Salstentamen Flashcards
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The Tempest
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The Tempest - William Shakespeare - Play, book - Renaissance - 1623 - Power struggles - Tension between realism and romance, reason and passion – revenge - Multiple plots and many characters - Didactic overtones – moral teachings - Coming of age novels - Takes place on an uninhabited island - Social realism, economic struggle - Romanticism - Gothicism - Tension between realism and romance, reason and passion - Multiple plots and many characters - Didactic overtones – moral teachings - Coming of age novels - - Prospero – ‘duke’ of Milan Miranda – Prospero’s daughter Prospero’s brother – uprising duke of Milan Caliaban – the savage Ariel – the spirit King of Napel, his brother and his son An honest old counselor Two lords A jester A drunk butler
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Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre
- Charlotte Brontë
- Novel
- Victorian era
- 1847
- Social realism, economic struggle
- Romanticism
- Gothicism
- Tension between realism and romance, reason and passion
- Multiple plots and many characters
- Didactic overtones – moral teachings
- Coming of age novels
- Jane Eyre
- Mr. Rochester
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The importance of being earnest
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The importance of being earnest
- Oscar Wilde
- Victorian drama, play
- 1895
- Individualism, decadence
- Humor, calm portrayal of social marriage – satire
- The family circle
- Domesticity
- The angel in the house
- The British empire
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The open boat
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The open boat
- Stephen Crane
- American realism and naturalism
- 1897
- Fate to die, suffering, perseverance, connections made in the face of terror
- The captain, the cook, the oiler and the correspondent
- Literary text as a representation of life
- A darker and more pessimistic strand of realism
- More scientific – tried to depict characters and environment and exact ways
- Preferred writing about the lower middle classes and the working class
- Urban or poor agricultural settings, or the wilderness / indifferent nature
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The story of an hour
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The story of an hour
- Kate Chopin
- American realism and naturalism
- 1894
- Louise Mallard, her sister Josephine, husband Brently Mallard
- Freed from mostly loveless marriage through husband’s death
- Living for herself, wanting now to live a long life
- Dies at the sight of husband again joy
- Literary text as a representation of life
- A darker and more pessimistic strand of realism
- More scientific – tried to depict characters and environment and exact ways
- Preferred writing about the lower middle classes and the working class
- Urban or poor agricultural settings, or the wilderness / indifferent nature
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To build a fire
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To build a fire
- Jack London
- American realism and naturalism
- 1902
- Man and dog
- Different frame of references
- Fear, dependency, priority, ignorance
- Literary text as a representation of life
- A darker and more pessimistic strand of realism
- More scientific – tried to depict characters and environment and exact ways
- Preferred writing about the lower middle classes and the working class
- Urban or poor agricultural settings, or the wilderness / indifferent nature
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The singing lesson
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The singing lesson
- Katherine Mansfield
- Modernist prose
- 1920
- Longer text
- Easy to translate into a play
- Homosexuality “disgust” “love any woman” “mad”
- Feelings affecting body language and tone of voice
- Miss Meadows, Basil, colleagues and students
- Complications of love, telegram
- Fear of suicide, love for interior decorating
- Literature content – Representation of the mind, psychology, elitism, modern characters/relationships/societies
- Literature form – Inner monologues, fragmentization, first person narrators (or limited focalization, zero focalization)
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The Haunted house
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The Haunted house
- Virginia Woolf
- Modernist prose
- 1921
- Longer text
- A ghost couple, and their search for their love of their house
- Inner thoughts of narrator’s mind, psychology
- Woman, her husband who left for war and two ghosts quietly searching for something
- Literature content – Representation of the mind, psychology, elitism, modern characters/relationships/societies
- Literature form – Inner monologues, fragmentization, first person narrators (or limited focalization, zero focalization)
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How it feels to be colored me
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How it feels to be colored me
- Z. N. Hurston
- Modernist prose
- Longer text
- 1928
- Zora
- Feels the difference in color when put in a non-multicultural environment
- Differences become apparent when she changes schools
- Color comes and goes
- She believes herself to not belong to race nor time
- Deny themselves her company?
- Fragment of a greater being
- Literature content – Representation of the mind, psychology, elitism, modern characters/relationships/societies
- Literature form – Inner monologues, fragmentization, first person narrators (or limited focalization, zero focalization)
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Hills like white elephants
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Hills like white elephants
- Ernest Hemingway
- Modernist prose
- Longer text
- Couple talking about an abortion
- The American and Jig
- 1927
- Only dialog, no inner thoughts
- Literature content – Representation of the mind, psychology, elitism, modern characters/relationships/societies
- Literature form – Inner monologues, fragmentization, first person narrators (or limited focalization, zero focalization)
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The lake isle of Innisfree
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The lake isle of Innisfree
- W. B. Yeats
- Modernist poetry
- 1890
- Short length poem
- Imaginary journey of “I”
- The poem describes the isle as a much longed-for place of peace and natural beauty, a quiet place where the speaker feels most grounded
- The poet is tired of city life and wants to spend the rest of his life with nature
- Clarity of language
- Effective images, imagism, metaphors
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Sailing to Byzantium
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Sailing to Byzantium
- W. B. Yeats
- Modernist poetry
- 1927
- Medium length poem
- An imaginary journey, contrast between then and there vs. here and now
- A poet’s immortality even in death through their craft?
- Clarity of language
- Effective images, imagism, metaphors
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The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- T. S. Elliot
- Modernist poetry
- Long length poem
- 1915
- Man, talking about women
- Insecurity, shyness, sex, indecision, anxiety, standards of beauty and behavior, late debut, possible virgin
- Clarity of language
- Effective images, imagism, metaphors
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Design
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Design
- Robert Frost
- Modernist poetry
- Medium length poem, sonnet
- 1912
- Spider and flower, both unusually colored and create something beautiful in death
- Appalling darkness in something beautiful?
- Clarity of language
- Effective images, imagism, metaphors
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Musee des beaux arts
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Musee des beaux arts
- W. H. Auden
- Modernist poetry
- Medium length poem
- 1939
- Icarus, showing the continuation of life even in the face of horror
- Life goes on
- Clarity of language
- Effective images, imagism, metaphors
