\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. 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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Terry Eagleton (1943 - )}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\vspace{1px}\centerline{\includegraphics[width=5.1cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/uploads/soraya_1418127241_Screen Shot 2014-12-09 at 13.12.25.png}}} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{The role of literature in society}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Eagleton points to a perspectival shift from literature conferring a "greatness and {[}...{]} noble spirit" on the reader (Arnold 1869) to it being a powerful tool of social control of the middle and working classes in the Victorian Era (Eagleton 1983). \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 6) Marxist commentator on literary theory: \newline % Row Count 7 (+ 1) • Extends concept of ideology to literature \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 1) • Asserts that literature does not reflect but {\bf{actively produces}} ideology \newline % Row Count 10 (+ 2) • Thereby, the study of literature is political \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 1) The growth of the study of literature coincides with "the failure of religion" in the Victorian Era due to the "twin impacts" of: \newline % Row Count 14 (+ 3) • {\bf{Scientific discovery:}} daguerrotype (1840s), germ theory of disease (1850s), Darwin \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 2) • {\bf{Social change:}} Factory Act, Pubic Health Acts, Education Act, Married Women's Property Act, Matrimonial% Row Count 19 (+ 3) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{The Power of Religion}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Used by the ruling class to control the masses through {\bf{ideology}}, that is, less by specific rules and more by {\bf{ritual and mythology}} \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 3) - Religion is {\bf{affective}} (mood, feeling, attitude) and {\bf{experiential}} (based on one's experiences) → irrational hence hard to break% Row Count 6 (+ 3) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Literature "is an ideology"}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Provides "timeless truths" to sweeten the pill of the social situation: \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 2) – Pride in nation: language and culture \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 1) – Reverence for achievements \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 1) – Sense of position within society \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 1) – An escape – by virtual experience – into another place or life \newline % Row Count 7 (+ 2) This can be seen more explicitly in who it was designed for: \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 2) – "working men's colleges" \newline % Row Count 10 (+ 1) – women who sought to become school teachers \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 1) – army men during the colonial period% Row Count 12 (+ 1) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Great founding fathers}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Socrates → Plato → Aristotle}} \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) • No known works of Socrates \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 1) • It is assumed that Plato took many ideas from Socrates \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 2) • Socrates is a key figure in in Republic/mouthpiece of Plato \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 2) • Plato founded the Academy in 387 BCE, an institution devoted to research and instruction in philosophy and the sciences (mathematics and logic) for the \seqsplit{"philosopher-rulers/philosopher-} kings/guardians" of society \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 5) • Aristotle was Plato's pupil at the Academy and eventually became a teacher himself% Row Count 13 (+ 2) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Plato (ca. 427-347 BCE)}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\vspace{1px}\centerline{\includegraphics[width=5.1cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/uploads/soraya_1418128439_Screen Shot 2014-12-09 at 13.33.19.png}}} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Questions of Being:}} What is the purpose of life, what is the real? \newline {\bf{Questions of Society:}} What is justice, what is a just man? \newline {\bf{Questions of Art:}} What is the use of art, which arts should be allowed?} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Republic Summary}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Philosophy:}} \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) Rational – based on higher faculty of the \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 1) mind: Reason and Law \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 1) Communal, Adult, Moral \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 1) Permits men to rise above the self and focus attention on the steady, calm, unshakable faculties of the mind \newline % Row Count 7 (+ 3) {\bf{The Arts:}} \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 1) Irrational – based on lower faculty \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 1) of the mind: Pleasure and Pain \newline % Row Count 10 (+ 1) Selfishly Indulgent, Childish, Perverse \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 1) Distracts men with emotion, prestige, wealth, political power, \newline % Row Count 13 (+ 2) \seqsplit{and} art itself \newline % Row Count 14 (+ 1) User \textgreater{} Knowledge \newline % Row Count 15 (+ 1) Maker \textgreater{} Belief \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 1) Representer \textgreater{} Neither% Row Count 17 (+ 1) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Aristotle against Plato}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{"Representation is natural to human beings from childhood. They differ from the other animals in this: man tends most towards representation and learns his first lessons through representation." \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 4) "Also everyone delights in representations {[}...{]}. The cause of this is that learning is most pleasant {[}...{]} they delight in seeing images, because it comes about that they learn as they observe, and infer what each thing is, e.g. that this person {[}represents{]} that one" (90).% Row Count 10 (+ 6) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Aristotle (384-322 BCE)}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\vspace{1px}\centerline{\includegraphics[width=5.1cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/uploads/soraya_1418131325_Screen Shot 2014-12-09 at 14.21.05.png}}} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Poetics (ca. 335 BCE)}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Categorization and Logical differentiation:}} \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1) - Invented the scientific method of analysis \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 1) - Codified the divisions of knowledge into disciplines and sub-disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, etc. \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 3) - Departs from Plato's transcendental philosophy to instead be more pragmatic (less emotional and more logical—and sees the value in emotion) \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 3) {\bf{Poetics:}} \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 1) - Inaugural system of literary criticism and theory: genre, structure, form, etc. \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 2) - Six salient points of tragedy: plot, character, reasoning, diction, song, spectacle% Row Count 13 (+ 2) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.53827 cm} x{2.43873 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{The Division of Poetry: Comedy and Tragedy}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} TRAGEDY & COMEDY \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Grand people of fine actions & Ordinary people of inferior actions \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Hymns and praise poems & The laughable \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Greater and more honorable than epic poetry & Greater and more honorable than lampoon \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{"When tragedy and comedy appeared, people were attracted to each {[}kind of{]} composition according to their own particular natures" (91).} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Elements of Tragedy}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{1. Plot: complete, whole action which has some magnitude \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 2) - Beginning, middle, end \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 1) - Reversal of position (Peripeteia) \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 1) - Recognition of fate (Anagnorisis) \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 1) 2. Character: reveals decision, of whatever sort \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 1) 3. Reasoning: being able to say what is possible and appropriate, what is or is not \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 2) 4. Diction \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 1) 5. Song \newline % Row Count 10 (+ 1) 6. Spectacle: enthralling but artless (and unnecessary)% Row Count 12 (+ 2) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}