Final Exams

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course the student will be able to
• identify, explain, and critically assess concepts and movements in German, Italian, and
Spanish literature from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century
• apply close-reading techniques and make meaningful use of analytic terms in literary
criticism (romanticism, naturalism, modernism, avant garde, absurdism, metaphor, allegory,
symbol, narratology, characterization, point-of-view, etc.)
• articulate well-constructed arguments in written and oral form

you can use Magic realism, and how it differs from surrealism and realism to discuss unamuno and the priest

Final Exam Format - Two Parts

Part 1 - 10 questions, 4 mc, 3 fb, 4 t/f.

• term like questions, e.g chiasmus or chiastic, aporia

• offer as something to discuss or test you on. So we're talking about philosophical and rhetorical terms, Magic realism, and how it differs from surrealism and realism.

• Basically, surrealism was a movement that predates magic realism in European writing and in European art. And Surrealism is associated with the 1920s, sometimes the teens, but mostly the 20s and 30s, with developments in France led by Andre Breton. So name, she also knows the father of Surrealism, both in literature and in art. French surrealism and surrealism more generally beyond France, for example, in America or in Britain. was, but especially the French variety of surrealism, which means superior or beyond mere realism, was based mostly on Freudian concepts and the influence of Freud on literary creativity, artistic creativity, and literary and artistic

• Magic realism is clearly surrealistic in its tone in that things happen that are not everyday events or that are miraculous events, but magic realism, as the word magic suggests, implies some kind of power of enchantment or some kind of conjuring or some kind of or some kind of supernaturalism that is not legitimately orthodox or normative.

• who are the Gauchos? They would be the equivalent, or somewhat equivalent, South Argentina version of it happened in Ballo, but the Gauchos are there in Borges, the story of the South, through the folkloristic cowboys of the. Argentinian prairie, which is called 

•  the most popular L Boom or magic realist novel ever was(that we did not read), which is what is the famous novel that characterizes magic realism as being quintessential is called 100 years of solitude

• Borges spoke Spanish, of course, and wrote in Spanish. What other native language that he have since early childhood. - English

• Milton Sills(movie star from the silent era), where is he? Where do you find his name mentioned? The passage in a Borgia story called Amazon,

• What about Vincent John Vincent Moon? What philosophy of history does he espouse or preach? A the Marxism on his favorite military weapon? what kind of unit in the military that he would want to be in, that reveals his cowardice

• who dies at the same time as another character or what a character espouses as a philosophy work. Artillery is the answer.

• John Vincent Moon likes her because it's not frontline action. Or at least in his time, it was not frontline.

• Erin Lorenzo is shot by Amazon. He curses her in Spanish and in another language. Yiddish.

• the term verite is used to describe Bolonga’s style. the term was used in the sense that reminds proj Buj of certain form of documentary film making, that raw, spontaneous, unscripted, on the spot filming.

• Who dies at the same time that Don Manuel dies? In the in the in the story slash novella. Blessieo the fool

• the shabled sword, the shape of the sword is?

part 2 - passages from each story, 8 passages.

You decide which text you like to write about, which two texts, and just write a 200 to 250 word answer for each of the two texts. So you're writing about 500 words for the entire exam. You can go over a little bit if you like.

• Focus on the south. The passage will have to do with the duel at the end, his Gaucho fantasy

• Miltons picture is in the  Emma Zunz's desk drawer, and she very significantly, in terms of her odd psychological connection or disconnection to her father. DYS connection, so not a happy connection. She places the letter that informed her of his death, That starts the story, that letter by that faint or fine person is placed next to a photo of Milton Sills, which implies that she has a movie star crush on Milton Sills, so that kind of Borges suggested her sexuality is quote on quote normal.

• one of the passages will be from the beginning of Amazon's, and I'll just ask you about the narrator's portrayal of Emma, what implications arise early on in the story before you even know the outcome of the story, but having known the outcome.

• There will also be a passage from the end of the south or near the end of the south, when he is leaving gthe tavern to get into a knife fight, This is the scene in which one of the three Tough guys at a table next to Juan Dahlman challenge him, and one of them is described as being someone with Asian ancestry mixed with Spanish ancestry, and Dahlman himself has Germanic and Spanish ancestry mixed.

• I will choose a passage from Bolano. There's so many to choose from, and I will simply ask you to talk about issues like entropy. That's a term we use as a metaphor. We took it from science and we use it as a metaphor for the way things stand in the South that he was thought would be, you know, mythological and romantic and dreamlike. And it's kind of disappointing and run down and crappy and low energy and dilapidated and chaotic. you will be asked about Bolani if you want to write about Bolani, about entropy, and about his writing style, the verite technique

• the beginning of Two Words by Allende, where, you know, we hear about Melissa Capusculario and how she learned language and how she learned to read. If you want to write on magic realism, you will have to write on it in connection with allende, two words.

• A passage from the Buffalo, And it'll probably be the passage near the end where we discussed issues like epiphany and catharsis and what's going on in the characters mind at that moment as she confronts the buffalo, the buffalo walks up to where she is and she falls.

• For the Reporting, anywhere in the middle, we will be asked what we make of it as experimental literature, as so-called anti-literature. Basically, you can go off on any kind of tangent you would like to go, as long as you Connect the passage to the issue of experimentation and using literature against itself. When she writes, this is a report. Svetlana does not allow short stories or novels, no matter what. It only permits transmission.  get into all that stuff about report as a genre of not literature usually, and how it's being used as literature, or how it gets in the way of being used as literature, and this odd text. so that would be the passage from that one, where she talks about wet and dry things, and you know, she ended up bringing God into the text and so on.

• A passage from the  judge's wife near the end, where the judge's wife, Casilda, is facing off against Nicholas Vitold, the outlaw, and they're kind of entering that zone of the dual. and you can talk about lousy literature, as great literature, as the battle of the sexes, as something that you want to compare to La Lupa by Verga, it'll be up to you. You have many avenues into the question.

• Unamuno, something from the passage that talks about how they believe in their own unbelief. Angela Carabrino, writer of the story, the memoir, thought that they were so convinced of their own belief that they actually believed in something that was indicator of potential of normative belief, hat's a kind of a paradox that's the kind of, you know, the master trope of his text, where belief and unbelief are irresolvably together. So logically they don't fit together, but they somehow were in these characters' hearts and minds according to the narrator.