Am ren short story test Flashcards
Who was WashingtonIrving
First American to earn an international rep in literature
When was the American Renaissance
1830s-1850s
who wrote Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
who wrote Benito Cereno
Herman Melville
who wrote The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
who wrote The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
who wrote The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
who wrote Twice-Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne
who wrote “The Purloined Letter”
Edgar Allan Poe
who wrote “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Edgar Allan Poe
who wrote “Nature”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
who wrote “Self- Reliance”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
who wrote “The Over-Soul”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
who wrote Narrative …; My Bondage
and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass
who wrote Walden
Henry David Thoreau
what is romanticism?
Turning away from enlightenment. Skeptics of rationalism and don’t think everything in life is logical. No romantic stories care about being realistic.
what is transcendentalism?
Emphasized the individual and his/her
experiences with the natural world
* Transcending physical boundaries
* Rejected individuals’ being inherently corrupt, evil, lazy
* Embraced their being trusted and putting themselves on path to enlightenment and freedom
leaders of transcendentalism
Includes Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller
what is the oversoul?
Shared universal soul
* You also have your own soul
* Over-Soul is nebulous, even in its relationship to the individual soul
* The soul (and the spiritual experience) transcends the physical world
what is intersubjectivity
From a first-person point of view,
intersubjectivity comes in when we undergo acts of empathy. Intersubjective experience is
empathic experience; it occurs in the course of our conscious attribution of intentional acts to other subjects, in the course of which we put ourselves into the other one’s shoes.
