Assigment #2

1. Which 2 readings did you complete from the reading list provided (or from your own selections)?
• Raymond Chandler, The simple art of murder
• T.S. Elliot, The wasteland

2. Based on these readings, compare (3 examples) and contrast (3 examples) the works you read with the themes from the ppt presentations in class on Modernist Culture and Literature.

The Discontinuous Narrative is very clear in the books. Also the obscurity of the book is a very important point in the books. Finally the symbols are very common thing in the texts that I read. In the books you can read a little bit of hope when the characters try to find themselves. The satiric and irony doesn’t show in the books, and finally the characters are very clear and doesn’t mix each other.

3. Do you feel the works you read are very good or excellent representations of Modernist Literature? Why/Why Not?

The books are very good representation of the modernist literature because they show us a very clear and transparent vision of how was the life in those times. However, there is a very complex structure to read and for that reason is not so easy understand it.

4. Would you recommend the readings to friends or family? Why/Why Not?

Frankly, I don’t recommend the books, not because they are bad, only because is difficult to understand and I don’t really think my friends or family would like to read it.

Literature assigment #1

1. Which 2 readings did you complete from the reading list provided (or from your own selections)?

I read "Heart of Darkness" and and The red-headed league

2. Based on these readings, compare (3 examples) and contrast (3 examples) the works you read with themes from the ppt presentations given in class on Victorian Culture and Literature.

According the two books their Reading are based in war, ingenious, and poverty suffer in the Victorian age, according the power point of Nicko. The culture had terribles consecuences because of the war, like poverty because territorial expansion. In a culture where middle class increase in term of money thaks to industralization and their own ingenious to. The power because main characters are chasing power to put their name in history.
Contrast: At Victorian Culture the women are very important and the books they are not mencioned.

3. Do you feel that the works you read are very good or excellent representations of Victorian Literature? Why/Why Not?

- I think they are excellent representations of this literature, beacuse the authors wrote what they couldn't talk openly at that time. The works were mirrors of what happened with power, money, politicians, illness,etc. And finally the main theme of this books were something forbidden in those times: sex.
4. Would you recommend the readings to friends or family? Why/Why Not?

I strongly recommend the books because are a very important piece of history that authors gave us as a legacy for us and the whole minkind.

A Countryside History (Biography)

Karen Negrete is an interesting girl. She likes to rollerblade twice a day and she likes to spend time with her boyfriend. She loves living in the countryside and in the future she would like to travel around the world.

PERFECT PICTURE FOR A LONELY GUY (autobiography)

I like to go out in the summer because it is my favorite season. however, winter is not that bad either. The beach is simply the best, although the city is a good place for living that's where I live.

Middle English

1- It was spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and about 1470

2- the major factors for the development and spred of middle english were the chancery standard , a form of london based english was widspred thanks to the introduction of printing press into England.

3- A. Pig= pork
B. Cow= beef
C. Wood= forest
D. Sheep= mutton
E. House= mansion
F. Worthy= honourable
G. Bold= courageous

4- singular plural
nom/acc engel nome engles nomen
gen engles* nome engle(ne)** nomen
dat engle nome engle(s) nomen

5- In middle English all the letters were pronounced.

6- Was a written form of English used by government bureaucracy and for other official purposes from the late 14th century.

7- It was written by Geoffrey Chaucer

8- the group is discribe in detail , with characters from all classes, upper and lower, represented. Religious characters, such as a prioress, monk and a pardoner, travel alongside a shipman, miller, carpenter, reeve, squire, yeoman and a knight, among others.

9- to pay their respect to the tomb of saint Thomas Becket ay canterbury cathedral.

10- the name of the book is the decameron and the author was Giovanni Boccaccio
11- this book is important because is one of the first book written in middle english and started
the creation or fixed what we know now as modern english

12- d

13- He is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table.

14- The "Green Knight" offers to allow anyone to strike him with his axe if the challenger will take a return blow in a year and a day

15- the similitary between the tales is that Cuchulainn's antagonist feints three blows with the axe before letting his target depart without injury

16- the pentagram/pentangle is Gawain's shield is seen by many critics as signifying Gawain's perfection and power over evil

17- numbers are used to add symmetry and meaning to the poem

18- The neck, specifically, was believed to correlate with the part of the soul related to will connecting the reasoning part (the head) and the courageous part (the heart).
19- Sean Connory played The green knight in the film Sword of the Valiant.

20- maybe the poem is like the soap opera "cuenta conmigo" because it has everything, love, drama, romance, etc. And because I watch this soap opera.

assigment #1, literature 01, Caceres Diego

1- Old English was spoken between the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century


2-Norse, Latin, Celtic and Germanic


3-- The insular symbol that is substituted by modern < s > resembles the elongated esh < ʃ >

- Insular < ȝ > is

- modern manuscripts often distinguish between a velar and palatal < c > and < ȝ > diacritic dots above the putative palatals: < ċ >, < ġ >.

- The wynn symbol < ƿ > is usually substituted with < w >.

- Kentish < æ > is usually substituted with modern < ę >

4- There are some similities between old English and modern english for example in the word order and the question formation.

5-there are 34 letters (runes)

6- beowulf was written in old english

7- Was written between 8th century and early 11th century

8- It takes place in what is now Denmark and Sweden

There

9- grendel , grendel’s mother and an unnamed dragon

10- Beowulf is fatally wounded and he died

11- His author is unknown but is considered that was passed by oral tradition by scop (old English poets)

12- Beowulf and grendel (2005) Beowulf (2007)