My outline thus far has been pencil to paper, but I'll type it here verbatim. Before getting into transcribe-mode, I'd like to add that I immediately connected more with the Cultural approach, as I felt it would lend itself more easily to the book I chose than the New Historical approach. Anyways, here it goes and when you see pink font that's just me clarifying something in my outline :)))
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My approach will either be New Historical or Cultural
Cultural because it "argues that working-class culture...undervalued" pg. 281
"what forms of art...inferior culture" (connect to bull-fighting)
As a cultural critic im supposed to believe "there is no meaningful distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture..." pg. 281
"For all cultural productions...circulation of power," pg. 281 = art/media from powers that be manipulating us
believe: "dominant class defines 'high' and 'low'...superiority...own power" pg. 281
yet also believe: "...subordinate populations produce forms of art...affect the whole culture as well" like the AIDs quilt changed opinions 4 better
as a marxist, feminist, or latino critic: "analyze and valorize the cultural productions of an oppressed group"
*What I circled on pg. 282 [I circled the three differences at the top]
*"cultural criticism...does not view oppressed peoples as helpless victims" pg. 282
Texts--as they are art/media themselves--in turn shape the contemporary culture that was reading it --> mold people or irritate people
Marxist would say that For Whom the Bell Tolls: [literally nothing follows the colon, lol]
Feminist would say FWTBT: assuage stereotypical alpha-male (Maria); yet provides a female character whose strength intimidates stereotypical alpha-males (Pilar and how she treats Pablo, and is the real leader of the guerrillas)
I should ask of FWTBT: questions on pg. 282 in this final section im just answering the questions on 282 in relation to FWTBT
1. Subtle, but profound undertones of senselessness/mechanical-nature of war; man must have a woman (though the age difference...) to comfort him, her rape may come into play; manipulative Robert Jordan--would help feminist cause if he was painted in a negative light, yet he is painted as admirable
2. Spanish Republicans specifically may have found the book endearing; people in general were war-weary from WWI; intrigued by Spain--portrayed spanish speakers in respectfully; mentions facism--again, back to WWI; women in war--perhaps led to women participating in WWII (published a year into WWII); men in WWI drawn to longing for a woman in times of war; men in WWI related to being close to death (tolling 4 funeral); compelling questioning of hypocritical practices America is involved in such as homesteading ("...Communism in your country?")
^---automatic weapon makes war less Romantic...not best soldier, but biggest gun
Desire for Romanticized war...which, although is respectable, is still a freakishly obsessive view that certainly isn't anti-war; it could in fact be argued that the book is pro-war
3. I love the theme of enjoying every moment you have until the impending doom=violent death; I love how these Spanish are 3-D--he took care with writing them, as should be taken
4. Women can be used by men; white men are leaders---> Pilar is actually uncharacteristically supportive of and acquiescent to RJ; war is the answer
5. Fascists, pacifists, feminists, spanish community (implicitly), racial minorities in America--off-color remarks here and there
*Ask Laura if she'd be okay w/ a comparison of FWTBT w/ the popular movie adapted from it ! ---mention pg. 283 lol ;)
Though I havent yet read any critiques of FWTBT, Im thinking I will find a lot I will agree w/ (if the critics have the same lines of thinking i've come up with); I'll most likely use the secondary source to agree or use "to lift an idea from", though the other uses are still on the table
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Thats the outline as of now, as you can see Im about to get into finding the critiques that I feel will help me write my essay, which Im so far convinced will be taking the feminist approach.
Marcus, yes, good idea to bring the film version in for comparison. Two bits of advice: I'd make the film version a SUB-PART of your thesis (or bring in up in the partition sentence, if you are using a partition), so the first part of your thesis is "I'm making this argument about the text" and the second part is "and further, here is how that argument relates to a film comparison." SECONDLY: use the film like a text. In other words, you need to read it CLOSELY, with focus and examples. So, if your analysis is about female characters, perhaps you choose two examples/scenes/stills that show something interesting about film's treatment of female characters. I'm just saying to avoid generalization. BTW--your notes sound great!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you ! This helps !!! I get to watch a movie for my paper ! Sweet haha
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DeleteGreat progress and organization! I wish I was this organized as well! You have so many ideas I think breaking your paper up into parts would help!
ReplyDeleteThank you ! Yeah, organizing everything is probably whats going to take the longest for me...but once that happens the paper writes itself !! Thanks for the input !!
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