Final Study Guide for EN 190 -- Summer II 2011

This study guide for the final will begin with F.W. Murnau's 1922 version of Nosferatu, an example of silent film and German Expressionism.  Below are links to YouTube versions of this film:

Here is a link to the YouTube video of the entire movie.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcyzubFvBsA

This version has a better soundtrack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDZURPwzkRg

Below is a picture of the actor Max Schreck who played Nosferatu.

Below is his brief biography.  More rumors than facts are known.

http://www.leninimports.com/max_schreck.html#partone

Here is a biography of director F.W. Murnau who later worked in Hollywood.  His picture is below.

http://www.leninimports.com/murnau_fw.html#partone

Also, here is a link to my Multiply entry on the 1922 Nosferatu, the version that we saw.

http://worldlit2.multiply.com/journal/item/154/Nosferatu_1922

Werner Herzog remade this film in 1979:

http://worldlit2.multiply.com/journal/item/152/Nosferatu_1979

Let's move onto poetry.  As Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" may be a poem or a short story, we may begin with her piece.  Here is some information about Ms. Kincaid:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/kincaid_life.shtml

Here is a little benna for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSbCGGl8aAU

Below are the definitions of the short story and the poem that I included.

A short story is a brief prose work of narrative fiction characterized by a carefully crafted plot and style, complexity in characterization and point of view, and unity of effect.  It is shorter than a novel (50,000 or more words) or a novella (15,000 to 30,000 words).

A poem is a literary composition, written or oral, typically characterized by imagination, emotion, sense impressions, and

 concrete language that invites attention to its own physical features, such as sound or appearance on the page.

I will also include the prose poems we looked at before the midterm:

http://webdelsol.com/tpp/tpp5/tpp5_edson.html

http://webdelsol.com/tpp/tpp5/tpp5_nye.html

Monday we began the unit on poetry by looking at word and image.  Terms covered will include denotation, connotation, and sensory impression.  We will look at word choice in poems.  Monday's poems were Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Bean Eaters."  Note how short and condensed these poems were--and that Ms. Brooks' poem had rhyme.

Here is a link to the video of Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" that we listened to.  Note that we are *not* listening to Mr. Hayden's voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RoaNidQZnQ

These links are to Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Bean Eaters":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anKeKmfRCqc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWUOibkiXUk&feature=related

For more information about Mr. Hayden, see this link:

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/196

For more information about Ms. Brooks, who was a very influential Chicago poet, see this link:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gwendolyn-brooks