Universidad de Playa Ancha

Facultad de Humanidades

English Teaching Program

Literatures from English Speaking Cultures
Professor Andrés Ferrada Aguilar
Fall 2020

Second Workshop on 20th-century Literature: American and British Modernism

I. F. S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (6 points)

1) Write a mini-short story (also called one-paragraph stories or ant-like stories or

miniature novels or as you wish to call them as long as you use an adjective
reminiscent of something tiny and brief). The main topic for the story should be one
related to kisses or kissing. You may want, of course, to find inspiration in your
own kissing experiences, but try to transform those experiences into something
imaginative, fantastic, and fictional. The aim is to write a "short fiction", not a
"short biography".

Directions:
Do not use the verb “say”, unless its use is unavoidable
Express feeling and emotion through images and metaphors
Try to be as creative and innovative. Avoid conventions and commonplaces

2) Analize and interpret the kissing episode in chapter 6 from The Great Gatsby (118-
119). What is the most striking image that represents the intense love Gatsby feels
for Daisy? What is the sentence that best reflects the romantic outlook in the
passage? What metaphors does Fitzgerald use to convey loving feelings and
romanticism? Quote and explain your answers.

3) Select 2 passages from The Great Gatsby representative of some key topics in the
novel, such as the American Dream, Romanticism, Modernism, the Protestant
perspective, etc. Explain how the passages you chose reflect the key topic and the
relevance of the topic for understanding the passage. Quote and explain your
answers.

II. Modernism and Women Writers (4 points)

Choose one of the following literary works and answer the following questions:
By Virginia Woolf: “A Society” or A Room of One's Own
By Maya Angelou: a selection of 8 poems
 4) What are the most interesting and challenging passages/ poems? Why? How could
you relate these passages/poems to today’s cultural and social position of women?

5) What questions would you make to Woolf or Angelou about their works? What
responses would they give to your questions?

Guidelines:

1) In all your answers provide explanations and quote to support your ideas. How to
quote? Follow MLA guidelines:

For example:
According to (critic’s last name), Whitman’s poetry is “a continual form of
celebrating life and freedom” (include page).

Also, avoid the use of the verb “say” in order to enrich vocabulary. Revise
document “Substitutes for Say”.

2) Include a bibliography to list the sources you used for this workshop. Also follow
MLA guidelines to organize bibliography:

For example:
Thoreau, Henry David. “Civil Disobedience”. Walden and Other Writings. New
York: Barnes and Noble, 1993. 277-302.

Last name, first name, title of chapter, title of book, city of publication, publishing
house, year, and pages.

3) If you use secondary sources to support your answers (articles, studies, documents,
etc.) do not forget to indicate their source. If you don’t indicate sources through
quoting (providing name of author and page), it means that you are borrowing
somebody else’s ideas, which is a sign of academic dishonesty. In other words,
clearly let your readers know if you are using critics’ concepts or ideas which are
not your own. In this way readers will tell apart your own contributions from those
that belong to other authors.

4) For the cover page:

Universidad de Playa Ancha

Facultad de Humanidades

English Teaching Program

 Professor Andrés Ferrada Aguilar
Second Workshop on American and British Modernism
Group members:
Fall 2020

5) Use Times New Roman, 12, 1 1/5 spacing. Number the pages of your paper.