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American Literature 2. Flashcards

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In a Station of the Metro

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Ezra Pound

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L’art, 1910

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Ezra Pound

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Alba

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Ezra Pound

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Doria

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Ezra Pound

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The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance

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Ezra Pound

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A Girl

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Ezra Pound

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Pagani’s, November 8

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Ezra Pound

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The Tea Shop

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Ezra Pound

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The Red Wheelbarrow

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William Carlos Williams

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The Great Figure

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William Carlos Williams

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The Rose

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William Carlos Williams

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A Decade

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Amy Lowell

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A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste (essay)

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Ezra Pound

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Imagism (American modernist poetry)

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Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell

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After Apple-picking

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Robert Frost

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Mending Wall

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Robert Frost

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The Road Not Taken

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Robert Frost

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The Waste Land

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T. S. Eliot

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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T. S. Eliot

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The Naming of Cats

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T. S. Eliot

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By the road to the contagious hospital

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William Carlos Williams

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Portrait of a Lady

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William Carlos Williams

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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

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William Carlos Williams

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Young Sycamore

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William Carlos Williams

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Idea of Order at Key West

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Wallace Stevens

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Oread

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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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Orchard

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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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Eurydice

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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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High modernism and radical modernism in poetry (American modernist poetry)

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Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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The Sun Also Rises

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Ernest Hemingway

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“The Gentle Lena” from Three Lives

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Gertrude Stein

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A Rose for Emily

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William Faulkner

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The Great Gatsby

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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American modernist fiction

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Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Passing

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Nella Larsen

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I, too

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Langston Hughes

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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Langston Hughes

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The Harlem renaissance

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Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes

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Postwar literature in America

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J. D. Salinger, Sylvia Plath, Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Short Friday

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Zetland: By a Character Witness

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Saul Bellow

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Lady Lazarus

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Sylvia Plath

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Daddy

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Sylvia Plath

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The Catcher in the Rye

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J. D. Salinger

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The American avant-garde subgroups

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Black Mountain poets, The Beat Generation, The New York School of Poets

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Black Mountain poets (The American avant-garde)

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Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov

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Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele

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Charles Olson

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Projective Verse

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Charles Olson

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Projective Verse

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Charles Olson

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Structure of Rime XI

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Robert Duncan

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Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow

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Robert Duncan

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I Know a Man

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Robert Creeley

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Mountains in the Desert

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Robert Creeley

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The Jacob’s Ladder

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Denise Levertov

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Woman Alone

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Denise Levertov

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The Beat Generation (The American avant-garde)

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Allen Ginsberg

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Howl

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Allen Ginsberg

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The New York School of Poets (The American avant-garde)

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John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara

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Having a Coke with You

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Frank O’Hara

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Worsening Situation

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John Ashbery

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American modernist poetry

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Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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The American avant-garde

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John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov

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American modernist poetry subgroups

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Imagism, High modernism and radical modernism in poetry

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Postmodernism

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Kurt Vonnegut, Paul Auster

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Slaughterhouse-Five

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Kurt Vonnegut

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City of Glass (from the New York Trilogy)

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Paul Auster

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American drama in the 20th century

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Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

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Long Day’s Journey into Night

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Eugene O’Neill

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A Streetcar Named Desire

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Tennessee Williams

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The Death of a Salesman

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Arthur Miller

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Edward Albee

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Multiculturalism in American literature

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Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko

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Everyday Use

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Alice Walker

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Lullaby

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Leslie Marmon Silko

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Beloved

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Toni Morrison

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Contemporary American fiction

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Alice Munro

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The Bear Came Over the Mountain

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Alice Munro

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Contemporary American poetry

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Louise Glück, Ilya Kaminsky

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Averno

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Louise Glück

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In a Time of Peace

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Ilya Kaminsky

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