Les 3 Flashcards
(36 cards)
______________ referred to as the beginning of the third millennium
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
“A _________ is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work. The th of a story can be conveyed using characters, dialogue, plot, or a combination of all these elements.” (MasterClass, 2021)
Literary theme
It is also presented through several means such as the characters feelings, thoughts and conversations; the events and actions of the text. It binds the various elements of a narrative and is often about the general truths of life across cultures. By analyzing the theme of a certain text, you will be able to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of a text.
Literary theme
The United Nations (UN), as a leading international organization, tagged ____________ as some of its long list of global issues of the 21st century.
CLIMATE CHANGE, DEMOCRACY, POVERTY, GENDER EQUALITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, PEACE, and SECURITY
_______________ pertain to literary pieces published within the _______________________. This subject o course encompasses the various dimensions, genres, elements, structures, contexts, and traditions
Twenty-first literary pieces
new millennium or from 2000 up to the present.
beginning of refers to January 1st of 2001 Century
Los Angeles Time (1988)
literature of war has existed since the fine litasary teets written
Scholars have quickly acknowledged that war is a dominant foxce the works of the earliest cultures
It is as universal as themes of love or death or time or human fwy
• The proliferation of recent scholarship on war seves only to remin readers that war is still very much a contemporary sue and the war Siterature is a popular topic for publication
The literature of war takes a wide variety of approaches in its effo
to comprehend the war experience and
and encompasses sistersioon
several genres, including pottry, drama, short stories, noves jour
diaries, oral histones, memoirs, and letters (Calloway, 2017
EFFECTS OF WAR, TERRORISM, AND OTHER SOCIAL EVILS
Many contemporary novels address identity as literary theme.
• Protagonists learn that they can decide who they want to be which n sounds fantastic, until they realize how difficult that decision is.
• A character may want to exhibit a quality he/she admires, like compassion, physical strength, or honesty, but he/she may find it challenging to do so.
• Identity as a theme may be presented as choice, self- acceptance, identity crisis, hiding one’s identity or even a twist in identity. (Sara Letourneau, 2017)
STRUGGLE FOR IDENTITY OR PURPOSE
• born in Maupit, Camaligan, Camarines Sur
• finished BSE English at Ateneo De Naga
University (1995), MA in English at the
University of Nueva Caceres
• a fellow at the UP National Writers Workshop
in 2002
ESTELITO
B. JACOB
• was born on September 3, 1973
• Currently teaching LITERATURE, CREATIVE
WRITING, and JOURNALISM at UNC
• finished secondary education at ADNU and
earned the degree Bachelor of Secondary
Education, major in English in the same school
• Right now, he is finishing his MA in English at
UNC
ESTELITO
B. JACOB
• won several awards for his poetry and his MGA
NIRUKITDUKIT collection which was chosen
by the National Commission for Culture and
the Arts as part of the UBOD New Writer
Series
• president of the Kabulig-Bikol, Inc. (Bikol
writers group)
• one of the three editors of the Bangraw
magazine
ESTELITO
B. JACOB
karagkadag - tuninong
(uuga-uga - gumigiwang-giwang)
lulugadon - magian
(susugatan - magaan)
matarom - papel-papelan
(matalim - parang papel)
- art of written work
not confined to published sources
Literature
▪ meant to be read multiple times, revealing new depth,
and meaning upon each subsequent reading
▪ can be read and reread, demonstrating new layers each
time
▪ stands the test of time, finding modern audiences
regardless of the period in which it was originally
written and maintains its influence and relevance
through centuries because its themes, characters, and
storytelling are timeless (MasterClass, 2021).
Classic literature
• marked both by style and principle, “by a
reliance on such literary conventions as
fragmentation, paradox, unreliable
narrators, often unrealistic and downright
impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia,
dark humor, and authorial self-reference
• rejects the boundaries between ‘high’ and
‘low’ forms of art and literature as well as
POST MODERNISM
Examples for STRUGGLES FOR IDENTITY AND PURPOSE
●SIMON AND THE HOMO
SAPIENS AGENDA
Becky Albertalli
●THE PERKS OF BEING A
WALLFLOWER
Stephen Chbosky
Examples for EFFECTS OF WAR…..
●THE KITE RUNNER
Khaled Hosseini
●ONE HUNDRED AND ONE
NIGHTS
Benjamin Buchholz
• Cataclysm, natural or man-made, is one of the most popular themes in
fiction.
• It could mean a violent and large-scale event occurring in the natural
world. Central to the disaster tradition are stories of vast biospheric
changes which drastically affect human life.
• Tales of universal floods and other motifs, such as plagues, fires and
famines, have an obvious source in the Bible, also known as the
apocalypse, where the adjective “apocalyptic” , is derived from.
• Disaster stories appeal because they represent everything readers
most fear and at the same time, perhaps, secretly desire: a
depopulated world, escape from the constraints of a highly organized
industrial society, the opportunity to prove one’s ability as a survivor.
NATURAL OR
MAN-MADE CATASTROPHE
Examples of NATIRAL OR MAN MADE CATASTROPHE
●POMPEII (2003)
Robert Harris
●BIRD BOX (2014)
Josh Malerman
• ______________ are nonfiction writings that express the
experiences of the main characters.
• Most of the time, these experiences bring out these interesting
experiences of readers: EMPATHY, CURIOSITY, and RESPONSIBILITY.
• Empathy includes experiences of identification, theory of mind, and social
simulation with the characters.
• Curiosity includes the experiences of speculating about plot developments,
character motivations, and the significance of themes.
PERSONALIZED NARRATIVE
Example of PERSONALIZED NARRATIVES
I AM MALALA
Malala Yousafzai
• By the beginning of the 20th century, an array of standard science
fiction with themes such as the negative impacts of technology had
developed around certain themes, among them space travel, robots,
alien beings, and time travel.
• The customary “theatrics” of science fiction include prophetic
warnings, utopian aspirations, elaborate scenarios for entirely
imaginary worlds, titanic disasters, strange voyages, and political
agitation of many extremist flavors, presented in the form of sermons,
meditations, satires, allegories, and parodies - exhibiting every
conceivable attitude toward the process of techno-social change, from
cynical despair to cosmic bliss.
EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY
