Sparknotes summaries
etext of the novel
a hypertext of the novel, with loads of other ways of accessing the novel
For those who want a little more action in the novel, check out this new book:
10: Pride and Prejudice links
Sparknotes summaries
etext of the novel
a hypertext of the novel, with loads of other ways of accessing the novel
For those who want a little more action in the novel, check out this new book:
11: lecture notes for Mother Courage intro.
1. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1955); German political playwright, exiled in 1933
2. Brecht: ‘How can theatre be entertaining and at the same time instructive? How can it be taken out of the traffic in intellectual drugs and transformed from a place of illusion to a place of insight?’
3.Epic, non-Aristotelian or dialectic theatre
4. alienation effects :
- titles
- fragmentation of scenes
- music
- staging: minimalist, but with the texture of reality
- language
- acting style
5. Brecht: ‘What is a performance of Mother Courage & Her Children primarily meant to show?
That in wartime big profits are not made by little people. That war, which is a continuation of business by other means, makes the human virtues fatal even to their possessors. That no sacrifice is too great for the struggle against war.’ (xvii)
6. The Thirty Years War (1618-1648):
Imperial Catholic Germanic states
vs.
Protestant Germanic / Scandinavian states
7. Philosophical position of communism
- dialectic
- minimalism of individuality
- need for action
11A1: The Three Sisters reviews
When studying a play, it can be useful to read reviews of productions of that play. Here are a few I found:
9: Caged Bird map
Here is a map of the locations of the book around the United States. Click the link below to zoom in and see street-level views.
12 standard: paper 2 planning
Here's the question we worked with on Wed. 11.3.09:
“What happens in fiction is what distinguishes it…” Using at least two works, show how far your interest in novels and short stories has been based on the events and how much of your interest has been in other aspects?
Here are the notes preparing a thesis statement:
10: reader response essay
The goal of this essay is to explain how you experienced reading the play relative to specific techniques and elements of the play. In a reader response essay, you may refer to yourself as a reader, (using ‘I’ or ‘we’), explaining how specific elements of the play affected your emotional and intellectual response. You should not express your attitude about the quality of the play: it should analyze the way the author uses the text to have an effect on a specific reader, namely yourself or a reader just like you.
Basically, you are linking technique to the impact it has on the reader, instead of theme. Your thesis statement will identify the specific effect the identified techniques or features have on your reading of the play.
Choose one of the following prompts below: I have listed them in order of increasing difficulty. Again, please choose wisely.
Uploading London photos
I've created a Picasaweb site for our London pictures. Here's the link to see photos.
Here's how to upload photos:
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