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Modernism Flashcards

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Victorianism = …,… unity, positive …, freedom in … (… for …)

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optimism; cultural; technological expansion; art; art for art’s sake

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Victorianism was the … age for the British empire

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golden

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… becomes a reality because of … and the … of 1870

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mass literacy; industrialization; Education Act

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mass literacy generated a demand for … –> put writers in a position to become …

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popular fiction; popular

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education act of 1870: every child of a certain age range must … –> happens at same time that literature becomes … and ….

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attend public schooling; accessible; affordable

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changes in education led to changes in

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society

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popular artists … and … the middle class … values and expressed an essential skepticism of …

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satirized; attacked; Victorian; National Exceptionalism

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National Exceptionalism: idea that one country’s values are … in their … and … and ought to be …

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special; place; time; spread

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within 13 years of Victoria’s death, the English Empire … —> colonies in …, …, …, the …, and … ….

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falls apart; Canada; New Zealand; India; the Caribbean; Africa; gain their independence

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independent colonies: a new generation of “…” –> newly .., … taught to read and speak English and they were writing for … –> their lit was produced in …, fractures what it meant to be … (no longer one definition)

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English voices; independent, foreign colonies; British publication; London; English

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modernism is both in … and … antithetical to …

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form; function; Victorianism

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optimism, confidence, triumph were now out of step, …, out of … with modern reality

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dated; sync

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modernism brought about the destruction of “…” –> fixed … that for centuries people have bought into

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master narratives; realities

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master narrative examples (that were destroyed)
the .. family
the … family –> beginnings of … emerging
the righteousness of … –> they could be …
a well …
a …/….
… itself
…. (the best of what is … and …) –> it is …
the …

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nuclear; patriarchal; equality; law; immoral; conducted state; church/god; reason; cultural; thought; said; individualized; self

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The Zeitgeist (spirit of the age) –> …
Questions like:
what is …?
how does … function?
how do human beings interact with and exist in …? (due to …)
how do we assemble our … of thinking about …?

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self-aware; time; history; history; mass literacy; fractured ways; time

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common themes:

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fracturing and fragmentation

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Yeats –> wrote “…”

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The Second Coming

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the title for things fall apart comes from “the second coming” –> break between essential relationship between falcon and falconer
“things fall apart; the … cannot …”

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center; hold

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Eliot –> “these fragments I have …”

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shored against my ruin

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psychoanalysis: challenged the … notion that human beings are fundamentally …, …-… individuals

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enlightenment; rational; decision-making

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(psychoanalysis) we do things in reaction to … from the past

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traumas

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(psychoanalysis) Sigmund Freud speaks of time as a …
society has replaced its notion of … (NA just a … drive) –> at one point society had impulse for …, thirst and hunger for …, …, and …

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schizophrenic patient; eros; sexual; life; living; loving; kindness

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(psychoanalysis) eros replaced with …- a drive towards …, …, and …-… of the …, sense that nothing can … you, nothing good will happen to you again, and life will be …, losing basic … of life

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thanatos; death; violence; ennui; boredom; soul; move; empty; pleasure

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(psychoanalysis) death comes easier because of …

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ennui

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(psychoanalysis) … was the biggest shift from Victorianism to modernism

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ennui

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(psychoanalysis) Carl Jung: “the collective ..”
we aren’t .. –> studied schizophrenics all around the world, all had common … that weren’t informed by .., …, or …

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unconscious; blank slates; themes; religion; culture; experiences

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(psychoanalysis) all human beings share .. and …, aside from personal … drives

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instincts; archetypes; unconscious

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(psychoanalysis) …/…, …, …, … and …. manifest themselves in archetypes

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hunger; thirst; sexuality; activity; reflection; creativity

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(psychoanalysis) some of our archetypes: ego vs. shadow- things you don't wanna address
ego- .., shadow- ... 
ego- old ..., shadow- the young ...
ego- ... (...), shadow- .. (...)
ego- ..., shadow- ...
ego-...., shadow-....
ego-..., shadow- ...
ego- ..., shadow-...
ego-..., shadow-...
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good mother; bad mother; wise man; trickster; anima; female; animus; male; meaning; absurdity; order; chaos; time; eternity; sacred; profane; light; dark

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comparative mythology: .., …, the …, ….

collection of myths that appear in … and appears in other … that … them

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flood; creative sacrifice; dying God; Titanomachy; major religions; religions; predate

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development of comparative mythology challenged the … of … and … itself
challenges value of …, ….
“…”- F. Nietzsche
.. on rise as a result

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uniqueness; Christianity; culture; fixed, unquestionable faith; Gott ist tot; sin

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changes in thought led to changes in the … of thought –> …, …, …, … and …, etc.

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physical manifestation; electricity; radio; film; airplane; automobile travel

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the new advances caused that generation to break free of their capacity to

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relate to their history

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if the world is accelerating at a rate faster than it can be understood, then human beings are … from the … itself —> …

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alienated; world; fragmentation

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mass production of literature causes a rift between … and … art

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high-brow; low-brow

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high-brow art: …, unapologetically …

low-brow art: unapologetically …, …, doesn’t …

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artsy; complex; accessible; simple last

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more successful, lasting art (high-brow) becomes …, …, … and …

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experimental; challenging; fragmented; avant-garde

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Ezra Pound wrote … –> written in various …
paves way for all …
what art should do: “….!”–> departure from Victorianism and Romanticism

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The Cantos; languages; modern writers; make it new!

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Pound and Eliot pave way for …- a style of poetry that rejects the sentiment of … and the … nature of … poetry in favor of the employment of .., …

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imagism; Romantic poetry; didactic; Victorian; stark, precise imagery

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Eliot’s poetry in particular finds its emphasis in .., …, and … (means that it requires a certain level of …)

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intertextuality; literary allusion; intellectualism

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Eliot believed that poetry shouldn’t be for …, only those who ….
intertextuality: makes references to .. of the same caliber without explaining it –> .. poetry

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everyone; understand it; literature; fragments

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visual artists:
cubism-
surrealism-
fauvism-

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Pablo Picasso; Rene Magritte; Henri Matisse

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World War One (1914-1918)
Global Wars- “the war to …”
.. million Europeans sent, … million killed, … million missing, … million civilians killed (new)

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end all wars; 60; 9; 8; 7

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2 new innovations in modern warfare: … (e.g. …), … (designed for …-fighting …)

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chemical warfare; yellow mustard gas; tank; cities; indiscriminately

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