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* Literature = Genre vs. Period (1. Greek; 2. Rome; 3. Hebrew)
* Theme = Subject matter, general idea authors wanted to deliver

* Where are you going, where have you been?
- Themes: Struggle over women, sexuality, violence, freedom (free will) and confinement, Vision of America

* Elaine Showalter's A literature of their own
- Jane Austen (the female); Charlotte Bronte (the feminist); George Eliot (the famine)

* Elaine Showalter (Sister’s choice) reveals tradition and change in American women’s writing


* Paul’s Case
- Willa Cather = Author of O’ Pioneer, My Antonia, Paul’s Case (一開始他的書
都不賣座，但是後來 she starts to write about her home country, Omaha
Nebraska


- Omaha, Nebraska 出了很多名人

- Pittsburgh = 公演城; Paul 很愛藝文
- Paul = Very thin, with high, cramped shoulders and a narrow chest. His eyes
were remarkable for a certain hysterical brilliancy, and he continuously used
them in a conscious, theatrical sort of way, peculiarly offensive in a boy =
accustomed to lying (為了快點逃避老師，所以她決定說謊，也變成習慣)
- Symbolism in Paul’s Case: Augustus (authority); Camations (Defiance); Purple
(the superiority of kings and emperors); Red (defiance, the luxurious lifestyle of
kings and emperors); Violets (superiority)

* High school = principle; Middle school or lower = Director