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ENGLISH 45C, Yeats, "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett -…

- - - - "The Dead" by James Joyce
        
        Ireland
        
        A lot of the authors we read over the course of this class were involved with Irish nationalist movements and the instability in Ireland during that time period
        
        Beckett studied under Joyce
        
        IRELAND: Joyce has a bitterness towards Ireland and Irish nationalism - this tension can be seen through Gabriel’s interactions with other characters in the work
        
        FREE INDIRECT DISCOURSE: The text uses a detached narrator whose narration is blended with the thoughts and mannerisms of different characters throughout the novel.
      - Shifting third person narration where the narrator is influenced by the thoughts and mannerisms of different characters, almost like a falling asteroid being attracted to the gravity of multiple planets and floating between them. A hallmark of modernist texts
    - - Ezra Pound
        
        "In a Station of the Metro"
        
        Use of space in the poem — visual space as well as the space between people and petals.
        
        Deals with modern disconnection
        
        "Notes on Imagisme"
        
        An image “presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time,"
        
        Key imagist text
      - HD
        
        Interested in Greek Mythology
        
        "Eurydice"
        
        Retelling of the classic myth from the perspective on Eurydice — imagist poetry combined with the female voice
        
        "Oread"
        
        Also draws from mythology. Beautiful poem about the connections between things, and one of my favorites from this course
        
        "The Sea Rose"
        
        Poem about resilience told through images
      - William Carlos Williams
        
        "Spring and All"
      - Modernist poetry concerned with the use of written "images" to express experiences to the reader
  - - - "The Man of the Crowd" by Edgar Allen Poe
        
        Examining the new social conditions and classes that emerge in urban environments
        
        Idea of the flaneur — a new type of social observer who uses the city and its people for entertainment and inspiration
        
        Use of the Gothic genre Poe is known for — shows the authors unease about these new conditions
      - "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
        
        Novel written in the aftermath of world war I - in many ways an elegy to the war and how it affected people. This is especially shown in Septimus’ tragic character
        
        Juxtaposes with the categorization of Poe’s unnamed flaneur - Clarissa refuses to categorize people
        
        At its core a character study, does a deep dive into the psychology of its various characters using free indirect discourse
        
        Like Prufrock, asks questions about the divide between people and whether we can really know others
      - "Bartelby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville
        
        Takedown of late-stage capitalism and its exploitation of workers — Melville likes thinking about these sorts of Philosophical ideas through his work
        
        Idea of blockage — Bartelby’s inaction stops the “machine” from functioning
        
        Idea of action and inaction — by refusing to do work is Bartelby acting or not acting?
    - - Langston Hughes
        
        “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
        
        Idea of collective experience through rivers — Similar to communal voice and free indirect style
        
        Predominant Black poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance. Wrote about a variety of topics, and incorportated elements of pop culture like Blues ("The Weary Blues") or Jazz Clubs ("Nude Young Dancer"). These "lower" forms of art were juxtaposed with "high" forms like his medium of poetry, but also grand philosophical ideas about America and the black experience ("Harlem (2)", "Let America Be America Again").
      - "Their Eyes were Watching God" by Zora Neal Hurston
        
        Coming of age, love and marriage story — very modern plot
        
        Use of communal voice through folklore and black dialect — similar to free indirect style — produces a book that accurately portrays and is deeply rooted in African-American culture and experience
        
        both trying to accurately depict culture
        
        Feminist — Janie is able to carve her own path in the world despite the attempts of men to stop her
      - "Things Fall Part" by Chinua Achebe
        
        Postcolonial novel written in English — tensions between experience of the colonized being told in the language of the colonizer
        
        Use of an “oral narrator” that uses rhythmic patterns of speech to convey the spoken experience of a different language in an English text
        
        Showing how decimating colonialism can be to the cultures and societies that experience it
- - - - THE NOVEL: Henry James pioneered the novel as a form, serving as a transitory figure between traditional and modern writing. The language in this particular novel calls attention to the form by forcing the reader to slow down
      - NARRATION: Governess’ narration is unreliable — we don’t know what the difference is between her reality and what is “real”, causing the reader to be constantly on edge and questioning
      - CORRUPION: The idea of corruption of children made the text poorly received, but allows connections to Freudian ideas as well as centering it in the Gothic genre
  - - - Fixation on aging, references ancient cultures and is a good example of his use of historical material
    - - References Dante — almost a modern version of the inferno
      - Dramatic monologue — using a Victorian style of poetry for a modern subject
      - Gap between social and private selves — we can never really express ourself to others as we truly are
    - - Fundamental modernist text — gives insight into his philosophy and shows Eliot is both revolutionary but steeped in tradition