Final Exam

Question 1

The pastoral

Answer 1

• tradition of lit that depicts rural life and landscape
• cassical era reped by virgules writings
• resurgence in 18-19 cent brit lit
• rural retreat and antagonistic with city

Question 2

Land enclosure acts

Question 3

prelapsarian

Answer 3

before the fall of man known as time of innocence

Question 4

Postlapsarian

Answer 4

-after fall of man. explaining how man became spoiled and needy

Question 5

social realism

Answer 5

-lit, art, and fim drawing attention to social and economic injustice hardship by depicting everyday conditions of working class and poor

Question 6

swing riots (1830s-40s)

Answer 6

• riots that occurred in the setting that were symbolized by burning of plowing mechanism, haystacks
• threshim machine first burned
• captain swing was personification
• riots came from workhouse prisions

Question 7

nationalism

Answer 7

• belief, creed, ideology involves individual identifying w. his/her nation
• as noun sense of place, physical scene, moral discernment, intelligence
• as a verb; percieve omething

Question 8

the troubles (1960s-98)

Answer 8

• sectarian conflic (ireland nationalist) and protestant

- belfast becomes heart of violence

Question 9

diaspola

Answer 9

from greek work dispersal

-people being kicked out of their homelands and the consequences effect the surrounding area

Question 10

Elegy written in a country courtyatd

Answer 10

• Gray
• respect for the farmers work
• vast difference in class
• nature
• land enc acts

Question 11

a pastoral poem

Answer 11

• Woodsworth
• urbinazation is ruining the families of farmers
• inequality in the classes

Question 12

to a fallen elm

Answer 12

• Clare
• human freedom vs natural freedom
• cut the tree down no freedom

Question 13

the withered arm

Answer 13

• hardy
• paranoia
• supernatural
• social realism
• swing riots

Question 14

the sense of place

Answer 14

• heaney
• unconsious and conscious writing
• fake freedoms
• pastoral landscape and family
• nationalism
• the troubles

Question 15

the graublle man

Answer 15

Heany

• punishment
• comparing pen to gun
• dehistorcizing
• aesteticizing violence

Question 16

the enigma of arrival

Answer 16

• Naipaul
• feeling of being in a strange land unknown to you
• nature pastoral and beauty
• everything returns to how it once started
• comfort in familiarity
• diaspora
• fractured identity
• trinidad

Question 17

Victorianism

Answer 17

-era of british history that was the period of queen victories reign 1837-1901

Question 18

the conditions of the working class

Answer 18

• engells
• labor conditions
• slums

Question 19

the origin of species by means of natural selection and descent of man

Answer 19

• Darwin
• theological assumptions
• species created over long stretch
• 2 opposing forces in nature, pop and resources
• humans not above nature
• complexity and randomness

Question 20

degeneration

Answer 20

-anxious pessimism about the future of european civilization and the possible decline and collapse of europe

Question 21

in darkest england

Answer 21

booth

• east end london
• compares england and africa
• the poor in england were worse off than in africa
• degen puts eng and af close

Question 22

sherlock holmes the man with the twisted lip

the adventures of the empty house

Answer 22

• conan Doyle
• printed in the strand magazine
• twisted lip holmes killed
• empty house he’s brought back
• opium dens
• the other

Question 23

the other

Answer 23

-self vs the other
-english vs. foreign
-west vs the east
-british empire simultaneously responsible for economic growth and expansion of london and moral decline
physiognomy and the other
-judging humans characteristic by their facial structures

Question 24

dr jekyll and mr hyde

Answer 24

• stevenson
• scottish writer
• sets work in london
• duality of man
• degeneration

Question 25

penny dreadful and shelling shockers

Answer 25

-genre of serial fiction in victorian lit which appeared in installments over a series of weeks. usually written on cheap pulp paper and horror genre

Question 26

social darwinism

Answer 26

- school of european thought in the victorian period (1870s) applied biological concepts of natural selection to sociology and politics - only fittest survive - justification of cruel social construct

Question 27

atavism

Answer 27

tendency to revert back to ancestral type -social darwinists used this claiming inferior races or classes displayed atavistic traits and represented more primitive traits than their own race

Question 28

demon lover mysterious kor

Answer 28

bowen - wartime london during blitz - psychological traumas - keep calm carry on attitude

Question 29

Heart of darkness

Answer 29

conrad - congo - imperialism - darwinism,ativism - frame narrative - developmental discourse

Question 30

frame narrative

Answer 30

literary technique in which an introductory narrative is presented for the purpose of setting the shaper for a more emphasized 2nd narrative

Question 31

developmental discourse

Answer 31

-suggests to map of a lll the world onto one single hogenous historical timeline. some of civilizations (america. Europe) are most advanced, while other countries are primitive section of timeline

Question 32

civilizing mission

Answer 32

-rationalle from imperialism was justified by this self appointed cm. not limited to british, also french portugese, and belgian

Question 33

otherness

Answer 33

- concept used in sense that humans often define themselves by what they are not. we define ourselves as the other, conrad defines himself against what he is not - europe = self africa=other

Question 34

wide saragasso sea

Answer 34

rhys - prequel to jane eyre - antointte - race not biologically real but socially constructed - intersectionality (race,gender,wealth) - defamaliarization present familiar things in unfamiliar way

Question 35

creole

Answer 35

people of british and european descent born in the caribbean. subtext suspicion of creoles were of mixed white and black ancestry

Question 36

demamiliarization

Answer 36

-artistic technique created by viktor shklovsky which consists of presenting to audiences familiar things in an unfamiliar or strange way

Question 37

race is not biologically real

Answer 37

constructed through social institutions and practces

Question 38

intersectionality

Answer 38

immerged in the 90s and is the intersection between forms/systems of oppression )examples race, class, gender, sexuality) WSS

Question 39

Shooting an Elephant

Answer 39

- orwell - clash in morals - tool of imperialism

Question 40

white mans burden

Answer 40

kipling - imperialism - responsibility - get rid of famine - white mans burden means no more childhood

Question 41

The deserted village

Answer 41

- Goldsmith - land enclosure acts - luxury is crisis

Question 42

Mary Barton

Answer 42

Gaskell

Question 43

Demon Lover Mysterious Kor

Answer 43

Bowen

Question 44

Apocolypse Now

Answer 44

coppola

Question 45

embassy of cambodia

Answer 45

smith

Question 46

the new empire within britain

Answer 46

rushdie

Question 47

my son the fanatic

Answer 47

kureishi

Question 48

imaginary homelands

Answer 48

rushdie

Question 49

nonteleoligical

Answer 49

-w darwin meaningno perfection in sight