2) The Gilded Age and Beginning of the Twentieth Century Flashcards
Who were the Muckrakers?
predecessors of investigative journalism, New York Tribune, Julius Chambers
Characterize the Gilded Age
an important chapter of the American Dream, more democratic and just society, economic raise, huge corruption, slave politics, mass immigration, old money vs new money, growing self-confidence of America
What did Edith Wharton write about?
New York high-society and its changes, relationship to Europe
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, The Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Last Tycoon
Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms
Who came up with the iceberg theory?
Ernest Hemingway
What is the iceberg theory?
it suggests that a writer should only explicitly present a small portion of the story, similar to the tip of an iceberg visible above the water, the rest of the story, like the submerged part of the iceberg, should be implied or hinted at rather than explicitly stated
Who owned the Paris salon, 27 rue de Fleurus?
Gertrude Stein
Ezra Pound
Personae of Ezra Pound, Canzoni, Des Imagistes: An Anthology, Cantos
Who invented imagism?
Ezra Pound
Name main influences on Pound´s Cantos
Greek and Latin Poetry, Dante, the poetry of the troubadours, Asian culture
T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets
Who was Hilda Doolittle?
one of the leading figures of Boston Bohemia, one of the icons of emerging LGBT and feminist movements
The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, The Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Last Tycoon
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
