5/ 7 James Joyce’s "Araby"
(short story) from Dubliners
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Please detach from here.
detach: If
you detach one
thing from another
that it is fixed to, you remove it. If one thing detaches from another, it becomes separated from it.
attach: If you attach something to an object, you join it or
fasten it to the object.
·
ob- / op- is the prefix standing for “opposite or against”
E.g.
opponent, obstacle
opponent óproponent
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Problem novel
The problem
novel is a "work of fiction in which a prevailing social problem, such as
gender, race, or class prejudice, is dramatized through its effect on the
characters of a novel." More recently the term is used to describe young
adult literature that deal exclusively with an adolescent's first confrontation
with a social or personal problem such as parents, schools or sex.
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Initiation
Initiation is a rite of passage ceremony marking entrance or acceptance
into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a
community or one of its formal components. Examples of initiation ceremonies
might include Hindu diksha, Christian baptism or confirmation.
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Bildungsroman -
In literary
criticism, novel of formation, novel of education or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on
the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood, and in which, therefore, character
change is extremely important. E.g. Gone
with the Wind, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre and Adventures of Tom
Sawyer.
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Carpe diem: seize the
day.
Carpe diem is a Latin aphorism usually translated to "seize the day", taken
from a poem in the Odes in 23 BC by the poet Horace.
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Movie: Dead Poets
Society
Western
canon
Shaping
west literature
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Fantasy is a genre
of fiction that
commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within
the genre take place in imaginary worlds where
magic and magical creatures are common. E.g. The Lord of the Rings.
l Fantasy
author：
1.
Ursula K. Le Guin
à A Wizard of Earthsea
2.
C.S. Lewis
à The Chronicles of Narnia
3.
J.R.R Tolkien
à The Lord of the Rings
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Parable
A parable is a
succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse,
which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs
from a fable in that fables
employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters,
whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.
Parable of
Jesus àThe prodigal
son
Parable of
last sheep/ coin
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Fable
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical
creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of
nature that are anthropomorphized and
that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be
added explicitly as a pithy maxim.
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Allegory
As a literary
device, an allegory in its most general sense is an
extended metaphor. Allegories are typically used as literary devices or rhetorical
devices that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together
create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.
The Faerie
Queen
The pilgrim’s
progress
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Faith, reason à bible
I get the
faith in you
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Doubting Thomas
A doubting
Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal
experience—a reference to the Apostle
Thomas, who refused to believe that the resurrected
Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles,
until he could see and feel the wounds
received by Jesus on the cross.
Movie:
Divergent
In a world divided by factions based on
virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a
plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what
makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
The giver
In a seemingly perfect community, without
war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn
from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real"
world.
Hunger game
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her
younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in
which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at
random to compete.
Rationale: The rationale for
a course of action, practice, or belief is the set of reasons on which it is
based.
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Utopia ódystopia
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Annie’s song / John Denver
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Retreat (spiritual)
The meaning of a spiritual retreat can
be different for different religious communities. Spiritual retreats are an
integral part of many Hindu, Buddhist and Christian communities.
·
attend the bazaar /school
Convent
· In Greek
mythology, Charon is the ferryman of Hades who carries
souls of the newly deceased across
the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of
the dead.
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Araby
"Araby" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners.
Themes: coming
of age/ the loss of innocence
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Lady Godiva
Godiva known as Lady Godiva, was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman
who, according to a legend dating back at least to the 13th century, rode naked –
only covered in her long
hair – through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. The name "Peeping Tom" for a voyeur originates from later versions of this legend in which a
man named Tom had watched her ride and was struck blind or dead.
puppy love à
I kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we
came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed
her.
chalice
holy Grail
fib: A fib is
a small, unimportant lie.
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
àabout
himself / stupid
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