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1. Discuss the clash between tradition and modernity (often figured as Westernization) in at least three works we have seen and/or read this past semester.
2. How do you interpret the representation of modern women/students in works we have seen or read this past semester, such as “Xiao Xiao,” Lust Caution, Eileen Chang’s essays, Xiao Hong’s stories, and Raise the Red Lantern? What cultural meanings are attached to modern women, and how do they differ from traditional female characters? (Or if you prefer, you can focus your essay on peasant female characters in works, such as “Xiao Xiao,” Red Sorghum, and Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress.)
3. Pick at least three poems by Bei Dao and discuss their use of nature imagery. What metaphorical meanings are attached to nature imagery, and what poetic scenes do the poems evoke through the use of nature imagery?
4. Discuss the portrayal of the family in the films we have watched this semester. Is the family depicted as a microcosm of society? How are interfamilial relationships depicted, and what symbolic or cultural meanings are connected with the family unit?
5. What do you consider to be the major differences between male and female writers whose works we have read this past semester in terms of their style of writing, treatment of history, depiction of women, use of imagery, etc.?
6. What do you see as the major differences between pre-Mao writings by Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing, and Lao She and post-Mao literary works that we have watched adaptations of, including Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Raise the Red Lantern, In the Heat of the Sun, and Mojin The Lost Legend in terms of Western influence, cultural critique, the impact of commercialization, etc.? (If you want, you can focus on any one of these elements.) How has Chinese literature changed and developed over the course of the 20th century?
7. Compare and contrast the depiction of life in the rural village in works, such as “Xiao Xiao” and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, with the representation of the city in Lao She’s Rickshaw Boy and Eileen Chang’s writings. What different cultural meanings are attached to the rural and to the Westernized city?
8. A recurrent theme in modern Chinese literature is that of the interaction between the educated elite and the rural poor, a theme found in “Xiao Xiao” and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. How do you understand and interpret the relationship between different social classes portrayed in these works?
9. Compare and contrast the portrayal of the Cultural Revolution in Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and Wang Shuo’s In the Heat of the Sun.
10. Compare and contrast two or more literary works with their film adaptations. What do you see as the key differences between literary and filmic versions, and how do you analyze and understand these differences?
11. Create a paper topic of your own comparing at least two or more literary works and/or films we have watched this past semester. Your paper should have a thesis or main argument that you prove, and it should also give you a chance to show the knowledge you have gained this past semester about Chinese literature and film.

 

 

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Longfellow’s Unique American Hero in Evangeline

A one of a kind American saint unique in long individual in Evangeline: The clarification of Adam’s long individual in the United States is something else. Through the portrayal of the story sonnet Evangelin, the idea of American Adam can be seen in different manners. R. W. B. Lewis investigated the journey for American Renaissance journalists and made a one of a kind American writing in the 1955 content “American Adam in the Nineteenth Century: Innocence, Tragedy and Tradition”.

In 1847, the American writer Henry Wadsworth Long Fellow distributed a long story sonnet about the ejection of the Acadians called Evangeline, delineating an imaginary individual Ivagne. Phosphorus’ quandary. This sonnet got in vogue and got acclaimed. Evangeline oak is a vacation destination in Louisiana. The melody “Acadian Driftwood” recorded by The Band in 1975 speaks to the development and Acadian development. Antonine Maillet composed a novel called Pélagie-la-Charrette because of huge wreck. It was granted to Prix Goncourt in 1979. Fantastic PréPark is Canadian National Historic Site of Grand-Pére, Nova Scotia State and is protected as a landmark to the outcast. It incorporates the commemoration church and the sculpture of Evangeline, the subject of long individual verse. In 2018, Canadian history specialist and writer A.J.B. Johnston distributed YA’s epic called The Hat, propelled by the occasion in the Grand Prix of 1755.

On the off chance that the understudies meet a long individual before attending a university, at that point the writer they know isn’t in this assortment: Evangeline, “Ha Faasha’s melody”, “Million’s romance”. This long individual’s assortment is our “revisionist” long individual in the second 50% of the twentieth century and nearly perceives renowned journalists who may have thought of them, aside from sonnets like “Hymns of life” can not. On the off chance that verse understudies don’t really peruse Long Fellows, he just tuned in to him (in an ordinary case) and they need to know why he is so celebrated.

These are a ton of extraordinary writers. Long Fellow is one of only a handful barely any writers who joined new works. He made a few best sonnets ever. Sonnets of the Evangeline, Haihuasha tunes, and long individual stories, for example, Miles Stendish’s tribute give a sentimental perspective on the early American history and vote based goals. Evangelin is perhaps the longest sonnet at any point composed by an essayist. It is mainstream through the differentiation everything being equal. It is perused, cherished and thought in an unassuming bungalow (Wagonknecht P.85). Evangelin is difficult to misrepresent his style at home and abroad, which is the principal long verse that rose above his own time in American writing (Wagonknecht P.85)

 

 

 

 

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