American Literature1878-1938 Week 5 by Chrisy Dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5 en-us 2018-10-08 13:57:33 UTC 2018-10-16 15:54:12 UTC hello@padlet.com chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290304602 Focus: The' American Dream' Immigration, migration and the changing face of America




]]> 2018-10-08 14:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290304602 Session Aims chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290304965 To analyse and discuss the extract from Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
and poetry by William Carlos Williams. To examine migration to, and around, America as presented in the texts.
]]> 2018-10-08 14:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290304965 Session Outcomes chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290305034  By the end of the session, you will be able to discuss at least two elements of social, cultural and/or political influences on the texts.]]> 2018-10-08 14:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290305034 Migration in the USA chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290308809 2018-10-08 14:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290308809 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290318698 2018-10-08 14:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290318698 Theodore Dreiser 'The Factory' chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290324555 2018-10-08 14:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290324555 William Carlos Williams Documentary chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290338303 2018-10-08 15:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290338303 William Carlos Williams chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290343731 2018-10-08 15:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290343731 Introduction to William Carlos Williams chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290345673 2018-10-08 15:18:56 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290345673 No ideas but in things chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290347376 2018-10-08 15:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290347376 The Widow’s Lament in Springtime chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290350035 2018-10-08 15:27:33 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290350035 Queen-Anne’s Lace chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290353974 2018-10-08 15:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290353974 William Carlos Williams biography chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290361998 2018-10-08 15:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290361998 Modernist Poetry chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290654454 2018-10-09 11:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/290654454 The Three Rules of Imagism chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/291783680  1. Direct treatment of the "thing," whether subjective or objective. 

2. To use absolutely no word that did not contribute to the presentation. 

3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome ]]> 2018-10-11 15:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/291783680 Naturalism chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292072535 astyle of art or literature that shows people and things as they actually are]]> 2018-10-12 09:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292072535 Naturalism chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292073263 2018-10-12 09:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292073263 Theodore Dreiser chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292086508  27 August 1871 -
28 December 1945]]> 2018-10-12 09:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292086508 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292087112 2018-10-12 09:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292087112 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292087359 He was the leading figure in a national literary movement that replaced the observance of Victorian notions of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life subject matter.]]> 2018-10-12 10:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292087359 Sister Carrie chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292087440 2018-10-12 10:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292087440 Key Quotations chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292088056 2018-10-12 10:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292088056 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292088159 “When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.” ]]> 2018-10-12 10:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292088159 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292088299 “When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse” 

]]> 2018-10-12 10:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292088299 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292088617 “When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money. It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up. A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken.” ]]> 2018-10-12 10:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292088617 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292088881 “In the light of the world's attitude toward woman and her duties, the nature of Carrie's mental state deserves consideration. Actions such as hers are measured by an arbitrary scale. Society possesses a conventional standard whereby it judges all things. All men should be good, all women virtuous. Wherefore, villain, hast thou failed?”]]> 2018-10-12 10:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292088881 Context chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292107601 2018-10-12 11:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/292107601 Technical Changes chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293401291
  • 1847 - the telegraph was in commercial use
  • Philadelphia to Chicago - 9 weeks in 1849 - 3 days in 1859
  • 1864 - The National Bank Act - Established a National currency
  • 1869 the Transcontinental railroad was completed - as a consequence time zones  were created.
  • 1880s the telephone was commercialised.
    • ]]>     2018-10-16 15:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293401291     Key Changes in American Society. chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293402578
  • Economy - shift from Agricultural to an Industrial base.
  • Erosion of traditional values.
  • Social Darwinism
  • Changing relationship between men and women.

    • ]]>     2018-10-16 15:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293402578     Agricultural Households chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293405670
  • The family is the centre of production.
  • The labour of women was centred around the home.
  • Households grew much of their food.
  • Women canned the family crops.
  • Spun cloth and made it into clothes and linens.
  • Made soap and candles.
  • Produced other essential goods.

    • ]]>     2018-10-16 15:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293405670     Industrial Households chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293412130
  • Characterised my managerial capitalism.
  • People bought, rather than made.
  • Factories demand centralised labour.
  • Work moves out of the home.
  • Development of unrelated people leaving the home and working under one roof.
  • Consumerism.
    • ]]>     2018-10-16 15:27:26 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293412130     Social Mobility chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293418185 Dual perspective on the prospect of the economy for individuals - you can move up or down]]> 2018-10-16 15:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293418185 'An infinite progression of wants' chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293420193 'man [is] the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. The demand for quantity once satisfied, he seeks quality. The very desires that he has in common with the beast become extended, refined, exalted. It is not merely hunger, but taste that seeks gratification in food, in clothes he seeks not merely comfort, but adornment; the rude shelter become a house.  And so the consumer progresses into higher forms of desire.

    Henry George Progress and Poverty 1877]]>     2018-10-16 15:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293420193     Conspicuous Consumption chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293425579 The behaviours that typify modern spending patterns that have less to do with satiating desire than with advertising status

    Thornton Veblen 1899 ]]>     2018-10-16 15:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293425579     Social Darwinism chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293428534 The use of Darwinian evolutionary ideas to the study of human behaviour.

    Herbert Spencer was the first to use the phrase 'survival of the fittest (1862). ]]>     2018-10-16 15:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/American_Literature_1878_1938_Week_5/wish/293428534