AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Realism, Greil Marcus, Cultural Assimilation
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In each of the literary texts we read, we will consider the metaphors that writers employ to describe their state of being: Midterm focuses on why things happen and the analysis of it. The form and content of the blues articulate the social. The story of two brothers with differing outlooks on life. The story of two brothers growing up in the harsh environment of harlem. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically. What johnson found on his road was mostly this: this sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming satisfactions are not. Happiness and pleasure" but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. " so wrote fitzgerald to his daughter, about what he had found in lincoln and shakespeare and all great careers. " . Most people have to go through immense struggle before finding success.
