World Lit (ENG 230) Exam 3: Dr. Mook – Flashcards

1. Alienation and Freedom - "Sunday Morning" -Wallace Stevens

2. Questioning the value of rational order - John Cage's 4' 33"

1. Photography 2. World War I

-It had a slow and meandering start as the narrator introduces the reader to the path -makes mention of things that are not relevant - the pace quickens as we meet Piepsam -learn about his past and see him unleash his anger upon "Life."

The story of the little boy who was attached to his mother...and she wasn't able to come say goodnight to him at first so he was upset.

-lots of random details about the scenery

-Reflective nature -Talks about writing

has a lot of children in the story and refers to a grasshopper and bell cricket

the girl cannot love the man because of her father, they speak Arabic together, escape to their own place

-Zakeo -wants to spend time with his grandpa -mother beats his father

-Orpheus was the son of Apollo and a muse named Calliope -His father gave him a lyre, and Orpheus perfected the instrument -No person, animal, or plant could resist Orpheus' songs. -Orpheus also sailed with Jason and the Argonauts, and helped them travel beyond the sirens. He played his lyre so loudly that the sailors could not hear the sirens' call. -Our story begins just after the marriage of Orpheus to Eurydice

Uses "he" and "she" a lot.

-Diana kills Actaeon after he sees her bathing naked -Actaeon turned into a stag and killed by his own dogs

-eldest of 10 children -from Dublin, Ireland -experimental novel, "Ulysses, is now regarded as one of the greatest novels in English of the 20th century

-grew up mostly in Paris -father was a well-known doctor -homosexual -lived a miserable life because of hypersensitivity to dust and noise

-Born in Prague -Influenced by sculptor Rodin -Moved to Switzerland in 1921

"The Mark on the Wall" Her father died when she was younger, married Leonardo Woolf, her writing turned experimental, she suffered from mental illness and drowned herself.

-name means "person" -born in Lisbon in 1888 -Spent childhood in Durban, South Africa -writes under three 'heteronyms' (Albert Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis)

-prophecies that he will not live to old age if he sees himself. -woman to man and lost of sight to foresight

-born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague -published little of his work before his death -asked friend Max Brod to destroy his manuscripts, but Brod did not

-raised in Georgia -published three collections of -poetry - Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives...she has two children: Jason and Atalanta -lives in Athens, Greece

1. Acteon and Diana: he is transformed into a stag and his killed by his own dogs, which he raised from pubs. 2. Narcissus and Echo: Narcissus is turned into a flower and the flower that he is turned into looks down just as he looked down into the pool

1. Orpheus and Eurydice/1st Sonnet -both talk of second chances. Eurydice is given a second chance and in the sonnet the tall tree and the music of the orpheus is a sign of new start 2. Death of Orpheus/ 26th Sonnet -Orpheus' music is not able to save him. It only protects him from the women for a short time. In the sonnet, the music of the orpheus is not able to keep people from moving in 3. Ovid's Actaeon/Stallings's Actaeon -both have Actaeon being turned into a stag. In this Actaeon is able to show a brief moment of empathy with the disabled male deer.

1. Kite Streamers- HINDERS: society because the Jiayaun and Susu are never able to find a place to be alone. ENABLES: Susu's classmate who saves them from the mob and gives them a safe haven to be alone together 2. Araby- HINDERS: the boy's uncle who comes back late from the pub and takes the boy to the bazar after it has closed. ENABLES: the boy's idea of being able to buy something at the bazar to show his feelings for Mangan's sister. 3. Who will stop the dark- HINDERS: zakeo's mother not wanting him to spend time with his grandfather.. Enables: zakeo's and his grandfather's mutual interest in hunting/fishing/trapping

1. The Panther: the panther's identity has been stripped because to him the only thing that exists is the passing of bar after bar. 2. The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket: the idea of the names being "branded" on each other through the light and their lateens shows that a lot of times a person's identity is found in a person of the opposite sex. 3. Borges and I: a reflection on the relationship between a writer and his private self--how the writer turns his private self into art. How he transforms even his most intimate feelings about being used into a work of art

1. Girls Lament: as a child there are few to no worries and life is extremely stable, but as the girl grows older , she is alone and surrounded by her thoughts, worries, fears and life is not so stable anymore. 2. The Mark on the Wall: a new idea is something can consume our thoughts just because it is new and an old idea is more easily forgotten. 3. Papito's Story: the relationship in the past is very weak. Julio wishes they had a relationship and then after Papito's death Julio feels like he knows Papito and has a better understanding of life.

1. The Path to the Cemetery: Piepsam merriness with the people who loved him and are buried in the cemetery and how he suffers by traveling on the path to see those who loved him and eventually dies/goes mad. 2. the way in which the people at the garden party feel merriness and think that Laura should also feel this, but how Laura almost suffers at the party and only gets more down with the news of the accident.