Theoretical questions Flashcards
- Navedite 4 narodne bajke/ folk tales (ne one sa predavanja):
Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel.
- Koje godine je izašao film Čarobnjak iz Oza?
1939.
Tri crtana filma, a da nisu Disney ili Pixar
Anastasia, Sinbad, the Prince of Egypt
-koji je golden age of ch lit (zaokružiti) i navesti delo
Victorian era (other half of 19th c.), Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Fin de siécle da se zaokruži jedna od dve ponuđene definicije i da se navede jedno delo iz
tog perioda
- „Turn of the century“
- Period of transition from the 19th century to the 20th century.
- A moment for observing the process by which the boundaries between high culture and popular culture are established.
- The Gilded Age (golden on the outside, not so great underneath – The
Happy Prince). - Freud – childhood sexuality (contrast w Victorian view of a child as pure).
- Duality – normal on the outside, immoral on the inside (Dracula, Picture of Dorian Gray, Dr
Jekyll & Mr Hyde). - Children’s literature is mashed up with the popular.
- Writers express a darker, more pessimistic sensibility (philosophy, arts, depression etc.) Suffragette Movement- rise of a new woman, homosexuality through gothic
- The doubt about mother-love marks
the children’s fiction of the age, particularly in the work of male authors.
-ko je napisao his dark materials i koje delo je povezano sa tim (zaokružiti)
Phillip Pullman, His Dark Materials = name comes from John Milton’s Paradise Lost (plus some
verses from Shelley & Keats
koja životinja je charlotte in the charlotte’s web i šta se njoj desi na kraju
A spider that reaches the end of her lifespan + lays her egg sac before dying (which Wilbur the
piglet saves)
-koji je najstariji alphabet book i kako je nastalo ime?
Thomas Petyt’s The BAC Bothe (1538) – ’BAC’ was the order in which the alphabet was taught
at the time, ’Bothe’ is an old spelling of both, indicating that it talks about both the letters and
their sounds
-navesti bilo koja dva žanra iz hp i kako se to ispoljava
Boarding school genre
* YA – revolving around teenagers
* Coming of age/ Bildunsroman – psychological & moral growth of HP (used to being
shunned by his uncle & aunt > becomes more fearless, goes through loss & betrayal etc.)
* Mystery novel – the identity of „He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named“ + mysteries & puzzles
-kog lika je osmislio J.M. Barrie i odakle potiče popularnost tog lika (poenta je da se
zaokruži play)
Peter Pan, became popular in the play „Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up“ (1904)
dve glavne uloge ch lit su:
Entertainment & Education.
-definicija neke verse i onda zaokružiti koja je (limerick) i napisati ko je popularizovao
- Edward Lear- landscape painter, author of nonsense verse
- 19th century
- limericks writen 15 years before the nonsense
- Lear also popularised limericks in his first book, A Book of Nonsense (1846).
- to him the word meant something happy and inconsequental
- he and Lewis Carroll both altered the meaning
- it is difficult to define: it would be said that
incongruity of characters situations, or words plus a predictable, stable element such as numbers,
choruses, alliteration or, paradoxically, an instance on the correct use of words, equals nonsense. - Sound plays a great part in nonsense (not the meaning, but the sound of words); writing of nonsense sometimes invent words, just by liking the sounds they make.
1. a combination of incongruous and stable elements;
2. words floating somewhat free of their usual associations;
3. an emphasis upon sounds;
4. detachment(emotional and from the meaning)
-trilogija LOTR (napisati knjige)
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King
u 19om veku su dva žanra bila popularna u cu lit, jedan za dečake jedan za devojčice,
napisati koji su
Adventure stories for boys, domestic fiction for girls.
-middle eastern collection of fairy tales kako se zove (oba naziva)
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS/ ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (8th c.)
-kako se zove period gde su decu posmatrali kao pure, innocent itd i isto u tom pitanju u
kojoj poemi je to lepo prikazano valjda??
Romanticism (18t-19th c.) had the themes of innocence, return to nature, individualism,
imagination, emotions. Desire to protect innocence or to control wayward thoughts; to balance
education and enjoyment, and to preserve childlike qualities into adult life. William Blake (18-
19th c.) – Songs of Innocence, the Tyger.
-prvi sound cartoon kako se zove i ko je protagonist
„Steamboat Willie“ (1928), Mickey Mouse
-kada je nastao prvi comic book i kako se zvao
„The Yellow Kid“ (1897)
Dela Neila Gaimana ponuđena i onda da se napiše njegovo ime i kojem periodu pripada
POSTMODERNISM - Neil Gaiman- the two of them (Sir Terry Pratchett) wrote a 1990 novel Good Omens. The book is a comedy about the
birth of the son of Satan and the coming of the End Times.
a. He also wrote The Sandman, Coraline, The Graveyard book, Stardust
- Sta su „fables“, Antique Greek writer of fables?
Fables are very short stories that are meant to teach something meaningful, a lesson or moral
(The moral is sometimes stated at the end of the story) They were seen as useful for teaching
Latin and Greek boys. Fables have talking animals; they contain animals as characters
(personification). AESOP - a famous fable author, his fables are from 600 BC. William Caxton
printed Aesop’s fables
- HP koji deo ima drugačiji naziv u američkom izdanju i kako glase obe verzije
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (BrE) > Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (AmE)
- Original Peter Pan?
Peter Pan first appeared in a 1902 novel „the Little White Bird“ (written for adults), then he was
later used in a play „Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up“ in 1904 – here it became a
success
- Real name of Lewis Carrol & one of his works?
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass,
and What Alice Found There, Sylvie and Bruno, Jabberwocky
- Kako se u Japanu zovu stripovi i animirane serije?
Manga i anime
Marvel & DC
Main comic book publishers today, Superman (1938), The Human Torch (1939); DC- Detective
Comics. (+ comic book = multiple volumes & ongoing, comic strip = part of a magazine, short
- Hornbook - zašto je dobila to ime?
A form of ABC book common in Shakespeare’s time. It is called like that bcs it used to consist of
a sheet of paper containing the alphabet, digits and often the Lord’s Prayer, mounted on a
wooden paddle, covered with a thin transparent sheet of horn to protect it – hence „hornbook“
