bashful
reluctant to draw attention to oneself; shy
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- Sep 2020
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andersen.sdu.dk andersen.sdu.dk
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despondent
in low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
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minced
walk with an affected delicacy or fastidiousness, typically with short quick steps
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stork
type of bird
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inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net
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ad libitum
as much or as often as necessary or desired.
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lament
a passionate expression of grief or sorrow.
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analogous
comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared.
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newleftreview.org newleftreview.org
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as a faultline running between story and discourse, world and worldview: the world goes in the strange direction dictated by an outside power; the worldview tries to make sense of it, and is thrown off balance all the time.
Not all forms of literature will agree upon one specific form of literature. If one for of literature is put in the spotlight of the world view it will be thrown off balance" not all agreed upon.
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system—but a system of variations.
always varied from place to place
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At times, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century and in Asia, it tended to be very unstable:footnote23 an ‘impossible programme’, as Miyoshi says of Japan.footnote24 At other times it was not so: at the beginning and at the end of the wave, for instance (Poland, Italy and Spain at one extreme; and West Africa on the other), historians describe novels that had, certainly, their own problems—but not problems arising from the clash of irreconcilable elements.footnote25
These mixtures between foreign (western) literature and local literature were prone to maybe flop. Didn't really know if it was going to work out or not.
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when a culture starts moving towards the modern novel, it’s always as a compromise between foreign form and local materials
It is essentially a mixture between outside literature and local literature.
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At bottom, it’s a theological exercise—very solemn treatment of very few texts taken very seriously—whereas what we really need is a little pact with the devil:
Close reading isnt so great for the broadening of the mind.
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‘years of analysis for a day of synthesis’
So much time taken to analyze all this literature to come up with a short conclusion.
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the destiny of a culture (usually a culture of the periphery, as Montserrat Iglesias Santos has specified)footnote5 is intersected and altered by another culture (from the core) that ‘completely ignores it’
People who look at others literature from around the world take their literature and change it a bit, or reflect upon it, and give their own opinion from their own perspective, then it becomes another form of literature itself.
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One, and unequal: one literature (Weltliteratur, singular, as in Goethe and Marx), or perhaps, better, one world literary system (of inter-related literatures); but a system which is different from what Goethe and Marx had hoped for, because it’s profoundly unequal.
World literature (Weltliteratur) is all inter-connected. They all touch similar idea. At the same time they are different because they approach these ideas through different perspectives.
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A new “science” emerges where a new problem is pursued by a new method.’footnote2 That’s the point: world literature is not an object, it’s a problem, and a problem that asks for a new critical method: and no one has ever found a method by just reading more texts.
Compares literature to science. We use science to solve problems. Here world literature is a "problem" and there needs to be some sort of a method to go about understanding world literature.
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from the many national and local literatures, a world literature arises.
Its as if all national literature has come to an end. That is about all the national literature that can be written. Whats next? Mixed literature from different nations, or literature about literature from other nations!
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- Aug 2020
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www.poetryfoundation.org www.poetryfoundation.org
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What LIFE was really all about.
Existentialism
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That Piggy had a massive brain. He worked out sums inside his head,
He was smart
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www.thevolta.org www.thevolta.org
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Each sentence goes to the next.
I watched an interview with the author, Charles Bukowski mentioning this. That every line has immediately follow the next. I really look for this in a book, I would not like having to read some sentences that have no use of being there.
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John Updike famously once referred to old fairy tales as “the television and pornography” of their day.
looks like we haven't changed. only the form in which we present these things have.
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Whether a student is writing about robots, vampires, suburban children or migrant farm workers, the fairy way bars no one from entry, education, or vital assistance.
Whatever it is that you are talking about, the "fairy way" can always be used to set up the world in which that you are going to talk about.
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I seek to make something clear, not to obscure.
Where as some forms of writing use lots of obscurities like metaphors and there is much need to analyze deeply. this form of writing is to make it plain and simple.
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in stories from Japan, Egypt, Korea, Germany, France, Africa, Ireland, all over the world—I realized that the hundred or so techniques described by Luthi in Fairy Tale as Art Form could be transformed to create a new template for contemporary literary fairy tales.
All different techniques from around the world can be sort of merged to create a new for of fairy tales for today.
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the fairy way required that the poet invent everything inside the world of the poem.
The Poet must create everything from his own imagination within the poem.
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spenserians.cath.vt.edu spenserians.cath.vt.edu
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Thus we see how many ways Poetry addresses it self to the Imagination, as it has not only the whole Circle of Nature for its Province, but makes new Worlds of its own,
It is just not a reading. Poetry lead to a creation of a whole new world within the imagination.
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There is something so wild and yet so solemn in the Speeches of his Ghosts, Fairies, Witches, and the like Imaginary Persons, that we cannot forbear thinking them natural, tho' we have no Rule by which to judge of them, and must confess, if there are such Beings in the World, it looks highly probable they should talk and act as he has represented them.
Shakespear really made the characters come to life, and made the reader question if such people lived on earth. It seems so real the way that shakespear portrayed them, that you are almost certain that is the way they acted.
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For, otherwise, he will be apt to make his Fairies talk like People of his own Species, and not like other Setts of Beings, who converse with different Objects, and think in a different manner from that of Mankind;
The author has to have been expose to different kinds of people in order to convey those traits into his fictional characters. This helps make his tales relatable to the readers in a broader sense.
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Characters and Actions of such Persons as have many of them no Existence, but what he bestows on them
The characters that the author produces are not real in the physical world. The author gives them character by granting them certain traits.
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