21st Century (Q2) Flashcards
refers to any written literary genre that exemplifies the most outstanding characteristics of particular national literatures
world literature
world literature is
a. easy to define
b. harder to define
b. harder to define
accessible to many people from many cultures, ethnicities, and nations
world literature
limited to a specific country or time period
national literature
refers to writers limited to a specific region or nation
regional poets
tackles universal themes to which a wider audience can relate with
elements of world literature
what are the elements of world literature
- love and romance
- family and marriages
- individual struggles towards success
- humanitarian values
- coping with tragedy
- life cycles
examples of individual struggles toward success
cinderella & underdog stories
involves the exploration of ethical and compassionate values in literature
humanitarian values
war, famine, and disasters are examples of
coping with tragedys
prevalent themes in 21at century world literature
- proliferation of vampires
- sorcery
- space and science fiction
a novella written by Antoine de Saint Exupery
the little prince
an aristocrat, pilot,, poet and writer, a much loved classic extolling the virtues of love, inner beauty and friendship
Antoine de Saint Exupery
literature written over thousands of years in various Asian countries.
asian literature
literary type of Asian writing was usually determined by ___________
surrounding, culture of time and often expresses the ideologies prevalent in the era.
three division of Asian literature based on the longevity and influence of the literary traditions of these countries.
Chinese, Japanese, and Indian literature
CHINESE literary works include
fiction, philosophical and religious works, poetry, and scientific writings
is a clerical script or chancery script, is a truly calligraphic script type, making full use of the flexible brush to modulate the thickness of the line.
Lishu
was frequently used in preparing official records and documents, and it was utilized for both public monuments and private correspondence
Clerical script
Chinese poetry that flourished in the Tang dynasty (618–907)
Lushi
consists of eight lines of five or seven syllables, each line set down in accordance with strict tonal patterns
Lushi
Chinese quatrain, is a type of jintishi (“modern form poetry”) it is a four-line poem, each line of which consists of five or seven words.
Jueju
major literatures of the world comparable to English literature in age and variety
JAPANESE LITERATURE
one of the major bodies of Oriental Literature
JAPANESE LITERATURE
less voluminous than Chinese Literature but comparable to Arabic, Persian and Indian Literature.
JAPANESE LITERATURE
basic form of Japanese poetry, a short poem with a specific structure and no set rhyme scheme. Made up of three lines of 5-7-5 syllables, totaling 17 syllables:
HAIKU
a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry in which alternating stanzas, or ku (句), of 5-7-5 and 7-7 mora per line, consists of alternating haiku and couplets, with each stanza written by a different person.
RENGA
type of waka, are made up of alternating lines of five and seven syllables, with an extra line of seven syllables at the end.
CHOKA
Japanese poem that is made up of 31 syllables in five lines with the following syllable count: 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7
TANKA
body of works produced in India in a variety of vernacular languages like Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Urdu.
INDIAN LITERATURE
Hindus regard the epic as both a text about drama and a history
MAHABHARATA
MAHABHARATA is an indian epic wiritten in ___________
Sanskrit
MAHABHARATA is the longest poem in history with about _____________ couplets
100 000 couplets
shorter than mahabharata
RAMAYANA
RAMAYANA has ________ couplets
2400 couplets
family epics, featuring cousins, uncles and aunts “struggling and killing each other over land and dharma and then mourning inconsolably.
mahabharata and ramanaya
Collection of Indian Animal Fables, originally written in Sanskrit
PANCHATANTRA
mixture of prose and verse
PANCHATANTRA
Characteristics of Old English
- Extensive use of case endings
- Language and the literature of Anglo-Saxon
- Mixture of pagan traditions, thought about life, the universe and nature, Christian thought and moral values
- Earliest for of English language
- Use of kennings
phrases or compound words used to name persons, places, and things indirectly
kennings
importance of kennings
- To enhance poetic expression
- Paint a visual image for the reader
- To add extra layer of description, richness and meaning
longest epic poem, oldest known Old English poem
Beowulf
how many alternative lines does Beowulf have
3,182
primary theme is about heroism and loyalty.
Beowulf
The Old English period ended around ________
1150 AD
Old English: The earliest recorded stage of the English language, spoken
5th century AD to the Norman Conquest of 1066
language of the Anglo-Saxons
Old English
Middle English period:
1066 AD to 1485 AD, when the English language was influenced by the Norman Conquest and Anglo-Norman French.
Modern English period:
1485 AD to the present.
the norman conquest came with a new language _____________
Norman French
The influence of __________ on English during this period was profound, reshaping its vocabulary, grammar, and even its pronunciation
French
English language spoken in England and Wales from around 1100 to 1500
Middle English
father of English literature
Geoffrey Chaucer
novel example of literature written in Middle English, written by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
long narrative poem usually about a hero and his deeds.
Epic poem
poem has fourteen lines that follow a rhyme scheme
Sonnet
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Sonnet 18
tells a story through dialogue, and it is performed on stage.
drama
long prose narrative usually about fictional characters and events, which are told in a particular sequence or in a chronological order.
novel
rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the international success of the style known as magical realism.
LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
way to express the realistic American mentality and create an autonomous style of literature.
magical realism
Pre-Columbian cultures were _________
primarily oral
locally born individuals with European ancestry
Criollo
principal leaders of the Latin American wars of independence from Spain and Portugal
Libertadores
period of “foundational fictions”.
19th century
Novels in the Romantic or Naturalist traditions attempted to establish a sense of ___________, and which often focused on the indigenous question or the dichotomy of “civilization or barbarism.”
sense of national identity
a poetic movement whose founding text was the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío’s “Azul (“1888).
modernismo
sometimes characterized by a tendency towards irony and towards the use of popular genres
Post-Boom literature
After World War II, Latin America enjoyed _________________, and a new-found confidence also gave rise to a _________________
increasing economic prosperity, literary boom
vehicles of cultural thoughts
Traditional languages
The most notable literary selections are those that capture the _______________ of the African people.
life and struggle
The people’s struggle to cope with – or oppose – the changing atmosphere of their homelands was dramatically recorded
African literature
the affirmation of the values of civilization of something defined as “the black world”.
NEGRITUDE
Negritude writers wrote poetry in ______ in which they presented African traditions and cultures as antithetical, but equal, to European culture
french
journal, according to its founder, was an endeavor “to help define African originality and to hasten its introduction into the modern world.”
Presence Africaine by Alioune Diop in 1947
TWO Literary Forms
Oral Literature
Written Literature
also called orature which includes folk tales, myths, epics, funeral dirges, praise poems, and proverbs
Oral Literature
types of oral literature
myths
epics
dirges
praise poems
proverbs
explain the interrelationships of all things that exist
Myths
are short, witty or ironic statements, metaphorical in its formulation which aim to communicate a response to a particular situation, to offer advice, or to be persuasive
proverbs
are epithets called out in reference to an object in celebration of its outstanding qualities and achievements
Praise poems
are elaborate literary forms, usually performed only by experts on special occasions. They often recount the heroic exploits of ancestors.
Epics
chanted during funeral ceremonies, lament the departed, praise his/her memory, and ask for his/her protection
Dirges
includes novels, plays, poems, hymns, and tales
Written Literature
THREE waves of Literacy in Africa
Ethiopia
Africa
Europe
earliest literatures in the Celtic and Germanic languages of Western Europe.
Ethiopia
spread of Islam
Africa
through trade relationships, missionary activities, and colonialism propelled the third wave of literacy in Africa
Europe
written literatures, novels, plays, and poems in the 1950s and 60s
literatures of testimony
African authors who produced literatures in European languages
literatures of revolt
academic or professional purpose. Unlike reading for pleasure, it requires critical thinking skills like doing analysis, developing an argument, and doing an evaluation.
CRITICAL READING
CRITICAL READING STRATEGIES:
- Previewing a Text
- Contextualizing
- Asking Questions
- Reflecting
- Making an Outline and Summary
- Evaluating the Argument
- Making a Comparison and Contrast of Related Text
- Summary
enables a reader to get the sense of what the text is all about and how its parts are organized
Previewing a Text
considering the time and place in which the text was produced
Contextualizing
allows one to understand and remember the content of a piece of literature
Asking Questions
involves examination of the reader’s personal responses to the text
Reflecting
involves identifying its important ideas
Making an Outline and Summary
involves assessing the validity of its claim and support
Evaluating the Argument
strategy of identifying the similarities and differences between texts of similar issue or approach
Making a Comparison and Contrast of Related Text