7.1 Stephen Crane Flashcards
1
Q
Most of his works are sadly realistic, dealing with…
A
the poor and degraded.
2
Q
Crane had no experience in war…
A
but he wrote with amazing accuracy.
3
Q
Protagonista de su obra:
A
Henry Fleming
4
Q
Crane portrays the battles as…
A
chaotic and orders from superiors as arbitrary
5
Q
In Crane’s “nervous” style there is a…
A
mix of details, lack of proper names, and the absence of strong plots.
6
Q
The dialogue is…
A
naturalistic
7
Q
Although Crane is intimate with his hero, the view is…
A
cold, unsentimental and remote which leads to a certain impersonality.
8
Q
Patriots and soldiers condemned it as…
A
an insult to the US army
9
Q
Others saw the novel as…
A
inelegant and transparent.
10
Q
But the novel remains, as Mathew Arnolds said,
A
a touchstone for modern war fiction.
