Tag: Postmodernism

What features of each writer’s work seem to you to correspond with descriptions of the purposes of postcolonial literature?

“Takehome” Final Exam / E F316N/CL S315: Masterworks of Literature: World / Summer 2021 / Prof. Nehring

Use **Microsoft Word,** include **your email address** in your header at the beginning of the paper, and send the essay as an email attachment to **my UT email address, (Don’t use Canvas messaging.)

Instructions:

Your essay should be typed in Microsoft Word and 1000-1250 words in length. (With one-inch margins, that’s about four to five pages.) Treat the essay as a sit-down exam, not a formal paper: gather your materials, give them some thought, and start writing. You should certainly proofread the result, but don’t worry about extensive revision.

An introduction that includes brief definition of key ideas and/or issues and  that expresses your coverage and argument, and 2) clearly defined paragraph topics in the body of the paper.

Note that  expect you to supply evidence of reading—to supply some citation, that is, of the works you discuss—and that you are required to write about the assigned readings from our anthology.

At the same time, don’t pad your essay with quotations, either. Four or five lines of verse or three or four sentences from prose in the course of a paragraph will be fine, provided they are relevant to your discussion.

Those lines and/or sentences do not have to be continuous—in fact, it would be better if your examples came from different places in a work.

A paper with little or no citation cannot receive a grade higher than a ‘C.’

THE ASSIGNMENT:

The exam should concern two of the authors below, whom we have read under the rubric of “postcolonialism.” What features of each writer’s work seem to you to correspond with descriptions of the purposes of postcolonial literature? OR does the writer’s work seem more closely related to one of the earlier “movements” we studied, modernism, the avant-garde, or postmodernism?

NOTE: The extent to which your exam offers comparison-and-contrast of the authors you select is up to you; do as much or as little as you want.

Anna Akhmatova Nadine Gordimer Murakami Haruki Hu Shi Lu Xun Pablo Neruda

Octavio Paz Salman Rushdie Wole Soyinka Derek Walcott

What would Green Architecture/building in your locale look like and how could it best function, what technologies could it utilize?

Green Architecture

Since man started creating permanent structures, architecture has conformed to the environment and technology of the time and place it was created. For a time, during the mid-20th century, it can be said that architecture deviated from this as new technologies allowed for architects to consider their buildings as art forms that existed for its own sake. They followed the dictum “form over function”. With the beginning of Postmodernism in Architecture (the first discipline to use the term), there was a return to, at least, the idea that architecture should serve, first and foremost the people that use it. Now, with dwindling natural resources, architects are again returning to the idea that architecture should strive to fit within its natural setting and use technologies appropriate to that setting. The “green” architecture movement, then, fits within a long tradition and takes it further. Many architects now are seeking the best ways to integrate their buildings into the environment, using new and old technologies to make the structures more energy efficient, more eco-friendly.

What renewable resources are readily available? What energy sources?

In a word document list some of the new (and old) technologies that allow architects to utilize Green Architecture. Be sure to challenge your assumptions and not default to common Green materials such as Trees?

In the same word document, list examples from the Neolithic to Modern age that have succeeded in working with a variety of Green materials. Research your findings well, and begin to question why “these” materials were used during the time period in which they were produced.

What would Green Architecture/building in your locale look like and how could it best function, what Technologies could it utilize?

Lastly, think about a Green Building that you would build. Problem solve, and thing about which renewable resources are readily available for you to build your structure, and what energy sources could you use or utilize?

Criteria: List (5) new and old Green architecture building materials. List (3) reasons why Green Architect during various times throughout history used the green materials that they had. List (3) local technologies that one could use to build Green Architecture locally. List (3) energy resources that could be used by you to build local Green Architecture.