Transcendentalism Notes Flashcards
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Native American outlook
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- Indigenous group who held the belief that the natural world includes both human beings and animals.
- Told stories to teach moral lessons
- Respect speech as a powerful literary form
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Puritanism
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- 17th century outlook which helped to create a theocracy (combining church and state)
- Leaders divinely inspired and guided by god
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Rationalism
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- The belief that human beings can arrive at truth by using reason rather than by relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith or intuition
- Declaration of Independence - rational principles
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Deism
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- 18th century philosophy based on rationalism
- Deists believed that god created the world and its natural laws but takes no part of it
- Believed in humanity’s goodness and perfectibility
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Tone
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The attitude a writer takes towards the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience
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Romanticism
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- A revolt against rationalism beginning in the 18th century.
- Romanticism is marked by these characteristics.
A. conviction that intuition, imagination and emotion are superior to reason
B. Conviction that poetry is superior to science
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Dark Romantics
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- A group of 19th century writers who explored the dark side of human nature
- Evil side of humanity, found madness evil, alienation
- Gothic fiction came from this
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Trancendentalism
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- 19th century movement in the romantic tradition.
- Movement held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition which transcends reason and sensory experience
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Realism
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- A style of writing developed in the 19th century that attempts to depict life accurately, as it really is without idealizing or romanticizing it
- Concentrated on contemporary daily life and on lower and middle class lives in particular
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Satire
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- Basically like sarcasm
2. Type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change
