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literary time periods Flashcards

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a religious, social, and literary time period

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puritansim

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god based human activity

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puritanism

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grace and salvation

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puritanism

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religious based utopian society, built on democratic ideas

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puritanism

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work ethic

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puritanism

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thriftness

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puritanism

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plains, simplicit and directness

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puritanism

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puritan writers?

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Broadstreet and Edwards

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emphasis on the mundane logic as an answer for tyranny and irrationality

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age of reason

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emphasis on order, balance, symmetry

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age of reason

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emphasis on the fact and reality rather than feelings

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age of reason

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belief in human potential through the mind’s power

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age of reason

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emphasis on resistant and moderation

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age of reason

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belief in the possibility of a perfect logic-based society

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age of reason

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valuing of freedom of thought

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age of reason

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deep love of nature to the point of defying it (Pantheism)

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romanticism

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exulting the common man esp. shepards and farmer

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romanticism

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focus on self and the individual

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romanticism

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feelings are more important than facts; individual perspective more important than objective reality

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romanticism

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beliefs in the supernatural

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romanticism

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interest in the past and exotic setting

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romanticism

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imagination and powerful

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romanticism

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idealism and nationalism; highly democratic

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romanticism

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extreme version of Romanticism: the Gothic and it interests in death, decay, evil, self-absorption, and darkness

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romanticism

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Kant: I deal from exist in a reason beyond reason and experience

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transcendentalism

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through the act of intuition, any individual can achieve the level of transcendence

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transcendentalism

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emphasis in simple, thrifty living uncluttered by materialism

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transcendentalism

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close, spiritual contact with nature– as divine teacher/ comforter

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transcendentalism

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values deep emotion and imagination

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transcendentalism

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emphasis of self reliance, especially spiritual self reliance

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transcendentalism

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belief in all people’s image goodness; rejects the notion of original sin

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transcendentalism

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the dial, a transcendental magazine edited by Emerson and Margaret Fuller and featuring work by Thorea, very influential

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transcendentalism

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influenced by Whitman and Dickson

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transcendentalism

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presenting life as it is- no sugar coating

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realsim

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treatment of ordinary; even lower class and immoral characters

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realsim

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emphasis on the present rather than the past

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realsim

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less symbolic and metaphorical writing; more descriptive

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realsim

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emphasis in truth or “verisimilitude”

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v

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emphasis on observable reality, the way it really is and not how the individual perceives it

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realsim

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more objective than subjective

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realsim

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Naturalism- extreme from which views man and animal are controlled by forces

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naturalism

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more powerful than be (Determinism) influenced by Darwin; man above;

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naturalism

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no God; only brotherhood of man can help in times of crisis; but seeks to improve man’s condition in the planet– very reform minded

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naturalism

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Regionalism- capturing a regions’s local color, dialect, and vivid description of specific regions; goal is to describe a region very realistically

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naturalism

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brea from the past; “make it new!” breaking of tradition

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modernism

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new forms, new subject matter, new artistic techniques

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modernism

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sense of fragmentation; society is broken, discontinued, fragmented

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modernism

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sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the American Dream

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modernism

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belief in the flaws hero who show grace under pressure

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modernism

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fascination with the mind; stream of consciousness

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modernism

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more concerned with the internal

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modernism

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sense of alienation and oppression

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modernism

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loss of individuality in cold, mechanized materialistic world

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modernism

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fallibility of language to communicate

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modernism

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(1620-1750) 1st Godly

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puritanism

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(1750-1800) 2nd Emphasis on mind/logic

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age of reason

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(1800-1855) 3rd Deep love of nature

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romanticism

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(1830-1855) 4th Deep spiritual transcending of reality

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transcendentalism

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(1890-1910) 5th Presents life as it is

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realism

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(1890-1910) 6th Man is an animal

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naturalism

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(1910- 930) 7th Different from past/new art forms

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modernism

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