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The Modern Period Flashcards

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What are the years of the Modern Period?

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1914- Now

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What does Churchill’s statement that “never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” refer to ?

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the RAF’s heroic defense of England

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After World War II who did Great Britain grant independence to?

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India, Burma and Pakistan

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What is Pluralism?

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an attitude which favors a multiplicity of viewpoints and assumes that no single view is universally valid

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What is an attitude which favors a multiplicity of viewpoints and assumes that no single view is universally valid?

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Pluralism

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What does the typical modern poem rely on?

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rhythm

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Who is the founder of modern psychology who helped foster the existentialist philosophy?

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Freud

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Who is Freud?

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the founder of modern psychology who helped foster the existentialist philosophy

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What maintains the strongest influence on writers of the modern period?

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Rationalism

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10
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What is Existentialism?

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the intellectual position most characteristic of the modern period

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What is the intellectual position most characteristic of the modern period?

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Existentialism

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12
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What has Rationalism done?

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maintains the strongest influence on writers of the modern period

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13
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What is the absolute denial of all meaning and values including those of the self?

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Nihilism

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What is Nihilism?

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the absolute denial of all meaning and values including those of the self

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According to modern writers, what is didacticism fatal to?

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art

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16
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How do modern writers view complexity and obscurity?

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as positive values

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17
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Where did Yeats believe you could find the answers of life?

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in art

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18
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What was Yeats influenced by?

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Nationalism, Aestheticism and occultism

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What is the theme of “Adams Curse”?

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any beautiful, fine accomplishment requires diligent work

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What is the purpose of the moon imagery in “Adams Curse”?

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foreshadowing the disillusionment at the end of the poem

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21
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What is Joyce?

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an atheist

22
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What type of life did Joyce adopt?

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a life of a rootless exile

23
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Who was one of the giants of modern literature and known as a modern language scholar?

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James Joyce

24
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In “Araby” why was the boy prevented from leaving for the bazaar?

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because his uncle was late

25
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In “Araby” what two elements were fused?

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symbolism and realism

26
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In “Ulysses” what method was used?

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method of stream of consciousness

27
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What was Lawrence as well as William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley considered?

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outstanding radicals of the romantic style

28
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What did Lawrence despise?

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the bourgeois’ love of sports

29
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What is a bourgeois?

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a middle class businessman

30
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What did Lawrence oppose?

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All artificial restraints of creativity

31
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How did Lawrence die?

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of tuberculosis at the age of 45 in southern France

32
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What did The Bloomsbury group approve of?

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refined culture

33
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What is the theme of “Three Pictures”?

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that our lives are tragically absurd and our illusions give us only false comfort

34
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What does the “road” symbolize in “Three Pictures”?

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life

35
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What did Woolf promote?

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James Joyce’s literary innovation of stream of consciousness

36
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Who is known as “the English Chekhov”?

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Kathrine Mansfield

37
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What is Kathrine Mansfield known as?

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“The English Chekhov”

38
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Why is Kathrine Mansfield known as “the English Chekhov”?

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as a tribute to another master short story writer

39
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What does atmosphere do in Mansfield’s stories?

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takes precedence over plot

40
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In “Fueille D’ Album” what does Ian do?

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purchases an egg in his effort to meet the girl

41
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Why is the boy content to stay in the studio?

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because his windows give him access to all the subject matter he needs for drawing

42
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What did Robert Graves write?

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He wrote not only poetry but also historical novels

43
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In “Coronation Address,” what does the father wish?

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that his son might serve the queen

44
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Why cant the mother comfort her husband?

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because she doesn’t take into account his feelings toward matriarchy

45
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What does Louis MacNeice believe about life?

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that it was characterized by tragic insignificance

46
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In “The Truisms” what does the “tall tree” symbolize?

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the final maturing of the son

47
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In “The Truisms” what symbolizes the final maturing of the son ?

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the “tall tree”

48
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What does MacNeice’s poetry show?

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a distrust of all firmly held beliefs

49
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Who are the 7 authors in this chapter?

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Yeats
Joyce
Lawrence 
Woolf
Mansfield 
Graves 
MacNeice
50
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How did the narrator react to the first picture?

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Satisfaction

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