English tres Flashcards

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The belief in predestination greatly influenced worldview and writing

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Puritan

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EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE OS AT THE CENTER

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Enlightenment

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Writing is characterized by experimentation, defiance of tradition, and fragmentation

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Modernism/ Harlem Renaissance

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In large part is a result of the civil war

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Realist

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Emphasis on commonplace/ ordinary

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Realist

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No real “literature”; writing was consisted recording history and sermons (nonfiction)

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Puritan

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BIBLE BASED RELIGION IS AT THE CENTER

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Puritan

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Four I’s (individual, intuition, imagination, and idealism)

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Romantic

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Reaction to/against industrial revolution

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Romantic

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Humanity is progressing towards a more mature state

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Enlightenment

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Lack of upward mobility and religious freedom in Europe led many to the new world

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Puritan

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Harlem Renaissance is surge in black art, culture, social, and political activity in ny during 1920’s-30’s

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Modernism

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Romantic

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14
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Writing is fiction and nonfiction

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Realist

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15
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John smith

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Puritan

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16
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Rise of science, advent of industrial revolution

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Enlightenment

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17
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Benjamin Franklin

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Enlightenment

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18
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Shifts towards an emphasis on feelings and emotions over reason

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Romantic

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Naturalism is a for of realism that views humans as simply another species ruled by outside forces

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Realist

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Robert frost

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Renewed appreciation for and attempt to connect with nature

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William Bradford

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Writing is practical, philosophical (nonfiction)

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Enlightenment

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John Winthrop

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Much of literature is a response to significant cultural forces, esp. WWI and advent of mass culture
Modernism
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Jack London
Realist
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For both practical and religious reasons, community good was emphasized over individual freedoms
Puritan
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T.S Eliot
Modernism
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Mark twain
Realist
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Writing often served as a platform for social criticism
Reslist
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Thomas Paine
Enlightenment
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Writing is philosophical treaties (nonfiction) and novels/short stories (fiction)
Romantic
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Langston Hughes
Modernism
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INDIVIDUAL SPIRITUALITY/INTERPRETATION IS AT THE CENTER
Romantic
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Provides philosophical basis for American revolution
Enlightenment
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He belief in divine mission- a covenant with god/ new Israel
Puritan
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The idea of an oversoul that connects all of humanity and nature is prevalent
Romantic
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Modernism
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Attempt to portray life as it really is rather than how it should be
Realist
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Stephen crane
Realist
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Transcendentalism movement was comprised of a small group of writers from Massachusetts
Romantic
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Ernest Hemingway
Modernism
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Regionalism is a form or realism that focuses on characteristics of a particular region of America
Realist
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Reason is paramount in the search for truth
Enlightenment
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Birth of America literary traditions- first fiction
Romantic
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Edgar Allen Poe
Romantic
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Henry David Thoreau
Romantic
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Romantic
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Universe is a logical and ordered system
Enlightenment