Key words Flashcards

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Unreliable narrator

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An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose credibility is compromised

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Retrospective narration

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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

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Homodiegetic

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The story is told by a narrator who is present as a character in the story

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Elitism

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The belief that some things are only for a few people who have special qualities or abilities

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Androgynous

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A name that can be used for both genders

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Ennui

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Extreme boredom

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Modernism

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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.

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Stream of consciousness

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A narrative model or method that attempts ‘to depict the many thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind’ of a narrator

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Marxism

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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

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Romantic hero

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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

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Prohibition

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Forbidding something by law. In America, there was a prohibition on alcohol from 1920 to 1933

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New Historicist

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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.

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Platonic conception

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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

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Messiah Complex

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A state of mind in which an individual holds the belief that they are destined to become a saviour

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Futility

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The idea of something being pointless or useless

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Tragic hero

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A person who shows elements of greatness, however, is destined for downfall

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Hamartia

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A fatal flaw

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Eulogy

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A speech or piece of writing that praises someone after they die

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Social criticism

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A mode of criticism that locates the reasons for harmful conditions in a society in a flawed social structure and its norms of behaviour