lesson 2.1-2.2

Question 1

he coined the term weltliteratur

Answer 1

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Question 2

claimed that literature shouldn’t be restrained by national boundaries

Answer 2

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Question 3

it means word literature

Answer 3

weltliteratur

Question 4

circulation of works into the wider world beyond one’s country of origin

Answer 4

world literature

Question 5

totality of all national literature

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world literature

Question 6

cultural heritage of all humanity

Answer 6

world literature

Question 7

the distinct language and inventiveness of certain literature coming from different continents

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literature of the world

Question 8

showcase the lives and emotions of their people while offering the world a view of what happens in their society

Answer 8

literature of the world

Question 9

a literature that is an important part of Philippine literature

Answer 9

Filipino-Chinese literature

Question 10

a filipino-chinese writer who has penned award-winning works in philippine literature

Answer 10

Charlson Ong

Question 11

when was Charlson Ong born?

Answer 11

July 6, 1960

Question 12

a German writer and statesman

Answer 12

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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it is used to describe the circulation and reception of literary works in europe

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weltliteratur

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it is mean to be a two-way process: give and take

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weltliteratur

Question 15

it will bring about a “rapid traffic” of information

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weltliteratur

Question 16

common example of world literature

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• diaspora
• magic realism
• societal issues

Question 17

movement of people from their country to another

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diaspora

Question 18

common theme in asian and african literature

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diaspora

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common theme in latin america

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magic realism

Question 20

the common theme in the classical literature from europe and north america

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societal issues

Question 21

grants and awards of charlson ong

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• Carlos Palanca Memorial Award
• Free Press, Graphic, Asiaweek
• National Book Award
• Dr. Jose P. Rizal Award for Excellence

Question 22

Works of Charlson Ong

Answer 22

• Men of the East and Other Stories (1990 and 1999)
• Woman of Am-Kaw and Other Stories (1993)
• Conversion and Other Functions (1996)
• Banyaga: A Song of War (2007, Anvil)
• Blue Angel, White Shadow (2010, UST)

Question 23

it recounts the life, times, and fortunes of three immigrants who like other foreigners were deemed to have no place in the filipino imagined community

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Banyaga: A Song of War

Question 24

to understand any given literary text, you need to understand first who the author is, his or her social background, the concepts that were established during his or her time, and the milieu he or she lived in back then

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New Historicism

Question 25

another’s theory that counter acts new historicism

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Death of the Author

Question 26

Wrote “Death of the Author

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Roland Barthes

Question 27

it are used against looking at the author’s identity and the context in which the author lived in to understand the author’s literary text

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Death of the Author

Question 28

it reasons that if you allow the author to intervene in the text or if you give the text an author, the view and interpretation may be limited

Answer 28

Death of the Author

Question 29

also called as russian formalism

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formalism

Question 30

the study of a text without taking into account any outside influence

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formalism

Question 31

it is partly based on Ferdinand de Saussure’s idea of semiotics

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Formalism

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a Swiss linguist and semiotician

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Ferdinand de Saurssure

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an investigation into how meaning is created and how meaning is communicated

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semiotics

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an academic study of how science and symbols create meaning

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semiotics

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what is the focus of formalism?

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Form and technique

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it aims to look at how literature artistically alter or renew common language in which everyone speaks so that they come up with defamiliarized work of art that is new to the senses

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formalism

Question 37

full name of the author of “In the Midst of Hardship”

Answer 37

Abdul Latif Mohidin

Question 38

a Malaysian modernist painter, sculptor and poet

Answer 38

Latif Mohidin

Question 39

known as “Boy Wonder”

Answer 39

Latiff Mohidin

Question 40

an era or theory that is developed after a certain colony gains independence from its mother country

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Postcolonialism

Question 41

it looks at this colonial countries sees how being colonized has affected their political, economical, and social climate

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postcolonialism

Question 42

undoing colonialism

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decolonization

Question 43

it is a way to counteract how the colonized country have held onto their colonizers

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decolonization

Question 44

the intellectual process of returning to the former independence that colonies have enjoyed before the colonizer came

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decolonization

Question 45

the intellectual process of returning to the former independence that colonies have enjoyed before the colonizer came

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decolonization

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Civilization of East Asia

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Xia Dynasty
Shang Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
Han Dynasty

Question 47

Civilization of East Asia

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Xia Dynasty
Shang Dynasty
Zhou Dynasty
Han Dynasty

Question 48

first dynasty

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Xia Dynasty

Question 49

yellow river valley

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Shang dynasty

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longest dynasty

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Zhou dyansty

Question 51

established confucianism

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Han dynasty