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| Which era saw 1/4 of the world under British control? |
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| In which era was the “theatre of the absurd” developed? |
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| In which era was stream of consciousness developed? |
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| Which era stressed propriety? |
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| Which era used Nature as a prompt to understand one’s own reflections? |
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| Which era was a direct response to the French Revolution? |
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| Which era responded to the end of England’s colonial rule? |
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| Modern especially, postmodern |
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| Which era emphasized spontaneity and individual freedom and valued reflective intuition? |
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| In which era do we find Pre-Raphaelite poets and painters? |
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| Which era directly responds to the devastation of WWI? |
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| Modern especially, postmodern |
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| In which era are post-colonial voices made part of the British canon? |
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| Modern/Postmodern especially |
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| Describe the varieties encompassed in the Modern/Postmodern period |
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a. Varieties of writing – genre and experiment
b. Themes included exile, isolation, loneliness
c. Motivated by rapid changes in society, distrust in government/establishments, and increased interest in psychology |
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| Define Stream of Consciousness |
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| whatever comes into the character/narrator’s mind.. writing through association |
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| Define Theatre of the Absurd |
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| reaction to WWII.. human existence has no meaning or purpose.. communication breaks down into silence |
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| AFTER the colonies began to gain freedom.. national movements against the mother country, increased interest and examination of how the mother country has affected the colonies |
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| Define Free, indirect, narrative style |
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| lack of introductory expression.. third person with insertion of thoughts |
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| Which author works for a renaissance of Irish literature and is influenced by the Easter Uprising of 1916? |
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| Which author develops with others the “Theatre of the Absurd”? |
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| Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde? |
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| Which author in a memoir writes about feeling shame when viewing herself in a mirror? |
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| Which author uses the technique of “epiphany” in developing his stories? |
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| Which author writes from biographical experiences of having grown up in a mining village? |
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| Which British author started as an American, born in St. Louis? |
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| Which author creates a series of “bog poems” that mark an archaeology of human existence? |
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| Which author begins as an English writer but after WWII becomes an American citizen? |
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| Which author spent at least 10 years protected because a fatwa had been pronounced against him? |
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| Which author writes about post-colonial South African experiences? |
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| Know the (general) dates for the three periods of British Literature |
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| Romantic – 1800-1830… Victorian – 1840-1900… Modern/Postmodern – 1900-onward. |
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| Define Flat/round character development |
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| Flat characters are characters who do not change or have the ability to change. Round characters do change and are thus marked by dynamism |
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| Define Dramatic monologue |
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| Monologue designed for dramatic presentation that offers great insight into feelings of the speaker, Robert Browning used this |
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| Instead of coincidence and supernatural inclusion, realism showed day-to-day life |
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| Pre-Raphaelites wanted to go back before Raphael, believing that art was spiritual, and that art replaced spirituality |
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| A poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech… Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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| A reaction against the secularism of the church |
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| Define Decadence/Aesthetic movement |
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| Marked by symbolism, art for art’s sake, elevation of nature and primal appetites, inversion of social structures, 1830s-1890s |
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| A hero that is both despicable and admirable, defying morals to benefit humanity |
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| A form of verse, often narrative and easily set to music |
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| Poetry that expresses emotion, used as an adjective to describe something with a musical quality |
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| A poem that is written about a specific subject or theme |
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| Define “Frame” as it relates to a story |
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| The setting and time in which the story is being relayed |
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| What are some elements that characterized the Romantic era? |
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| Nature focused as a reflection of the human mind, infused with emotion… vibrant, common subjects… eloquent but not inaccessible… anti-enlightenment, anti-institutional, embracing of paradox, curious, metaphysical |
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| What are some elements that characterized the Victorian era? |
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| Moral purpose, domestic propriety, and earnestness |
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| What are some elements that characterized the Modern/Postmodern era? |
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| Weakened society, increased interest in psychology, recognition of rapid changes, rise of national movements among colonies, increased emphasis on one’s own perception… exile, loneliness, isolation, experimentation with literary forms |
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| "...Mont Blanc yet gleams on high." |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley (Mont Blanc) |
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| "Should auld acquaintance be forgot.." |
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| Robert Burns (Auld Lang Syne) |
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| "...Grrr – there go, my heart’s abhorrence!" |
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| Robert Browning (Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister) |
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| "I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings..." |
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| William Wordsworth (Preface to Lyrical Ballads) |
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| "One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world.." |
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| "Thou has no power upon me, that I feel; thou never shalt possess me, that I know; what I have done is done; I bear within; a torture which could nothing gain from me..." |
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| "Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, o Mysterious priest / lead’st thou that heifer lowing at the skies..." |
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| John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Urn) |
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| "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.." |
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| Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnets from the Portuguese) |
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| "The sea of faith was once too at the full and round earth’s shore..." |
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| Matthew Arnold (Dover Beach) |
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| "I have been fighting a husband who did not exist. He existed all the time." |
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| D. H. Lawrence (Odour of Chrysathemums) |
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| "Between my finger and my thumb / the squat pen rests; snug as a gun..." |
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| "As a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one’s health or one’s happiness, in order to get up to town I have always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest..." |
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| Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest) |
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| "Peachy fumbled in the mass of rags round his bent waist; brought out a black horsehair bag embroidered with silver thread; and shook therefrom on to my table – the dried, withered head of Daniel Dravot!" |
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| Rudyard Kipling (The Man Who Would Be King) |
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| "Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink / water water everywhere and not a drop to drink..." |
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) |
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| "Morning and evening maids heard the goblins cry..." |
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| Christina Rossetti (Goblin Market) |
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| "I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills..." |
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| William Wordsworth (I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud) |
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| "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree..." |
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| Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere: “The sequel of today unsolders all the goodliest fellowship of famous knights whereof this world holds record. Such a sleep they sleep – the men I loved.” |
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| Alfred Tennyson (Idylls of the King) |
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| "April is the cruelest month, breeding / lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / memory and desire, stirring / dull roots with spring rain..." |
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| T. S. Eliot (The Wasteland) |
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| "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright / in the forests of the night..." |
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| William Blake (The Tyger, Songs of Innocence and Experience) |
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| "There’s one thing I’ll never understand. Why I always obey you. Can you explain that to me?" |
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| "How will they know, when the police stations burn with all the evidence of what has happened now..." |
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| Nadine Gordimer (The Moment Before the Gun Went Off) |
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| "...I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-dome of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon in his riding..." |
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| Gerard Manley Hopkins (The Windhover) |
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