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The Harlem Renaissance story that deals with the theme of racial solidarity
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Nella Larsen, "Sanctuary"
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setting for SO Jewett's story "A White Heron"
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Maine
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prevailing image of "The Road Not Taken"
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yellow woods
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what differentiates Frost from other Modernist poets?
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his strict adherence to traditional form
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Which of these modernist poets was most associated with the sonnet form?
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edna st. vincent millay
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olaf glad and big is a
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conscientious objector
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setting of Cather's O Pioneers
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Nebraska in the late 1800s
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"cast down your bucket where you are"
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up from slavery book t wash
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Willa Cather land as character?
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She at first is intimidated by its vastness, incomprehensibility, and indifference. Once she understands its complexity and its independence, she is able to "tame" it. It is personified as a complex, indifferent, independent, timeless, feminine power.
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Faulkner's Evening Sun as Modernism two things
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Faulkner rejects the conventional narrator by using a combination of a nine year old and his adult self to narrate. he also communicates the idea that our world is indecipherable through the mysterious role and fate of Nancy.
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Langston Hughes where should AfAm poets look to influence the form of their poetry
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He advocates looking within the modern black community and the qualities and themes exclusive to it. He encourages poets to utilize their unique literature, music, culture and history. He, for example, uses jazz music as a theme of his poetry
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Realism
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-directly followed the Civil War
-corresponds to the rise of capitalism, industrialization, urbanism, and the rise of photography -reaction to Romanticism -attempts to make snapshot of reality -verisimilitude as the highest virtue -plots should mirror the reality of readers' lives -straightforward prose and objective viewpoint -individuals, not social forces, control destiny |
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Local Color
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-subset of regionalism
-during the height of realism, esp. after 1880 -dialect, clothes, manners -setting and culture may figure more prominently than characters or plot -almost always prose -often frame stories with a more sophisticated outside narrator -lacks seriousness -presents stereotypes uncritically -lacks universal qualities |
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Regionalism
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-movement within realism
-detailed representation of place -action and characters cannot be moved to another geographic setting without loss of meaning -broad scope and may deal with diversity within region |
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local color people
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Noailles Murphree, Joel Chandler Harris
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Regionalists
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William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett
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Modernism
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-roots in 1890s reactions against Victorianism
-new sense of questioning following the turn of the century -explosion of lit, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and dance after WWI -radical disruption of linear flow of narrative -frustration with conventional expectations concerning coherence and plot -use of ironic or ambiguous juxtapositions to question meaning -self-mockery that punctures bourgeois pretensions of rationality -subjective distortion |
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Imagism
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Imagism is a type of poetry popular in the modernist era. It focused on things rather than ideas and tried to capture their vividity of appearance, sound, smell, taste, or touch.
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Harlem Renaissance
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paralleled Modernism but was rooted in the vibrant black community in New York City. It revealed a consciousness of artists in relation to their identity as black Americans and resulted in a proliferation of art from that community.
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Post-Modernism
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-generally produced after WWII
-radically experimental, expresses feelings of anxiety -separation of the signifier and signified; there is no signified -undecidability of texts - you can never know what it means -death of the subject and the author -metafictional - calls attention to itself as fiction -use of montage/collage, fragmentation, repetition, and borrowing -blurring of genres and forms -rejection of the distinctions between high and low culture -emphasis on irony -absurdism |
