Test One Flashcards by Joy Granetz

Oral Tradition
Folklore
Myth
Creation Stories

Native American Literature

before 1850, mostly oral

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Religious (Puritanism)
Didactic
Historical
Largely Unimaginative (Imagination is evil!)

Colonial Literature

1607-1775

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Rejection of Puritanism
Skepticism prevalent due to prominent scientific inquiry
Focuses on Liberty, Justice and Equality (Contains some glaring hypocrisies)
Independent thought
Influenced by the American Revolution

Enlightenment & Rationalism

1680-1850

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Mystery
Omens/Ancient Prophecy
Highly emotional
Supernatural Elements
Women in distress sometimes threatened by a tyrannical man

American Gothic

1764-1901

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Feelings and Imagination over reason
Purity in nature over the ills of society
Innocence over education
Freedom and individuality over the constraints of religion and reason

Romantic Literature

1830-1870

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Rugged individualism
Nonconformity
Self reliance
Freedom
Importance of nature
Idealism in the perfectibility of human beings
Influenced libertarianism and civil disobedience

Transcendentalism

1820-1850

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Normal, average, possibly even mundane
Emphasis on truth and an accurate portrayal of living
Naturalism linked to determinism (can be critical and even despairing)
Detached observation (Influenced by Darwin)

Realism and Naturalism

1870-1910

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Shaped by the events of WWI and WWII
Individual over society
Non-linear storytelling (stream of consciousness)
Absurdism
Alienation
Relativism
Rise of Femminist voices

Modernism

1910-1945

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African American movement that rejected long standing stereotypes
Harlem symbolic capital
Influence on the Civil Rights Movement and The Great Migration
Side by side development of culture
Harmony over Pluralism

Harlem Renaissance

1920-1937

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Post WWII where reality based stories are prevalent
Identity
Racism
Family
Questioning of the American Dream
Age of Anxiety

Contemporary

(1945-

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Pushed aside convention
Raucous (shock value)
Profane
Short for Beatification
Idealistic and hypocritical

Beat Movement

1950-1966

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Early tradition, folklore

Earth on the Turtles Back (more altruistic)
good will almost to the point of sacrifice
When Grizzlies Walked Upright - creation from mistake

Native American Literature

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Deeply inspired by puritanical, religious, unemotional, slightly imaginative, and somewhat emotional - not everything is going to fall into box of certain movement, detachment of emotion because we looked at it as sin

Sinners in the Hand of Angry God
Huswifery

Colonial Lit

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God helps those who help themselves, very American, blessing comes for hard work, not faith alone

Poor Richards Almanack
Declaration of Independence

Enlightenment and Rationalism

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horror draws us into story, omens, prophecies, innocent young women escaping men, not in house of usher but is common in this period

The Fall of the House of Usher

American Gothic Period

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Feelings and imagination looked at as preeminent to reason, go back and find pure relationship with nature, freedom and originality

Thanatopsis (energy will carry on even when dead bc of nature)
The Noiseless Painted Spider - we are trying to connect to other people
Song of Myself

Romantic Literature

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Similar to romanticism, you could call a—– a romantic but you can’t call a romantic a —–. Focuses on rugged individualism based on self-reliance which is different from Romantic literature. Non-conformity. Focuses on one’s own development of self above all things. Freedom from society and government.

Nature
Self-Reliance
Civil Disobedience “the best government is the government that governs least”

Transcendentalism

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Two movements that happen in the same period but some distinction from each other. Both care of normal average. —- is linked to determinism and a detached view. The other is linked to my bondage and my freedom. Does not have the same negative tone and is more hopeful and empathetic. A lot of this is shaped by the Civil War. Tragedy as a nation helped the detachment in an episode of war.

An Episode of War
My Bondage and My Freedom

Realism and naturalism

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Affected by results of World War I and World War II, individual becomes more important than society, elements change, nonlinear storytelling, absurdism (humarius denism), tragedy we can’t avoid conform us and make us stronger, realitism - define and good and evil as individual instead of a church or family

The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock
The Turtle from the Grapes of Wrath

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Modernism

Lit movement because of great migration, Harlem New York became symbolic capital for black art, claim identity for themselves, black and dark as positive attributes and white and light as destructive attributes, darkness is tender and gentle, multiple of different viewpoints a part of black experience, development of culture, side-by-side, harmony over pluralism.

Dust Track on the Road
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Dream Variations

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Harlem Renaissance

Any lead after 1945, identity and understanding oneself, coming to terms with understanding oneself, maybe being detached in the understanding of yourself. Coming to terms that we isolated because trying to connect our chief meant without others, sexual orientation, questioning of American dream, doesn’t seem attainable, creates anxiety

Mint Snowball
Freeway 280
Mortgaged heart

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Contemporary literature

Non-conformist, individualistic, vulgar, hypocritical, over idealistic, try to push the person reading it into some type of conflict, controversial ideas, inspiration to later hippie movement

Dog
America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity

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Beat movement

An essay about the spirituality of nature. Transcendentalism. Emerson

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Nature

By Emerson. About leaving society and living in solitude and being true to ones self

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Self reliance

By Thoreau. Anti government the best the best government is the government that governs least.

Civil disobedience

By Steven Crane. A short story about the injury about a Lieutenant during war from the moment he was shot until he faced his family. During civil war. Shot in the arm while getting coffee during war. Realism and Naturalism

An episode of war

Autobiographical slave narrative by Fredrik Douglas. About his transition from slavery to liberty. After he was liberated he became a famous abolitionist speaker and author and he fought for women's rights. Realism and naturalism

My bondage and my freedom

By TS Elliot. A poem. Modernism. Themes- Anxiety, inaction, desire, disappointment, and alienation.

The love song of J Alfred Prufrock

By Steinbeck. Chapter 3 of the book. Turtle symbolizes struggles that the family will make. Story about a turtle crossing the highway. Modernism.

The turtle from the Grapes of Wrath

Zora Neale hurston. Autobiography of a black American writer about her rise from childhood poverty in the rural south to being a leading artist and intellectual. Harlem Renaissance

Dust tracks on a road

Langston Hughes. Pride, heritage, and nature. Talks about the origin of the African race. River is a symbol if timelessness. Harlem Renaissance

The Negro speaks of rivers

Langston Hughes. invisons a life free of racial oppression. Harlem Renaissance.

Dream variations

Contemporary literature. Naomi Shihab Nye. About a family lost recipe. Symbolizes the author feeling lost in the world.

Mint snowball

Contemporary literature. Lorna Dee Cervantes. Autobiographical about how she goes back to visit where she grew up. The highway has replaced her community. Weeds symbolize how she still survives.

Freeway 280

Carson Mccullers. Contemporary literature. About loneliness and moral isolation.

The mortgaged heart.

Beat movement. Laurence Ferlinghetti. Perspective of a dog to speak of free will and religion.

Dog

Beat Movement. Gregory Corso. Political. Stream of consciousness.

America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity

native american lit THE MYTH " IS TALKING ABOUT A WOMEN WHO FELL FROM THE SKY LAND IN THE WATER . AFTER THAT, TWO BIRDS CAUGHT HER AND THE TURTLE GOT EARTH FROM UNDER THE WATER. THE EARTH KEPT GROWING AND GROWING UNTIL IT IS NOW THE WORLD.

Earth on the Turtles Back

native american lit Alegend from the Modoc tribe retold by Richard Erdoes and Alfonzo Ortiz. The theme of the Story: Beliefs shape Behaviors. Sky Spirit I believe this story supports the theme by showing that the beliefs the people had shaped the way they lived. Their superstitions overrode their rationalization.

When Grizzlies Walked Upright

colonial lit A Sermon Preached at Enfield, July 8th 1741." ... It is Edwards' most famous written work, is a fitting representation of his preaching style, and is widely studied by Christians and historians, providing a glimpse into the theology of the First Great Awakening of c. 1730–1755.

Sinners in the hand of angry god

colonial lit “Huswifery” is poem written around 1685 by the Puritan preacher Edward Taylor. The poem is addressed directly to God, making it at once a kind of plea and prayer. Through an extended metaphor in which God is a cloth maker and the speaker acts as God's cloth-making tools

Huswifery

Enlightenment and Rationalism was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, pamphlet published in the Thirteen Colonies; were very popular books in colonial America, offering a mixture of seasonal weather forecasts, practical household hints, puzzles, and other amusements.

Poor Richard's Almanack

Enlightenment and Rationalism is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.

The Declaration of Independence

American Gothic Poe implies incestuous relations sustained the genetic line and that Roderick and Madeline are the products of extensive intermarriage within the Usher family. In the end, both houses “die” at the same time: Madeline falls on her brother, and the mansion collapses.

The fall of the house of usher

Romantic Lit eaning 'a consideration of death', but also hope and nature

Thanatopsis

Romantic Lit by Walt whitman solation, struggle, and patience are the major themes of this poem. The poet contrasts the battle of his soul with a tiny spider.

A noiseless patient spider

Romantic Lit a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has been credited as "representing the core of Whitman's poetic vision.About praising self Whitman expresses a desire to "live amongst the animals" and to find divinity in the insects.

song of myself

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