (in the style of some of his poems—see name and capitalization, below), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright
About Tennessee Williams (P2297-2298) 1. Blanche Dubois 2. demoic creature 3. His famous works: "The Glass Menagerie", "Cat on a Hat Tin Roof" 4. He was influenced by Anton CheKohv
About A Streetcar Named Desire 1. Genre: southen gothic 2. Relic: southern belle, vampire, The Twillight 3. 南北戰爭後南方遲暮的狀態 4. P2349 "I don't want realism. I want magic." 5. P2360 "Whoever you are , I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." => 陌生的慈悲的典故，也象徵南方的沒落 6. P2301=> 慾望街車
New Orleans 1. Food and Festival 2. Vampire and Voodoo 3. Crime and Conspiracy Old South is a subregion of the American South, differentiated from the "Deep South" as being the Southern States represented in the original thirteen American colonies, as well as a way of describing the former lifestyle in the Southern United States.
The Deep South is a descriptive category of the cultural and geographic subregions in the Southern United States. Historically, it is differentiated from the "Upper South" as being the states most dependent on plantation type agriculture during the pre–Civil War period.
"Dixie", is a term that is often used to refer to the area of the Southern United States or specifically in geography (sometimes east of the Mississippi River), as the Southeastern states of the United States.
A plantation is a long, artificially-established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption.
ante: before antebellum dix-: ten in french |
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