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What are the years of the colonial period?
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1607-1693
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What are the years of the enlightenment?
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1736-1830
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What are the years of Romanticism?
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1820-1865
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What the years of Realism and Naturalism?
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1865-1914
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What are the years of modernism?
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1914-1945
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What are the years of Post modernism?
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1945-Present
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Who wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?
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Jonathan Edwards
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What did William Bradford write about?
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-Utopian Promise
- talked about Providence, TULIP - |
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What is TULIP?
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-Puritan Belief
-T-total depravity -U-Unconditional Election -L-limited Atonement -I-Irresistable Grace -P- Perserverance of saints |
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What are two important texts mentioned in Utopian Promise video?
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Mary Rollings- Captivity Story
Winthrop- Model of Christian Charity |
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What was another name for "The Enlightenment'?
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The age of reason
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What was Anne Bradstreet known as?
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Mother of American Poetry
very revolutionary |
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What did Anne Bradstreet write?
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The Prologue
The Tenth Muse |
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What was Of Plymouth Plantation?
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-Description of Plymouth as a second Israel
-God foreordained them to come there |
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Who wrote the most famous poem, Day of Doom?
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M. Wigglesworth
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What was the New England Primer?
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-they taught their children the ABCs with Bible references
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Who was Edward Taylor?
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connecticut valley puritan
wrote poems with sermons metaphysical conceit |
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What is Mysticism?
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Steps that Poems go thru
1. Awakened to sinfulness 2. Durgation 3. Rapture 4. Union |
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What did the Boston Puritans emphasize vs Connecticut?
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Boston= Mind
Connecticut= Will |
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What did Jonathan Edwards write?
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Personal Narrative- Oratoracle Autobiography
Sinners... |
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Who wrote "The Autobiography" during the Enlightenment?
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Ben Franklin
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What was the point of Common Sense by Paine?
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Sold revolution to the country
"mother country" gave no benefits |
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What is an aphurism?
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brief statement filled with lots of punch
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What did Thomas Jefferson do?
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-Wrote Declaration of Independence
-Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness |
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When was the Pre-Romantic Period?
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1820-1836
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When was the later Romantic Period?
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1836-1865
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Who were the two poets in the graveyard school?
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Bryant and Freneau
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What was the Graveyard school all about?
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mutibility (how things change)
death, melancholy |
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What is Neoclassicism?
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the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture (usually that of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome). These movements were dominant during the mid 18th to the end of the 19th century.
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What were the rising glory poets? Who was one and what did he write?
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herioc couplets
america and glorious future JF Cooper- Last of the Mohicans |
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Who were some important trandscendental authors during the renaissance?
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Emerson
Thoreau Hawthorne Melville |
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Who were other authors during Romanticism?
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Whitman
Dickinson Poe |
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Who was the head of the Transcendental cow which others fed off of?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Who coined the term transcendentalism?
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Kant
- he was anti locke - thought we had tableurasa |
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What was tableurasa?
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The Kant idea that we have a blank slate of mind, everything comes form your senses
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What is Unitarianism?
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didn't believe in the Trinity; Jesus wasn't divine, only God
- we don't need to be reconciled because no Christ |
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What is Platonic Idealism Transcendence?
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the only thing we know is what our senses allow us to know
subjective nature |
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What is Puritanism moral earnest?
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not about free love
nature becomes the souls scripture |
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Who were important Transcendental writers of the Romantic period, or American Renaissance?
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Emerson
Thoreau Hawthorne Melville |
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Who were other authors of the Renaissance?
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Whitman
Dickinson Poe |
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Who was the head of the Transcendental cow, feeding other authors?
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RW Emerson
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What was romantiscism a rebellion of?
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Neo-classicism, structure
Rom. is between self and nature, very organic |
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Bildungsroman
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German for "novel of formation"—a novelistic genre that arose during the German Enlightenment, in which the author presents the psychological, moral and social shaping of the personality of a (usually young) protagonist.
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Romanticism
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A movement that stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and custom to something noble, and argued for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage.
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Transcendentalism
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began as a protest against the general state of culture and society, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity School. Among transcendentalists' core beliefs was an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions.
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Nature (Emerson)
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all that is separate from us (the “not me”) –essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf. (Norton, p. 493)
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Modernism
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The term encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.
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Enlightenment
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a term used to describe a phase in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority
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Intertextuality
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the idea/technique that modern literature is not original, and is merely a response to previously produced literature.
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Pilgrim’s Progress
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by John Bunyan, a Christian allegory
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Naturalism
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a literary movement that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment.
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Deconstruction
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Deconstruction involves the close reading of texts in order to demonstrate that any given text has irreconcilably contradictory meanings, rather than being a unified, logical whole. OR A style of criticism that questioned the underlying assumptions behind any statement, exposing how what was accepted as absolute truth usually depended on rhetoric rather than fact, exposing indeed how ‘fact’ itself was constructed by intellectual operations
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Deism
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a religious and philosophical belief that a supreme natural God exists and created the physical universe, and that religious truths can be arrived at by the application of reason and observation of the natural world. Deists generally reject the notion of supernatural revelation as a basis of truth or religious dogma. These views contrast with the dependence on divine revelation found in many Christian,[1] Islamic and Judaic teachings
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Providence
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the sovereignty, superintendence, or agency of God over events in people's lives and throughout history
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Limited Atonement
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the Atonement only covers “the elect”
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Postmodernism
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literally means 'after the modernist movement'. While "modern" itself refers to something "related to the present", the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives. It is used in critical theory to refer to a point of departure for works of literature, drama, architecture, cinema and design, as well as in marketing and business and the interpretation of history, law and culture in the late 20th century.
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Realism
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the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation. The term also describes works of art which, in revealing a truth, may emphasize the ugly or sordid.
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Pastiche
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a literary technique that employs the conglomeration of several different genres in a single work
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Surrealism
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a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
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Self-trust
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finding the meaning within oneself. According to Emerson, a scholar should be free, “without any hindrance that does not arise out of his own constitution,” and brave (without fear). He finds the truth within himself (Norton, p.527—528)
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Sublime
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the quality of greatness or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation. This greatness is often used when referring to nature and its vastness.
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Who wrote Thanatopsis?
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WC Bryant
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Who wrote The American Scholar?
Who wrote Nature? |
RW Emerson
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What did Taylor write?
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Meditation 8
Upon Wedlock |
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What did Bradstreet write?
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Prologue
To My Dear and Loving Husband Author to her Book |
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What are the main points of the american scholar?
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thinking is not just parroting
Ebb-Flow Books are nothing but to inspire scholar can be an active, powerful man |
