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**HUM 260 - SURVEY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY CULTURE** Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth Campus

Instructor - Lynnette Fitch Brash, MA w/ honours

University College Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland

"Studying humanities engages us in a dialogue with //primary sources//: works original to the age in which they were produced. Whether literary, visual, or aural, a primary source is a **text**; the time, place, and circumstances in which is was created constitute the **context**; and its various underlying meanings provide the **subtext**. Studying humanities from the perspective of text, context, and subtext helps us understand our cultural legacy and our place in the larger world."

Fiero, Gloria K., ed. "Before We Begin." Introduction. //Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Global Perspective//. Sixth ed. Vol. Book 6. New York: McGraw Hill, 2011. xii. Print. The Humanistic Tradition.

TEXT
 * medium (what it is made of)
 * form (its outward shape)
 * content (subject it describes)
 * style (characterisctic manner of execution or expression)

CONTEXT
 * historical & cultural environment of a text
 * function - decorative, didactic, magical, propagandistic, religious, political?
 * impact of function on form and vice versa

SUBTEXT
 * secondary/implied meanings - conceptual messages embedded in/implied by the text
 * helps us determine the values of the age in which it was produced as well as insights into our own era

ZEITGEIST - the spirit of the times (as reflected in art, philosophy, etc.)

COLONIALISM DECOLONIZATION POST-COLONIALISM DIASPORA REPATRIATION NATIONALISM XENOPHOBIA PATRIARCHY MISOGYNY FEMINISM SUFFRAGETTES REPARATIONS SCAPEGOATING "PURITY" LAWS ANTISEMITISM TRADE UNIONS PROPAGANDA CENSORSHIP AUTHORITARIANISM/TOTALITARIANISM FASCISM POLICE STATE MARTIAL LAW DEMAGOGUES CONCENTRATION CAMPS GENOCIDE RESISTANCE COLLABORATION EXISTENTIALISM THEATRE OF THE ABSURD MARXISM COMMUNISM SOCIALISM RED SCARE McCARTHYISM CAPITALISM ISOLATIONISM NATIVISM JIM CROW WHITE SUPREMACISTS DESEGREGATION CIVIL RIGHTS GLOBALISM
 * __OTHER IMPORTANT TERMS__**