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| Modernist period of American Literature |
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| 1910 to 1945 roughly, a period of advances in science, technology, of the Great Depression and two World Wars. |
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| Characteristics of Modernist period American literature |
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| Literature is laced with suggestion, metaphor, irony, tone and tense shifts and is often critical of the modern world. Not easily interpreted, not usually didactic or moralistic. |
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| Modernist Period Poetry was introduced in this literary journal |
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| "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse" edited by Harriet Monroe influenced modern poetry and the careers of Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams |
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| used "imagism" with clear languages and precise images; Works: "Venus Transiens"; related to James Russell Lowell. |
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| Poet of rural New England; his work resisted modernist influences and is still popular; won 4 Pulitzers. Works:"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "The Road Not Taken," "Mending Wall," and many more. |
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| 1878 - 1967 Pulitzer prize in History as a Lincoln scholar; The Chicago Poet; raw content and experimental forms in work.Poems: "Chicago" "Fog," and "Grass" |
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| Poem:"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird;"collection:"Harmonium" was essential modernist collection; uses color, imagery, irony, truth is fleeting;placed the individual at center; 1879- 1955 |
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| Poet: William Carlos Williams |
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| Poem:"The Red Wheelbarrow"; believer in imagism and no conventional styles in poetry; Later used the term objectivism: poet shows the object to the world. Other poems: "Spring and All" and "This is just to Say" |
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| Friend to many modern writers and poets;born in U.S. but lived in Europe mostly; founded the Imagists group of poets. Famous poem: "In a Station of the Metro." Later movement: vorticism, which described visual art. Most famous work: The Cantos which took 50 years to finish. 1885- 1972 |
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| Poet: Hilda Doolittle H.D. |
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| Wrote poetry, novels, and plays.friends of William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore and Pound; an Imagist;Famous poem "The Walls Do not Fall." unconventional, symbolic, used allusions. |
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| friend of Pound, Stevens, Williams, and H.D.; edited journal"Dial"; used long lines, uniform stanzas, traditional rhymeand allusions and quotations.Famouns poem: "Poetry". 1887 - 1972. |
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Born in U.S., but became a British citizen;Famous poems:"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock" the modernist poem;
Wrote "The WasteLand and "Murder in the Cathedral," and"Four Quartets"; Won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948; founded school of critics New Critics or Formalists. Became an Anglican in 1927 and this conversion marked his poetry. |
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| Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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| Millay used Shakespearean and Petrarchan sonnet forms and explored women's issues.cynical, satirical poetry. Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for The Harp-Weaver and other Poems" She won the first Pulitzer for Poetry ever given to a woman for poetry.Famous poem: " I think I should have loved you presently." |
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Poet has distinct style: no capitals, punctuation, unconventional lines and forms and spacing, uses common language.
Real name: Edward Estlin. Famous poems:
'in just--" and "Buffalo Bill's". 1894 - 1962 |
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| Lived troubled life;used traditional forms but urban settings; Famous poem: "To Brooklyn Bridge." His father invented Life Saver candies. |
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| Fiction writer: Gertrude Stein |
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Very influenced by painting; lived in Paris mostly, and knew artists Picasso and Matisse. Wrote "sketches" which focused on a single scene. Famous work:
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas".
A feminist and lesbian. |
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| Fiction writer: Sherwood Anderson |
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| Wrote "Winesburg, Ohio" a collection of short stories still popular. Experimental, modern, realistic fiction about a small town and the characters there.Called his characters "grotesques' because they were tragic, comic,troubled. 1876 - 1941. |
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| Fiction writer: Katherine Ann Porter |
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| Lived in Texas for many years;wrote novels "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" and "Ship of Fools" which became a movie.Won Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for Fiction. clear language, realistic characters. |
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| Fiction writer: F.Scott Fitzgerald |
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the writer of the Jazz Age, a term he coined for the years between WWI and the Depression. Wrote stories and collections which explore the Roaring 20's. Famous novel;"The Great Gatsby"
Know the plot. Also: "Tender is the Night" and "The Last Tycoon" and "Babylon Revisited." 1896- 1940. |
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| In Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie," what was Carrie's occupation in NYC after other laborer jobs? |
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| What famous 20th century poet and Pulitzer winner titled his first collection "A Boys' Will after a Longfellow poem? |
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| Who wrote a novel titled "Invisible Man"? |
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| What regional poet and Lincoln scholar wrote the poems "Chicago" and "Fog"? |
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| Who wrote the poem "Richard Cory"? |
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| A book by Kate Chopin, "The Awakening" |
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| A short novel which follows Edna Pontellier as she navigates the social conventions or her day which centered on repressed desires |
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| Poet Wallace Stevens was a lawyer who worked for what major insurance firm? |
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| Hartford Accident and Indemnity |
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Which poet listed is NOT a modernist poet?
Amy Lowell, H.D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Julia Ward Howe |
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| Julia Ward Howe; she wrote the words for the song Battle Hymn of the Republic; lived 1819 to 1910; a traditional poet |
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| The poet views the poem as an object, and that object lets the poet view the world critically. Sometimes Imagism is used to describe objectivism, but imagism was popular DURING WWI, 1914- 1918, and objectivism was popular in the 1930's. |
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| What novel of Herman Melville's was published after he died. It was unfinished. |
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What does the poetic descriptive word
"a conceit" mean? |
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| A "conceit" is an extended metaphor that helps explain the poem. The metaphor is a comparison that uses direct comparison. The poem "Fog" by Carl Sandburg is an extended metaphor. |
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| The bust of what goddess is mentioned in Poe's poem The Raven? It is a bust in his study. And the raven was placed on top of this bust. |
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| The bust was a bust of Athena, the Greek goddess of Wisdom. The placing of the raven there showed that death crushed all hopes of wisdom. |
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| A sonnet is a 14 line poem with with traditional A B rhyme scheme. It consists of 4 quatrains ( four lines each) and then a concluding couplet ( two lines.) A Shakespearean sonnet ends with a rhyming couplet. Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote sonnets. |
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| Common measure or hymn measure |
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| Emily Dickinson's poem are usually written in common measure. Hum "Amazing Grace" to get an idea of the rhythm of common measure. Also called hymn measure. |
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| Italian or Petrarchian sonnet |
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| Named after Petrarch an Italian Renaissance poet. A Petrarchan sonnet consist of an octave ( 8 lines) and a sextet (6 lines.) This kind of sonnet divides thoughts in to two parts. |
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| I hear America singing; Miracles; My captain, My Captain and Drum-taps are Civil War Poems;Sea Drift, and Children of Adam. |
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| use of words that imitate sounds: bang, pop, shush.etc. |
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| Common beliefs of Unitarianism and Transcendentalists: |
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| Unitarians do not believe that Jesus is God and do not believe in the Trinity. Transcendentalists believed in the divinity of the person's soul.oversoul and an impersonal god. |
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Characters in play by Arthur Miller
"Death of a Salesman |
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| salesman Willy Loman, wife Linda, sons Happy and Biff. Theme the stresses of getting the American Dream.Play consists of flashbacks and daydreams. |
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| Tennessee William's plays |
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| Cat on a Hot Top Tin Roof. Streetcar named Desire (* movie too with Marlon Brando); The Glass Menagerie; The Night of the Iguana. |
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characters are grotesques Southern style;
The optimist's Daughter:must come to grips with the past to understand the future.
A Curtain of Green and other stories.
Delta Wedding,
The Golden Apples
autobiography, One Writers' Beginning |
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Flannery O'Connor's works:
Catholic Southern writer from Georgia; grotesque Southern characters |
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A Good man is Hard to Find
Everything that Rises must Converge
Wise blood
Good country people.
Revelation |
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match character and book:
A. Nick Carraway B. Jake Barnes
C Henry Fleming. D. Jay Gatsby E. Israel Potter. |
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A. The Great Gatsby
b. The Sun also Rises
C. The Red Badge of Courage.
D.The Great Gatsby
E. Moby Dick |
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| Herman Melville wrote an essay reviewing what book by Nathaniel Hawthorne? |
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| The essay was "Hawthorne and his Mosses" and the book by Hawthorne was Mosses from an Old Manse, a collection of short stories. |
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| Samson Occom 1768 was a Mohegan Indian and a minister to Indian tribes in New England. He also wrote about his life. |
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| Hi book was A Short Narrative of my Life a short 10 page narrative later found in the library of Dartmouth Univ. |
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| Jewish novelists in the Contemporary period |
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Bernard Malamud;
Saul Bellow; |
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| a poem form with 19 lines, which are divided into 5 triplets and a quatrain. The first line is repeated in the sixth, twelfth, and 18th line. The 3rd line is is repeated in the 9th, 15th, and 19th lines. There are only 2 rhyming words in this poem. Tough to write. |
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