Literary Texts for Reading during Week Four
Write Now Homework about Maugham Due on Folio before 11:59 pm on We., Jul. 13, 2022 • Write Now Homework about Brennan Due on Folio before 11:59 pm on Su., Jul. 17, 2022

You can access the short story “P & O” by W. Somerset Maugham (first published in 1926) by clicking the appropriate Green Icon above. • You can access the short story “The Servants’ Dance” by Maeve Brennan (first published in 1954) by clicking the appropriate Green Icon above

Literature & Humanities • Summer B 2022

Week Four

Text “E”

W. Somerset Maugham, “P & O” (1926)

Mo., Jul. 11, 2022

Click Arrow on Black Bar to Listen to Audio Version of Maugham Lecture 1/3
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Click Gold Bar to Read Single Written Account of Maugham Material

Lecture Material in Single Written Account Considered for Final Exam Questions about Maugham (See “Final Exam Words” at Bottom of this Webpage)

Tu., Jul. 12, 2022

Click Arrow on Black Bar to Listen to Audio Version of Maugham Lecture 2/3
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We., Jul. 13, 2022

Click Arrow on Black Bar to Listen to Audio Version of Maugham Lecture 3/3
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Due on Folio before 11:59 pm on We., Jul. 13, 2022
Write Now Homework Exercise about Maugham

There are 10 questions, presented in reading order. In other words: the questions chronologically track the single PDF that contains the assigned reading, the 1926 short story titled “P & O” by W. Somerset Maugham (see the top of this webpage for the PDF). When attempting the questions, it’s advisable NOT to begin with Folio but instead to: (1) download a PDF containing the 10 Write Now questions as a single document (also available via the green bar below); and then (2) answer each question-set in a Google or Microsoft Word document, which you should save as you proceed. That way, you’ll always have proof that you completed the exercise, even if Folio goes down or otherwise doesn’t cooperate. When you have finished the entire Write Now exercise, you can simply paste the answers into the designated section on the course Folio page, making sure to submit your work before the firm deadline: 11:59 PM (Eastern) on We., Jul. 13, 2022. The ability to submit ceases at that time, and effort not received before the deadline earns a grade of zero. Another way of saying the above: late submission isn’t possible. Remember, please, that your grade depends not just on correct responses but also: complete sentences; good grammar; accurate spelling; and clear expression.

Submission deadline on Folio: 11:59 pm on We., Jul. 13, 2022

Text “F”

Maeve Brennan, “The Servants’ Dance” (1954)

Th., Jul. 14, 2022

Click Arrow on Black Bar to Listen to Audio Version of Brennan Lecture 1/3
You may have to click the arrow several times to initiate play

Click Gold Bar to Read Single Written Account of Brennan Material

Lecture Material in Single Written Account Considered for Final Exam Questions about Brennan (See “Final Exam Words” at Bottom of this Webpage)

Fr., Jul. 15, 2022

Click Arrow on Black Bar to Listen to Audio Version of Brennan Lecture 2/3
You may have to click the arrow several times to initiate play

Click Arrow on Black Bar to Listen to Audio Version of Brennan Lecture 3/3
You may have to click the arrow several times to initiate play

Due on Folio before 11:59 pm on Su., Jul. 17, 2022
Write Now Homework Exercise about Brennan

There are 10 questions, presented in reading order. In other words: the questions chronologically track the single PDF that contains the assigned reading, the 1954 short story titled “The Servants’ Dance” by Maeve Brennan (see the top of this webpage for the PDF). When attempting the questions, it’s advisable NOT to begin with Folio but instead to: (1) download a PDF containing the 10 Write Now questions as a single document (also available via the green bar below); and then (2) answer each question-set in a Google or Microsoft Word document, which you should save as you proceed. That way, you’ll always have proof that you completed the exercise, even if Folio goes down or otherwise doesn’t cooperate. When you have finished the entire Write Now exercise, you can simply paste the answers into the designated section on the course Folio page, making sure to submit your work before the firm deadline: 11:59 PM (Eastern) on Su., Jul. 17, 2022. The ability to submit ceases at that time, and effort not received before the deadline earns a grade of zero. Another way of saying the above: late submission isn’t possible. Remember, please, that your grade depends not just on correct responses but also: complete sentences; good grammar; accurate spelling; and clear expression.

Submission deadline on Folio: 11:59 pm on Su., Jul. 17, 2022

Final Exam Words from Week Four

Use Written Accounts (Accessible via Gold Bars) to Revise Words

MAUGHAM MATERIAL

Title of short story collection in which “P&O” first appeared (all stories written by Maugham) ••• Name of work by Thomas More that posits an ideal island society ••• Christian season during which “P & O” takes place ••• Asian city in which story opens ••• Know how Gallagher may suggest aspects of three real-life Irish men: Oscar Wilde; Roger Casement; Michael Collins ••• Gallagher’s plan for when he returns to his native county in the west of Ireland ••• Gallagher’s cause of death ••• Two-word term used to identified Casement’s notes about his sexual encounters ••• Type of home Gallagher lived in when on the rubber plantation ••• Scottish city where the European doctor trained ••• Married woman with whom doctor carries on an affair while aboard the ship ••• Married women who befriends Gallagher on the ship; her husband has left her for an older woman ••• Part of the ship into which Mr. Price “slither[s] down” ••• Type of metal mined on a large scale in Federated Malay States; nationality of people most associated with the mining ••• British Empire: color of possessions on world maps; roughly, a quarter of earth’s land and people by 1900 ••• Name of king of Belgium who controlled The Congo and its rubber industry ••• Political movement or philosophy that causes the first-class passengers anxiety ••• What wife of Christian missionary opines about inviting second-class passengers to party ••• Meaning of Irish boy’s name Aidan ••• What the “Gall” in “Gallagher stands for ••• How Irish-language word aisling may be relevant to Gallagher’s final minutes, prior to his death •••• Subaltern ••• Cockney

BRENNAN MATERIAL

Name of American magazine in which “The Servants’ Dance” first appeared ••• Penname that Maeve Brennan sometimes used when writing for that publication ••• American magazine where Brennan worked as a fashion and lifestyle journalist ••• Irish fashion designer who Leona’s red linen shorts likely evoke ••• Name of principal maid in story (works for Leona); nickname or generic name given to Irish maids in America ••• Model for Charles Runyon: New York City-based Gerald Murphy, who entertained authors, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald (author of The Great Gatsby) ••• What Charles is known as being, in addition to a “wit” ••• Know significance of “Big House” ••• Know the architectural term used to describe Leona’s deck ••• Libidinal ••• Noun that refers to a grimace, such as an ape or monkey might make ••• Three profession with which Irishmen in story are associated ••• What/who the statues on Leona’s lawn portray ••• Maeve Brennan’s father’s challenge when Irish ambassador to the United States: Irish neutrality in which war? ••• Name of author of “The Crisis of America Masculinity” ••• Name of author of The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life ••• Terms: “sign vehicles”; “impression management” ••• Truman Capote character possibly based on Maeve Brennan ••• Strategy that maids use against their employers at the dance ••• Character Dolly’s family name ••• How Dolly’s husband characterizes the “atmosphere” at the prior year’s dance ••• Debt bondage ••• Actual community, north of New York City, on which Brennan based Herbert’s Retreat