Another concept of Ms. Holmes' class is that art is everywhere and are biases (and opinions) shouldn't get in the way of respect. On her whiteboard is all of her favorite "pop artists". We had a presentation on postmodernism (actually all the eras but mine was postmodernism) and I learned a lot about it. This is especially helpful for me as a composer in todays world. But luckily it's a pretty cool world of the arts.
The eras and history of literature is tied into music and art as well. Most of the eras presented in literature had a similar sort of viewpoint in both art and music. What's funny is how some predate others. For example, romanticism in music encompasses romanticism in literature, along with the victorian age. It's interesting then how they all line up for a split second at modernism, and seem to leave together (very quickly) onto post-modernism.
Another subject that hits on all eras is tragedy. I like how different ages have different definitions of a true tragedy. The Arthur Miller definition was neat, because all of the cases in modern literature that our a tragedy fit perfectly (that I know of) into his essay.
Because tragedy is so important (and we spent a considerable amount of time on you), you should consider defining it in this post (all of the different definitions of it). It's possible that one of the prompts on our exam in May has to do with Miller's definition of a tragic hero. You mention that it fit perfectly..how so? How is Willy considered a tragic hero in this case? Things like this will help remind you of what actually happened in the play!
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ReplyDeleteThis is another concept that I had never thought about before you mentioned it! I feel like you did a good job of summarizing what you did summarize, but I also felt like it could have been expanded to encompass more than just the postmodernism.
Although i really liked your example of a tragedy, I felt like it might have been a tad misplaced. It would have worked well with another main concept, but I felt like it was a decent summary about the tragedies discussed in class.
Thank you for actually noticing that there's a reason behind all of my choices as a teacher (not unlike a writer or composer, I am always selecting each element of our classroom, the curriculum, my teaching style, and so on in order to reinforce the overall theme--form follows function!)
ReplyDeleteBut I do agree with Ginger again--more detail!