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We have disccused Pride and Prejudice/Huckleberry Finn

My group read “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austin. We stated that this book is a form of high comedy for most of the use of comedy is appealed to intellectual. We stated that this book is a confused love between Elizabeth and Darcy. In addition, it is a form of comedy for it uses many irony.

The other group read “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain and it stated that the book is a form of low comedy for it does not appeal to intellectual. There are lots of satire in this book, as well as irony. The group stated that this books is about a boy and an african slave traveling on the river.

We have also discussed the different times of literature:

Modernism: Disillusionment following WWI

• New narrative techniques
• “Make it New”-> what young generations in that time thought. To break away from old rules.
• New Form of narrative: (unreliable narrator, multiple narrators, minor character as 1^st person narrators, stream of consciousness)

Connections: “Tell tale heart” by Edgar Allen Poe has an unreliable narrator. Even though it was not written in Modernism period, it still has characteristics of Modernism

• Superimposition: One point of view is layered with another one
• Universal Truth

Connections: I read the book called The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald in American Literature when I was a junior. This book is an example of Modernism.

Post Modernism: Just after World War one. United States started Post Modernism ahead of  United Kingdom for it had Televisions before United Kingdom did.

·        Post Modernism= Modernism- universal truth= irony

Connections: For those who had Ms.Dockus for American Literature, remember this equation? I wrote down that equation when I was in her class!

·        Blending of high and low cultures

·        Self-reference (No boundaries between mediated worlds. Fictional characters can talk about other fictional characters.

·        The simulacrum (the fake ones are so real to us that they become our realities)

Homework:

• The Stranger annotation due 3/21/11
• Core concept for (2/21/11-3/7/11) due 3//7/11
• Huck./Pride annotations due 2/28/11
• Peer Evaluations due 3/1/11
• Comedy Prompt revision due 3/3/11