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Lit. 2 Final Exam Flashcards

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Absurdism

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The philosophic and literary doctrine that humans live essentially isolated in a meaningless and irrational world

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Surrealism

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A movement in art and literature emphasizing the expression of the imagination as realized in dreams and presented without conscious control. Demonstrates a marked influence of Freud. Lucidly juxtaposes scarcely compatible tokens of potentially symbolic concrete objects.

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What did Voltaire write. And where was he from

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Candid

France

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Moliere

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Tartuffe

France

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De Lafayette

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The Princess of Cleve’s

France

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Jean de la Fontain

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Fables
The oak and the reed
France

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Age of Enlightenment/Reason writers(4)

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Voltaire
Moliere
De Lafayette
Jean de la Fontain

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Romanticism writers 5

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Lamartine 
Holderline 
Heine
Leopardi 
De Castro
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Lamartine

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The Lake

France

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Holderline

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The Half of Life
Hyperion’s Song of Fate
Brevity
Germany

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Heine

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The Silesian Weavers
A Pine is Standing Lonely
Germany

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Leopardi

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To Himself
To Silvia
The Infinite
Italian

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de Castro

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A Glowworm scatters flashes through the moss
As the clouds
Some say plants
The feet of spring are on the stair
Spain
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Realism writers 4

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Hugo
Tolstoy
Ibsen
Chekhov

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Hugo

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Les Miserables
The hunchback of mortar dame
France

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Tolstoy

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War and peace
Anna Karenina
Russia

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Ibsen

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Hedda Gabbler

Norway

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Chekhov

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The cherry orchard

Russia

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Modernism writers 4

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Yeats
Rainer Maria Rilke
Kafka
Pirandello

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Yeats

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The second coming

Ireland

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Rilke

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The boy
Autumn day
The panther
Czech/Prague

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Kafka

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Metamorphosis
Czech/Bohemia
Jewish

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Pirandello

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Six Characters in search of an author

Italy

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Bridge between modernism and postmodernism 1

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Borges

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Borges

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The garden of the forking paths

Argentina

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Postmodernism 2

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Italo Calvino

Beckett

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Beckett

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Endgame

Irish

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Calvino

Modern and post-modern

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Path to the nest of spiders
Invisible cities
Italy (lived in many other countries, Cuba, France)

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Bridge between modernism/realism and post-colonialism 1

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Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing

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The old chief Mshlanga

Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), England

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Post colonialism 3

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Salman Rusdie
Derek Walcott
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Salman Rusdie

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The perforated sheet from “midnight’s children”

Bombay, India

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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The Englishwoman

Prussia, Germany, India, Engliand

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Derek Walcott

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Omeros
Jewish
India/St.Lucia

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Heterotopia

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the real spaces in which cultures are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.
(Each person perceiving their own reality)

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Who conceptualized Heterotopia

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Michele Foucault

37
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Diaspora

A

The dispersion of any people from their original homeland

(Important concept in post colonialism

38
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The absurd

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the quality or condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world.

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