- François-Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
- Olympe de Gouges (1743-1798)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Percy Shelley (1792-1822)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
- Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
- James Joyce (1882-1941)
- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- Albert Camus (1913-1960)
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Readings
Check the calendar to know when we are reading each work. And don't forget that reading notes are due for every reading assignment.
Values of Literature
What is value?
The phrase "values of literature" refers to those qualities of poems, stories, novels, etc. that make them worthwhile to read. If we feel our time reading is well spent, we can say that a work has value for us. If reading the work was a complete waste, then we might say it has no value for us. And there is a spectrum between the two extremes. Of course, if you simply do not like reading, then you really have no say in the matter, right?
The phrase "values of literature" refers to those qualities of poems, stories, novels, etc. that make them worthwhile to read. If we feel our time reading is well spent, we can say that a work has value for us. If reading the work was a complete waste, then we might say it has no value for us. And there is a spectrum between the two extremes. Of course, if you simply do not like reading, then you really have no say in the matter, right?
Responsible Reading
Some of you will be familiar and concerned with the following question:
How should I live my life?
If this question matters to you, then you can consider yourself, on some level, a responsible person. You are responsive to the world around you, the people you interact with, the influence you have on your environment, etc.
To be a responsible reader, you have to adopt a similar mindset about the language and ideas of an artist of words. You will ask a similar question:
How should I live my life?
If this question matters to you, then you can consider yourself, on some level, a responsible person. You are responsive to the world around you, the people you interact with, the influence you have on your environment, etc.
To be a responsible reader, you have to adopt a similar mindset about the language and ideas of an artist of words. You will ask a similar question:
Literary Terms
Poetry
Fiction
General
Literary Movements
| speaker persona free verse meter | caesura enjambment rhyme | alliteration objective correlative impersonal theory of poetry |
Fiction
| narrator narrative story plot setting ellipsis | flashback flashforward character point of view free indirect discourse | parable allegory epiphany catharsis climax |
General
Literary Movements
| Enlightenment Romanticism Realism | Impressionism Naturalism Modernism | Post-Modernism Minimalism |
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