Regionalism Flashcards
The setting is frequently in _____ and ______ on the limitations it imposes; ______ are frequently ______ and inaccessible. The setting is integral to the _____ and may sometimes become a _____ in itself.
- nature
- focuses
- setting
- remote
- story
- character
The _____ sometimes severs mediator between the ____ folk in the tale and the ______ audience to whom the tale is being told.
- narrator
- rural
- urban
______ is often used to help establish the creditability and authenticity of the regional characters.
dialect
Authors often choose to use a frame story in which the _______ hears some tales of the region.
narrator
In women’s regionalist fiction, the ______ are often ______ women or _______ girls.
- heroines
- unmarried
- young
Harriet Beecher Stowe
New England
Edith Wharton
New England
Kate Chopin
southern
Harper Lee
southern
James Thurber
Midwestern
Sinclair Lewis
Midwestern
Bret Harte
western
Wila Cather
western
Gertrude Simmons
great plains
Bonnin
Great Plains
who wrote A Worn Path
Eudora Whelty
born and raised in Jackson, Ms.
Eudora Whelty
was apart of a literary movement known as the Southern Renaissance
Eudora Whelty
her fist short story was “ Death of Traveling Salesman” that was published in 1936
Eudora Whelty
she was awarded The national insitute of arts and letters gold metal for fiction in1972
Eudora Whelty
this story involves an elderly woman who periodically goes along a worn path to the city
a worn path
a _______ is a mythical Egyptian bird that never dies because _________________________.
- Pheonix
2. it rises from its own ashes after consuming itself in flames
he had an eye injury as a child and lost sight in one eye and ater lost sight in his other eye and became blind
James thurber
he was a writer, reported a humorist and a cartoonsit
thurber
born in Savannah, Georgia
Flannery O’Conner
a devout Christian who dealt with concepts of man’s fall from grace and redemption through Christ
o’conner
often contains hypocrisy
O’Conner’s style
characters often seem monstrous
O’Conner’s style
“A Good Man is Hard to Fine”
O’conner
” The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
O’conner
set in Rural Alabama in the 40s
The life you save may be your own
Mr. Shiftlet is the stories ________. He is ______ and is is a __________ and his only purpose in life Is to _____ people
- protagonist
- shiftless
- cheat
he did manual labor to support himself while he wrote
Steinback
won the noel peace prize for lit in 1962
steinback
who wrote Of Mice and Men
Seinback
who wrote Grapes of Wrath
Steinback
he published his first work at the age of 11 but it was not well relieved by his family
Harte
He worked as a messenger for Wells Fargo
Harte
who wrote “ A Yellow Dog”
Harte
who wrote “ The Outcast of Poker Flat”
Harte
his setting and plot often centered around this stories of mining camps and towns
Harte’s style
the critics felt that he used to much sentimentality in his writing and failed to show originality to his themes and plots
Harte
______ is credited with the invention of the ______ characters that would later becomes staples in Westerns
- Harte
2. stock
who created the roving gambler, the tainted woman with a heart of gold, and the restless cowboy
Harte
attented the St. Louis academy of the Sacred heart as a young girl
chopin
her father died in a railroad accident
chopin
at 32 she became a widow and found herself raising 6 kids
chopin
she focused her writing on her feelings.
specifically the feelings of women and their desires amended for independence
chopin
who wrote “ The Story of an Hour”
chopin
who wrote “ The Awakening”
chopin
lived in both New York and Rural Nebraska
Cather
who wrote “O, Pioneers!”
Cather
who wrote “My Antonia”
Wila Cather
She received the Gold medal of the national institute of the American academy of arts and letters for her works
Wila Cather
said to of invented the westerns
Harte
predecessor of the romance novels
chopin
