Modern Art and Lit

Modern Art and Lit • These are the works we will likely

study:AGE OF INNOCENCE – Edith WhartonPICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY – Oscar WildeTHE METAMORPHOSIS – Franz KafkaHEART OF DARNESS – Joseph ConradSUN ALSO RISES and/or stories – Ernest HemingwayMRS. DALLOWAY or sections of TO THE LIGHTHOUSE – Virginia WoolfSTREETCAR NAMED DESIRE – Tennessee WilliamsCHILDREN’S HOUR – Lillian HellmanTHE STRANGER – Albert Camus

• Poetry of Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot and and Elizabeth Bishop

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BIG IDEAS

• #1 What are accurate and reflective comparisons between disparate works of art and literature?

• #2 Whom do we trust to tell us a story or any truth?

• #3 What is the responsible use of outside sources in the study of literature, art and music?

• #4 What habits of mind, spirit and study support good, college-level scholarship?

Sample Standard

Analyze how an author’s choice concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall meaning and aesthetic impact.

“Daughters of Edward Boit” - John Singer Sargent (1888)