Monday, December 15, 2008
CORRECTION - IMPORTANT
MY POSTS ON WHEATLEY WERE INCORRECT, THE PURITAN REVIVAL WAS WESLEY, NOT WHEATLEY
English tests
Gertrude stein:
The Making of Americans – (e.h. made fun of this)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Paris Hostess
Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio
Nervous breakdown in 1912
Died in Panama
William Faulkner
Yoknapatawpha County
Caddy
Colonel Sartoris Snopes
The Reivers
Underweight
The Sound and the Fury
Count no-count
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Dexter Green
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Zelda Sayre
Jazz age
Ernest Hemingway
The Torrents of Spring
A Moveable Feast
Boxer
Death in the Afternoon
Parodies Dark Laughter
In Our Time
Kansas City Star
Polysyndeton – the intentional repetition of the word and to emphasize certain ideas e.g. in EH’s A Farewell to Arms
Grotesque – the concept that when a human embraces a cause too heartily such that it overrides his fundamental nature, he becomes distorted and turns that cause (truth) into something altered from its original ideals – e.g. in Anderson’s Book of the Grotesque
Iceberg theory – Hemingway’s theory that 7/8’s of a story may be contained under the surface and implied by the 1/8 that is openly stated in words with more dignity than 8/8’s of the words would provide – e.g. in his book A Farewell to Arms
Sophistication – Anderson’s concept that emphasizes the brevity of life as it is sandwiched between two immeasurable periods of nothingness – we go from nothingness life eternal nothingness – makes life pointless – e.g. in Winesburg Ohio
Initiation story – a story that follows the initiation theme – must contain a wounding and ultimate anagnorisis of error as a person is initiated into society – like Sarty in Faulkner’s Barn Burning – in the story, Sarty is wounded by betraying his family
The Human Heart in conflict with itself in relation to barn burning
In Barn Burning, Sarty’s heart is in conflict with his mind. Essentially, what this means is that Sarty’s view of morality was pitted against his blood ties to his family. This is implicit in the narrative when the boy Sarty is unsure whether he should tell the major about his father’s iniquities [e.g. his father burning the barn] – Sarty knows that what his father is doing is wrong; however, at the same time, he knows that he will be disowned for betraying his family. Ultimately, Sarty’s concept of morality wins out and he does tell the major about his father’s malfeasance. The reader is left unsure about whether Abner Snopes dies, but it is evident that, either way, Sarty will be “exiled” from the snopes family
Discuss the influence of SA upon hemingway and Faulkner by references to The Egg, the book of the grotesque and Sophistication – 5 paragraph essay – I am not going to recopy my whole essay but the essence of it is [I got full credit for it] –
Thesis – may be helpful to analyze common mentor: esp the stories The Egg, the book of the grotesque, and sophistication which are manifested in EH and Faulkner’s writings
In A Farewell to Arms – EH pulls from metaphor of egg for life to create his initiation theme – the store-owner in the egg gets mad and throws the egg which is his wounding
SA’s sophistication parallels EH’s nada – nothingness after death – destroys the meaning of life – night and rain are symbols for death in sophistication and A Farewell to Arms respectively – both create fear and anxiety – the fear of nothingness
WF’s detailed descriptions are influenced by writings like The Book of the Grotesque – also, the corruption of ppl is a common theme in SA and WF – [disgust with southern aristocracy]
Jonathan Edwards
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Seeks salvation in private prayer and communal prayer with friends
“I made seeking my salvation the main business of my life”
A late puritan minister who graduated from Yale University and was fired by his local congregation
“There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of god (spider dangling example)
Edward Taylor
“Its Food too fine for Angells, yet come, take // And Eate they fill. Its Heavens sugar Cake”
“Then mine apparel shall display before yee/That I am clothd in Holy robes for glory.”
A puritan minister who wrote meditations to help him prepare to administer communion
“Infinity, when all things it beheld/In Nothing, and of Nothing all did build.”
A graduate of Harvard college
Anne Bradstreet
Comes to America in the second wave of puritan immigration, was only 18 at the time
Writes personal poetry about spousal love and fear of premature death
Suffers from smallpox thought to be god’s correction for her misbehavior
Writes several elegies about the death of grandchildren
“in my young years, about 6 or 7 as I take it, I began to make conscience of my ways”
Rejects the heroic style of poetry for the personal poetry of domestic situations
Arthur Miller
Extols the suitability of the common man for the protagonist of modern tragedy
Spends time on welfare after graduating from college
Shows that the puritans are guilty of the either/fallacy
William Bradford
Author of the History of Plymouth Plantation
Elected many times to the governorship of the puritan colony
Employs the plain style to record the history of the pilgrims at Plymouth
Describes “a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wld men”
Helps write the mayflower compact
Describes the special providence of Samoset and Squanto
Hyperbole is exaggeration for a particular effect. For example, Browning describes a person's love in a love poem as boundless and "to the width and breadth of [their?] soul."
Anaphora is the repetition of a certain phrase at the beginning of each line. For example, a Whitman {Autry crossed it out and wrote Bradstreet; I disagree} poem starts several lines with "if ever."
conceit – a shocking metaphor that connects one subject to another. Edward Taylor describes the "bowels of God" and their "streaming grace" using that conceit.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc – one of the fallacies, the idea that because A happened before B, A caused B e.g. man looking at fire and fire exploding in “The Crucible”
God’s Sovereignty – the puritanical concept that god is all powerful and will take care of the world – also that god has already decided who will be saved and who will not and most people go to hell – this concept is presented well in Bradford’s Spiritual Autobiography
Anne Bradstreet describes the expression at length in her spiritual autobiography as a manifestation of God's sovereignty and yet mercy. She reports that in her early years as a teenager she was vain and immoral. "It pleased God," she wrote, to inflict her with smallpox as a sort of correctional device. God was not required to do so, but He did so out of mercy. Later, she repeatedly had difficulties bearing children. It pleased God to continue her barrenness until she had prayed enough. Bradstreet continues with the examples and then explains the purpose. It pleases God to exercise His sovereignty to save a wwretched Anne from hell through the chastisement of inflictions.
Thesis: The Puritan housewife places some other party over themselves.
A. Edward Taylor
wife = God through the images of the weaver
God places everyone else over Himself (cf. the "robes of grace" for everyone's benefit)
B. Anne Bradstreet
wife places children over herself (despite the risk of death in childbirth, there is extensive textual evidence that the wife values the child over her life)
C. Arthur Miller
1. Putnam
wife places her children over herself (largely BS, but she charges witchcraft because most of her children have died)
2. Proctor
wife places husband over herself (in accordance with the modern image of the housewife; she is modest and accedes to J. Proctor's will, and she performs household chores)
3. Nurse
wife places the community and God over herself (largely BS, but she is pious even though anger at God and community would have been justified given the accusations against her)
Gertrude stein:
The Making of Americans – (e.h. made fun of this)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Paris Hostess
Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio
Nervous breakdown in 1912
Died in Panama
William Faulkner
Yoknapatawpha County
Caddy
Colonel Sartoris Snopes
The Reivers
Underweight
The Sound and the Fury
Count no-count
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Dexter Green
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Zelda Sayre
Jazz age
Ernest Hemingway
The Torrents of Spring
A Moveable Feast
Boxer
Death in the Afternoon
Parodies Dark Laughter
In Our Time
Kansas City Star
Polysyndeton – the intentional repetition of the word and to emphasize certain ideas e.g. in EH’s A Farewell to Arms
Grotesque – the concept that when a human embraces a cause too heartily such that it overrides his fundamental nature, he becomes distorted and turns that cause (truth) into something altered from its original ideals – e.g. in Anderson’s Book of the Grotesque
Iceberg theory – Hemingway’s theory that 7/8’s of a story may be contained under the surface and implied by the 1/8 that is openly stated in words with more dignity than 8/8’s of the words would provide – e.g. in his book A Farewell to Arms
Sophistication – Anderson’s concept that emphasizes the brevity of life as it is sandwiched between two immeasurable periods of nothingness – we go from nothingness life eternal nothingness – makes life pointless – e.g. in Winesburg Ohio
Initiation story – a story that follows the initiation theme – must contain a wounding and ultimate anagnorisis of error as a person is initiated into society – like Sarty in Faulkner’s Barn Burning – in the story, Sarty is wounded by betraying his family
The Human Heart in conflict with itself in relation to barn burning
In Barn Burning, Sarty’s heart is in conflict with his mind. Essentially, what this means is that Sarty’s view of morality was pitted against his blood ties to his family. This is implicit in the narrative when the boy Sarty is unsure whether he should tell the major about his father’s iniquities [e.g. his father burning the barn] – Sarty knows that what his father is doing is wrong; however, at the same time, he knows that he will be disowned for betraying his family. Ultimately, Sarty’s concept of morality wins out and he does tell the major about his father’s malfeasance. The reader is left unsure about whether Abner Snopes dies, but it is evident that, either way, Sarty will be “exiled” from the snopes family
Discuss the influence of SA upon hemingway and Faulkner by references to The Egg, the book of the grotesque and Sophistication – 5 paragraph essay – I am not going to recopy my whole essay but the essence of it is [I got full credit for it] –
Thesis – may be helpful to analyze common mentor: esp the stories The Egg, the book of the grotesque, and sophistication which are manifested in EH and Faulkner’s writings
In A Farewell to Arms – EH pulls from metaphor of egg for life to create his initiation theme – the store-owner in the egg gets mad and throws the egg which is his wounding
SA’s sophistication parallels EH’s nada – nothingness after death – destroys the meaning of life – night and rain are symbols for death in sophistication and A Farewell to Arms respectively – both create fear and anxiety – the fear of nothingness
WF’s detailed descriptions are influenced by writings like The Book of the Grotesque – also, the corruption of ppl is a common theme in SA and WF – [disgust with southern aristocracy]
Jonathan Edwards
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Seeks salvation in private prayer and communal prayer with friends
“I made seeking my salvation the main business of my life”
A late puritan minister who graduated from Yale University and was fired by his local congregation
“There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of god (spider dangling example)
Edward Taylor
“Its Food too fine for Angells, yet come, take // And Eate they fill. Its Heavens sugar Cake”
“Then mine apparel shall display before yee/That I am clothd in Holy robes for glory.”
A puritan minister who wrote meditations to help him prepare to administer communion
“Infinity, when all things it beheld/In Nothing, and of Nothing all did build.”
A graduate of Harvard college
Anne Bradstreet
Comes to America in the second wave of puritan immigration, was only 18 at the time
Writes personal poetry about spousal love and fear of premature death
Suffers from smallpox thought to be god’s correction for her misbehavior
Writes several elegies about the death of grandchildren
“in my young years, about 6 or 7 as I take it, I began to make conscience of my ways”
Rejects the heroic style of poetry for the personal poetry of domestic situations
Arthur Miller
Extols the suitability of the common man for the protagonist of modern tragedy
Spends time on welfare after graduating from college
Shows that the puritans are guilty of the either/fallacy
William Bradford
Author of the History of Plymouth Plantation
Elected many times to the governorship of the puritan colony
Employs the plain style to record the history of the pilgrims at Plymouth
Describes “a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wld men”
Helps write the mayflower compact
Describes the special providence of Samoset and Squanto
Hyperbole is exaggeration for a particular effect. For example, Browning describes a person's love in a love poem as boundless and "to the width and breadth of [their?] soul."
Anaphora is the repetition of a certain phrase at the beginning of each line. For example, a Whitman {Autry crossed it out and wrote Bradstreet; I disagree} poem starts several lines with "if ever."
conceit – a shocking metaphor that connects one subject to another. Edward Taylor describes the "bowels of God" and their "streaming grace" using that conceit.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc – one of the fallacies, the idea that because A happened before B, A caused B e.g. man looking at fire and fire exploding in “The Crucible”
God’s Sovereignty – the puritanical concept that god is all powerful and will take care of the world – also that god has already decided who will be saved and who will not and most people go to hell – this concept is presented well in Bradford’s Spiritual Autobiography
Anne Bradstreet describes the expression at length in her spiritual autobiography as a manifestation of God's sovereignty and yet mercy. She reports that in her early years as a teenager she was vain and immoral. "It pleased God," she wrote, to inflict her with smallpox as a sort of correctional device. God was not required to do so, but He did so out of mercy. Later, she repeatedly had difficulties bearing children. It pleased God to continue her barrenness until she had prayed enough. Bradstreet continues with the examples and then explains the purpose. It pleases God to exercise His sovereignty to save a wwretched Anne from hell through the chastisement of inflictions.
Thesis: The Puritan housewife places some other party over themselves.
A. Edward Taylor
wife = God through the images of the weaver
God places everyone else over Himself (cf. the "robes of grace" for everyone's benefit)
B. Anne Bradstreet
wife places children over herself (despite the risk of death in childbirth, there is extensive textual evidence that the wife values the child over her life)
C. Arthur Miller
1. Putnam
wife places her children over herself (largely BS, but she charges witchcraft because most of her children have died)
2. Proctor
wife places husband over herself (in accordance with the modern image of the housewife; she is modest and accedes to J. Proctor's will, and she performs household chores)
3. Nurse
wife places the community and God over herself (largely BS, but she is pious even though anger at God and community would have been justified given the accusations against her)
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