Revision For SP Exam Flashcards
Mary Shelley Wollostonecraft (1797-1851)
Noveliste, editor, travel writer, married to P.B shelley.
«Frankenstein or the modern Promotheus» 1818 => sublime
John Keats (1795-1821)
Romantic poet from the 2nd gen. «To Autumn, 1819» or «Lamia»,1819
Negative capability
Capablity of humans to stay in unvertainties, awareness of the existence of parts we do not control
La Belle Dame Sans Merci: The pull of the past / Poem in ballad style
Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
Poet, satirist, romantic leading figure,
«Don juan, 1819», she walks in beauty, 1813
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Older and more reclused than other romantic poets,
Helped to launch the romantic age with Samuel Taylor Coleridge with «Lyrical Ballads»
It defined the aesthetic of romantic literature.
«Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey»
«Crossing Simplon Pass» (pastoral, idealisation)
William Blake (1757-1827)
Poet, painter, printmarker, romantic. More exentric than the others.
«The lamb, the chimney sweeper, the little black boy» and such works
Lyrical Ballads, 1798
Wordsworth and Coleridge, published anonymously at first. (Many issues with add-ons)
Normative aspect, setting up rules of romantic language, simplicity, sincerity, the poet with a «special gift»
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Husband to Mary Shelley
Romantic writer:
«Mont Blanc»
Neo-classicism vs romanticism
- Order, symetry, regularity, rules, ancient models had authority, society is well-governed, academic training is the only way to be a good artist, gardens and landscapes kept under control, human reason and logic as measure of everything
- Freedom, originality, genius, feeling, past is mostly an object of aesthetic contemplation and inspo, a refuge. Individual freedom vs social constraints, intuition, imagination, introspection, myths, nature, symbolism, untouched nature, affective responses to it. The exotic, uncanny, supernatural are interesting.
Edmund burke
The picturesque and the Sublime
A philosophal enquiry into the origin of the sublime and beautiful (1757)
1790: Reflections on the Revolution in France
Thomas Paine (1791)
Rights of Man
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
Idem…of Woman (1792)
Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)
1745-1797
Interesting narrative
Mary Prince (1831)
History
Slve brought from Jamaica to England
Queen Victoria
1837-1901 : reign
Matthew Arnold
«Dover Beach», 1867
Victorian period
Thomas Babington Macaulay
John Stuart Mill
Victorian period optimistic
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Art critic, criticism of social changes in the victorian period
Conservative
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Critic, poet of the victorian period
Culture and Anarchy (1869)
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Scottish writer from the victorian period, critical of industrialisation, antipathy against machines
George Eliot (woman) (1819-)
Victorian novel writer
Middlemarch (1871)
Very popular,with a male pseudonym
Realism
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Victorian period
Poet, painter and translator
«The Girlhood of Virgin Mary», with 2 sonnets
«The blessed Damozel», 1878
Member of the preraphaelite brotherhood (7 members)
John Everett Millais
Victorian period
Painter
Member of the pre raphaelite brotherhood
William Holman Hunt
Victorian period
Painter
Member of the pre raphaelite brotherhood
The Germ
Pre raphaelite magazine
Victorian period
Charles dickens
Criticism of the preraphaelite’s painting
Victorian period
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Victorian period
Aurora Leigh, 1856
«How do I love thee». Sonnet
Christina Rossetti
Preraphaelite wider circle, poet (goblin market, 1862)
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, 1847
Victorian period, novel, awareness of emancipatory movements
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Victorian Period
«The lady of Shalott», 1832
Oscar Wilde
Important victorian playwright
Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1895
The Importance of being Earnest, 1895
Famous dandy figure, victorian period
«The Picture of Dorian Grey», 1890
George Bernard Shaw
Dion Boucicauld
Important victorian playwrights
The philanderer, 1893
The Octoroon, 1859
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll’s House => victorian play
Sarah Stickney
Victorian period
Conduct book on women
Realm of a woman = her home
Coventry Patmore
«The Angel in the House»
Victorian period (mid XIXe)
The angel as opposed to the fallen woman
Amy Levy (Romance of a Shop, 1888)
Example of the new woman in the victorian period, strive towards emancipation
George Beau Brummell
Associated with the dandy style in the victorian period
Walter Pater (1839-1894)
Victorian period
Aestheticism and decadence
«The Renaissance»
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Victorian period. Theme : imperialism and colonialism
«Heart of darkness» (1899) about congo, human psyche, etc
Leopold II
King of Belgium
Owned Congo (personnally)
Brutal regime there for its people
Names of 4 british and irish modernists (20ieth century)
James Joyce
Dh Lawrence
Wh Auden
Wb Yeats
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Modernist writer
Ms Dalloway, 1925
«Kew Gardens», 1919 (illustrated by Vanessa Bell, short story)
T.S Eliot (1888-1965)
Modernist writer, nobel prize winner
«The Love song of J. Alfred Prufroch», 1915
T.E Hulme
Modernism, british critic, 1924 : predicted modernism as a period of dry, hard, classical verse as contrasted to romantic litterature
Ezra Pound
modernist writer, example of visuality of modernist poetry
«A retrospect», 1918 (imagist poetry)
«In a station of the metro», 1916
«L’art», 1916
Amy Lowell
Example of the visuality of modernist poetry
«Opal», 1919
James Joyce
«Ulysses», 1922
Example for the concept of «stream of consciousness»
William James
American psychologist who introduced the term «stream of consciousness» in 1890 (useful to modernism)
W.H. Auden
Musée des beaux-Art, poem about Bruegel the elder’s painting : landscape with the fall of Icarus
Briding period btwn modernism and post modernisn (20ieth century)
Post war drama
Angry young men (50s)
Theatre of the Absurd : 50s-early 60s
Samuel Backett (1906-1989)
Irish novelist, playwright, etc
Theatre of the absurd
«Waiting for Godot», 1952
Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
Tom Stoppard (1937-)
Theatre of the absurd ?
English poets and playwrights
- The birthday party, 1957 / the homecoming, 1964
- Travesties, 1975 / Arcadia, 1993
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
Landmarks of dystopian writing
1984, 1949
Brave New World, 1932
Sam Selvon (triniad)
VS Naipaul (triniad)
Stuart Hall (jamaica)
Authors of the windrush generation
- lonely londoners, 1956
..
Hall is a sociologist, research in cultural studies
Andrea Levy
Author, windrush gen ? Jamaican descent
«Small Island» 2004
«The Long Song» 2010
Monica Ali
Multicultural britain
Author of bangladeshi descent
«Brick Lane» 2003
Salman Rushdie
Magic realism, the twentieth century
«at the auction of the ruby slippers», 1994
British american novelist and essayist
Examples of feminist literary studies (1960s-onwards)
Elaine Showalter : A literature of their own, 1977
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar : The madwoman in the attic, 1979
Angela Carter (1940-1992)
Feminist writing + magic realism, XXc
- «The bloody chamber», 1979, retelling of european fairy tales. (Bluebeard,etc)
-«The magic toyshop», 1967
Dereck Walcott (1930-2017)
New literatures in english, XXe
From saint lucia, postcolonial literary theory :
Dream on Monkey Mountain, 1967
1964 : A far cry from Africa
1990: Omeros
J.M. Coetzee (1940-)
New literatures in english, XXe
Southafrican australian novelist
«waiting for the Barbarians», 1980
Michael Ondaatje (1943-)
Srilanka-canadian. Poet, fiction writer, etc and filmmaker
- In the skin of a lion (1987)
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018)
New literatures in english, XXe
Trinidad and tobago, british.
Fiction and non fiction in english
«The Enigma of Arrival», 1987
Kiran Desal
The inheritance of loss, 2006
Subplot, in india, us
British postmodernist authors (4)
- Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
- A. S. Byatt. Possession(1990)
- Ian McEwan. Atonement(2001)
- Salman Rushdie. Midnight’s Children (1981)
Tom Stoppard
«Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead», 1990
Example of intertextuality and intermediality
Adaptation of the classic «Hamlet», 1602
Postmodernism
Jean Rhys
Rewriting of Jane Eyre (1847) ==>
«Wide Sargasso Sea», 1966
Postmodernism
Michael Cunningham
The Hours, 1998
Spinoff, prequel or sequel example of Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Postmodernism
John Fowles
«The french lieutenant’s woman», 1969
Metafiction, postmodernism
Daphne du Maurier
«Rebecca», 1938 => novel that was adapted in various media forms during the XXe and in 2020 on netflix => the adaptations are postmodernist.
Art Spiegelman
Maus comics, 1980
Postmodernism example of the blurring of boundaries
Jean-François Lyotard
The postmodern condition, 1984
Critic of postmodernism, «all style, no substance ?»
Jean Baudrillard
Simulacre et simulation, 1981
Critique of postmodernism
«Copies of the copy only ?»
Concept of the hyperreal
Frederic Jameson
Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism, 1991
Critique of postmodernism
Discussion of pastiche vs parody, «pastiche is an emply parody»
Examples : the use of history in films
Zadie Smith (1975-)
British novelist, essayist
21st century
«White teeth», 2000
«The Lazy river», 2017-19
Bernardine Evaristo (1959-)
British Novelist, etc
21st century
Girl, woman, other (2019)
Crossing national, historical, generic boundaries
- Ali Smith (1962-)
- A.L Kennedy (1965-)
Scottish authors
- The accidental, 2005 (+ four seasons 2016-2020)
- Paradise, 2004, the little snake, 2018
Julian Barnes (1946-)
Writer and critic. Fascination with french literature and life. 21st century, also postmodernist
Flaubert’s parrot, 1984
Ian Mcewan (1948-)
Novelist and screenwriter (novels adapted to film) also postmodernist
Enduring love, 1997
Atonement, 2001
21st century
Hilary Mantel (1952-2022)
British writer, historical fiction, about england
21st century. Grotesque, madness, etc
Thomas Cromwell series (2009-2020)
Every day is Mother’s day series (1985-6)
John Lanchester
Dystopias today, 21st century
The Wall, 2019
