3. How to teach Literature Language functionsReferential (context), emotive (sender), conative (receiver), poetic (message), phatic (contact), metalinguistic (common code) Text as a vehicle of information Text as a linguistic object Text as a literary object Texts as vehicles of information and ideologies, linguistic objects and aesthetic objects. Writer – Text – Reader
6. Hemingway: Poetics of Loneliness Poe: Poetics of Dark and Sadness Whitman – The Lost Generation – The Beatniks : Poetics of Disillusionment Mark Twain: Poetics of Injustice Neruda: Poetics of Simplicity
9. Structuralism Types of narrator Point of view Literary devices: metaphors, personification, imagery, similes, anaphora, catalogue, etc. Analysis of plot, story, characters, subject matter *Much more useful in poetry than in narrative
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11. Mythological notions E.g. Prometheus, Icarus and Dedalus, Circe, Eros, Thanatos, Don Juan, Edipus, Electra, Sodome and Gomorre, Minotaurus Myth, Laberynth, Adonis. Language is not relevant but the message. Translations do not impede understanding.
13. Chicago HOG Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;
14. Chicagoby Carl Sandburg 1916 HOG Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; ………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
15. Sociocultural Historicism: historical background Avant-Garde Literature Literature for minorities Marxism: social relationships between characters Feminism: Feminist point of view – Otherness - Subjectivity Nietzschean perspectives Psychoanalysis: Stream of conciousness
16. Byteachingliteraturethisway… Medieval Times: Church – Religion – Reform Renaissance: Religious Crisis – Protestantism - Rationalism Romanticism: Self –Nature-God/ French and American revolutions / Escapismtoreality /Politicalactivists Realism: Industrial Revolution, Imperialism, Religionforthemasses Modernism: Technologyequalsbetterlifeconditions Post-modernism: Post-Imperialism, Colonies, Post-War Ante-bellum, Post-bellum
17. Forinstance… David Copperfield In memoriam Heart of Darkness Hillslikewhiteelephants Leaves of grass Ulysses Tothelighthouse Waitingfor Godot Theprelude Frankenstein
