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| What were the years of modernism? |
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| Who coined the phrase "jazz age"? |
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| When did the jazz age occur? |
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| When did the great depression occur? |
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| Modernist writing is marked by what four things? |
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| a break from tradition, question to find new ways to find man's view in the universe, experimentation in form and style, elevation of the individual over the social |
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| What was ezra pound's famous phrase about modernism? |
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| Modernism is bleak because of what major war? Why? |
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| world war one; civilizations are destroying themselves |
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| How does urbanization and technology make modernism bleak? |
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| it shows an increasing gap between rich and poor, large scale migration, and cultural dislocation |
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| What two philosophers were incolved in changing science and changing ourselves? |
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| What scientific advances are seen in the modernist era? |
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| world is not just what is perceived, time and space are relative to the observer, something can be changed by looking at it |
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| Explain schrodinger's cat. |
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| until the box is open, the cat is living and dead. |
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| Karl Marx says that history can only be understood through_______. |
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| Who is the father of psychoanalysis? |
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| What are the three parts of the mind? |
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| The id is the ____, the ego is the _____, and the superego is the _____. |
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| uncocious mind, executive mediator, internalized ideal |
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| The id focuses on satisfying ____. |
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| The ego is based on the _____. |
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| reality principle, other people have needs or desires |
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| The superego develops due to ____and_____placed on us by our caregivers. |
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| moral and ethical restraints |
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| What is the strongest of the three parts of the mind? |
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| MOdernist writers tend to look to ____for answers. |
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| What are three characteristics of modernist writing? |
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| abstraction, complexity, elitism |
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| Modernist writers try to use ____techniques where the reader is given bits and pieces and has to do work trying to figure it out. |
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| What is an example of a novel that uses fragmentary techniques? |
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| the sound and the fury by william faulkner |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald comes from ____descent. And when was he born? where? |
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| irsih catholic; september 24, 1896; st. paul, minnesota |
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| f scott fitzgerald mother was ____and his father was ____. was his family poor or rich? |
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| What happened to f scott fitzgerald in 1913? |
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| he was accepted to princeton |
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| When did FSF withdraw from princeton? why? |
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| he was failing too many classes; dropped out in 1917 |
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| Where was FSF in June 1918? |
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| world war I--second lieutenant |
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| What was FSF's greatest regret of his life? |
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| lack of combat experience |
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| Where did FSF marry zelda? |
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| st. patrick's cathedral in nyc |
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| F scott fitz was known as teh _______and zelda was known as the _____. |
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| king of the jazz age; queen of the flappers |
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| Who did f scott fitz write for? |
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| in march 1922, f scott published his second novel called ______. first novel? |
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| In the Spring of 1924, the Fitzgeralds decided to move to _____. |
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| Zelda has an affair with a _____. |
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| What happened October, 29 1929? |
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| FSF was assigned to work on a film called _____which was the most popular film of 1938. |
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| When and why did FSF die? |
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| died of a heart attack at the age of 44 on december 21, 1940 |
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| Who said this: "What would a play or an ending of a play be without the introduction, which you don't know the meaning of till you get to the end? |
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| know the meaning of ulysses by james joyce |
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| What was the name of fSF's first novel? |
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| East Egg people are more _____, less _____, _____matters to them, they come from _____, they have "______". |
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| fashionable; friendly; geography; nobility; old money |
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| What main character in the story comes from West Egg? |
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| West Egg is less _____. They have a strange ____. Most people belong to the _____. They come from "____". |
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| fashionable; community; working class; new money |
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| Tom is from ____. Daisy is from _____. |
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| T. S. Elliot wrote what tow poems? |
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| the hollow men; the wasteland |
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| What is repeated over and over again in the hollow men? |
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| Human productions are outgrowths of _____. |
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| Literary critcism tries to explain the literary works to us including its: ___, ____, _____, ____. |
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| production, meaning, design, beauty |
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| Criticial theory tries to explain the ______and____upon which literary critcism rests. |
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| Gatsyby's perception of _______drives his psychology. |
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| Daisy's _____keeps her passive. |
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| What is the difference between "with the grain and without the grain"? |
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| with the grain means you interpret work the way it invites us to interpret; without the grain says this is what it wants to say and this is why it's not saying it |
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| What is an example of with the grain and "without the grain" in the great gatsby? |
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| gatsby's love for daisy is not real love, however with the grain would be seeing Gatsby as a romantic |
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| psychoanalytical critcism, marxist critcism, feminist criticism, multicultural criticism |
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| Psychoanalytical criticism seems to try and figure out how the text is shaped by its representation fo the _____, _____, and _____of its characters or even its author. |
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| desires, needs, conflicts |
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| Marxist criticism seems to question whether or not the text is shaped by its representation of _____or ______. |
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| What is an example of marxist criticism? |
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| Feminist criticism seems to try and figure out how the text is shaped by its representation of ____and ____-. |
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| patriarchial norms and values |
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| What would be an example of feminist criticism? |
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| does hermionie granger get the credit she deserves |
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| Multicultural critcism asks how the text is shaped by its representation of ____and _____. |
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| race and racial differences |
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| what is an example of multicultural criticism? |
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| black spiderman by donald glover |
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| Eros is the ____ and thanatos is the _____> |
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| sexual drive; death drive |
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| the return of repressed feelings |
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| ____attachments can be associated with psychoanalytical critcism. |
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| Marxist criticism considers what other five isms? |
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| classism, patriotism, individualism, consumerism, capitalism |
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| Marxist criticism says that everything comes out of _____ |
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| Marxist criticism is made up of the superstructure and the base. What are the three parts of the superstructure? What is the main part of the base? |
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| soceity, government, religion; economic |
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| _____is biological. _____is a product of soceity. |
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| What is the Bechdel Test? Who founded it? |
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| two women who to talk to each other about something other than a male; allison bechdel |
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| Women opressed by ______. Where patriarchy reigns, woman is _____. All of _____is deeply rooted in patriarchal ideology. All feminist activity can be seen as a form of ____. |
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| patriarchy; other; western civilization; activism |
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| Where is Nick Carraway from? |
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| Nick works in the ____business. |
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| Nick graduated from _____and has many connections to ____. |
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| At the beginning of the book Tom tries to interest Daisy, Jordan, and Nick in a book called:______. |
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| rise of the colored empires |
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| The eyes of ____watch over things that happen in the valley of ashes. |
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| What is the name of the apartment complex that Tom uses for his affair? |
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| The valley of ashes represents ____. It is a symbol for_____. |
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| poverty; the fake facade of the east and west egg, that both are declining morally and are actually as dirty as the valley of ashes |
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| Who speculates that gatsby was a german spy during the war? |
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| What does Gatsby show nick to prove himself? |
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| Where is james gatz from? |
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| Gatsby worked for ____on a yacht. |
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| How much money did Cody leave gatsby when he died? Why couldn't gatsby obtain the money? |
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| $25, 000; his mistress got in the way |
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| During the quarrel at the end of the novel, what does nick realize? |
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| it is his thiritieth birthday |
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| a greek man who runs the restaurant next to wilson's garage |
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| What color is gatsby's car? |
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| Which character thinks that the eyes of dr. t.j. eckleburg are the eyes of god? |
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| What does Wilson do at the end of the novel? |
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| shoots gatsby and then shoots himself |
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| Who attends gatsby's funeral? |
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| nick, owl eyes, henry gatz (his father) |
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| What charcter is daisy related to? |
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| What does the green light represent? |
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| gatsby's dream for the future |
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| What does the valley of ashes symbolize? |
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| how the rich are ultimately going nowhere because they are obsessed with pleasing themselves |
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| where is the valley of ashes located? |
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| between west egg and new york city |
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| what does fitzgerald call the 1920s? |
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| _____claims to always watch for the longest day of the year and miss it. |
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| _____is myrtle's sister who claims that tom can't divorce because his wife is catholic. |
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| ____is in the car the goes into the ditch. |
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| ____is also known as the border. |
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| _____is a photographer looking for work. |
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| _____owns a string of polo ponies. |
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| ____remembers the days at the metropole where Rosy Rosental was shot. |
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| _____wants to buy a car from tom. |
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| Gatsby's parents were _____. |
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| How long did gatsby work for dan cody? what are four examples of jobs he did? |
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| 5 years; mate, skipper, secretary, jailor |
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| Who actually received cody's money? |
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| What special preparations does gatsby make for having tea with daisy at nick's house? |
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| the grass was cut and flowers were sent |
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| What does the puppy symbolize in the great gatsby? |
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| the relationship between master and servant; myrtle is a servant to tom |
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| What does gatsby's car symbolize in the great gatsby? |
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| What does the lcock on nick's mantle represent? |
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| when gatsby knocks it over, it represents his desire to stop time and to ultimatley live in the past |
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| How long are george and myrtle married? |
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| What is gatzby's nickname? |
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| How long does gatsby spend away from daisy? |
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| where did gatsby go to college? |
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