Semester 2 Final Flashcards
Stephen Crane:
-Literary style
- Interwove fiction with real life
- Situational irony
- Heroism
Stephen Crane:
-Bio
- War correspondent and journalist
- First American to write realistically about war
Stephen Crane:
-Major Works
- “A Mystery of Heroism”
- Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane:
Realism/Naturalism
- Explores heroism/foolishness
- Focuses on rash young man (realism)
- Local color
- Realistic depiction of war
William Faulkner:
-Bio
- Southern boy
- Joined Canadian Air Force
- Dropped out of school
- Won Nobel Prize in literature
William Faulkner:
-Writing style
- Intentive, experimental with psychological action, stream of consciousness
- Symbols, fracture time
- Short stories and novels
- Moral/economic decline of South
William Faulkner:
-Major works
- “A Rose for Emily”
- Soldier’s Pay
- “Barn Burning”
William Faulkner:
-Realism/Naturalism
- Depicts every day life in small town
- Deals with death (Emily’s life fated to be bad)
- Characters confused about values
- Characters conflict with South
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
-Bio
- Obsessed with wealth and success
- Attended Princeton
- Fell in love with debutante (Zelda) and had stormy life
- Partier, spent money fast
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
-Literary style
- Lyricism of prose
- Dramatic situations that disclose setting of the emptiness/hope in world
- Extravagant
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
-Major works
- The Great Gatsby
- “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
-Realism/naturalism
- Daisy and Gatsby fated to not be together (naturalism)
- Plot driven, centered around Daisy/Gatsby conflict
- Life mirrored fiction
- Can’t escape history/heredity
Ernest Hemingway:
-Bio
- Wounded in WWII
- Life packed with action
- “Manly man”, football/boxing star, in Europe as a war correspondent
- Part of Lost Generation
Ernest Hemingway:
-Literary style
- Records thoughts, actions, etc.
- Terse rhythms, factual
- Simple dialogue
- Iceberg theory
- Emotional detachment
- Code Hero
Ernest Hemingway:
-Major works
“Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
-“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
Ernest Hemingway:
-Realism/Naturalism
- Concerned with tangible laws
- Make most of life
- People subject to natural law
- Pessimistic views
John Steinbeck:
-Bio
- California
- Blue collar worker
- Social critic
- Great Depression
John Steinbeck:
-Literary Style
- Wrote about poor, (believed had purer morals)
- Realistic/imaginative writing
- Vivid settings
- Liked to know material at hand
John Steinbeck:
-Literary works
- Of Mice and Men
- “Pastures of Heaven–Molly Morgan”
John Steinbeck:
-Realism/Naturalism
- Social problems
- Ordinary settings of characters
- Characters slave to environment, heredity
- (Social protest literature)
J.D. Salinger:
-Major works
- The Catcher in the Rye
- (A recluse, not much is known about him)
Thornton Wilder:
-Literary style
-Breaks down confinements to convey universal meanings
Thornton Wilder:
-Major Works
-“Our Town”
Thornton Wilder:
-Realism/naturalism
- Objectivism of stage manager
- Ordinary settings and characters
Realism
- Portrays life as it is
- Plain, every day folk, local color
- Focus on individual
- Tangible world
- Problems of real people
Naturalism
- Darker side of humanity
- Humans at mercy of uncontrollable forces
- Heredity, environment, chance control destiny
- Nature=cruel
- Animalistic drives
- Objectivity
