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From what years did the renaissance take place?

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14th-17th century

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where did the renaissance begin?

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italy

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what type of literature did the renaissance revive?

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greek and roman

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what characteristic did the renaissance focus on?

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humanism and the individual

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how did artists and writers capture the beauty of the world in the renaissance? what techniques did they use?

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perspective and chiaroscuro

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who were the key figures during the renaissance era?

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William Shakespeare
Dante Alighieri
Petrarch

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what is hamlet about?

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regarded as one of the greatest tragedies in english literature. narrates about the story of a danish prince named Hamlet seeking for revenge

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what is macbeth?

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a story of a powerful noble scottish man and his ups and downs

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what is othello about?

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  • othello is about a tale of jealousy and manipulation
  • moorish general, othello, and the tragic consequences of his marriage to desdemona
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what is the story of midsummer nights dream about?

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  • comedic fantasy love story that happens in the forest and its inhabitants
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what is the divine comedy book about?

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  • Dante’s magnum opus
  • epic poem consisting of 3 parts which are inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
  • talks about Dante’s journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven
  • guided by the roman poet Virgil and his idealized love, Beatrice
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what is vita nuova about?

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  • a collection poems written in italian and latin
  • celebrating Dante’s love for beatrice and exploring themes of love and devotion
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what is de moarchia about?

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  • treatise about political and religious topics
  • including the relationship between the holy roman emperor and the pope
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what is Canzoniere about?

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  • aka Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta
  • Petrach wrote it
  • collection of 366 sonnets, songs, and poems dedicated to his unrequited love for Laura
  • cornerstone of Italian renaissance poetry
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what is secretum about?

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  • a dialogue in 3 books
  • self-reflective conversation with st. augustine about his inner struggles and the pursiit of virtue and wisdom
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what is africa about?

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  • an epic poem
  • explores the achievements of the roman general Scipio Africanus
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what does the characteristic humanism mean?

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focuses on human potential and achievements

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what does the characteristic classical influence mean?

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literature and ideas of ancient greece and rome

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explain the characteristic individualism

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complexities of human nature, individual character, emotions

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explain the characteristic revival of poetry and drama?

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poetry and drama thrived in the renaissance era

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explain the characteristic emphasis on the arts

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the importance of the visual arts and made references to art

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explain the characteristic exploration of the individual and society

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examined the relationship between individuals and society in a political context

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explain the characteristic religious themes

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the renaissance was characterized by renewed interests in humanism, so religious themes were present for example the protestant reformation

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how many characteristics of renaissance literature are there? name them all!

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7

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when did the romanticism era take place?

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late 18th - early/ mid 19th century

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what did romanticism focus on?

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emotion, imagination, individualism.
- romantics believed that intuition and feeling > reason and logic

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state 3 of the most famous works of romantic literature!

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  1. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  2. Lyrical ballads - William Wordsworth
  3. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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state 6 popular writers from the romanticism era!

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  • Mary Shelley
  • William Wordsworth
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • John Keats
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Lord Byron
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what is the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (daffodils) about?

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celebrates the beauty of nature and how it awes the poet
- william wordsworth

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what is the rime of the ancient mariner about?

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a narrative poem about the sailor who faces consequences after killing an albatross
- samuel taylor coleridge

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what is ode to a nightingale about?

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ode inspired by the song nightingale and talks about the contrast between eternal beauty of art and transience of human life
- John Keats

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what is Ozymandias about?

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impermanence of human achievement by describing a ruined statue in the desert with the inscription “look on my works, ye mighty and despair”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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what is Don Juan about?

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adventures of Don Juan and explores themes of love, society, and morality

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how many characteristics are there in the romanticism era?

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10:
- nature and the sublime
- individualism
- imagination and creativity
- emotion and passion
- freedom against conformity
- symbolism and allegory
- anti-industrialization
- celebrations of the past
- escapism
- unconscious mind

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explain the characteristic of emotion and passion in the romanticism era

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they use intense emotions such as longing and despair

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explain the characteristic of imagination and creativity in the romanticism era

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they often used imaginative language to create this imagination

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explain the characteristic of individualism in the romanticism era

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often focuses on the experience of characters as a reaction against the conformity in the enlightenment era

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explain the characteristic of the nature and the sublime in the romanticism era

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nature and the sublime played a central role in the romanticism era

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explain the characteristic of symbolism and allegory in the romanticism era

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often used symbolism to convey deeper meanings and themes

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explain the characteristic of escapism and the supernatural in the romanticism era

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many romantic works featured elements of escapism because characters were often seeking refuge from the harsh realities of life

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explain the characteristic of celebration of the past in the romanticism era

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sense of nostalgia

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explain the characteristic of individual freedom and rebellion in the romanticism era

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the romanticism era often portrayed characters who rebelled for freedom

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explain the characteristic of emphasis on the unconscious mind in the romanticism era

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explored the workings of the human mind

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explain the characteristic of anti-industrialization in the romanticism era

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many romantics expressed a sense of nostalgia for a simpler more natural way of life

45
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in what century did realism take place in?

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19th century

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why did realism emerge?

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the era emerged as a response to the excesses of romanticism

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what is realism? what did realism focus on?

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  • the simple aspects of everyday life (how life really was)
  • the struggle of ordinary people from poorer classes
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what language did the realism era use?

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simple everyday language rather than elevated language of romanticism

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what writing techniques did they use in the realism era?

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  • stream-of-consciousness narration
  • multiple points of view
50
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name three famous authors in the realism era

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  • leo tolstoy
  • gustave flaubert
  • gustave courbet
51
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name Gustave Flaubert’s novels that are known for their meticulous attention to detail and psychological realism

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  • Madame bovary
  • sentimental education
  • bouvard and pecuchet
52
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name gustave courbet’s paintings

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  • the stonebreakers
  • the bathers
  • a burial at ornans
53
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name 5 books from the realism era

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  • madame bovary
  • middlemarch
  • les miserables
  • crime and punishment
  • the grapes of wrath
54
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what is madame bovary from the realism era about?

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a bored and unhappy housewife who embarks on an adulterous affair
- gustave flaubert

55
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what is middlemarch from the realism era about?

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many characters that live in a small english town
- george eliot

56
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what is les miserables about?

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  • victor hugo
    Jean Valjean, a former convict who struggles to redeem himself and become a better person
57
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what is crime and punishment about?

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  • fyodor dostoevsky
  • a young man who murders a pawnbroker and her sister
58
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what is the grapes of wrath about?

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  • john stienbeck
  • a family of migrant workers who travel from Oklahoma to california
59
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how many characteristics are there in realism? state them all!

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8:
- rejection of romanticism
- complex characters
- detailed descriptions
- plausibility
- objective narration
- focus on the ordinary
- social commentary
- faithfulness to reality

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when did naturalism take place?

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late 19th - 20th century

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what does naturalism focus on?

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harsh realities of life (bad views of life)

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what was the key themes of naturalism?

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determinism which was the behaviour of blaming the environment and social condition for their life

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who were the authors in the naturalism era?

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  • emile zola
  • stephen crane
64
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what is the book sister carrie about?

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  • theodore dreiser
  • talks about a Carrie Meeber who just moved to chicago and finds troubles adapting. she finds limited living conditions.
  • a classic of american naturalism
65
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what is the call of the wild about?

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  • jack london
  • a story of Buck, a dog, who faced the harsh realities during the Klondike Gold Rush
66
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what is maggie: a girl of the streets about?

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  • stephen crane
  • a young girl who lives in the slums of new york
67
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what is the red badge of courage about?

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  • stephen crane
  • Henry Flemming who was a young soldier and was in the american civil war
68
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what is McTeague about?

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  • Frank Norris
  • a dentist who slowly falls into debt
69
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what is the jungle about?

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  • Upton Sinclair
  • was first for a journal
  • the harsh realities that immigrant workers face in a meatpacking factory
70
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what is the an american tragedy about?

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  • theodore dreiser
  • Clyde Griffiths comes form a poor family and he falls in an affair with a girl which leads to a crime and a trial
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what are the characteristics of the naturalism era?

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8:
- determinism
- focus on the environment
- conflicts and violence
- pessimism
- focuses on the lower class
- focuses on the characters as victims
- the influence of darwinism
- detailed descriptions

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when did modernism take place?

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19th-20th century

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what characteristics were used in the modernism era?

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  • fragmentation of narratives
  • themes of alienation
74
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what was Ulysses by James Joyce about?

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Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus on a single day in Dublin

75
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What is the waste land about?

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a poem about the fragmentation and disillusionment of the post world war 1 era

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what is the lighthouse about?

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  • virginia woolf
  • a family vacation home
77
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what is the great gatsby about?

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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Jay Gatsby and his american dream and his obsession with Daisy Buchanan
78
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what is the portrait of the artist as a young man about?

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  • james joyce
  • stephen dedaulus as he matures form childhood to adulthood
79
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what is mrs dalloway about?

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  • virginia woolf
  • a single day of Clarissa Dalloway’s life after WW1 in London
80
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what is the sun also rises about?

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  • ernest hemmingway
  • “lost generation” (those who lived during WW1) and traveled to spain for the running of the bulls
81
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what is the metamorphosis about?

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  • Franz Kafka
  • gregory samsa wakes up as a giant insect
82
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how many characterstics are there in modernism?

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12
- experimentation
- fragmentation
- stream of consciousness
- symbolism
- alienation and disillusionment
- cultural and social critique
- subjectivity
- metafiction
- intertextuality
- mulitple points of view
- rejection reality
- existentialism

83
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when did post colonialism take place?

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20th century

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