Am Lit Own Part 7

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Nate Hawthorne considered to be part of what ~"movement"

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American Renaissance

(term coined later)

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Nate Hawthorne's 4 most notable novels:

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Scarlet Letter
House of Seven Gables
Blithedale Romance
Marble Faun

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Nate Hawthorne's writing style:

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prose: detached point of view,cool perfection in his writing--elevated language but not longwinded or rhetorical

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Nate Hawthorne used what two literary devices so well!
?

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Allegory
&
Symbol
(to point out universal & psychological truths in a safe way to win over his audience)

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what is the "SIN" them in Hawthorne's works:
part one

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everyone has inclination to sin;
COVERING IT UP, and therefore, GUILT can destroy us!

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what is the "SIN" them in Hawthorne's works:
part two

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CONFESSION of sin allows virtue, redemption
*worst sin is entering sanctity of another's soul and manipulating it*

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Young Goodman Brown written by:

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Nate Hawthorne

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Young Goodman Brown has what symbol of guilt:

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Rev. Mr. Hooper wears BLACK VEIL - symbol of his guilt

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Scarlet Letter has what symbol of guilt:

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Dimmesdale counsels sin-sick=his guilt; ( destroyed by unconfessed guilt )
Letter A for Hester=her guilt; Chillingsworth most guilty=most manipulative

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important quote from Scarlet Letter:

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re: Hester Prynne
"if the truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth from many a bosom"

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who were the "New England Poets"

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Henry Wadworth LONGFELLOW,
John Greenleaf WHITTIER,
Oliver Wendell HOLMES

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general overview of the writing style of the New England Poets:

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-widely read, popular
-d e f i n i t e l y competent!
- just n o t
o r i g i n a tors of anything new or distinctly American

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Longfellow's 2 general themes:

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--perseverance thru adversity
--life is fleeting, (melancholy tone)

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theme of Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life" & "Excelsior" :

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perseverance thru adversity

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theme of Longfellow's
My Lost Youth, Fire of Driftwood, The Jewish Cemetery at Newport, The Tide Risess, the Tide Falls + ...

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life is fleeting
(brings out melancholy tone)

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theme/ device of "The Arsenal at Springfield" by Longfellow

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Longfellow likens the pipe organ to be played by "the Death angel".

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Longfellow's three l o n g narrative poems :

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Evangeline,
Hiawatha,
****Courtship of Miles Standish (maybe mentioned in study guide!)

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Whittier's different background compared to two other New England Poets

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Whittier NOT an aristocrat
or college educated
(like Longfellow or Holmes)

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Whittier style of writing:

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Quaker brotherhood
WHITTIER = Quaker!
abolitionist, pacifism contrasting w/his abolitionist views, writes about his rustic youth

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Holmes writing styles:

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funny, satirical (afterall, the man made fun of Jonathon Edwards!)
all funny except
-"Old 'Ironsides" (old frigate being dumped)
-"...Na utilus" shellfish symbol of spritual growth"

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what was Thoreau's most imp. book?

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WALDEN
aka
("Life in the Woods")

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main style of how "Walden" was organized and theme:

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based on 4 season; relationship to nature and ideal truth

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How to remember Walden author:

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Thoreauly Walden

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Melville's many themes :
part one

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-democracy is good gov't
-nobility of common man / his labors

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Melville's many themes:
part two

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-need to preserve traditional anglo institutions
-ubiquitous evil
-danger of merging personality into the all (disliked Trans. mvmt)

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James Russell LOWELL
most famous for what ROLE:

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first editor of the "Atlantic Monthly" !!!

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Lowell (other than Atlantic Monthly), most known works:

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-Biglow Papers (protesting Mex. War)
-Fable for Critics

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something interesting about the popularity of Edgar Allan Poe...

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not so popular in his day,
but lasting poplarity nowadays

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what's unique about the length of Edgar Allan Poe's works:

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NOT LONG!!!!!
no lengthy poems--he wanted them to be read in one setting.
(almost all of his could be)

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what was POE's prose fiction style:

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Poe's prose fiction, often created a SINGLE EFFECT at the climax/conclusion !

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who wrote, how they ended:
Fall of House of Usher
Ligeia
Mas of Red Death
Morell

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POE! no completion to the human part of the story, but:
an INTENSE SHUDDER OF EMOTIONS - a WoW ending!

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Poe's favorite theme

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a beautiful woman

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how does Poe use the 'beautiful woman' theme in Annabelle Lee & Ulalume:

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Annabelle Lee: bereaved lover lies down beside corpse
Ulalume: forest walk ends at tombstone

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Thoreau stood out for:

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seeking
--moral independence from a business society (that wants us to conform)

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Thoreau themes:

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while pursuing our material goals, we can lose the essence of life
living near nature--provides hints to divine
self-discovery of moral principles-conscience! intuition!

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Thoreau's canoe trip book chronological style:

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his first book, he had each chapter represent each one day of the canoe trip

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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE is by:
studied by:
who then studied him!

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Thoreau...
Gandhi...
Martin Luther King!

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Melville 2 additional themes:

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-need to balance "transcendentalism" with e m p i r i c a l truth
-impossible for man to return to orig. innocence because of world's chaos

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Melville's style of writing overview:

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ALLUSIONS to lit, history, religion, philo., science
RICHLY SYMBOLIC
PARABLE-ish
ALLEGORICAL

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TYPEE
who wrote:
what about:

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Melville
a fictional biography (based on his true life/stranded on an island) captivity by pleasure-loving cannibals, Tommo discovers civilized man CAN'T return to Paradise

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MOBY DICK:
author, what about:

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Melville. Ishmael, ship "Pequod", polyglot (red, blk, yellow &brn) all four races, Cap'n Ahab after White Whale (tryin to discover what runs Cosmos), only Ishmael survives ever-powerful Nature +other stuff

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three main characters of Billy Budd,
author

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Melville. Billy Budd (Christ-like),
John Claggart (Satan),
Cap'n Vere (godlike Reason)
execution on a cross on the ship "ransom sacrifice" "red metoer" (napoleon ref.) sometimes society's overall good rules discount the individual

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Bartleby the Scrivener
who, what:

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Melville.
humor, pathos. storyline is: ...

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The Encantadas
who, what:

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Melville. series of sketches on Galapagos Islands; discovers evil in man over & over

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Benito Cereno
who, what:

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Melville. Anti-Emerson!!!! covert criticism of Emersonian optimism @ goodness of man!* based on mutiny of slaves (Amistad slave ship) **Melville seems ambiguous @slavery!yuk