01:510:381 Lecture 5: Jan. 31 Eastern Europe
28 Mar 2017
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Read the faithful river up to p. 86. Essay question will be handed out on thursday will asks us to think about the novel, the faithful river and to situate the novel in the context with the other readings in lecture. The polish gentry picture elegant style, country-club, officer, clean, smooth hands, expensive clothes, accessorizing, sense of properness, leisure (tied to social class), posed: peasant. Hungarian peasant picture not really groomed, dirt/work, worn/rough hands, in a field, worn clothes, lined face, cutting bread without etiquette (towards him: overall: ^ peasants and gentry live in two different worlds entirely/separate. Adam mickiewicz books of the polish nation : adam mickiewicz = romantic-nationalist poet 1798-1855, involved in. Polish politics (fought for its independence: excerpt from poem (1832) about poland as a nation in respond to: the. Poland he was born in no longer existed and the polish uprising against russia in 1830 had failed: books of the polish nation .
