Exam 1 of E316N UT Online Version

Picaresque Satire Parody

funny adventure like Voltaire's Candide and Don Quixote de la Mancha Colbert Report, Daily show, making fun of curent events Scary movie, a mockery of something

John Keats

- Able to get respect in 26 yrs in the world of poetry - Died of turbeculosis, such as anton chkhov and franz kafka o Saw his mother and brother die of this; he self diagnosed himself with TB - Because of the death he experienced, some of his poems have a dreadful coming of death - Father was an ostler, died when he was 8, looked after horses at inn - After father died, he studied harder and became a trouble maker, called "little keats" - Mom was innkeepers daughter, died when he was 14, shortly after he was sent to be a surgeons apprentice by stepdad

Juniot Diaz and "Drown"

- An immigrant of African descent from the Dominican republic o First day at school dressed as wetback comedy character - Title of the story represents many things o Maybe dying at night in the pool o Drowning in poverty from everything around the main character; and to the culture his parents have put him in - Yunior and Drown where based off of homer's odyssey o The main character lives home w/ mom o Father is away on a trip at florida, to come back sometime He is living here w/ another woman o He is a drug dealer, yunior; his friend is going to college; Beto o Yunior and Beto had a homosexual encounter with each other Reason why Yumior does not want to see Beto At the begging of the story Yunior calls Beto a 'pato' • Meaning homosexual - finds out when they make out 2 years before o Pool is meeting ground for all of the youth in the neighborhood o Some nights he goes out with his friends alex and danny They like to drive by homosexual club and yell profanity • Explains why he is ashamed of his homosexual encounter

William Wordsworth

- Born in Lake District, England - Mom died when 8 yrs; father was always away being a lawyer - Close w/ sister, Dorothy - Walked tour of france and alps at 20 after French revolution - Published w/ Samuel Taylor Lyrical Ballads, Very Language of men - His poetry was attentive to the moment , it was "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" but this spontaneity is tempered by composure, as it is "emotion recollected in tranquility

Franz Kafka

- Born in prague o Majority catholic, Czech speaking city in autro Hungarian empire o Trained as a lawyer and went to work for an insurance company - Was engaged 3 times, twice too the same woman o Shit never worked out - Had a bad relationship with dad o Dad was a self - made awesome guy o His dad never got along with his writings, thought they where jokes - Unlike his characters he was a successful senior executive of businesses o Unhappy with day job, saying it did not give him enough time for his writing - Died at sanatorium outside of berlin o Of turberculosis at 41 in 1924 - He was a jew and so was his family o Amongst many Christians - He did not live long enough; had he would've probably have died in the concentration camps like his 3 sisters - Born and lived in Czechoslovakia as a German-speaking Jew. Not a Czech speaker (alienating him from some Czechs). Not a Yiddish speaker (which alienated him from some Jews). Not religious, per se. - A difficult relationship with his father. Father was a no-nonsense, take-charge, ham-fisted successful businessman. Young Franz was a "sensitive lad," not the kind of son such a man hopes for. Once, when Kafka had published a volume of stories and had given it as a present to his father, he discovered it eight months later in his father's home, the pages uncut.

Franz Kafka Continued

- Difficult relations to women. Underlying fear that he would be inadequate to their expectations, but more so, that the demands of marriage would interfere with his devotion to writing. Said once that his ideal existence would be deep in a castle, with writing material, and food once a day. A famous statement: "Literature is an ax for the frozen sea inside me." - Difficult relation to health. Dies at 41 years of age, of the disease, TB, that killed Chekhov. Was ill for a great deal of his adult life. Was in the range of 6'1" and weighed about 135 pounds. Often had unusual diets or cures for his illness. One involved Fletcherization, another involved milk. - Kafka's heroes almost all alienated, isolated, alone, at the mercy of forces that are beyond their or anyone's understanding. When asked of the seeing hopelessness of his vision, he said, "Oh, there is hope, an infinite amount of hope, just not for us." - Kafka had three sisters, all of whom died at the hands of the Nazis in the concentration camps. - On his deathbed, he made his great friend Max Brod vow to destroy his unpublished works.

Giacomo Leopardi

- Driven to knowledge by aristocratic family - Late in teen years, spine began to curve dramatically, became an obstacle to romantic fulfillment; as got older sight failed as well

Voltaire Continued

- Voltaire was against democracy; instead wanted enlightened DESPOT: o Sensitive, rational king who welcomed . dissent and sought counsel of philosophers - Spent rest of life at Ferney o Town in border of France and Switzerland o Here he wrote Candide - Was not an atheist; believed in Deism o Faith in god who creates world and then stands back - Died a national hero, continued scandals after death

Francois - Marie Arouet "Voltaire" and the Candide

- His work landed him in jail o As he criticized many high level officials for corruption and self-regarding - Even though in jail, and in prisoned - He was a troublemaker to his parents - Sent to boarding school at age of ten, run by Jesuits - Dad wanted him to be a lawyer; became a poet instead o Still wrote when taken to jail; Wrote Oedipus in jail, and was extremely successful; winning him the pen name "Voltaire" - Exiled and in England for 3 years after quarrel with French nobleman o Met Swift and Pope o Enjoyed freedom from censorship and punishment here in England - Returned to France with an even stronger sense of right to speak his mind o Caused him to be exiled again; writings where called " most dangerous to religion and civil order"; spent it with his lover Madame du Chatelet - 1750 moved to Potsdam, Prussia to live with Frederick the Great o Who wanted philosophy, literature, and free thinking/speech to flourish

Modernism and world literature

- Historically, urbanization, the industrial revolution, and the unprecedented horrors of industrialized warfare in WWI provide the backdrop. - Faith in the nation and the church is greatly diminished. - A complaint about Realism is that showing the surface reality is just a small percentage of reality. Showing what exists beneath the surface is equally important. Freud is instrumental in pointing to the existence of the subconscious, the unconscious, and the dream as very real components of human existence. - The real as defined by religious authorities is called radically into question. It is up to man, and particularly the artist, to fulfill the role of creator. If there is a sacred order, it will be created in art. - Authors employ radical techniques of fragmentation, disruption of chronology, the poetic utterance within prose, of multiple references to classics of literature, to construct works of literature that are difficult to approach and understand. (Virginia Woolf, especially in her fiction, is one of the writers who exemplify these techniques). Detractors find this approach elitist and sterile; advocates cite the active reading practices necessary to read the work with profit. - New type of writing tht linked political crises with a crisis or representation o Felt that old way of portraying human experience was no longer adequate - 3 thinkers to create a new norm in writing o Karl marx Saw struggle between economic classes for control in economic production as the motor force of history • Thinking inspired communist revolution in china and Russia during 20th century o Friedeich Nietzsche Attacked belief of god and thought that humans are rational • His thinking is that we shape our notions of a variety of perspectives

what where lil Willy's poems ?

- Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," - "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" - "The World is Too Much With Us"

Candide and revelance to real life

- Lived through the earthquake of Nov. 1 , 1755; 30,000 ppl died o Thought how could people could think that this was God's will - Candide is short, and simple : has humour as well as dark twists of rape and abuse; he designs all of this to just seem as a giant joke; designed to ridicule the system he was under - The candide influenced great leaders like Thomas Jeff. And Benjami Frank., Thomas Paine in writing the American revolution - French fevolutionaries held up Voltaire as a hero amongst them - Some called him the antichrist, but he will forever be a legend

The Romantic Period: Poetry

- New era of people moving from rural areas, to more urban industrialized areas o Since nature was becoming less and less usual Poets began writing about the beauty in nature, dreams, and of emotions

What where lil Keats's poems ?

- Ode to a nightingdale - "Ode on a Grecian Urn" - "To Autumn"

Fyodor Dostoevsky

- One of the most famous realist writers of the 19th century - Father died by his own serf, servant on their estate - He was arrested and taken to be killed by a firing squad, only to be pardoned at the last second - During his Siberian imprisonment he was only allowed one book, the new testament of the bible, because of this his politics transformed a lot - Had epilepsy, health issues - Gambling problems, always had debt - "The brothers karamasov" , his work, caused him popularity after a lifetime of loneliness - Shortly after success he dies

The UG Man

- Part 1 o The underground man tries to explain what an underground man o One that feels vengeance and hate, and is unable to express it because every time he tries he gets knocked down He explains an elephant and a mouse • As a mouse you can never get back at the animal that pushed o You must just stay down o Better to just do nothing o Guy is a cinic with a horrible life Hates his life • Has wasted 20 years by doing absolutely nothing • Pretty much a useless piece of shiit lol Has a messed up liver Enjoys his own misery , and hates it

The UG man continued

- Part 2 o A cop picks him up and moves him so he can get by Spends a whole chapter talking about how is going to get back at him by "accidentally" bumping into him Ridicuolos • Buys new clothes by getting advancements from work, and borrows money from an antony dude Eventuall ends up bumping into him, his revenge, after several failed attempts o Has two friends, anton and Simonov Sees anton every Tuesday • Meets with anton and grey haired friend Simonov, schoolmate • Has not seen for 1 year o 2 friends are there when the underground man gets there Ferfitchkin, is one friend : a Russian german • Monkey face, vulgar, and a drunk • Zverkov's bitch o Borrowed money from Zverkov, sucked up a fiuck load Trudolyubov, • Tall, young fellow in army, no importance to underground man at the time o Distant relation to Zverknov • They are planning a party for their friend Zverkov, who is the underground mans old schoolmate as well, they did not get a long, might be enemies def. not friends They had kept up relations with him for 3 years UG ( underground man) agrees to pay 7 shillings to contribute to the party, only has 9 shilings, needs to pay his servant Apollon 7 shillings, went to the party instead of paying servant • Party at hotel de paris UG said some stupid shiit at the party, trying to insite a response from guests • When they moved from table to couch, UG did not join them but just paced the room from 8 to 11 Wanted to incite a smart conversation, just ended up infuriating everyone Got into a duel with Mr. Ferfitchkin ( just talking shiit thought)

What are Leopardi's poems ?

- The Infinite - To himself - To Sylvia

What are ol' Chaaarles' poems ?

- To the reader - Correspondence - A Carcass - Songs of Autumn - Spleen LXXI

A room of one's own summary

- Woolf is given the chance to write about women and fiction - Says that a woman is unable to write if thy do not have a place to herself and a salary/ compensation - The romantics among you will object, that "all the true writer needs is a scrap of paper and the nub of a pencil, stale bread and water, and genius will win out. And maybe an example could be found of this having occurred. But for Woolf, "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well" - Woolf talks about a lunch at college of mostly men which is great and lumiscent o There is a huge abundance of food o Everyone has a great meal with wine with a lot of food - Unlike the women's new college which has just enough food for everyone o The quality of food is nowhere near as good as the other college o And theire is def. an unequality to the amount of money the women college gets vs the mostly male college Using this to reflect more on the inequalities facing women during a chat with a friend, Mary Seton, after the lunch

Realism

- in the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural element

Alice Munro

- she was Canadian - her parents where fox farmers in real life, and dad was a door to door salesmen of wares, pottery, unlike in the book he sells medicine and other knick knacks o pretty much a gas station w/o oil and food, just the most basic shit - got into college to do journalism, after published first story in school magazine and all the praise she received, she switched her major to English - most of her stories o characters hide their true identidy from everyone; although they seem eager to share more a distant type of realistic writing; not everyone shares everything o the narrator uses her real life expdriences; and then using that as a basis adds in some really good bullshit and makes a good story

What did lil VJ Woolf write ?

A room of one's own

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire: - 5 - Began a poetic movement called Symbolism in France o use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities - Mother remarries at 6, when dad dies,controversial argumentative relationship follows with new stepfather - Parents devised a plan to send his to travel to get him away from corrupting influences in paris - Sent him to india, but jumped ship in Mauritius and worked way back into paris - Lived among dandies, prostitutes, and artists, and got syphilis as a young man - Met Jeanne Duval, his love when he came back to Paris - Known as critic of modern art and a translator for Edgar Allan Poe - His collection Fleurs de Mal, taken out of bookstores for offensive nature for its poems, bringing this dude great notoriety in Paris - Sees human nature as corrupt; since was around so many prostitutes, and bad people for the majority of his life - Poems are known to be very vivid, trying to get reader to feel through his words

Rene Descartes and Dr. Johnson

Dr. johnsons dictionary defines reason: - Power by which man deduces one proposition from . another, or proceeds from premises to consequences Rene Descartes - I think, therefore I am Declaring mind source of truth and meaning

- "To the Reader" Summary Continued Baudelaire

Human beings long for good but easily yield to the temptations placed in their path by satan because of weakness inherent in their wills People repent, knowing fully well they will repent again • And to the muddy path we gaily return,/ Believing that vile tears will wash away our sin o He writes that he felt drawn in two opposite directions That a spiritual force caused him to desire mount toward god, and that an animal force drew him joyfully down to satan o "Each day toward Hell we descend another step He uses we and our a lot to explain the similarity w/ him and the reader o Writes that worst sin is boredom toward the end

Enlightenment Era

Moderns vs. ancients Time when people decided to stop listen to divine right from gods to rule as kings, and decided to question this idea A lot of wars where exploding all over the world, civil wars, revolutions and social instability ruled this era Time when slavery was started to be questioned as ethically or not The big question was, if all human beings had the ability to reason like all the others

Virginia Woolf continued

She later joined a group of Bloomsbury group • Homosexuals and such • Important writers o Roger fry, Clive Bell, John Keynes, E.M. Foster Did reviews for Times and taught literature at Morley college • Spent time at adult suffrage movement and feminist group o Ended up marrying Leonor Wolf and opened Hogarth Press in 1917 Published works of T.S. Elliot and others o She produced her best work two years before death, while struggling with mental and physical illness o Published between the arcs in 1941 o Dorwned herself in 1941 shortly after publishing Knew an attack was coming, knew it would entail being confined so said **** it I am going to die

What did Franz Kafka Write ?

The Metamorphosis

What did Fyodor Dostoevsky write ?

The Underground Man

What did lil Alice Munro write ?

Walker Brothers Cowboy

- The Metamorphosis Summary Continued

What does Gregor's metamorphosis symbolize? o There is not one definitive answer to this question. There are many interpretations, but Kafka's purpose is intentionally vague. Here are some of the theories. o Some believe that Gregor's metamorphosis is purely symbolic, and has not actually happened. They believe that his mutation is symbolic extension of the empty and insignificant life that Gregor leads as a traveling sales lackey. Gregor is German for "vermin." Gregor is like a vermin/insect because his job is degrading, and unfulfilling, and his boss could easily squash him. However, Gregor also has hopes that elevate him above this vermin/insect status. He is proud to help his family, he wants to help his sister go to the conservatory etc....This indicates that there is no one-to-one symbolic interpretation of the story. o 2. Some believe that the metamorphosis symbolizes people's lack of importance in modern society, or Gregor's failure in the world of business. o 3. Others think the metamorphosis could be a reflection of Kafka's low self-esteem as seen through the eyes of his father. o 4. Others see the story as a general contemplation on isolation and failure in the modern world.

o Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

afrcan prince tricked into slavery and taken to new world

Ode on a Grecian Urn" Summary Keats

o 1st stanza Poet sees an ancient Grecian urn, a vase Sees it as frozen in time, that it tells a history, wonders about what legends the figures depict and from where Wonders of the picture of men chasing women • What struggle, mad pursuit, what pipes and timbrels o 2nd stanza Looks at picture of lovers with a pipe beneath a tree Pipes unheard melodies are sweeter than anything because are unaffected w/ time Tells guy to not be sad b/c he cant kiss lover, be happy because she is frozen in time, never age o 3rd stanza Happy that tree will never shed trees of lovers in 2nd stanza Happy that pipers melodies will forever be new, happy that lovers love last forever, unlike mortal love which lapses into breathing human passion and vanishes, leaving only a burning forehead and a parching tounge

Ode on a Grecian Urn" Summary Continued Keats

o 4th Stanza Looks a picture on urn of villagers on their way to sacrifice a heifner, cow that hasn't had kids Wonders where they are going, and where they have come from Imagines town to be forever silent since all who have left it, will never be back o Last stanza Sees the urn itself, that it is like eternith and " doth tease us out of thought" Saying that when he is long gone, the urn will still be there telling its enigmatic lesson • Beauty is truth, truth beauty • Says that is the only thing the urn knows, and the only thing it needs to know

- "Ode to a Nightingale" Summary Continued Keats

o 4th stanza Tells bird to fly away and he will follow But not with alcohol but with poetry, that will give him viewless winds Says he is already w/ the bird, describes forest and says moonlight is hidden by trees, except for the light breaking through when breeze blows through branches o 5th stanza Cant see flowers in the glade, the haze; can guess them in the darkness "the murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves, flies on flowers o 6th stanza Listens to bird in dark, says he is half in love w/ idea of dying Calls death soft names in many rhymes Surrounded by birds music, thinks idea of death richer than ever Longs to cease upon the midnight w/ no pain While the bird pours its soul fwd If he died the bird would keep singing, but he would have ears in vain and be no longer able to hear o 7th stanza Tells bird it is immortal, that was not born for death Birds song has always been heard, ancient emperors and clows o 8th stanza Bird fliest too far, his immmagination fails him and can no longer reacall if the birds music was a vision or a walking dream Unaware if he is awake or asleep o This shiit goes hard af

A Carcass summary Baudelaire

o A bright and sunny day of a walk with the writer and his lover, or his soul.. his most loved o There he finds a decaying carcass, doesn't say what the carcass is off Could be animal or human o Compares carcasss to a *****, meaning direct shame too death o He at the end talks about his real companion, the one that elevates his gross corpse from the grave o Imagines at the end the worms kissing him Pretty much saying that he sees what will become of all his loved one and the writer himself

UG pt 3

o After the party, they leave to continue it elsewhere o The UG invites himself again, not before pleading more money from Simonov because he doesn't have money to go On his way by himselve, he imagines he slapping zverkov and pulling his Olympias hair o Finally gets to the after party location People aren't there , it is a brothel ?? takes one of the girls home o She is cold to him in the morning He tells her she could have a better life somewhere else, she asks how does he know that it would really be better than where she is at now • She seems contemp being a hooker/ *****/ prostitute o She leaves but then comes back This happens after UG and appolon, his servant, have a problem • Apollon is waiting for his wage, theUG wants him to beg for it o Apollon does not do it, UG gets mad and threatens to hit him if he doesn't go to the cops and turn him in UG is fiucking crazy, like adrenalinie junky that is always miserable and depressed o Then Liza comes and he runs to Apollon to give him tea and a dozen.. dohnut...things o • UG insults Liza, Liza runs to care for him after he starts crying, then he runs away • Gives her crumpled up money, then runs away • Liza leaves, he runs after her but he does not find her and never sees her again

"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," Summary Wordsworth

o Begins in a place he hasn't been in 5 years The woods that give him so much tranquility through his daily life when he is away from the woods o Gives him tranquility, seclusion, and more connection to himself and the world, feeling more with nature o He can now sense the presence of something far more subtle, powerful, and fundamental in the light of the setting suns, the ocean, the air itself, and even in the mind of man; this energy seems to him "a motion and a spirit that impels / All thinking thoughts.... / And rolls through all things." For that reason, he says, he still loves nature, still loves mountains and pastures and woods, for they anchor his purest thoughts and guard the heart and soul of his "moral being." o Mostly he is happy that he hopes that his sister will be able to connect with him and nature the way he feels connected, and he hopes she is able to even after his passing

- "Ode to a Nightingale" Summary -John Keats

o Begins w/ decleration of heartache, feels numb like he has done drugs o Hears nightingale singing, a bird singing o says that drowsy numbness is not from envy of the birds happiness, but from sharing it too completely o happy bird sings music of summer from the forest o 2nd stanza Longs for the oblivion of alcohol Wishes wine for a draught of vintage, taste like country and like peasant dances, letting him leave the world unseen Disappears into forest w/ bird o 3rd stanza Wants to disappear, fade away, to forget troubles that the damn bird never knew • The weariness, the fever, and the fret of human life with its consciousness that everything is mortal and nothing lasts o Says people get sick and die bascially • Youth grows pale and spectre-thin and dies; beauty can not keep her lustrous eyes

lil Keats continued

o Happened after mom abandoned him and stepdad, she came back only when very sickly - Left w/ enough knowledge to be an apothecary - Best work was 1 year after brothers death, 1819 - Love w/ Fanny Brawne, movie Bright Star, stars Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Brawne o Did not work out though due to his debts, and health - Ended up dying in rome at age of 25 - Became really famous after death - His work style o Great word choice and his dwelling on death, love, pain, art, and nature make one of a kind art poetry

- The Metamorphosis Summary

o He is a businessman o He is working on a frame for a cut out picture from a newsource o Turns into this hideous bug/insect 1st his voice was to leave..after turning into a bug Then his preferences and his human like traits • Would not drink mil when brought • When brought fresh and rotten fruit/ only ate rotten food The he started crawling on ceielings and walls, left tracks Started hiding under things in room, scared of ceiling o Story is told in third person pov o Sister really cares for him; even after he turns into a bug o Is trying to pay off dads debt; reason he works so hard; and to provide for his family o Neither parents work, sister just studies at school o After he becomes a bug Sister brings him food to eat Hates it Then she brings him a bunch of nasty food • He loves it, especially the rotting cheese Eventually everyone in the house gets sick of him o They start taking out all of the furniture from his room, then they begin to put useless shit in there o They rent out some of the rooms to make extra money The tenants one day when his sister is playing the violin; see him coming out of the room Get freaked out and hit him with a chair o After that he begins to move slower; with pain and agony o Eventually he dies and the maid notices it when she is cleaning the place o Grete(sister) begins working at a store, Father gets work at a bank(HIS OLD JOB), Mother begins doing sewing piecework and most of the housework now that they have laid off their servant. The family also takes in three lodgers, and puts most of their excess belongings in Gregor's room. o Doesn't like lodgers They are the reason shit is going into his room and they don't give proper behavior too Grete when she plays the violin Ends when they take a drive out of town -

The Infinite Summary Leopardi

o He is sitting viewing the hill o He is seeing the open spaces that are quiet and he can hear his own heart beat o He hears the wind on the leaves, compares it to his voice o Remembers the infinite silence with his voice, remembers eternal dead seasons, living present... where even shipwreks seem sweet in his sea

"Ode on Intimations of Immortality" Summary continued Wordsworth

o He thinks that the younger you are the more connected you are with heaven That as you grow older you loose that connection to heaven, where you came from And even though that is the situation, it makes him feel knowing that the youth are racing to become older o At the end he remembers his childhood, and that makes him happy knowing that he will always have the memories of being young, a time when he was closer to heaven and calmness, without all the stresses in the world that he has to deal with now

Juniot Diaz and "Drown" Continued

o He'd ditch school when Beto actually went to schoo o 2 times he did some gay shit Watching a porn movie, Beto gave him a hand job After swimming, they went back to betos place and they did something • Yunior thought about Beto going off to college after he came or something lol o Mom is talking yuniors dad; he is asking for money; he has another family in florida which is where he is with; he is talking her up too trick her into giving him money That is sad

- "To the Reader" Summary Baudelaire

o His important themes are based off this o Men and his vices Talks about a world of sin That it is the devil that controls everyones actions, and that the readter and the speaker of the poem are only provoking bad behavior That humans are more ugly, evil, and fouler than any other creature, monster, or demon on this earth That on one side of humanity is reaching for fantasy and false honesty, whilst the other is exposed to the boredom of modern life

David Hume

o Idea of individual identity is a fiction constructed by our minds to make discontinuous experiences and memories seems continuous and whole

"Ode on Intimations of Immortality" Summary Wordsworth

o In this poem the writer sees nature as being a child, and sees how his view of the wilderness has changed since when he was only a boy o He imagines a boy in the woods, and tries to perceive his emotions and thoughts about the world, and just show how beautiful it is that nature with time has changed that boy into the man that he will become o Starts by saying that he remembers a time when he could see all the glory of the outdoors, but he can not anymore o He says he can see some beauty in the forest, but that a glory has passed from the earth The rose and the rainbows are still beautiful, but something is amiss o He is stricken with grief by the sight of young lambs playing, because he is not young anymore

Virginia Woolf

o Modern novelist James Joyce; marcel Proust; Thomas MannTalked about • women in society, the constructioiof gender identity, and the predicament of the women writer o daughter of 4 o dad was Victorian edito leslie Stephen and mom was Julia Stephen o 2 brothers sent to collee o She and her sister vanessa bell where taught at home from fathers library collection Virginia hated this shit o Mother died and then she became responsible for household o Dad died then she wrote a memoir for him o Was fragil because of whooping vough when she was 6 yrs old Suffered psychological breakdowns frequently after parents died Consulted at least 12 doctors; felt first hand developments of medicines for treating the mentally ill From Victorian era to shell shock of WWI o Woolf her sister and her brother moved to central London after fathers death and took house in Bloomsbury district

- Criticism of social appearance and truth of human nature o These writers call attention to deceptiveness and possible misuses of social norms

o Moliere's Tartuffe Expose of religious shams o Jonathan Swift Lashing the English for institutionalized hypocrisy o Voltaire and Johnson Find that moralists don't practice what they preach

- "To Autumn" Summary Keats

o Opens w/ describing autumn and abundance and intimacy w/ sun o 2nd stanza Autumn is female goddess, siting on granary floor, hair soft-lifted by wind Often seen sleeping in fields, watching cider-press squeezing juice from apples Hair is soft lifted by wind o 3rd stanza Tell autum to not wonder if spring music has left, but to listen to he own music Twilight, small gnts hum among river sallows/ willow trees Ful grown lambs beat from hills, crickets sing, robins whistle from gardens and swallows gather for coming migration • All these things sing to the sky for autumn

Correspondence Summary Baudelaire

o Poem about unity of nature and human perceptions o About the unty that one becomes aware of only after thinking of one as part of the surroundings, not as two different entitities o When you reach a perfect equilibrium and you feel enlightened, like taking hallucinogen drugs AKA 'shrooms', acid, or opium Trying to make you feel what he feels though words One of his trade moves

Modernism and world literature

o Sigmund Freud Published first paper of psychoanalysis • The interpretation of dreams Studied sexual relationships, father and son, destructive instincs - Albert Einstein o Theory of relativity - Other shit o X-rays, radioactivity, quantum theory - Began in Europe; modernism - New types of art was coming about reaking of modernist ways o Charles baudelaire and stephane Mallarme Drew on symbolist techniqures and a high conception of power and significiance o TS Elliot the waste land responded to prevalent sense of devastation after the first world war - modernist o shifted balance toward interority Thus rather than offer objective decreasingly focused on the more limited perspective of an individual, often idiosyncratic character - Realist o Balance their attention between the objective, outside world and the inner world of their characters - Plays that made the 4th wall o Ignoring anyone that is not on stage to interact with the show - People used it to express their views on nationalism o African American writers Web Du Bois - Used for political statements in asia and china

Women where meant to be housewives, but few where fighting for equality to do more than just be at home

o Sor Juanna Ines de la Cruz o Women expanded knowledge by getting together at Salons; women of the upper classes o Women published books for first time, and translated from greek, and other forms of literary criticism

When did the Enlightenment Era begin and end ?

o Starts in Europe and Americas around 1650 - 1790 o Ends when French revolution ends .. 1789 o Starts when king Charles I is executed

To Sylvia Summary Leopardi

o Starts with talking of beauty still shining in laughing eyes, and the light upon her o Quiet rooms and streets around, w/ endless singing when sat happy and content o He would go to fathers balcony and hear her singing, he would grasp her hand and see far away with her, kiss her with tounge ?? o Gets kind of dark, saying why he cant feel those feelings anymore o Talks about Silvia dying from disease, died young " did not see years flower", could not have friends talking to her about love o Talks about how his hopes and dreams died with her little by little; his new friend saddened hope; he talks about is this the life they always dreamt about, one where he was miserable without her; talks about her always having been pointing to deaths coldness and her silent grave

To Himself Leopardi

o Talking about death, his heart is resting now...in the last deception o Talking about nothing deserving to see the heart beat again, that it has "trembled" beated enough times o Talking about despise yourself, nature, the sinister reality is that death commands our common ruin; and the infinite vanity of everything

"The World is too much with us" Summary Wordsworth

o The narrator curses the world for having lost its connection to nature. He wishes he had been born and raised pagan according to a different vision of the world, so that: "standing on this pleasant lea," he might see images of ancient gods rising from the waves, a sight that would cheer him greatly. He imagines "Proteus rising from the sea," and Triton "blowing his wreathed horn."

Songs of Autumn Summary Baudelaire

o The season represents the poets current physical and mental state o The warmth of the season reps happiness and joy, while the close approaching winter signifies the chilly and gllomy season that is yet to come o However this season is between summer and winter, so it somehow reps. The writers anxiety of what is yet to come o He seems like he is trapped to an oncoming experience he might not be all too ready to experience

Walker Brothers Cowboy Summary

o Young girl and her brother o Family was somewhat wealthy, owned a profitable fox farm Pricess fell, family should have quit when had the chance Decided to hold on for too long, lost everything Now dad sells drugs and shampoos, he is a door to door salesmen o Mom hates life, seems really depressed and shit o Dad takes kids to see a friend, Lora Most probably an xgirlfriend, or uncomfortable close friend to the wife o Made them dance and come inside after seeing blind grandma 1st blind person narrator has seen o When tried to get the dad to dance, dad felt uncomfortable and left Dad drank whiskey, which he never does with her o They left and narrator knows she shouldn't say anything About the whiskey or the dancing maybe

Spleen LXXI Baudelaire

o beginning the first three stanzas of "Spleen" (IV) all with the word "When," Baudelaire formally mirrors his theme of monotonous boredom and the speaker's surrender to the inexorable regularity and longevity of his spleen

Marxism

o the theory that every social, political, or religious movement springs from a desire by one group of people to take economic advantage of another group; taught that history would naturally progress toward perfection (communism)