Britské studie - seminář-zápisky

I gazed – and gazed – but little thought – I gazed = I stared, looked

What wealth the show to me had bought: - What special moment it is to see the beauty of the nature

For oft, when on my couch I lie → oft = often

In vacant or in pensive mood, → vacant = empty, pensive = zamyšlený; his mind was empty

They flash upon that inward eye → inward = vnitřní; they = flowers

Which is the bliss of solitude; → bliss = rozkoš - the highest level of happiness , solitude = osamělost – he is happy in the solitude, in nature

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils. – the mind and the body is one – the vision of the mind bring pleasure to his body and the other way round

Rhyme – first with third, second with fourth, the last two lines rhyme together – why he did it? Because of melody

3. 5. 2018

• Women were not supposed to be on the stage because they were symbol of devil and the theatre was a devilish art

17. 5.

Katherine Mansfield

• She was born in New Zealand

• She was from rich family

• She was expected to have an education and then family, children

• It didn’t happen

• She started to write in high school

• Her friend was Maata (Maori – the natives of New Zealand)

  • She was a daughter of Maori leader

• Katherine was invited to Maori community

• Katherine liked London very much, its atmosphere

• Modernism – writers are interested in life of individualism, in the city, in the civilization, achievements of science, technique (railways, telephone…)

  • Reader see everything through the character

• Henry James – central reflector = ↑character

• Virginia Woolf – she tried to open character’s mind – stream of consciousness (narrative device) – character’s thought process, lack of some – or all – punctuation

• The period roughly between 1890 – 1950 – not exact years

• Growth of cities

• Modernism rose out of the depression – after 1st world war

• James Joyce, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost – authors of those times

• The radical disruption of linear flow of narrative – it doesn’t follow chronology

• The focus was introspective – inward looking, self-analysing

• Alienation – isolation, detachment

• Interest in rhythm and fragments of “everyday” language

• Heavy use of symbolism

• Interior monologue – organised presentation of a character’s rational thoughts

• She spent rest of her life in England

• Bloomsbury Circle – authors who discussed new trends – Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, John Middleton Murry (Bloomsbury was a neighbourhood)

• She got sick, she died in very young age

Garden Party (published in 1921) by Katherine Mansfield

• Laura changes – she develops – from childhood to maturity, she sees the dead man and she realised she is mortal

• She is rich, the dead man was poor – he looks happy

• There is equality in death – whether you are rich or poor

• The dead man is beautiful so there is nothing to be afraid of, death is a normal end of life

• Laura gets knowledge – such as Eve in the garden of Eden – she got a forbidden knowledge

• The garden party is located in Laura’s house – New Zealand (there are plants which don’t grow in Europe)