Test One Flashcards
Oral Tradition
Folklore
Myth
Creation Stories
Native American Literature
before 1850, mostly oral
Religious (Puritanism)
Didactic
Historical
Largely Unimaginative (Imagination is evil!)
Colonial Literature
1607-1775
Rejection of Puritanism
Skepticism prevalent due to prominent scientific inquiry
Focuses on Liberty, Justice and Equality (Contains some glaring hypocrisies)
Independent thought
Influenced by the American Revolution
Enlightenment & Rationalism
1680-1850
Mystery Omens/Ancient Prophecy Highly emotional Supernatural Elements Women in distress sometimes threatened by a tyrannical man
American Gothic
1764-1901
Feelings and Imagination over reason
Purity in nature over the ills of society
Innocence over education
Freedom and individuality over the constraints of religion and reason
Romantic Literature
1830-1870
Rugged individualism
Nonconformity
Self reliance
Freedom
Importance of nature
Idealism in the perfectibility of human beings
Influenced libertarianism and civil disobedience
Transcendentalism
1820-1850
Normal, average, possibly even mundane
Emphasis on truth and an accurate portrayal of living
Naturalism linked to determinism (can be critical and even despairing)
Detached observation (Influenced by Darwin)
Realism and Naturalism
1870-1910
Shaped by the events of WWI and WWII Individual over society Non-linear storytelling (stream of consciousness) Absurdism Alienation Relativism Rise of Femminist voices
Modernism
1910-1945
African American movement that rejected long standing stereotypes
Harlem symbolic capital
Influence on the Civil Rights Movement and The Great Migration
Side by side development of culture
Harmony over Pluralism
Harlem Renaissance
1920-1937
Post WWII where reality based stories are prevalent Identity Racism Family Questioning of the American Dream Age of Anxiety
Contemporary
(1945-
Pushed aside convention Raucous (shock value) Profane Short for Beatification Idealistic and hypocritical
Beat Movement
1950-1966
Early tradition, folklore
Earth on the Turtles Back (more altruistic)
good will almost to the point of sacrifice
When Grizzlies Walked Upright - creation from mistake
Native American Literature
Deeply inspired by puritanical, religious, unemotional, slightly imaginative, and somewhat emotional - not everything is going to fall into box of certain movement, detachment of emotion because we looked at it as sin
Sinners in the Hand of Angry God
Huswifery
Colonial Lit
God helps those who help themselves, very American, blessing comes for hard work, not faith alone
Poor Richards Almanack
Declaration of Independence
Enlightenment and Rationalism
horror draws us into story, omens, prophecies, innocent young women escaping men, not in house of usher but is common in this period
The Fall of the House of Usher
American Gothic Period
Feelings and imagination looked at as preeminent to reason, go back and find pure relationship with nature, freedom and originality
Thanatopsis (energy will carry on even when dead bc of nature)
The Noiseless Painted Spider - we are trying to connect to other people
Song of Myself
Romantic Literature
Similar to romanticism, you could call a—– a romantic but you can’t call a romantic a —–. Focuses on rugged individualism based on self-reliance which is different from Romantic literature. Non-conformity. Focuses on one’s own development of self above all things. Freedom from society and government.
Nature
Self-Reliance
Civil Disobedience “the best government is the government that governs least”
Transcendentalism
Two movements that happen in the same period but some distinction from each other. Both care of normal average. —- is linked to determinism and a detached view. The other is linked to my bondage and my freedom. Does not have the same negative tone and is more hopeful and empathetic. A lot of this is shaped by the Civil War. Tragedy as a nation helped the detachment in an episode of war.
An Episode of War
My Bondage and My Freedom
Realism and naturalism
Affected by results of World War I and World War II, individual becomes more important than society, elements change, nonlinear storytelling, absurdism (humarius denism), tragedy we can’t avoid conform us and make us stronger, realitism - define and good and evil as individual instead of a church or family
The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock
The Turtle from the Grapes of Wrath
Modernism
Lit movement because of great migration, Harlem New York became symbolic capital for black art, claim identity for themselves, black and dark as positive attributes and white and light as destructive attributes, darkness is tender and gentle, multiple of different viewpoints a part of black experience, development of culture, side-by-side, harmony over pluralism.
Dust Track on the Road
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Dream Variations
Harlem Renaissance
Any lead after 1945, identity and understanding oneself, coming to terms with understanding oneself, maybe being detached in the understanding of yourself. Coming to terms that we isolated because trying to connect our chief meant without others, sexual orientation, questioning of American dream, doesn’t seem attainable, creates anxiety
Mint Snowball
Freeway 280
Mortgaged heart
Contemporary literature
Non-conformist, individualistic, vulgar, hypocritical, over idealistic, try to push the person reading it into some type of conflict, controversial ideas, inspiration to later hippie movement
Dog
America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity
Beat movement
An essay about the spirituality of nature. Transcendentalism. Emerson
Nature
By Emerson. About leaving society and living in solitude and being true to ones self
Self reliance
By Thoreau. Anti government the best the best government is the government that governs least.
Civil disobedience
By Steven Crane. A short story about the injury about a Lieutenant during war from the moment he was shot until he faced his family. During civil war. Shot in the arm while getting coffee during war. Realism and Naturalism
An episode of war
Autobiographical slave narrative by Fredrik Douglas. About his transition from slavery to liberty. After he was liberated he became a famous abolitionist speaker and author and he fought for women’s rights. Realism and naturalism
My bondage and my freedom
By TS Elliot. A poem. Modernism. Themes- Anxiety, inaction, desire, disappointment, and alienation.
The love song of J Alfred Prufrock
By Steinbeck. Chapter 3 of the book. Turtle symbolizes struggles that the family will make. Story about a turtle crossing the highway. Modernism.
The turtle from the Grapes of Wrath
Zora Neale hurston. Autobiography of a black American writer about her rise from childhood poverty in the rural south to being a leading artist and intellectual. Harlem Renaissance
Dust tracks on a road
Langston Hughes. Pride, heritage, and nature. Talks about the origin of the African race. River is a symbol if timelessness. Harlem Renaissance
The Negro speaks of rivers
Langston Hughes. invisons a life free of racial oppression. Harlem Renaissance.
Dream variations
Contemporary literature. Naomi Shihab Nye. About a family lost recipe. Symbolizes the author feeling lost in the world.
Mint snowball
Contemporary literature. Lorna Dee Cervantes. Autobiographical about how she goes back to visit where she grew up. The highway has replaced her community. Weeds symbolize how she still survives.
Freeway 280
Carson Mccullers. Contemporary literature. About loneliness and moral isolation.
The mortgaged heart.
Beat movement. Laurence Ferlinghetti. Perspective of a dog to speak of free will and religion.
Dog
Beat Movement. Gregory Corso. Political. Stream of consciousness.
America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity
native american lit
THE MYTH “ IS TALKING ABOUT A WOMEN WHO FELL FROM THE SKY LAND IN THE WATER . AFTER THAT, TWO BIRDS CAUGHT HER AND THE TURTLE GOT EARTH FROM UNDER THE WATER. THE EARTH KEPT GROWING AND GROWING UNTIL IT IS NOW THE WORLD.
Earth on the Turtles Back
native american lit
Alegend from the Modoc tribe retold by Richard Erdoes and Alfonzo Ortiz.
The theme of the Story: Beliefs shape Behaviors. Sky Spirit
I believe this story supports the theme by showing that the beliefs the people had shaped the way they lived. Their superstitions overrode their rationalization.
When Grizzlies Walked Upright
colonial lit
A Sermon Preached at Enfield, July 8th 1741.” … It is Edwards’ most famous written work, is a fitting representation of his preaching style, and is widely studied by Christians and historians, providing a glimpse into the theology of the First Great Awakening of c. 1730–1755.
Sinners in the hand of angry god
colonial lit
“Huswifery” is poem written around 1685 by the Puritan preacher Edward Taylor. The poem is addressed directly to God, making it at once a kind of plea and prayer. Through an extended metaphor in which God is a cloth maker and the speaker acts as God’s cloth-making tools
Huswifery
Enlightenment and Rationalism
was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, pamphlet published in the Thirteen Colonies; were very popular books in colonial America, offering a mixture of seasonal weather forecasts, practical household hints, puzzles, and other amusements.
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Enlightenment and Rationalism
is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
The Declaration of Independence
American Gothic
Poe implies incestuous relations sustained the genetic line and that Roderick and Madeline are the products of extensive intermarriage within the Usher family. In the end, both houses “die” at the same time: Madeline falls on her brother, and the mansion collapses.
The fall of the house of usher
Romantic Lit
eaning ‘a consideration of death’,
but also hope and nature
Thanatopsis
Romantic Lit
by Walt whitman
solation, struggle, and patience are the major themes of this poem. The poet contrasts the battle of his soul with a tiny spider.
A noiseless patient spider
Romantic Lit
a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has been credited as “representing the core of Whitman’s poetic vision.About praising self
Whitman expresses a desire to “live amongst the animals” and to find divinity in the insects.
song of myself
