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Exam 2 Flashcards

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Naturalism definition

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The individual is controlled by forces both inside (physical, biological) and outside (social, environmental). Therefore, the individual is controlled by forces outside of individual control

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Naturalism characteristics

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Objectivity
Frankness
Amoral attitude
Philosophical determinism
Pessimism
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Objectivity

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Supposed to seek the truth like a scientist

Don’t try to change the world, just describe it

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Frankness

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Doesn’t just talk about the niceness
Entire human should be described
Particularly deeper instincts like sex, fear, hunger

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Amoral attitude

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Recording and not judging

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Philosophical determination

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Characteristic that most distinguishes the first and second waves
Claim that the individual is controlled by outside forces (biological and environmental)

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Pessimism

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Dark vision of the world
Drawn to the low and ugly
People are driven by sex, greed, mob psychology
Characters are divided into “haves” and “have nots”
Free will is an illusion
Everyone is shaped by blind chance and outside forces

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What separates Naturalism from the first wave of Realism?

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Philosophical determination

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Blackness of whiteness

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White should represent purity and innocence but it represents blankness and malignancy

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Aristotelian Tragedy

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Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

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Hubris

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Excessive pride or self-confidence

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White Silence

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Story that takes place in the snow in isolation

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Modernism definition

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Avant-garde movement where artists are most interested in experimentation to develop a distinct and new voice in literature

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Modernism characteristics

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Dark view of humanity
Sense of betrayal by the past
Imposing order and meaning on a chaotic world

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How is Modernism a reaction to WWI?

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Young writers wanted to make art that reflected their experience
Romantic thoughts of war–> trench warfare is a reality

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The importance of experimentation and technique for modernists

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To develop a new voice

17
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European poets vs. Native poets

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Expat who lives in Europe vs. those who lived and worked in America with American influences

18
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Art as a measure of cultural worth

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If we are more interested in material culture, this reflects that something is wrong with our cultural health

19
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Blank verse

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No rhyme

Usually in iambic pentameter

20
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Narrative poetry

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Tells a story

21
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Literature of the town

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When an author creates a universe in which a lot of their poems exist; based on reality

22
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Robinson’s themes and concerns

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Personality/psychological inner nature
Human belief and search for an organized principle (something that gives value to our lives)
Failure of success
Naturalistic (characters are victimized by environment and biology)

23
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How is Robinson a transition figure?

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Naturalism–>Modernism
Wrote for so long that his work spans both movements
Modernist: dark view of humanity
Naturalist: Characters are victimized by environmental and biological factors)

24
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Failure of success in Robinson

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Richard Cory’s suicide; a person can have all the things needed to be successful, but still fail on a spiritual level

25
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Importance of form to Frost

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Used strict form to impose order on the world

26
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Imagism definition

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A calculated move to shift poetry to its original qualities

27
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Imagism characteristics

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Primacy of the image
Rhythm must have meaning
Objectivity
Use common speech but exact wording
Absolute freedom of choice
No cliches
No extra words
No abstractions
No ornament
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What Pound believes an image should do + examples

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An image should evoke an emotional and intellectual complex (reaction) at the same moment

29
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Hemingway hero

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The only thing a man can do to maintain his dignity is to act as if there are things over which he has control

30
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Hemingway code

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Code of professionalism, discipline

Things that can be perfected and practiced

31
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Iceberg theory

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What you see on the surface is only 1/8 of the story

32
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Dissipation

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To make nothing out of something

33
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Moral bankruptcy

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Fitzgerald; lacking any spirituality or values

34
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Definition of Southern Literature

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Writing produced below the Mason-Dixon line and west to Texas

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Characteristics of Southern Literature

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Unified by:
Sense of place
Sense of history
Sense of culture

36
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Sense of place

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Place is important
Agrarian culture
Symbiotic relationship with land

37
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Sense of history

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Only part of the US that has lived in a defeated state
Burden of slavery
Loss of men in war

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Sense of culture

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Protestant
Fear of the devil
Manners

39
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Wasteland motif

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Everything is barren and nothing grows

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