Heart of Darkness "When near the buildings, I met a white man" Accountant
Heart of Darkness "We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness"
Heart of Darkness "I was thinking of very old times"
Heart of Darkness "The other shoe went flying"
Owen "Chances"
Owen "Disabled"
Owen "Spring Offensive"
Owen "Dulce et Decorum est"
Owen "Mental Cases"
Owen "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
Donne "The Sun Rising"
Donne "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
Donne "Death Be Not Proud" (Holy Sonnet X)
Othello Act I.iii.128-170
Othello Act II.iii.335-362
Othello Act. III.iii.429-462
Othello Act IV.70-108
Othello Act V.ii.242-282
For all Othello passages, be sure to follow
the numbers on the blue sheets I gave you.
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a move away from realism and the idea that experience can be realistically portrayed-more modernist and pessimistic about the inability to adequately convey human experience; shows a decline in the communicability of experience
Ford Maddox Ford, writer and friend to Conrad
the two had similar ideas about how writing should attempt to convey experience
"We saw that life did not narrate, but made impressions on our brains. We in turn, if we wished to produce on you the effect of life, must not narrate but render impressions" (Ford).
**The attempt to capture the ephemeral moment when the observing consciousness becomes involved in an authentic experience with an external stimulus
the narrative voice in a story should be like a record of thought in a particular human mind.
- parallel with the development of French Impressionist painting in the late nineteenth century;
- connection between rendering impressions and taking scientific observations prior to forming generalizations
- gives priority to sensory impressions in the formation of human consciousness.
- foregrounds the activity of perception in a receptive mind, rather than the ostensible object perceived. (What you feel is more important that what made you feel it.)
It invites a variety of interpretations of clashing opinions within a web of incompatible impressions and prevents the reader from closing the debate on the meaning presented within the narration by Marlow.
The perceiving intellect and the limited point of view organize and screen the material stated in such a passage, so that we hear only what Marlow hears and sees only what he sees. Juxtaposition of past memory, fantasy and fictive present impressions are made in his mind. Such mental collages are typical of the indirect narration of Marlow.
Marlow does not plainly depict a horrible sight from an objective point of view. Instead, he tells us what he conceives in his mind in the gradual process of realization
a temporary lapse between the raw impression and the rational interpretation of that impression delayed decoding and considers it to be one of the chief characteristics of impressionist style.
Conrad's aim as a writer was "by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel …before all, to make you see."
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Othello
Heart Of Darkness
Dust Tracks on a Road
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Untouchable
Tales From Havana
In the Country of Lost Things
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A Day (jr. year)
Sorrow of War
Thousand Cranes
The Plague
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B Day (jr. year)
Like Water for Chocolate
Kokoro
The Stranger
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These works are evaluated through World Lit 1.
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1984
Brave New World
In the Time of the Butterlifes
Book of Embraces (World Lit Work)
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These works are evaluated in the junior year through the Individual Oral Presentation.
These books may also be used in the World Lit II paper.
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List of possible book combinations for A and B day. Be careful!
World Lit II formatting requirements
World Lit II template (please use!)
World Lit II samples
Clever Titles: You, too, Can Write One!
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(The links below will be updated closer to the time of the Exam Paper One, Tuesday, May 2, 2006.)
Study tips
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Study tips: What to expect from essay questions 1,2,3
Some previous test questions (scroll down)
The multiple choice trick
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