ENGL 2328 Am. Literature

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"Star Turn": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author: Charles Wright
Language Cannot Access Reality: [ Postmodernism ]
Contains almost all of the thematic and formal characteristics of Modernism: Postmodernism
Cummings: [ Modernist ] "O sweet spontaneous spring" / "Somewhere I have never travelled" / Style: typographically eccentric poetry; experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax, abandoning traditional techniques and structures
Glaspell: Literary Period: /Genra: /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
Intertextuality: [ Formal Characteristic of Modernism ], When texts and their meanings are intertwined. Intertextual texts depend on prior knowledge of another text
Events will usually be plausible.: [ Characteristic of Realism ]
Juxtaposition: [ Formal Characteristic of Modernism ], The placement of two dissimilar items, people, thoughts, places, etc., next to one another to emphasize the differences or heighten the similarities. (example: mixing high and low culture together)
Intellectual, Academic, Elite Audience: [ Formal Characteristic of Modernism ] Held up innovation and modernism at the highest regard; Rich /or at least Educated; others find it's not to their taste
Chandler: Literary Period: /Genra: /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
Character is more important than action and plot.: [ Characteristic of Realism ]
"and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.": "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" -W. Whitman
The unreliable narrartor; no way to percieve the truth objectively: As I Lay Dying by Faulkner; The book is told in stream of consciousness style by 15 different narrators in 59 chapters.
"Alligator Poem": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author: Oliver
Baldwin: Literary Period: /Genra: /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
Metaphor: [Literary element] Makes comparisson between to unlike things. Life is a "breif candle" (Macbeth). Can transform anything to anything. An implied metaphor is more subtle; the terms being compared are not specifically explained. ("a small pot boils easily...") When using metaphors, explain the truth, then the later. You must talk the audience slowly through the process so the reader understands.
White Noise by Don DeLillo (theme): Postmodernism/ Novel / The central theme was of plots, death, and the fear of death.
Pathos: Emotion; easier to appeal to emotion rather than logic
Rejecting All Boundaries: [ Postmodernism ]
"Somewhere I have never travelled": Modernism / Cummings /Poem / style- prose; four lines, run on sentences, speaking to her "nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing"
Cooper: Realism / style: religion into the political rhelm; uses examples from the Bible / Woman versus the Indian (short story)
As I Lay Dying ( Characters ): Modernism / Novel / Faulkner / characters: Addie Bundren, Darl Bundren, Jewel Bundren, Cash
"And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me,": "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" -W. Whitman
Frost: Literary Period: /Genra: /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
Stemmatics: attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladisitc analysis)
"Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills, Your Body": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author: Snyder
"A Blessing": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
Simulacrum: [ Characteristic of Postmodernism ] An image or representation of another thing; something that replaces reality wit its representation; an unreal, vague, or imperfect semblance.
Renders reality closely and in comprehensive detail.: [ Characteristic of Realism ]
Engaged the interest and aspirations of an insurgent middle class.: [ Characteristic of Realism ]
"Lady Lazarus": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
Text as Riddle or Labyrinth: [ Formal Characteristic of Modernism ] Late modern text, word play
Williams: Literary Period: Modernism /Genra: /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
Modernist Text: Highly footnoted; play against the leisure reading of a post-modern reader; the feeling of "not understanding" is intended.
"On the ferry-boats the hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,": "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" -W. Whitman
"Flood-tied below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west--sun there half an hour--I see you also face to face.": "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" -W. Whitman
It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest - noble or selfish - to honor her wish to be buried in the town of Jefferson.: As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
Pluralism: [ Postmodernism ]
Formal Characteristics of Modernism: (1) Stream of conscionsness (2) Juxtaposition (3) Intertextuality (4) Borrowing form other cultures (5) Unconventional use of Metaphor (6) Text as Riddle or Labyrinth (7) Intellectual, Academic, Elite Audience
All Truth is Realitive: [ Postmodernism ]
"O sweet spontaneous spring": Modernism / Cummings / Poem / style- fragmentary, typography, spring, philosophy, pushing religion "fingers of puruient philosophers pinched and poked" / "how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees" / "to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover"
Bierce: Realism / style: dark humor; war / An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (short story) / Chickamuaga (short story)
"For the Union Dead": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
Borrowing from other cultures: [ Formal Characteristic of Modernism ]
Characteristics of Realism: (1) Renders reality closely and in comprehensive detail (2) Character is more important than the action and plot (3) Engaged the interest and aspirations of an insurgent middle class (4) Events will usually be plausible (5) Diction is natural vernacular; not heightened (6) Objective in presentation (7) Interior or psychological realism is a variant form
Ethos: Appeals to charcter; virture; participation
"Crouds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!": "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" -W. Whitman
Dickinson: Antebellum Period / Poetry / dashes, death
Explicate: To make plain or clear, explain; to interpret. To explicate a poem is to demonstrate how it has been crafted and how it achieves its effects. SEPARATE THE POET FROM THE POEM!
Fragmentation: [ Postmodernism ]
Epistle: Genra: A letter, esp. a formal or didactic one; written communication; poem addressed to a patron, friend, or family member, thus a kind of "letter" in verse,
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author: Eliot
Logos: Logic; appeals to teh law / not according to the law; technical knowledge
Du Bois: Literary Period: /Genra: /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
Hyperreality: [ Characteristic of Postmodernism ] A term to characterize the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy.
Motif: [Literay element] a recurring subject, theme, idea, concept, or structure in a work of literature. may also be two contrasting elements in a work, such as good and evil; distinctive and recurring form, shape, figure, etc... dominant idea.
Stream of Conscionsness: [ Formal Characteristic of Modernism ] Talking about goings on...the uninterrupted, continuous flow of a character's thoughts.
"Theme for English B": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author: Hughes
Vonnegut: Literary Period: /Genra: /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
"I Knew a Woman": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
Diction is natural vernacular; not heightened or poetic.: [ Characteristic of Realism ]
Moore: Literary Period: Modernism /Genra: /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
William Faulkner: [ Modernism ] "As I Lay Dying" / American novelist who wrote about people in the southern United States.
Texts with interest and themes of contemporary writers who reflect on America and its relationship to the rest of the world.: Postmodern text: Novel by Don DeLillo, White Noise; Komunyakaa; Lee; Spiegelman; "Writing in a Time of Terror: September 11, 2001," Lahiri
Pastiche: [ Characteristic of Postmodernism ] A literary or artistic technique that mixes together distinct styles or parodies / imitates another's style.
Double consciousness: (1) A term used by W. E. B. Du Bois and describeds an individual whose identity is divided ... soles of black folk. This term describes the enternal conflict of being both black and American. (2) An awareness of oneself as well as an awareness of how others perceive you.
White Noise by Don DeLillo: WWII, Hitler -symbol for death, devastation, the Holocaust, reckless destruction of life...
"A Supermarket in California": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author: Ginsberg
Mamet: Literary Period: /Genra: /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
Objective in presentation.: [ Characteristic of Realism ]
Evokes emotion; personal feelings; includes dialogue/narrative; captures the essense of domestic life; Title refers to the custome of burying members of the family on the home property.: Title: Home Burial; Genra: Poem; Author: Robert Frost
Modernist: Stevens, Moore, Pound, Williams, Hemingway, Fossett, Faulkner, Cummings
"The New Colossus": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author: Lazarus
Unconventional use of Metaphor: [ Formal Characteristic of Modernism ] Other figurative language to create meaning
Whitman: Antebellum Period / Poetry / grass, immigrants, obervation
The World is Complex and Uncertain: [ Postmodernism ]
Stevens: Literary Period: Modernism /Genra: /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
White Noise by Don DeLillo (characters): Postmodernism/ Novel / characters: Jack, Babette; Jacks life line turns out to be just as afraid of dying as he is.
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author:
"Hugh Selwyn Mauberly": Literary Period: Modernism /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author: Pound
Sense of always looking at oneself; Two-ness Two waring ideas...: [Double consciousness]
The formal characteristic of Modernism that does not apply to Postmodernism: Intellectual, Academic, Elite -- Postmodernism is not directed at an elite or academic audience; the audience is intended for everyone.
Simulacrum: [ Postmodernism ]
Interior or psychological realism is a variant form.: [ Characteristic of Realism ]
"To Build a Fire": Literary Period: /Genra: Poem /Style: /Title or Passage example: /Author: London
Characteristics of Postmodernism: (1) Stream of conscionsness (2) Juxtaposition (3) Intertextuality (4) Borrowing form other cultures (5) Unconventional use of Metaphor (6) Text as Riddle or Labyrinth [All an extension of Modernism] - AND (7) The World is Complex and Uncertain (8) All Truth is Reative (9) Fragmentation (10) Pluralism (11) Language cannot access reality (12) Rejecting All Boundaries (13) The Simulacrum
As I Lay Dying (Plot): Modernism / Novel / Faulkner / Review of the Plot: major conflict · When transporting the recently deceased Addie to her burial site, the Bundren family struggles against the forces of nature and injury in its river-crossing and the aftermath. The Bundrens struggle internally as Darl begins to question the logic of carrying Addie's body all the way to Jefferson.

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