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S4: The Victorian Age II Flashcards

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What is the „fin de siecle“? (6)

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  • „end of the century“
  • 1880-1914
  • feeling that an Epoch had ended
  • time of change = feminism, Darwinism, urbanism
  • excitement and anxiety
  • reaction against morals and beliefs of the Victorian age
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What are main features of astheticism? (4)

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  • „art for art‘s sake“ = no moral Message, no didactic aims
  • beauty is more important than morals
  • art is more important than life
  • figure of the dandy
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What is the dandy?

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Sich übertrieben modisch kleidender Mann

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What are 3 of Oscar Wilde‘s main works?

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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
  • An Ideal Husband (1898, play)
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (1898, play)
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What about Oscar Wilde and trials?

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  • relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas („Bosie“)
  • in 1895, Bosie‘s father, the Marquess of Queensberry, leaves a note addressed „Wilde, sodomite“
  • Wilde sues Queensberry for libel
  • Wilde arrested for „gross indecency“
  • sentenced to two years hard labour
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Decadence

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Verfall

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What about the theme of „decadence“?

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  • intense refinement
  • artificiality preferred to nature
  • attitude of ennui/boredom
  • interest in transgression and perversion
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Was ist das „Yellow Book“ (1894-1897)?

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  • britische Literatur und Kunstzeitschrift
  • Titel kommt von einem Yellow Book, das in „The Picture of Dorian Grey“ eine Rolle spielt
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Whats a farce?

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Kürzeres, derbkomisches Lustspiel (in Versen)

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What is the importance of being earnest?

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  • a trivial comedy for serious people
  • hugely successful but also beginning of end of Wilde‘s career
  • comedy, humour, wit
  • A farce?
  • statire of Victorian social norms and institutions, esp. marriage
  • themes: triviality of life in the upper classes, norms surrounding courtship and marriage
  • linguistic humour, play on words
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What was the Boer War?

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1899-1902
Konflikt zwischen UK und Burenrepubliken, endete mit deren Eingliederung ins UK Imperium

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Arson

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Brandstiftung

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What was characteristic about the Edwardian Period?

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  • Boer War
  • Suffragettes (vote for Women (1918), The Women‘s Social and political union, radical tactics (Hungerstrikes, arson, bombs))
  • critical of Victorian themes and attitudes
  • emancipation of women
  • subject of nostalgia
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Modernism, characteristics

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  • late 19th, early 20th century
  • appears in all art forms, international
  • self-conscious break with tradition = avant-Garde
  • representation of reality no longer important
  • stress on form and material
  • new ways on representations
  • stream of conciousness (Ulysses, Mrs Dalloway) - abstract art, twelve tone music
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What is the futurist manifesto?

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Manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published in 1909. Marinetti expresses an artistic philosophy called Futurism that was a rejection of the past and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry. It also advocated the modernisation and cultural rejuvenation of Italy.

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What are characteristics of Imagism?

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  1. Direct treatment of the „thing“, weather subjective or objective
  2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
  3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence if the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.
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What are 3 Imagist poets (+ 1 work)?

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  • Richard Aldington (war and love: poems)
  • Amy Lowell (Pictures of the Floating World)
  • Ezra Pound (Ripostes)
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What are Ezra Pound‘s main works?

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  • Ripostes (1912)
  • Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)
  • Cantos (1917-1969)
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What about Ezra Pound‘s life?

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  • born in Idaho
  • moves to Europe
  • imagism
  • support for publishing Ulysses
  • turn to fascism
  • imprisoned by Americans after war
  • time in mental institution
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What are 3 of T. S. Eliot‘s main works?

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  • Prufrock, and Other Poems (1916)
  • Waste Land (1922)
  • Four Quartetts (1943)
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What about T. S. Eliot‘s life?

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  • born in Missouri
  • moves to London
  • friendship with Ezra Pound
  • nobel prize of Literature
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What are themes/motifs of T. S. Eliot‘s „The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock“?

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  • loneliness/despair
  • sexuality
  • ageing
  • indecision/passivity
  • regret
  • references (Shakespeare, bible)
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What is „The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock“?

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  • epigraph from Dante‘s Inferno
  • Prufrock as Dante
  • dramatic monologue
24
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Decadence

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moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.

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