This past month in AP Literature has been productive and beneficial. Class time has been quick with a lot of new notes and handouts. I was introduced to a lot of new things this month. For example, I wasn't aware of the Theater of the Absurd, the types of comedy, and all the different terms that comedy could have. For some reason, comedy always seemed to be a simple, feel-good type of play. Terms like lampoon and Travesty were strange to me. To learn all the different parts of it was unexpected, yet informative.
The comedy terms and the Theater of the Absurd seem to be related because they can both be types of plays. A comedy seems to be a much broader type of play because it can have many types within it, such as low/high comedies, burlesques, farces, and parodies. The Theater of the Absurd seemed to contain many plays that were related in that they used the meaningless of human nature to use in their plays. I felt that the plays used comedy techniques in order to send the messages of their plays, but didn't necessarily follow the pattern of a traditional comedy.
The Theater of the Absurd reminded me strongly of a show that I have heard of called Adventure Time. Although I haven't personally watched it, I've heard from friends who have that it is strange and doesn't seem to make any sense. It is puzzling and strange, and for those reasons, it grabs your attention. I relate Adventure Time to the Theater of the Absurd, where the strangeness of it is different and bold. It uses these methods to send clear messages to the reader.
Learning about critical lenses were a review for me. I found critical lenses to be funny because I can't really picture people sticking to one category or critical lense. I think it would be much more logical for someone to review literature with influences from multiple critical lenses in mind. Sticking to one seems to be too much work to me.
We learned about allusions in class as well. As we were creating the presentations and observing them, I kept thinking of how Foster had stated in his book that almost all stories have allusions from others. It was a strange feeling to be able to connect the idea of Foster's book to the actual project. I really appreciate reading Foster's book because it has proven to be extremely helpful.
We have also learned about the literary time periods during class. I knew about the time periods like Medieval, Classical, and Romantic from British Literature, but I wasn't familiar with post modernism. I hope we can review and go over the literary time periods more thoroughly throughout the rest of the year.
Hi Joyce! :) Make sure to indent each paragraph! Also, you mention many different things that we talked about, but don't really go that in depth with them, so maybe next time, try picking just a couple things that we did in class and then elaborating on them. That way it doesn't seem as much like a list!
ReplyDeleteNice job on this! I'm not sure I can give you any worthy criticism, besides echoing Tulsi's point on maybe going into a little more detail on a few things, but really I think this is fine. Also, good job going beyond and making connections, like with what we've learned and that TV show or going back and mentioning how something you learned from Foster also relates.
ReplyDeleteGreat Job Joyce! You covered all the main topics, but when you talk about Adventure Time you say that it uses methods to send clear messages to viewers, I would state what those messages are.
ReplyDeleteI too would like to go more in depth with exploring the literary time periods to further my understanding. Just something to think about though would be to show how you now can apply what you have learned. For instance talk about how you recognize works written in a certain literary time period and then give the characteristics of the time period and where they are found in that particular work.