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4) The Great Depression Flashcards

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When started the Great Depression?

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September 4, 1929

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Who was major American playwright and father of English realist drama?

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Eugene O´Neill

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Eugene O´Neill

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Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah,Wilderness, The Iceman Cometh, Long Days Journey into Night

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John Steinbeck

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Cup of Gold, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Tortilla Flat

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William Faulkner

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The Sound and the Fury, Absolon Absolon, As I Lay Dying

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What was Olympia Press?

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combination of erotica literature that could not be published in GB and USA

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Carl Sandburg

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Chicago Poems

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Thorton Wilder- novels

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Eighth Day

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Thorton Wilder- plays

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Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth

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Characterize Vladimir Nabokov´s writing

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late modernism, emphasis on style, rich vocabulary, unreliable narrator

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Lolita, Pnin, Speak, Memory

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Who was one of the founders of New Criticism?

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Robert Penn Warren

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Robert Penn Warren

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I´ll Take My Stand, All the King´s Men

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Mary McCarthy

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The Company She Keeps, The Group

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Tennessee Williams

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The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah,Wilderness, The Iceman Cometh, Long Days Journey into Night

A

Eugene O´Neill

17
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Cup of Gold, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Tortilla Flat

A

John Steinbeck

18
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The Sound and the Fury, Absolon Absolon, As I Lay Dying

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William Faulkner

19
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Chicago Poems

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Carl Sandburg

20
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Eighth Day

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Thorton Wilder- novels

21
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Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth

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Thorton Wilder- plays

22
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Lolita, Pnin, Speak, Memory

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Vladimir Nabokov

23
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I´ll Take My Stand, All the King´s Men

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Robert Penn Warren

24
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The Company She Keeps, The Group

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Mary McCarthy

25
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The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Tennessee Williams

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