Midterm Flashcards
(28 cards)
Walt Whitman
American Mythology
Emily Dickinson
religious poetry
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
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
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
- American Dream
- pulling yourself up by your bootstraps
- Walt Whitman
- Booker T. Washington
“self-made man”
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”
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
- 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
- local customs and folktales of a region
- part of regionalism
- dialect
“local color”
"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
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
"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" "The War Prayer" -Samuel Clemens -Gilded Age -regionalist -realist
Mark Twain
” 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
“The Beast in the Jungle”
- realism, psychological realism
- limited 3rd person (in between omniscient narrator and unreliable narrator)
- realist
Henry James
"The Open Boat" "The Black Riders" "War is Kind" "A Man Said to the Universe" -naturalism
Stephen Crane
“To Build a Fire”
-naturalism
Jack London
“Desiree’s Baby”
“The Story of an Hour”
-realist
Kate Chopin
“The Yellow Wallpaper”
“Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”
-realist
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“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
"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
"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
"The Eatonville Anthology" "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" -anthropologist -Eatonville, FL -regionalist -Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
romanticism in America
Dickinson, Whitman
transcendentalism
