LITERATURE
✔Robert Browning - dramatic monologue style of writing
✔Wole Soyinka - 1st African Nobel Laureate
✔PLOT - most important in Aristotle's Poetics
✔"The Prince" by Niccollo Machiavelli - a political power handbook
✔"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
✔Fyodor Dostoevsky - most common theme of writing: enormous contradictions of human nature
✔Lyric poetry - about emotions/feelingsb musical accompaniment; not intended to be sung
✔Ballad - narrative poem; intended to be sung
✔Epistolary - a compilation of works or series of documents or letters with connection; popular in the 18th Century
✔Picaresque - stories about the adventures of a low-class indivudual (example: Robinhood)
✔Mahabharata - the true epic of India with mythology and religion
✔Gilgamesh - 1st heroic narrative of world literature
✔"Ode to a Grecian Urn" by John Keats - about beauty; "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
✔"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy - about the Napoleonic invasion of Russia
✔"Kublai Khan" by Coleridge - a collection of dreams stimulated by drugs
✔HAIKU - Japanese poem about transitoriness of life; captures a moment to memorialize
✔Lord Tennyson works:
-Break, break, break
-Breaking the Bar
-In Memoriam
-My Last Duchess
✔Blank verse poetry - no rhyme; with meter
✔Free verse - no rhyme; no meter; a characteristic of Modernism poetry
✔"A Rose is a Rose, is a Rose" by Gertrude Stein - she is one of the "Lost Generation" writers
✔Filipino local color style - Manuel Arguilla's "How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife"
✔American local color style - Mark Twain's (Samuel Langhorn Clemens) "Adventures of Huckleberryfin" and "Life on Mississippi"
✔Marks of Post-Modernism:
-intertextuality
-metafictionality
✔"The Filipino Rebel" by Stevan Javellana - story of a woman torn between love & obedience
✔"A Child of Sorrow" - 1st English Philippine novel
✔"Bamboo in the Wind" by Azucena Grajo Urranza - last desperate effort of Filipinos to be free from colonization
✔Sucesos Felices - 1st newsletter in the Philippines
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