Moderism Quiz Flashcards
Who wrote Sonnet 43?
Elizabeth Browning
Who wrote Songs to Joannes?
Mina Loy
Who wrote Oread?
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Who wrote A Grave?
Marianne Moore
Who wrote I, being born a woman and distressed?
Edna Millay
Who wrote I Too Beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex?
Edna Millay
Who wrote A Room of One’s Own?
Virginia Woolf
Who wrote Mrs. Dalloway?
Virginia Woolf
What are the values of modernists?
- Direct treatment of the thing
- No extra words
- Musical instead of metronome rhythm
What is theme?
A claim about what it means to be human or how the world works that the text implies
What is modernist in reaction to?
WWI
What is Songs to Joannes about?
Pregnancy
Two things becoming one
Making something new
What is Oread about?
A mountain nymph
Comparison to a tree and the sea
What is a grave about?
The sea
Immortality
Dashes - break to make a point before
Go on and on, makes sense to have long lines
What is I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex about?
Italian Sonnet
Romantic low to dealing with sexuality
Sexuality liberated instead of stuck at home
Not covering it up, make it pretty - all natural
Tower = doesn’t want to be alone, has a lot of pride in it
What is Mrs. Dalloway about?
Clarissa Dalloway’s life
Her relationship with Peter and Richard and Sally
Septimus - PTSD. Collected grief from the war - committed suicide
Clarissa throws a party - is talked lowly about by her loved ones
Sally and Peter talk at party about Clarissa and communicating your feelings
You cant always get what you want
What is “passing”?
Notice a group to be very powerful
What is stream of consciousness?
Reveals characters
We’re getting this information from Clarissa, may not be full story
What is Traditional Literary Criticism?
Understand what the author intended
Look at other writing/historical content
What is New Criticism?
Look at text and only text to understand
The story “the death of the author”
Tease out inherent ambiguities
What is Feminist Theory?
It is important to think of gender as you read
What are the feminist waves?
- Getting the Vote (1920)
- Equal Opportunity (1960-1970)
- Intersectionality
What are gender criticism assumptions?
The work doesn’t have an objective, status, etc.
in the production of literature and within stories themselves, men and women have not had equal rights
Men and women are different. They read, write, and write about their reading differently.
What is reader response criticism?
Reading is a collaboration between text and reader
Pay attention to your experience as a reader
What is an epic?
Really long poem - hero who stands in for the whole country
What is the central question behind a room of one’s own?
Why haven’t more women written fiction? How do women write fiction? What does a women need to write fiction?
What is the answer to Woolf’s answer to the questions?
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
