Flashcards in Midterm Deck (28):
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Walt Whitman
American Mythology
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Emily Dickinson
religious poetry
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Henry James
Kate Chopin
Mark Twain
Ambrose Bierce
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
-reaction to Romanticism
-depict everyday life
-characters are ordinary, not heroic
-characters behave in expected ways
-tragic/unhappy ending
-plot is less important than character
-irony
Realism
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Stephen Crane
Jack London
-"Angry young men"
-nature seen as ambivalent or hostile towards man
-rise of racial pseudoscience
-Determinism/lack of free will
-nihilistic/fatalistic
-science, biology, sociology, Darwin, Freud
-extreme form of realism
-man vs nature
-often employs irony
-failures of conventional morality in extreme situations
-survival of the fittest
Naturalism
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Mark Twain
Kate Chopin
Zora Neale Hurston
-writing about what is around you
-dialect (how it would sound)
-"Local color" and customs
-folktales, religion
Regionalism
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-American Dream
-pulling yourself up by your bootstraps
-Walt Whitman
-Booker T. Washington
"self-made man"
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W.E.B. DuBois
-sees himself as his own person and as others see him
-he is black, but also American
-educated and powerful, but also a member of the black community
-the two parts of his identity are in conflict
"double-consciousness"
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Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
-most of the people associated with HR were not actually from there
-most well known effect is the music (jazz)
-peaked between WWI-1929
-catalyst was W.E.B. DuBois
Harlem Renaissance
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-a story that helps a group or a people understand themselves
-doesn't mean that the person isn't real or the story isn't true
-ie the American Dream
myth
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-local customs and folktales of a region
-part of regionalism
-dialect
"local color"
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"The Wound Dresser"
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
"Song of Myself"
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
"Democratic Vistas"
-letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson
-free verse
-Romanticism, transcendentalism
Walt Whitman
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Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"Some keep the Sabbath going to church..."
"There's a certain slant of light..."
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain..."
"Because I could not stop for Death..."
"I heard a Fly buzz - when I died..."
"My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun..."
"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant..."
-Calvinism
-abnormal punctuation and random capitalization
-ballad form
-Romanticism, transcendentalism
Emily Dickinson
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"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
"The War Prayer"
-Samuel Clemens
-Gilded Age
-regionalist
-realist
Mark Twain
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" An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"Chickamauga"
-"Bitter Bierce"
-went to Mexico and no one heard or saw from him again
-macabre, horror fiction, war stories
-common plot device comes from OAOCB (delusion/dream)
-realist
Ambrose Bierce
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"The Beast in the Jungle"
-realism, psychological realism
-limited 3rd person (in between omniscient narrator and unreliable narrator)
-realist
Henry James
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"The Open Boat"
"The Black Riders"
"War is Kind"
"A Man Said to the Universe"
-naturalism
Stephen Crane
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"To Build a Fire"
-naturalism
Jack London
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"Desiree's Baby"
"The Story of an Hour"
-realist
Kate Chopin
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"The Yellow Wallpaper"
"Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'"
-realist
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The Atlanta Exposition Address" (Up From Slavery)
-born into slavery
-"self-made man"
-largely self-educated
-focus on individuals
-Tuskegee University
-economic activity
-stay in the South
-learn a trade
-slow, wait & see approach
-"Cast down your buckets where you are"
-fingers and the hand metaphor
-Civil Rights movement
Booker T. Washington
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"Of Our Spiritual Strivings"
"Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"
(both are from Souls of Black Folk)
-born in Great Barrington, Mass
-family was free for generations
-attended integrated high school
-1st African American man to earn PhD from Harvard
-focus on sociology (contrast w/BTW)
-NAACP
-Harlem Renaissance
-pursue art, higher education
-"talented tenth"
-demand civil, political, and educational equality
-"double consciousness"
-Civil Rights movement
W.E.B. DuBois
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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
"I, Too"
"The Weary Blues"
"Song for a Dark Girl"
"Freedom"
-bases "I, Too" on Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"
-influenced by Whitman, free verse
-connects to working class
-deliberate rhythms to sound like music (blues & jazz)
-Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
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"The Eatonville Anthology"
"How it Feels to Be Colored Me"
-anthropologist
-Eatonville, FL
-regionalist
-Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
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romanticism in America
Dickinson, Whitman
transcendentalism
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Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
-idealize nature
-unrealistic, larger than life hero
-hero's journey
-mythical
-happy ending
-transcendence
Romanticism
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opposite of your expectations happens
situational irony
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reader or audience knows something the characters don't
dramatic irony
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