Great Books II
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- Who is Pilgrim's Progress by:
- John Bunyan
- what century is PP publised?
- 17th century-1678
- What king ruled during the PP?
- King James
- What king was Bunyan born under?
- king charles in 1628
- Did Bunyan ever go to a Baptist chruch?
- yes in 1654
- Was Bunyan jailed for any reason?
- Yes, in 1661 for preaching at an illegal chruch service.
- Did Bunyan publish any books in prision?
- yes three
- allegory
- form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a marrative are equated with meaings that lie outside teh narrative itself.
- Symbolism
- literary representations of objects, persons,or actions emboding abstract concepts refering to them indirectly and are not exhausted by them.
- didatic literature
- literature intended for instruction
- typology
- a Puritan belief that The Old Testament prefigures The New Testament
- Calvinism
- Emphasized predestination
- What does TULIP stand for?
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T: Total Depravity
U: Uncondition election
L:Limited Atonment
I: Irresistible Grace
P: Perserverance of Saints - What do Puritans stress?
- autobiographical testimony
- How do Puritans preach?
- they use vivid language that is used in everyday life.
- What is the Protestant Work Ethic?
- everything you do in your life must be done wisely, otherwise you are wasting time adn they refuse to do this
- Why does Bunyan write the Apology?
- Because of the Protestant Work Ethic and he justifies himself for writing Pilgrim's Progress.
- What is Christian's justification for leaving his family?
- he would be destroy if he stayed
- Violent aspects of religion are prevalent in PP. Where?
- All the battles, Esp. with Appoyln and Christian. Also, at the Palace with Charity there is armour.
- Who wrote Petersburg?
- Andrei Bely
- What are some Characteristics of Modernism?
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Solipsism
Alenation
Importance of Myth and Primitive Culture
Atonomy of Art
Elitist - Solipsism
- Stuck in yourr own head. The mind breates reality, we create the world in the act of perceiving
- Aleination
- seperation from the rest of society
- Elitist
- Separate from the masses
- Atonomy of Art
- Art is an ideal order that suffices for the chaotic order of the modern world
- Post Modernism Dates
- 1945-present
- What are some characteristics of Post Modernism?
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Celebration of surface over depth
Distrust of linear history-they focus on teh moment
No true reality underlying our perception
Self-Hood as preformance. Artwork is the performance and the artist is the performer
populis - Populis
- does not seperate anything
- metafiction
- Art=Self-reflexive,it draw attention to tiself as itself
- When was the Czar establised?
- 1613
- In 1703 who founded what Russian City?
- Peter the Great, Petersburg
- What is Petersburg also called?
- the most modern city of europe
- what war was going on in 1905?
- The Russo-Japanese War
- What happens in 1905?
- The revolution begins adn it forces Nickolas II to establish a parliment and consistution
- What was establised in 1917
- The USSR, the capital moved to Moscow and the Bolshevick revolution began
- What is Stalin's Great Purge?
- occurred from 1936-1953 and he took people who were not perfect to concentration camps or he just killed them
- What country invades Russia in 1941?
- Germany
- What did Andrei Bely's father do?
- he was a mathmatician. He was interetsed in relgion and mysticism
- Netsche
- birth of tragedy
- Name three quick things about modernism?
-
alienation
solipsion
complexity - Who is Things Fall Apart by?
- chiuna achebe
- Post-Colonial Literature
- Literature produced by writers involved with nations that have gained independece from colonial regimes.
- What are some characteristics of post-colonial literature
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they celebrate indeginous cultural values and practices while denegrating western coloinial attitudes
there is a intense focus on political issues - back to postmodern, what is a parody
- imitation of the style of another work
- What is pastiche
-
patchwork of several styles
postmodernism - Where was slavery abolished by the British in 1832?
- The West Indies
- During 1871-1912 what was at its height?
- global european impearlism
- in 1884-1885 what conference divided Africa up?
- the berlin Conference
- What were the two countries of Africa that remained free?
- Liberia and Ethiopia
- What is Pan-Africanism?
- Celebration of Africa away from Africa. It was a political movement
- What was iniated in 1913 dealing with the native land act?
- Apartiee-institutional segregation
- What country gaines its independence first from British?
- Ghana
- When was Things Fall Apart published?
- 1958
- What was happening in the 1960's with African colonies?
- They were gaining their independence from british control.