Final Flashcards
the dream of gerontius; english prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the oxford movement
John Henry Newman
The Improvisatore (3 stories in verse), 2 plays; The Bride’s Tragedy and Death’s Jest-Book (appeared after his suicide).
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
– Proponent of doctrine “art for art’s sake”; Studies in the History of the Renaissance; a part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Walter Horatio Pater
Scottish Novelist; Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Requiem (Famous Poem)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Irish poet and playwright; Mosada (first drama; magic fascinate), The Wanderings of Oisin (intense nationalism of Young Ireland Movement)
William Butler Yeats
Finnegan’s wake, Ulysses (recreates holiday “Bloomsday”; design based on Homer’s Odyssey.
James Joyce
– English author whose work such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; The Waves (The most experimental novel), The Voyage Out (Beginning Work), Jacob’s Room (Woman’s suffrage), The Common Reader (Critical essays contain some of her finest pi, and A Haunted House.
Virgina Wolf
New Zealand writer of short stories (1888 – 1923); considered master of the short story; Bliss and the Garden Party (early works brought fame), The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish.
Katherine Mansfield
– English Writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895 – 1985); Good-bye to All That (outspoken autobiography; a book on his war experience which established his reputation), I, Claudius and the Claudius the God (unorthodox novels of Roman history), King Jesus and Homer’s Daughter (fictionalized reappraisals of history), Iliad (translated).
Robert Graves
Poet (Considered better than husband), “Poems”, Sonnet from Portuguese; English Poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806 – 1861)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Book of Snobs, Vanity Fair.
William Makepeace Thackeray
” is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important works of Old English literature, set in Scandinavia, and tells the heroic deeds of the protagonist, Beowulf.
BeowulF
The hero of the poem, a Geatish warrior known for his strength and bravery.
Beowulf
The Danish king who needs Beowulf’s help to defeat the monster Grendel.
King Hrothgar
A monstrous creature terrorizing Hrothgar’s mead hall, Heorot.
Grendel
Another fearsome creature seeking revenge for Grendel’s death.
Grendel’s Mother
: A powerful serpent that Beowulf faces in his final battle.
Dragon
: A loyal warrior who aids Beowulf in his fight against the dragon.
Wiglaf
An Old English Epic
Beowulf
The monster that Beowulf killed
Grendel (also Grendel’s Mother and the Dragon)
The early inhabitants of the British Isles
The Celts
The Greatest English Poet
William Shakespeare
The Birth date of William Shakespeare
April 23, 1564
Give one comedy play of Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Give one tragedy play of Shakespeare
hamlet
- Whom did Shakespeare attribute his Hamlet?
Historia Danica
discussed religious foundations of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
also recorded a diary of the first years after the Mayflower’s arrival.
Edward Winslow
earliest Puritan Poetry (highly religious in nature), and a set of translation of the biblical poems.
Bay Psalm Book
are also valued for political writings
Fisher Ames, James Otis, and Patrick Henry
– often considered the first writer to develop a unique American Style.
Washington Irving
an ex-minister, published a startling nonfiction work called Nature, in which he claimed it was possible to disguise with organized religion and reach lofty spiritual state by studying and responding to the natural world. Father of the American Literature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
a resolute nonconformist, wrote Walden – a book length memoir that urges resistance to the meddlesome dictates of organized society. He is deeply rooted toward individualism in the American Character
Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
collected some of this stories as Twice-Told Tales, a volume rich in symbolism and occult incidents. He went to write full-length “romances”, quasi-allegorical novels that explore such themes as guilt, pride, and emotional repression. The Scarlet Letter – start drama of a woman cast out of her community for committing adultery.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
was a working man, traveler, self-appointed nurse during the American Civil War (1861 – 1865). His magnum opus was Leaves of Grass in which he uses free-flowing verse and lines of irregular length.
Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)
lived a sheltered life of a genteel unmarried woman in small-town Amherst, Massachusetts.
Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)
the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens – was the first major American writer born away from the East Coast. His regional masterpiece were the memoir Life on the Mississippi and the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
He was first well-known American writer trying to earn a living through writing alone.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849
– His stories are written on the 6th grade level, because he did not want to elaborate his writing with a lot of adjectives. He wanted the reader to fill in the blanks with their imagination.
Ernest Hemmingway
Greatest of them all, gave us the vision of the Great American disconnect
William Faulkner
earliest form of kana or symbolic writing
kanji
a partly mythological , partly accurate history of japan
kojiki
a chronicle with a slightly more solid foundation in historical records than kojiki
Nihonshoki
a poetry anthology
man’yoshu
record of ancient matter
kojiki
chronicle of japan
nihon shoki
completed in 712 and 720 as a government projects
kojiki, nihon shoki
record of wind and earth
fudoki
complied by provincial officials beginning in 713, describe the history geography, products, and folklore of various provinces
Fudoki
(Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves) an anthology composed of 4,500 poems in the
form of tanka composed by people ranging from unknown commoners to emperors.
Man’yoshu
In this period, the replesendent aristocratic culture thrived making this period the golden era of
art and literature. The widespread of the hiragana alphabet and the development of kana became the
reason of the decline of Chinese Influence. In this period, Court Ladies played the central role in
developing literature.
Heian Period (794 – 1185 AD)
She wrote the 54-chapter novel Genji Monogatari (Tale of Genji) a story
about Genji’s romantic life and describes the customs of the aristocratic society of the time.
Murasaki Shikibu
who wrote Makura no soshi (The Pillow Book). It is a diary that tells the story of
her daily life. Provides a perspective on imperial culture in all its luxury, privilege, and poetry
Sei Shonagon
(Tales of a Time That Is Now Past). A massive collection of 1,000 Buddhist
and secular tales from India, China, and Japan. It is rich in its description of the lives of nobility and
common people in Japan at that time.
Konjakumonogatari
(Collection of Poems from Ancient and Modern Times) was
published as the first poetry anthology commissioned by an emperor; its preface paid high
tribute to the vast possibilities of literature.
Kokinwakashu or Kokinshu
. A poem attributed to Kukai, a Buddhist monk and scholar in the Heian period. What makes
it special is it is a perfect pangram, meaning it contains every syllable of the Japanese syllabary
exactly once.
) Iroha
(The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter). One of the oldest works of science fiction
Taketori Monogatari
In this period, Japan experienced many civil wars which led to the development of a warrior
class(samurai), and subsequent war tales, histories, and related stories. Because of subsequent wars
happening the tones of the stories are somber compared to previous periods, with themes of life and
death, simple lifestyle, and seppuku In this period, warriors of the Taira Clan (Heiki) seized political
power at the imperial court, forming a new aristocracy. The Noh theater play is created.
Kamakura-Muromachi Period (1185-1573 AD)
(The Tale of Heiki), is an epic account of the struggle between two clans for
control of Japan at the end of the twelfth century, the Taira Clan(Heiki) versus the Minamoto Clan
(Genji).
Heiki mono-gatari
(New Collection of Poems). An anthology commissioned by Emperor Gotoba;
it is dedicated to the pursuit of a subtle, profound beauty far removed from the mundane reality of civil
strife.
Shin Kokinwashu
(Treasury of the True Dharma Eye). The first Buddhist text written in Japanese
which marked a major development in Zen thought.
Zen a Japanese Sect of Mahayana Buddhism that aims at enlightenment by direct intuition through
meditation.
Shobogenzo
It is also known as the Tokugawa Period. The period when the capital of Japan moved from
Kyoto to Edo (modern Tokyo). Around this time the function of literature as a means of social
intercourse broadened
Edo Period (1603-1868 AD)
composed superb haiku depicting nature
yosa buson
produced a collection of gothic stories called ugetsumonogatari
uedo akinari
tales of moonlight and rain
ugetsumonogatari
dominated japan’s literature world for the first decode of the twentieth century
Emile Zola
noted “I novel”, style of novel typical of japan
shimazakitoson
2 giants of genroku era
ihara saikaku, chikamatsu monzaehon
epic account of the struggle between the minamoto and tara clans
the tale of the heike(heike monogotari)
verse form comprising 31 syllables (5-7-5-7-7)
Tanka
