PPT-American Literature Themes

Search for Identity How do I fit into society Who am I Individualism Human independence Individual rights Individual desires Free will Freedom American ideal All people created equal The Journey. Lysistrata. by Aristophanes. and. Commedia dell'arte. . The Comic. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Lysistrata. by Aristophanes . The Comic. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Pieter . Bruegel. the Elder (1525-1569). ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. The greatest of the Flemish sixteenth-century masters of genre was Pieter . Bruegel. the Elder. We know little of his life except that he had been to Italy, like so many northern artists of his time, and that he lived and worked in Antwerp and Brussels, where he painted most of his pictures in the 1560s, the decade in which the stern Duke of Alva arrived in the Netherlands. The dignity of art and of artists was probably as important to him as it was to . William Hogarth, British Painter (1697-1764). Hogarth . on Mark Hardin’s . Artchive. The London of William Hogarth. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. William Hogarth. Hogarth, William. The Fantastic. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Grandmother and the Kids. Science fiction, then, commonly uses techniques both from the realistic and the . fantastic traditions of narrative . HBO and the Television Grotesque. HBO Water Cooler Commercial. HBO and the Television Grotesque. Memorable Episodes. “Humbug” (2.20).. Mulder and Scully investigate a murder in a circus freak show wintering in Florida.. Hieronymous. Bosch (1450-1516). In real life he was quite an ordinary fellow I’m told, a city father who enjoyed taking care of the costumes of the yearly carnival. Of course everything was religious then.. Nathanael West . (birth name: Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein) (1903-1940). American Writer. West as Drawn by David Levine. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Anaïs Nin. (1903-1977). David Cronenberg (1943- ). Canadian Filmmaker. Cronenberg. Interview on the Grotesque Blog. David . Cronenberg. and the Cinema of the Extreme. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. the Age of Reason . (1750-1800). The literary implications of the American Revolution. . Military victory and . p. olitical independence from Britain spanned nationalistic hopes for a great . national. Intellegere. et . Diligere. . Litteras. :. “To understand and to love literature”. Introduction. Classical training. Germination of the project. Reading mythology, notice two themes . Tragic love story. committing. to paper. ) on the Image. ‹#›. Dark Romanticism and the. Gothic Literature movement. . ‹#›. Learning Target: . RL9. Notes Here!. . What is Dark Romanticism? . I c. an. describe the foundational works of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century American literature.. Native American Literature Native American Literature: Cultural Diversity At time of Columbus, 350 distinct languages existed in North America Thousands of distinct cultural groups existed as well. Midterm Review What you need to know for your Midterm: American Literary History through 1914 Terminology used in discussing literature How to find rhyme, rhythm and meter How to do basic literary analysis American Literary History through 1914. Terminology used in discussing literature. How to find rhyme, rhythm and meter. How to do basic literary analysis. Section 1: Major Themes in American Literate to 1914.