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Testfragen laut Tutorium Flashcards

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Early Modern Period
London Diary
What triggers the English Reformation?

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the act of supremacy in1534
- the king wanted to get divorced but the church didn’t let him, so he became the head of the church

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Early Modern Period
The Tempest
Explain the Aristotelian unities. Do they apply to the tempest?

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  • unity of time, place and action
    -> they do apply becuase it is all set in one island, one place and there’s only one plot
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Early Modern Period
The Tempest
Who are the main characters?

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Prospero, Miranda
(Ariel and Caliban)

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Early Modern Period
The Tempest
What happens in the end? Who remains on the island and what is a possible reading regarding the historial context?

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  • the naitive of the island stayed on the island
  • at the end everyone learned smth -> character development
  • Prospero gives away his magic: he thorws it into the sea
  • everyone has a happy ending (ariel is free, prospero gives away his magic, Caliban is wiser, etc.)
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Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko & Robinson Crusoe
What did the bill of rights constitute?

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  • freedom of speech
  • voting rights (every man can vote)
  • free press and no censorship (no one controls what willbe published)
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Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko
How does the text describe Oroonoko?

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  • very handsome and a good looking person for his race
  • part of the aristocracy
  • well-read man, speaks a lot of languages, gernerally a great character who became a slave by chance, treated differently than other slaves
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Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko
Why does the master change his name?

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  • name was changed to ceasar
  • by changing his name, he takes away his identitiy, power and personality
  • to make him more european
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Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko
general plot

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  • Oroonoko is the last descendant of a royal line
  • at 17 he becomes the general (military leader), he fights at war and leads his army to victory
  • an english sea captain invites Oroonoko and double crosses him and his attendants and sells them to the slave owner Trefry
  • Trefry promises to free him and reunites him (unknowingly) with his love -> she gets pregnant
  • Oroonoko (now Caesar) decides too flee (with the other slaves) but they are caught
  • …
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Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Robinson Crusoe
How does the narrative portray/convey authenticity?

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  • 1st person narrator: Cursoe is the narrator
  • the narration very detailed, which makes it very authentic
    -> it feels like we are experiencing evrything with him, like he’s writing a journal in that exact moment
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Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Robinson Crusoe
How did Crusoe take part in the Triangular Trade?

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  • he becomes part of the slave trade (with Xury)
  • he later is the owner of a plantation, hes part of the slave trade with his plantation
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Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Robinson Crusoe
Why are the texts considered part of “hypercanonicity”?

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  • because it is/both texts are still relevant today
  • canon: smth that is written down and it’s true (ex: ships in shows)
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British Romanticism
Frankenstein
When and why did Shelly write Frankenstein?

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  • Summer 1816, Lake Geneva
  • Vulcano errupted and the sky turned dark
  • they competed in telling ghost stories during the summer and it inspired her
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British Romanticism
Frankenstein
What is the general plot?

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  • ??
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British Modernism
The Wasteland
What is Eliot’s goal in writing this poem?

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  • “try to interpret it, you can’t”
  • his goal was to confuse ppl
  • if you have trouble understanding, that’s exactly what he intended
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Postcolonial Period
Background
Explain the difference between imperialism and colonialism

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Imperialism: the attitude
Colonialism: putting the ideas into practice

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Postcolonial Period
Lawley Road
What happens to the statue in the end?

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  • Statue of Frederick Lawley - no one knows who he is, they only know that it exists
  • turns out its a statue of a freedom fighter
  • the narrator (I-narration) puts it in his house and claims that it is his
  • he makes the government pay for it, it stays in his house but they make it a park everyone can go to
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Postcolonial Period
Girls at War
The two main characters meet several times. What changes between the meetings?

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    1. Time: nothing happens, beginning of the new nation
    1. Time: check point, his car his searched by the girl, the girl is a soldier
    1. Time: the girl stopped being the soldier, it gets bad; the guy gives her a lift
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Postpostmodernism
Citizen
Rankine’s work is structured around racism. How does it touch upon these topics? How does it relate to “I feel most colored when I am thrown against sharp white bachground?”

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  • Shows microagressions (everyday)
    -> E.g. you smell like a white person, implies that black people smell bad
    -> she also shows it in school, Tv, University, etc.
  • but also deadly aggression, death of people just because they are black
  • her own experience, but also experiences of friends and which she
  • you feel more different (black), when you are compared to white (normal) people;
    it shows how common it can be in everyday life when she is around white people,
    e.g. at work when people only see her as black and not a person
  • she is living in a mainly white culture, the culture is westernized; when she is compared to white people, she feels most colored because she is looked at with a wester/white lense (being the odd one out)
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Postpostmodernism
Citizen
Which different styles and genres can be found in the poems?

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  • Pictures, prose, poems, essays
  • Contemporary life writing
  • a lot of styles are combined, personal experiences, those of friends and family, as well as those of public figures (athletes, etc.)
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Puritansims to American Romanticism
Huswifey
– conceit??

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  • works with a conceit
  • (fanciful poetic image/elaborate or exaggertaed comparison)
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The Middle Ages
Beowulf
There’s a king, what does he do, what is his name?

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  • King Hrothgar of Denmark, he enjoys a proserous and successful reign
  • he build the mead hall
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Dark Romanticism
The Fall of the House of Usher
What is the poem? What does it mean?

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  • ??
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British Romanticism
Mary, A Fiction
There are two women, how are they different?

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  • Eliza is the mother, Mary the daughter
  • Eliza doesn’t care about Mary and neglects her
  • Mary gathers her own wisdom and experiences by going out
    -> learns how to be content with her own emotions
    -> no traditional upbringing
  • Eliza was a slave to stereotypes of society, she stopped educating herself after the kids were born

Survey of American & English Literature (14 decks)

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