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Modules 3&4 Flashcards

1
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It is through its very incompleteness that Art becomes complete in beauty and so it dresses itself not to the faculty of recognition nor to the faculty of reason but to the Aesthetic sense alone.

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Wilde

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2
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Most famous play, Le Cid inside a flurry of critical attention that became known as the “Quarrel of the Cid”

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Corneille

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3
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Although the action of the dramatic poem must have its unity, one must consider both its parts: the complication and the resolution.

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Corneille

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4
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First English woman to earn a living as a writer.

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Behn

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5
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Wrote an Essay on Criticism

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Pope

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6
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I would not yet be understood to lessen the dignity of Players for surely they deserve a place among the middle if not the better sort of Books, for I have heard that most of that which bear is the name of Learning…

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Behn

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7
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Denial of the reality of the external world by kicking a stone and declaring “I refute him thus.”

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Johnson

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What has been the longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood.

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Johnson

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9
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Wrote one of the first treaties of modern feminism: A vindication of the rights of women

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Wollstonecraft

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10
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I am not a critic, and state little value on the art.

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Wordsworth

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11
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The founding father of modern criticism in the English speaking world

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Arnold

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12
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What is meant by the word poet? What is a poet? He considers man and the objects that surround him as acting and reacting upon each other, so as to produce an infinite complexity of pain and pleasure…

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Wordsworth

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13
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Beauty like all other qualities presented to human experience is relative

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Pater

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14
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All art is quite useless

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Wilde

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15
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I have such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

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Pater

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16
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A polemical practical criticism makes men blind even to the ideal imperfection of their practice, makes them willingly assert its ideal perfection in order to better secure it against attack

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Arnold

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17
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Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge, it is as immortal as the heart of man

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Wordsworth

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18
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Men and women must be educated in a great degree by the opinions and manners of the society they live in

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Wollstonecraft

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19
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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book

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Johnson

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20
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True wit is nature to advantage drest What oft was thought but ne’er so well exprest, something his truth convinced at site we find that gives us back the image of our mind

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Pope

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21
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Stripping away the “academic frippery”that surround the repeat the debate over the “musty rules of unity” that that more important than the structural unity of a plays action, time, and plot is the confidence of the actors who perform it

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Behn

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22
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A pragmatist a successful play right in season craftsman who has refuse to submit to the prescriptive director of the actor cool critics of his time. He knows how to play Mus please even dazzle the audience. Three unities of action: action, time, place

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Corneille

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23
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Wrote Oroonoko anti-slavery novel made into a play.

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Behn

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24
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In The Essay, he writes the dismaying state of criticism reflects a broad historical decline from the Greek and Roman past

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Pope

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25
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Good authors or critics must truly know themselves and possess a finely developed moral sense of purpose

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Pope

26
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The road To hell is paved with good intentions

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Johnson

27
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel

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Johnson

28
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I may be accused of arrogance still I must declare what I firmly believe, that all the writers who have written on the subject of female education and manners from Ressue to Dr. Gregory have contributed to render women more artificial, weak characters, than otherwise would have been, and consequently, more useless members of society

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Wollstonecraft

29
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A polemicist- person who engages in controversial debate

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Arnold

30
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Who shall inherit England? The best persons would be critics, poised, balanced and reflective; they would be foes, of fanaticism, zealotry and political enthusiasm, and they would be aspirant to perfection

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Arnold

31
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Criticism is not ultimately something one does, it gestures who one is.

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Arnold

32
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Authentic artist concerns themselves with style and form… Morality, is not a matter of an artist or a writers message, it instead rests in how well he or she has executed an aesthetic task

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Wilde

33
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It is very much more difficult to talk about a thing then do it.

anybody can make history, only a great man can write it

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Wilde

34
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought

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Pater

35
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Wrote Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa: studies in the history of renaissance

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Pater

36
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Criticism must maintain his independence of the practical spirit and its aim

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Arnold

37
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Defines criticism as involving flexibility, openness to new experiences, and curiosity. And insist on the FreePlay of mind and phrase that poststructuralist theorist were defined far more radically and subversively

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Arnold

38
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Chuse incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men; and at the same time to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination

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Wordsworth

39
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Wrote Lyrical Ballads: fit to “metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation,” and that “good poetry it’s a spontaneous overflow of powerful things.”

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Wordsworth

40
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She argued against the degradation and subjugation of women justified by the “arbitrary power of beauty”

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Wollstonecraft

41
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Wrote the Preface to Shakespeare.
“those who being forced by disappointment upon consolatory experience are willing to hope from posterity with a present age refuses and flatter themselves that they regard which is yet denied by envy will it last bestowed by time.”

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Johnson

42
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The best works of art derived from a deeply felt well reasoned study of nature; and studying the great works of the past leads want to see the resilience on the stable principles of harmony in order that nature itself teaches

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Pope

43
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In Epistle to the Reader, she mimics the philosophically dense and incomprehensible language of fashionable intellectual debate as well as the modish slang of the day

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Behn

44
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The first English critic to reject outright Horace’s platitude that literature must instruct and delight

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Behn

45
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Although the action of the dramatic poem must have its unity, one must consider both its parts: the complication and the resolution

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Corneille

46
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Criticism is both creative and independent

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Wilde

47
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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art

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Wilde

48
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For the critic is he who exhibits to us a work of art in a form different from that of the work itself in the employment of a new material is a critical as well as a creative element

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Wilde

49
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Wrote: of The Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place

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Corneille

50
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Write Epistle to the Reader & The Dutch Lover (critical review in form of plays)

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Behn

51
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Good, Sweet, Honey, Sugar-candied READER

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Behn

52
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Wrote: the preface to Shakespeare and the Lives of English Poets. In Rambler 92

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Johnson

53
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He promoted Classical Rule as a plea for the value of not taking them too literal.

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Corneille

54
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Although the Action of the dramatic poem must have its unity, one must consider both its parts: the complication & resolution

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Corneille

55
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The critic should strive to see the object as in itself it really is

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Arnold

56
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world

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Arnold

57
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Wrote Culture and Anarchy, which examines the condition of England as represented by the three groups: the barbarians the philistines and the populace

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Arnold

58
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Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life; that the greatness of a poet lies and his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life- to the question: How to Live

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Arnold

59
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He’s bird riders to break free from the authority of neoclassical rules and conventions and to find inspiration instead in the emotions, experiences, and speech of ordinary persons

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Wordsworth

60
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How grossly they (men) insult us who thus advise us, only to render ourselves gentle, domestic brutes!

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Wollstonecraft

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