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World Literature Flashcards

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Sum of total world’s national literatures; The circulation of into the wider world beyond their country of origin

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World Literature

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Relationship is reciprocal; Our culture affects what we write and what we write is used to interpret our history; History influences culture, which creates a beautiful loop in which these three things work together to define a group of people or a nation

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history, culture, and literature

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Readers and writers are…

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  • Expected to develop proficiency
  • Build associations
  • Pose and solve problems collaboratively
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Beginnings to 100 AD

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  1. Pictographic Writing
  2. Epic of Gilgamesh
  3. Rebuilding of the Temple
  4. The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
  5. Socrates and Greek Philosophy
  6. Greek Comedy and Tragedy
  7. The Analects of Confucius
  8. Vedas
  9. Ramayana and Mahabharata
  10. The Roman Empire
  11. Virgil’s Aeneid
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Oldest piece of epic literature

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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A large body of religious texts originated from ancient India

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Vedas

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The longest epic poem known

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Mahabharata

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The most extensive political and social structure in western civilization

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Roman Empire

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100 AD to 1500

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  1. The Crucifixion of Jesus
  2. Pope Damasus and the Vulgate Bible
  3. Buddhism in China
  4. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  5. Arthurian Stories
  6. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
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legendary king of Britain; a central figure in the medieval literary tradition

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King Arthur

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Considered to be the oldest novel

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Tale of Genji

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1500 to 1650

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  1. African Epic Son-Jara
  2. The Renaissance
  3. Shakespearean Plays
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The period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic rebirth following the Middle Ages

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The Renaissance

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widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time as well as the most influential writer in the history of the English language

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William Shakespeare

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1650 to 1800

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Japanese Realistic Literature by Ihara Saikaku
Age of Enlightenment
American Revolution

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1800 to 1900

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  1. Rise of the Middle Class in Europe
  2. Romantic Period
  3. Victorian Period
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Literary movement that emphasized emotions over reason, and senses over intellect

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Romantic Period

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1900s

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  1. American Realism
  2. Modern Period/Modernism
  3. Postmodern Period
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A movement that emphasizes a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression

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Modern Period/Modernism

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Literary movement characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self reflexivity, and intertextuality

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Postmodern Period

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The collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian stories of uncertain date and authorship

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A Thousand and One Nights

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An ancient Chinese philosophical text composed of sayings and ideas attributed to Confucius

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Analects

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A genre of literature that presents ordinary day-to-day experiences as they occur in reality

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Realism

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A religion of eastern and central Asia growing out of the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama

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Buddhism

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A heroic poem, considered the highest achievement of Old English literature and the earliest European vernacular epic

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Beowulf

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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Diversity of themes, forms, creative idioms, and styles
  • American-Indian civilization conquered by the Spaniards
  • Spanish-speaking countries
  • Magical realism
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Latin America

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  • Rise of science and industry
  • Shaped by history
  • Group of colonies
  • Changes in ways of thinking and feelings
  • Power
  • USA
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North America

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  • History of hardships
  • Slavery
  • Colonization
  • Missionaries
  • Diaspora
  • Ancient Egypt and hieroglyphs
  • Blends with European culture
  • Chinua achebe
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Africa

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  • Haruki murakami
  • War
  • Songs, poems, and written artifacts
  • Middle east
  • Religion and spirituality values
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Asia

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  • Indo-European languages
  • Western literature
  • Western civilization
  • Shakespeare
  • British literature
  • More than just Great Britain
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Europe

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  • I am Moana
  • Aborigines
  • European settlers
  • Traditions and ethnic cultures
  • Issues of the country
  • The legends of Maui
  • Pacific islands
  • Myths and legends
  • Oceanic literature
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Australia and the Pacific

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  • Chris Van Allsburg (1985) children’s book
  • A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve
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The Polar Express

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  • “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer
  • 3rd book in the series
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Eclipse

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The magical country where the White Witch put a spell on so that it is always winter but never Christmas in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”

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Narnia

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The official motto is “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus” which means “Never tickle a sleeping dragon”

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Hogwarts

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  • 2001 Yann Martel novel
  • Features a character stranded on a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker
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Life of Pi

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Dancing clown in “It” by Stephen King

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Pennywise

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Species of white whale in “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville

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Sperm Whale

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  • Jane Austen Novel
  • Mark Darcy is a character
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Pride and Prejudice

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  • Authored by Daniel Handler
  • Set of 13 books detailing the story of Sunny, Klaus, and Violet Baudelaire and their struggles to escape their unpleasant circumstances
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A series of Unfortunate Events

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  • Pet parrot in the film Aladdin
  • Sidekick of Jafar; secondary antagonist
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Iago

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  • Wrote “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Little Mermaid,” and “The Ugly Duckling”
  • Danish author
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Hans Christian Andersen

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Fairy tale narrates the story of 2 children who found a cottage made of gingerbread

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Hansel and Gretel

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Characteristics of 21st Century Literature

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  • Gender-sensitive
  • Technologically alluding
  • Culturally pluralistic
  • Operates on extreme reality of fiction
  • Questions conventions and norms
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  • written and oral works created by authors in parts of North America, South America, and the Caribbean
  • Authors usually write in Spanish, Portuguese, English, or a language native to their specific country
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Latin American

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  • Mexican novelist, screenwriter, and politician
  • Popular for her novels “Like Water for Chocolate” and “Malinche”
  • Known for merging folk stories, magical realism, and feminist perspective in her writing
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Lara Esquivel

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  • Believed that the Aztecs gave way to the conquistador Hernan Cortes because they had an ancient belief that someday, their god, Quetzalcoatl, would come back to their lands in the form of a white man.
  • The Spaniards were able to conquer Mexico because of La Malinche or Malinalli, the translator and lover of Hernan Cortes, who also helped in advising the conquistador. Today, she is considered as both a traitor to Mexico and a temptress
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Malinche

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Denotes countries in which any Romance, Latin-based languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, and French, are the most prevalent languages

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Latin America

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  • Mixed in Spanish
  • Generally used throughout Latin America to describe people of mixed ancestry with a white European and an indigenous background
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Mestizo

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Cuba; certain styles of music and dance are said to have originated from Latin American regions

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Salsa

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Some people from Latin America are of African descent, who are descendants of slaves brought by Spanish and Portuguese colonists and slave traders

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African

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Central Mexico

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Aztecs

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Central America

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Mayans

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