Modernism

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Victorianism was the … age for the British empire

Answer 2

golden

Question 3

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

Answer 3

mass literacy; industrialization; Education Act

Question 4

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

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popular fiction; popular

Question 5

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

Question 6

changes in education led to changes in

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society

Question 7

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

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satirized; attacked; Victorian; National Exceptionalism

Question 8

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

Answer 8

special; place; time; spread

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

modernism is both in … and … antithetical to …

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form; function; Victorianism

Question 12

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

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dated; sync

Question 13

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

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master narratives; realities

Question 14

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 …

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

common themes:

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fracturing and fragmentation

Question 17

Yeats –> wrote “…”

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The Second Coming

Question 18

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

Question 19

Eliot –> “these fragments I have …”

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shored against my ruin

Question 20

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

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enlightenment; rational; decision-making

Question 21

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

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traumas

Question 22

(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

Question 23

(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

Question 24

(psychoanalysis) death comes easier because of …

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ennui

Question 25

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

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ennui

Question 26

(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

Question 27

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

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instincts; archetypes; unconscious

Question 28

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

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hunger; thirst; sexuality; activity; reflection; creativity

Question 29

(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

Question 30

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

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

Answer 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

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

Question 33

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

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relate to their history

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

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high-brow; low-brow

Question 36

high-brow art: …, unapologetically …

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

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artsy; complex; accessible; simple last

Question 37

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

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experimental; challenging; fragmented; avant-garde

Question 38

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

Answer 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

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

Question 41

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

Question 42

visual artists:
cubism-
surrealism-
fauvism-

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Pablo Picasso; Rene Magritte; Henri Matisse

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

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