Key words Flashcards
Unreliable narrator
An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose credibility is compromised
Retrospective narration
Written using past-tense, first-person nation, a retrospective narrative is told from the point of view of a character looking back on past events
Homodiegetic
The story is told by a narrator who is present as a character in the story
Elitism
The belief that some things are only for a few people who have special qualities or abilities
Androgynous
A name that can be used for both genders
Ennui
Extreme boredom
Modernism
The late 19th century and early 20the century literary movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organisation to reflect the newly emerging industrial world, including features such as urbanisation, new technologies, and war.
Stream of consciousness
A narrative model or method that attempts ‘to depict the many thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind’ of a narrator
Marxism
An ideology that argues there is a struggle between the working class and the owners of the means of production that struggle is needed for historical change
Romantic hero
Rejected by society- old money
Non-conventional-criminal
Recluses- distant
On some kind of quest- Daisy, validation
A desire to fulfil something for himself and ends up serving a greeted cause?
Alienated-yes
Prohibition
Forbidding something by law. In America, there was a prohibition on alcohol from 1920 to 1933
New Historicist
New Historicism reopened the interpretation of literature to the social, political and historical environment that produced it. To a New Historian, literature is not the record of a single mind, but the end product of a particular cultural moment. New Historicists look at literature alongside other cultural products of a particular historical period to illustrate how concepts, attitudes, and ideologies operate across a broader cultural spectrum that is not exclusively literature.
Platonic conception
An ideal conception. Plato argued that the forms we see in the world around us are merely shadows of an ideal form that exists in an abstract space
Messiah Complex
A state of mind in which an individual holds the belief that they are destined to become a saviour
Futility
The idea of something being pointless or useless
