English Final Exam Flashcards
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WW What is valid according to the narrator?
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Sense/Emotion just as necessary as analytics
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WW What is the movement that Whitman does
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Passive – > active and wandering allows for experience
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WW He acknowledges that the astronomer is smart, but
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Learning comes from within
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WW How does this relate to Huck Finn
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The other is just as valid
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Why does Whitman use free verse
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Goes back to the idea of freedom
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In the frontier , Whitman is
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Better understood
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WW complete knowledge of self comes
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From experience, not using other signifiers
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How are we repeating Emerson’s ideals?
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The idea we are different and superior to Europe
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What defined Emerson’s philosophy?
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NATURE
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What was Emerson’s work used for?
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Cultural independence from Europe
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Why Emerson matters
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Capitalizes Murican ideology during 19th century, dominant, unique, individualism
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What does transcendentalism establish?
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Study of the sublime, find it in nature/experience, individual basis
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What themes does transcendentalism establish?
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The whole, democratic essence- anybody can do it, just because you can’t see it does not mean it’s true, power of individual, being awe struck
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Emerson self reliance
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What does in the woods is perpetual youth mean?
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Nature allows one to feel a certain appreciation that we can never get tired of. Never age when close to nature
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What does I am a transparent eyeball, I am nothing, I see everything
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Goes with transcendentalist idea that he has found the whole truth by nature, I am a part of God, find something more dear in nature than in society
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What is the reasoning in I am a part of God
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I am a natural being, nature is divine, therefore I’m divine
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Where can we only perceive
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From oneself man > men
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To be your man, think
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And act for yourself is genius. Everyone can be a genius
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What are the flaws in transcendentalism?
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Cannot reject exterior influences b/c it presupposes/acknowledges influence, CHAOS
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Why are infants genius according to Emerson
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They conform to nobody, only self reliance, do not rely on others for their thinking, makes other conform to him, infant is heard, no care for material (appearance)
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Validity of arguments?
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Not Really, infants will eventually not be infants, dependent on everything else rather than thought, have to be regulated to be a proper member of society
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Why are virtues dismissed by Emerson?
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Virtues are restricting, prohibit individual action
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Validity of the virtues?m
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Why can’t I be virtuous and self reliant? Virtues can help with self improvement
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Why are institutions dead?
Shape the individual, recognition of the past, not always in the future
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So even with flaws why is Self Reliance powerful?
Confronts those who may have been ostracized, different is good, also advocates POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE
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Why is the importance of the wave metaphor?
Let the wave pass over you, only make minor adjustments
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What does the plantations of God signify?
PROGRESS in nature
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All of our masters, slaves, brothers, strangers are
A distraction
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Labels are only
Superficial
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What is the main difference between self centered vs self reliant
One Emerson is referring to self reliance as adjusting to a different environment. Just because being different does not mean Im selfsih
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Thoreau mainly advocated how
Transcendentalism can be applied to the real world
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What is experience according to Thoreau?
True education, not real world. Rejection of material for what is significant, most basic needs
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What did Thoreau live for?
Escaping fraud and distractions and to understand self, work is a distraction, to understand the divinity of God, wants fullness/truth
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Upon leaving, Thoreau admits his ignorance. What is it about?
Wants fullness. Truth -- > no doubts, no regrets YOLO, do something new. If it mean, let's understand the meanness. If it be sublime, (topic too profound for words), know by experience
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What does it mean to suck out the marrow of life?
Find the quintessence of life, effort will yield something more
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What is Razor's edge?
The most advanced state
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What is the ideal of Resistance of Civil Government?
No government is ideal government, if/ when society is ready for gov (not yet)
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What is the problem with governemnt?
Potential to always be corruptible because only a certain number of people have power. No government to represent the entire citizenry. It's incomplete, therefore, corruptible
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RTCG celebrates
Persons, individuals, focus on the parts, not the whole. Everybody equally essential.
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Does RTCG call for anarchy?
Not really, but definitely calls for a restructure
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The power of representation goes to the ones who are
Willing to pay for it. More power to others.
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According to Thoreau, government and individual have
Mutual relationship
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What are the 13-15 amendments
Abolition of slavery, guarantees citizenship and equal rights for all persons due process of the law , and voting rights.
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What was the Jim Crow Era?
Do things ghat try to strip away a black person's rights (sharecropping, voting rights (identification and literary tests), blacks traditionally has jobs that imitated slavery
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What are problems with sharecropping?
Enforces economic dependence on whites, no real economic dependence, often put farmers into debt
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Why do this after slavery?m
Fixed to benefit owner, control, power, circumvents 13th and 14th amendment
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Plessy v Ferguson?
Separate but equal is in accordance with 14th amendment
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As a result of Jim Crow, what questions arose?
What do we do with them? Who are they? African or American (either viewed as a Moses or Uncle Tom)
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What did BTW say to try to solve this problem?
Economic prosperity will lead to social equality, servers to social elite, wanted them to pursue more traditional occupations
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What was BTW's goal?
Co operation between blacks and whites, mutual existence,
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Why does BTW use passive voice to appeal to the white audience?
Less assertive, less affective, cause less emotion among whites
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What does the metaphor fingers on the hand mean?
All different, but connected at the root, hand doesn't fully function without fingers, social/political separation is fine
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What does Du Bois essentially say?
You can't be separate but equal
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Valid/worthy in BTW's plan?
Blacks are capable, serve economy as a whole, insists on striving to improve situation, in striving comes self-worth
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Why does the black boy studying French go against BTW's arguemnt?
Why create limitations on education, Autonomy
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What does Du Bois say in his conclusion?
BTW is not a bas leader, parts of him are wrong
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What is We Wear the Mask trying to say?
Wear the mask to please white crowd, must wait for things to change for the better, no choice, NO AUTONOMY, everything on terms of something else, mask imposed on themselves
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What is beneath the surface?
Feelings/truth
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Why is the mask protection?
Helpless in any other situation, key part of self identity?
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Why is the mask cause a crisis of identity?
Feels out of sync with the environment
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What is performativity?
Performance shaped by cultural views and expectations
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Example of performativity?
Men v women. Men supposed to be strong, against others in physical activity. DONT WANT TO BE PERCEIVED DIFFERENTLY
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What does performativity lead to?
Fragmentation, crisis of identity
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Why are the limitations of the bird emphasized in Sympathy?
Made worse by prosperity and beauty of outside environment. Negroes are caged by pet birds
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Why does the bird sing?
As a cry but is not heard, he is not accepting his inferiority, but needs to accept it unless someone open the door (whites helping blacks)
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What is the subaltern?
Any group that is socially politically or economically outside of the mainstream culture or power structure (other relation to culture, subaltern related to power structure)limited access to culture
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What is the hegemony?
Opposite to subaltern. Access to power and cultural acknowledgement
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What is the importance of the dog and Miller encounter?
Miller recognizes the similarities between him and the dog, neither allowed in white car, similar to a dog, affects his emotions when dog left (at least I'm not that) dog is obedient, so is Miller to whites becauee thats all he can do
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Why is Miller accepted in the North?
Novelty, outsider
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The North knows what is right, but does
Not do what is right
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Race as we know it is a
Social construct
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Why does Miller passively resist, and just accepts?
What Else can he do? Will be futile (Plessy v Ferguson) will be kicked out at next stop, protect Dr. Burns
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Why bit just accept as Burns's servant?
Retain our own dignity and humanity, retain autonomy, not to wholly accept one, robs Miller of choice,
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The Harlem Renaissance was post
DuBois and Washington. Washington won, largely because of the appeal to white hegemony (occurred during rise of Jim Crow and segregation)
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What were defining features of Roaring Twenties?
Jim Crow/segregation, legal system, economic system
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Education for AAs dramatically improved in urban areas because
Areas promotes more liberal arts/traditional forms of education
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In 1910-1930 DuBois ideas
Sprang up, and BTW went down
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The music during HM
Not going to recognize it came from a black man. African American culture became mainstream
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With more African American culture being popular,
Creativity and expression flourished, blacks are no longer expectations or novelties
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Harlem Reinnasance part of
MODERNISM, all literary work needs and sudience
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What was the old Negro?
Subject of debate with whites, a question, white people imposing on blacks (hegemony --> subaltern)
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Why is Burns a racist?
Wants to control Miller, failure to allow Miller self determination
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The old Negro was a
Topic, not a man. Reinforces white heegmony
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What is the New Negro?
Self determined, self expressive, autonomy, on his terms!
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Why Harlem Reinessance?
Offers creative artists expressive opportunities, more consuming than any other US area, (NYC) white northern audience, growth and progress
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What is the rise of the racial mountains.
Rise of black middle class, the racial mountain is the unconscious whiteness American culture rather than AA culture, the impulse to live the standard of white hegemonic culture
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What do blacks in this period try to overcome
Performativity
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Problem with HR?
What if Negro wants to be a part of white culture, why somewhat Negro
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Theme of English B is an example of
Fragmentation
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Differences between professor and student
White, old, educated, special knowledge, hegemony v young black subaltern
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Question raised?
What is truer
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What is the main conflict?
Personal Identity v Social Identity
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Main message of story
Stay away from social idenity
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Identity is the
Spirit of the HRA
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What is the main message of Smoldered fires?
Performance causing fragmentation, self destruction, has control but chooses death, expected to,
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In their eyes were watching God what does the washing of feet mean
New start, feet are beaten up
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What does the dancer represent?
The American land, and blacks can not be apart of it, men's sexual interests, being taken advantage of
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Why do the blacks feel ashamed?
Psychological damage because of subaltern society, ok for whites shameful for whites, same biology
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BR What was the speech a joke?m
Confirms white superiority, makes black think they are making progrese
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Why Do they try to get the topic out of the way?
Recognize what is wrong
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What does Keep This Nigger Boy Running Mean
Expression is shut up, not on own path
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The American economy is meticulously set up for
Torture
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What is Old Money
Established over generations, tends to be inherited
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What is capital?
anything that is given value because of its cultural connotation, culture assigns value by ability to be exchanged
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Financial Capital
monetary wealth (money and assets), allows possessors to "buy" influence
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Cultural capital
more abstract aspects of wealth (reputation, elite education, refinement, etc.), allows possessors to have access and influence
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Trademarks of old capital
Advanced, liberal arts education (typically at Ivy League schools); sense of refinement and manners; will inhabit more "European" sensibilities and interests; more traditional; wealth will come from less earned/direct sources like inheritance or investments; cultural capital may exceed actual financial capital
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New Money
people who have recently come into money, most likely by earning it in the booming businesses of the 20th century's Industrial Age, will have Financial Capital but likely not Cultural Capital
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New Money Trademarks
more industrial-focused; will have earned capital more directly through own efforts; will likely come from more "humble"--middle or lower class--origins before acquiring wealth; will have lived at least part of their life in a different class; financial capital likely exceeds cultural capital
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What were FSF's parents like?
Father old money
| Mother new money
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FSF often felt like
That he did not have that much capital as his peers
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What is modernity?
Closing of the frontier; settling of the nation; solidifying global identity; mechanical production; a newer sleeker, more advanced era
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Zeitgeist of the 1920s
Post World War I: loss, confusion, hopelessness, escapism
Proliferation of Wealth and the Nouveau Riche
Prohibition and the Jazz Age
Technological Advancement: cars, radio, telegraph/phones, phonographs The United States as a global economic power
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What was modernism?
The artistic expression of the new, modern era at the start of the twentieth century Embracing the new cultural modes while simultaneously expressing lingering ambivalence
Marked by: new narrative styles/forms of expression; themes of searching, alienation, and detachment
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Origins of Modernism?
WW 1, mechanical production, massive violence, disease, alienation (lost generation)
Modernity =\ progress
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Style and Form
Radical experiments in storytelling and presentation Stream of Consciousness
Unreliable Narrator
Subjectivity
Move away from polemics and ethical truths
Move toward ambiguity and vagueness
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Modernist Trope of the Unreliable Narrator
Subjectivity: What is true? What is Nick's opinion, and what is more objectively true?
Shifting Character Focus: Who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist? Are these roles even applicable in the novel?
Shifting Setting: Dislocation of Time and Place: When do events take place?
Flashbacks are weaved within the present day, time is unclear, but place meticulously charted (though constantly shifting)
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Who is Nick?
Very biased, sells bonds, attended Yale, already wealthy from family, (Middle West) wrote for school paper, chose to live in poorer west egg
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What is the main focus of the Astronomer poem?
Astronomer is loved and appreciated but it does not help the narrator. Perfection with nature. We lose full view of ourselves if we view people as capital (material), narrator is an individual
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Why is Tom's racism dumb?
Rise of Colored Empire (fear of colored empire because we are superior) scientific? Why would this be a problem if you are superior? What does he contribute to "colored empire" if he can't understand basic terms
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Why is Tom such a complex character?
He takes offense to some of his most prevalent features.
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Why emphasize Tom as a stupid character?
Steer reader to root for Gatsby
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Daisy is
NOT DUMB- recognizes that she is a little fool
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Myrtle wants more money because she lives in a valley of
Ashes
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Why is Myrtle such a complex charcater?
Blames husband because he focuses too much on money? Teorge works hard to please Myrtle
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What does Myrtle represent?
Although being a part of the middle class she believes material > man/people. She deserves a broken relationship
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Is Nick the most honest person he knows?
For: passive, not actively critical of others. Everyone else is deceptive, manipulative, has sense of self, does not have any major secrets
Against: withheld his opinion/ truth, protect Tom's lies, hides Gatsby's true identity
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What does Daisy being rich say about herl
She already lives the desired lifestyle
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What is the point of Daisy's incident?
Material is permanent (tangible) / intangible easy to be discarded
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Serf v peasant
Low social class, in care for another person, security, food on the table v screw up and you're done, illusion of American dream
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Why is the idea a peasant not really valid?
Self made man, equal opportunity, class status.
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What is the purpose of the serf v peasant?
We are Old World rather than new world
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Why use Nick instead of Jordan to get to Daisy?
Only Nick will respect him b/c Nick understands him as a person, not by money
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Why Does Gatsby want everything to look perfect?
Believes the myth that Daisy only cares about wealth. Shows that Gatsby's need for Daisy's approval overshadows his true personality
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When Daisy is around, Gatsby only cares about appearances
Implies that Nick is not good enough
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Gatsby loves the ideal
Of Daisy
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What is Tom putting his hand over Daisy indicate?
A gesture of dominance
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Why rich get richer and poor get children not really true?
Gatsby gets rich but heartbroken, Daisy has the children by being a little fool
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Never confuse a single defeat for a final defeat? Better or worse for Gatsby?m
Worse, leads him to trauma. Money not what it seems
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Why is Tom interested in Myrtle?
He can control her
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What is the significance of you always look so cool?
Always- admires Gatsby love, affection, look- appearance, surface, is it real? True beneath the surface? Gatsby still a mystery
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Why Myrtle get run over by the car? Narratively ? Thematically?
To punish Tom, give him no choice, t- middle class- self made man destroyed by wealth
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What is the significance of Gatsby talking the truth?
To recognize his final defeat
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The Vigil,
Daisy never responded
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Why does Nick specifically lie about Gatsby in chapter 6?
To make us root for Gatsby, tragic for Gatsby, not deserved b/c of Nick's perspective
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Why say Gatsby is the son of God?
Fit him into the protagonist role
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Why call him the Great Gatsby?
To not hide his ambition
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Gatsby loves Daisy because she is nice.
Nice = $ (American dream
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What else shows that Gatsby does not love Daisy?
Loves the house and not her
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Dan Cody is the symbol of
American frontier, manifest destiny, self made man
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Gatsby is mislead by Cody's example?
Going backwards (Daisy)
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Why is mouth torn open?
Lost a voice
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They're a rotten crowd. Worth more than all put together
Story/ narrative in favor of Gatsby
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Tom honestly believes that
Gatsby deserves his fate
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Tom always justifies his own behavior, he only tells
The truth that won't undermine his position
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Nick portrays Tom as a
Fool, victim of own stupidity
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Daisy and Tom still have their
Stuff
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What was Postmodernism?
Artistic response to Modernity, advancements, cars, unreliable first person, unreliable labor. See mother night slides
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What is the significance of being a Nazi bey reputation?
Social identity defines a person
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What is one message of Mother Nigt
No one is fully great or equal
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What does Mother Night question
What is real?
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What is the American ideology expect?
For you to do the right thing
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Who is Tighlath-Pleisser 3
Assyrian invader who conquered Hazar, new part of Isreal
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What is the significance of him being the most remarkable man theAssyrians have ever produced?
Conquest, destruction is noteworthy, genocide is celebrated, (Hitler most remarkable man Germany has ever produced) What is progress? Has humanity progressed?
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Who is Goebeils?
The head of propaganda for Nazi Germany, Campbell's direct boss
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Who is Eichmann?
Commander of Auchwitz, military supervisor of " Final S genocide
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Why is the Gettysburg Address ironic?
Union fought to end oppression of an "inferior" race, about unity and peace (Germans did not want that) mourns the enemy as well
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What is the significance of this?
What is real? Is your country right?
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Dr. Epstein only wants to
Forget about the war
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HWC's name important to remember as a
Mass population/ cultural effect
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What are Campbell's plays
Romantic, hopeful, emotional, not evil heroes, apolitical, despite being involved in political propaganda, playwright throughout Nazi period, yet not mentioned him
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What does Campbell being a ham mean?
Loves to play an audience, have emotions, despite in an emotionless period
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What is significance of Helga being a Nazi,
Although a Nazi. HWC is in love with her (his salvation, eternally hopeful, unconditional love) What is real? Do labels really matter
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What does We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about who we pretend to be?
Social identity is defined by others, based on exterior's actions, gestures. Performing we risk alienation , to play an audience, only individual knows true self social > personal. Ww are expected to be someone else
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Make love, it's good for you
Engage with others, love brings out the best in an individual creates beauty Sharing one self with another, what creates good resukts in beauty
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When you're dead you're dead significance
Life is life, have limited time when you're dead you longer control your social identity, lose autonomy Examples Lincoln- people hated him yet society perceives him as a great figure
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Who is Bernard B O'Hare?
Captures Campbell, pictures, he,ps in rescuing from Nazi death camp Ohrdruf, fun of hatred,
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Is American ideology better than Nazi ideology?
Yes, democracy (choice, will of public) equality- anyone can succeed, achieve power, freedom- individual autonomy
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Then why is BOH no better than a Nazi?
Attacks viciously violently at another group. He blindly does his actions, love America without knowing why. Americans assume superiority
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Who is August Krapptauer
About to die of heart failure, even though he is a bodyguard. Very absurd- laughable. Arranged meeting in 1944 v/w G A Burd and KKK. Sets up White Sons of the American Constitution,
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What does Krapptauer represent
How quickly things change W // N 20 years biggest threat becomes biggest joke
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Who was Father Keeley?
Catholic priest who was kicked out of Catholic Church leader of the supporting Nazi organization Detroit Gun Club, helped Jones wrote articles like Christ was not a Jew. Cruel threat now silly
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Why did Campbell erect the three symbols of Usa, Nazi, and SU ?
To demonstrate in what patriotism was, same in function, although different in details
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What does each symbol represent?
Swatiska demonstrates the idea of a superior race, sickle and hammer demonstrate superiority in labor , equality in working class. Stars and stripes democracy unity
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The slave woman are described as
Sexless ragbags, passive resistance to slave labor
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What the significance of the Playboy women!
Manipulation of truth/celebration of violence
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Why the changing of Armistice Day to Veterans Day bother HWC?
Now changes from the living are honored, not the dead
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War must be sexy to Americans significance
Necessary act of justice/ethos, it is an event, celebrates the idea that we promote violence
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Who is Resi?
Sister of Helga, in live w HWC, unaccounted for during the war, opportunistic, morbid, aspiring
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HWC accepts her fully significance
Power of willingness to believe Fantasy
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Who is Lazlo Szombathy?
Vet, Hungarian Freedom Fighter, killed his own brother for the cause (how quickly things change)
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Why Did he commit suicide?
Has American ideology, gonna make it big with his cure for cancer Myth > reality land of oppurtunity
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What is the difference between Eichmann?
HWC is different because HWC knows morality/ethnics
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What is the significance of Fr. Kelley's hand?
Lost even though he has ideal hand. Holds his cards, yet he does not play them, Protection > risk, prohibits own success, can't win a child's game
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Why can HWC trust Jones?
He does. Ot they were going to Moscow, sincere characte r
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What is the importance of the slaughterhouse pig
Utility, Politics > Beauty
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Who is Heinz Schnidnecht?
Jewish spy against the Nazis but now works as a groundskeeper for former wealthy, Nazi in Ireland- just following orders
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HWC avoids using the excuse of having of following orders because of
Conscience
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What does Epstein's mother dat
Following directions that creating own purpose "corpse carriers to guard here"
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What does Resi's death represent?
How following orders does not lead to the greater good. What is real?
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What is the Goblit's message?
Love conquers all
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Why is BOH stupid?
His purpose is to conquer evil, believes himself to be perfectly good. Will be accepted by God for his actions, by killing
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What is HWC's point with BOH
No one is completely good or evil, people are too complex to be labeled,
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What is the significance of having crimes against himself?
We never why, a human's opinion of oneself is the only thing that really matters
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What is the point of the light bulbs?
Want to follow orders, want to be contributors even as trivial as light bulns
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For HWC is reality worth chasing? +'s
Resi does love him, she is an actual person, not image idea, a broken incomplete relationship is better than no relationship
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Reality worth chasing? -'s
How profound was the love for Helga, Resi only acts on order
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What is the purpose of saying Auf wiederstein
Truth marches on, we will see. Another HWC in the future
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What does Creative Playthings show
The dangers and humor of not being an individual
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Cultural context to relaism
Response to romanticism
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Definition of realism
Aims to present accurate imitation of life as it is experienced by the common reader: real, not ideal,common everyday experiences, events, weak plot
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Focus of realism
On the individuals rather than plot or circumstances, typically common/working class situations and settings,
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Style of realism
Objective, clean, straightforward, common accessible language, intended to give the illusion that the fiction is plausible and reflects actual experience
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Who is Austin M Nelson
President of the A M Nelson company, if black he would have been lynched, in a fancy suit
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Why is there an emphasis on setting?
AWN does not belong there, emphasis on detail
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What is the point of He Got a Ride
This is injustice, objective and upfront
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What is the point of Chicago
We are who we are, deal with it. Emphasis on American culture
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Cultural context of Naturalism
Darwin and Rise of Scientific Study
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What did Naturalism reflect
The principles of Darwinism and the scientific method, human beings are merely higher order animal.
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Focus of naturalism
Nature as an organizing principle. Human behavior is the result of two natural factors: heredity and environments. Simple plot and characters
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Main themes of naturaliam
Survival, determination, man v man v Nature, nature is INDIFFERENT, absence of superior forces, response to Transcendentalism, frank and factual
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What is Epistemology?
What we know and how we know it
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What does the dog know?
Too cold to be traveling, warm fire, self defense, knows when the man turns, acts on own survival instinct, knows when to follow commands
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How does he come to know this?
Instinct> experience
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What do we know about the man?
Lacks imagination- only sees details/facts/not significance, knows temp but does not act on it, tobacco will freeze, uses it anyway, wants to be masculine, fear of embarrassment, leaves camp,,despite having advice
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Purpose of To Build a Fire?
Men ignores logic, experience, instinct
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Why to build a fire?
It is a simple task and man needs it. Why ignore it
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What is the tone of design
No emotion, this is what haloens
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Mood of design
Is there design- thought provoking
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Why is the setting a flower?
Color, beauty. Its not beauty, t's part of nature
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Cuktural context of modernism
Massive increase in tech, industry, and urbanization, confusion, loss, alienation as a result of WW1
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Definition of modernism
Artistic movement that emphasized radical newness, deliberately anti Romanticism and anti Transcendentalism
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Content of modernism
Alienation and detachment as key themes, subjective and objective truth, ambiguity stream of consciousness- the attempt to make a narrative unfold or look like a person's internal thought process, unreliable narrator,
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What is the plot of Barn Burning
Trial in General Store, Abner accused of burning down Harris's farm. Snopes family forced to leave town to go to Major de Spain's plantation. Abner gets horse dung on his shoes and drags it into Major de Spain's house, forced to clean it but destroys it further, forced to pay, gets discount but tries to burn down farm
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Who is Sarty
Named after a Confederate general. Family v Justice (truth --> ethical dilemma loyalty
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Why does Abner burn the barn of Harris
Abner's pigs get out forced to make a fence, even provided the materials, but wants AUTONOMY/INDEPENDENCE
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Abner objects to the estate because it was built by
Black sweat issue- he is one the same level as blacks, he is white yet not privileged
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What is the importance of the black sweat
We still reflect Old World Ideals
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Abner represents the Old World mentally because
He benefits the rich
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Why does Sarty represent the new South?
Evolution of conscience, New Hope
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What is the cultural context of Post Modernism
The Global superpower
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What is Postmodernism?
Modernity extended, myth builders of America, response to efforts of clarity and concision,
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Content of Postmodernism
Destruction and Anti-Structuralism- breaking down established, assumed conceptions, Alienation intensified. What is real? What is necessary? Subjectivity intensified- structurally unsound and not well scaffolded, but not disorganized, 2nd person narrator, complex, nuanced issues
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What is tabula rasa
All knowledge comes from experience or perceptiom
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Im too lazy so
Look at the last page of the notes
