Modernism Flashcards

(44 cards)

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Victorianism = …,… unity, positive …, freedom in … (… for …)

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optimism; cultural; technological expansion; art; art for art’s sake

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Victorianism was the … age for the British empire

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golden

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… becomes a reality because of … and the … of 1870

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mass literacy; industrialization; Education Act

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mass literacy generated a demand for … –> put writers in a position to become …

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popular fiction; popular

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education act of 1870: every child of a certain age range must … –> happens at same time that literature becomes … and ….

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attend public schooling; accessible; affordable

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changes in education led to changes in

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society

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popular artists … and … the middle class … values and expressed an essential skepticism of …

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satirized; attacked; Victorian; National Exceptionalism

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National Exceptionalism: idea that one country’s values are … in their … and … and ought to be …

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special; place; time; spread

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within 13 years of Victoria’s death, the English Empire … —> colonies in …, …, …, the …, and … ….

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falls apart; Canada; New Zealand; India; the Caribbean; Africa; gain their independence

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independent colonies: a new generation of “…” –> newly .., … taught to read and speak English and they were writing for … –> their lit was produced in …, fractures what it meant to be … (no longer one definition)

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English voices; independent, foreign colonies; British publication; London; English

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modernism is both in … and … antithetical to …

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form; function; Victorianism

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optimism, confidence, triumph were now out of step, …, out of … with modern reality

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dated; sync

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modernism brought about the destruction of “…” –> fixed … that for centuries people have bought into

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master narratives; realities

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master narrative examples (that were destroyed)
the .. family
the … family –> beginnings of … emerging
the righteousness of … –> they could be …
a well …
a …/….
… itself
…. (the best of what is … and …) –> it is …
the …

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nuclear; patriarchal; equality; law; immoral; conducted state; church/god; reason; cultural; thought; said; individualized; self

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The Zeitgeist (spirit of the age) –> …
Questions like:
what is …?
how does … function?
how do human beings interact with and exist in …? (due to …)
how do we assemble our … of thinking about …?

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self-aware; time; history; history; mass literacy; fractured ways; time

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common themes:

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fracturing and fragmentation

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Yeats –> wrote “…”

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The Second Coming

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the title for things fall apart comes from “the second coming” –> break between essential relationship between falcon and falconer
“things fall apart; the … cannot …”

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Eliot –> “these fragments I have …”

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shored against my ruin

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psychoanalysis: challenged the … notion that human beings are fundamentally …, …-… individuals

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enlightenment; rational; decision-making

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(psychoanalysis) we do things in reaction to … from the past

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(psychoanalysis) Sigmund Freud speaks of time as a …
society has replaced its notion of … (NA just a … drive) –> at one point society had impulse for …, thirst and hunger for …, …, and …

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schizophrenic patient; eros; sexual; life; living; loving; kindness

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(psychoanalysis) eros replaced with …- a drive towards …, …, and …-… of the …, sense that nothing can … you, nothing good will happen to you again, and life will be …, losing basic … of life

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thanatos; death; violence; ennui; boredom; soul; move; empty; pleasure

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(psychoanalysis) death comes easier because of …

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(psychoanalysis) ... was the biggest shift from Victorianism to modernism
ennui
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(psychoanalysis) Carl Jung: "the collective .." we aren't .. --> studied schizophrenics all around the world, all had common ... that weren't informed by .., ..., or ...
unconscious; blank slates; themes; religion; culture; experiences
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(psychoanalysis) all human beings share .. and ..., aside from personal ... drives
instincts; archetypes; unconscious
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(psychoanalysis) .../..., ..., ..., ... and .... manifest themselves in archetypes
hunger; thirst; sexuality; activity; reflection; creativity
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``` (psychoanalysis) some of our archetypes: ego vs. shadow- things you don't wanna address ego- .., shadow- ... ego- old ..., shadow- the young ... ego- ... (...), shadow- .. (...) ego- ..., shadow- ... ego-...., shadow-.... ego-..., shadow- ... ego- ..., shadow-... ego-..., shadow-... ```
good mother; bad mother; wise man; trickster; anima; female; animus; male; meaning; absurdity; order; chaos; time; eternity; sacred; profane; light; dark
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comparative mythology: .., ..., the ..., .... | collection of myths that appear in ... and appears in other ... that ... them
flood; creative sacrifice; dying God; Titanomachy; major religions; religions; predate
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development of comparative mythology challenged the ... of ... and ... itself challenges value of ..., .... "..."- F. Nietzsche .. on rise as a result
uniqueness; Christianity; culture; fixed, unquestionable faith; Gott ist tot; sin
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changes in thought led to changes in the ... of thought --> ..., ..., ..., ... and ..., etc.
physical manifestation; electricity; radio; film; airplane; automobile travel
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the new advances caused that generation to break free of their capacity to
relate to their history
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if the world is accelerating at a rate faster than it can be understood, then human beings are ... from the ... itself ---> ...
alienated; world; fragmentation
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mass production of literature causes a rift between ... and ... art
high-brow; low-brow
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high-brow art: ..., unapologetically ... | low-brow art: unapologetically ..., ..., doesn't ...
artsy; complex; accessible; simple last
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more successful, lasting art (high-brow) becomes ..., ..., ... and ...
experimental; challenging; fragmented; avant-garde
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Ezra Pound wrote ... --> written in various ... paves way for all ... what art should do: "....!"--> departure from Victorianism and Romanticism
The Cantos; languages; modern writers; make it new!
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Pound and Eliot pave way for ...- a style of poetry that rejects the sentiment of ... and the ... nature of ... poetry in favor of the employment of .., ...
imagism; Romantic poetry; didactic; Victorian; stark, precise imagery
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Eliot's poetry in particular finds its emphasis in .., ..., and ... (means that it requires a certain level of ...)
intertextuality; literary allusion; intellectualism
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Eliot believed that poetry shouldn't be for ..., only those who .... intertextuality: makes references to .. of the same caliber without explaining it --> .. poetry
everyone; understand it; literature; fragments
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visual artists: cubism- surrealism- fauvism-
Pablo Picasso; Rene Magritte; Henri Matisse
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World War One (1914-1918) Global Wars- "the war to ..." .. million Europeans sent, ... million killed, ... million missing, ... million civilians killed (new)
end all wars; 60; 9; 8; 7
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2 new innovations in modern warfare: ... (e.g. ...), ... (designed for ...-fighting ...)
chemical warfare; yellow mustard gas; tank; cities; indiscriminately