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30 Cards in this Set
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Leda and the Swan
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William Butler Yeats
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The Second Coming
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William Butler Yeats
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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William Butler Yeats
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No Second Troy
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William Butler Yeats
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The Soldier
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Rupert Brooke
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Glory of Women
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Siegfried Sassoon
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Dulce Et Decorum Est
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Wilfred Owen
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The Dead
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James Joyce
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The Wasteland
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T.S. Eliot
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Made it compulsory for children to have an elementary education
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Education Act of 1870
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Fin De Siecle / The Decadence
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In the 1890's, a movement that said art was for arts sake, period. As opposed to Ruskin, who said art should elevate the soul.
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Diamond Jubliee
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When Queen Victoria celebrated 60 years on the throne. Considered the height of the British Empire. People began to worry about the decline--they expected the end of an era.
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Georgian Period
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The period after Queen Victoria's death before World War II, which was the last height of the empire--"the golden period."
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Post Impressionism
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Sunday in the Park--pointillism--more distinctive brush strokes, vibrant colors, more structure, and interested in smaller geometrics.
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Perspective
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Cubism, Picasso--tried to represent all different perspectives simultaneously--tried to rebel against the norms.
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"Literature should make it new"
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Ezra Pound--Blast--blow up Victorians and start new.
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Narrative Detextualization
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Modernists jump right into the story and give no background information or setup.
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3 Modernist Themes
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1. Make it new--Narrative Detextualization
2. Make it difficult--Writings were not accessible, they were about the writer. 3. Mix high and low--Important writings, but also portrayed a woman going to the bathroom. |
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Maud Gonne
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Yeats' lover--An Irish Nationalist, promotes Irish literature and developed Irish National Theatre.
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Georgiana Hyde Leighs
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Yeats' friend who got him interested in Mysticism and automatic writing.
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A Vision
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Yeats lays out is philosophical beliefs.
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Gyres
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Yeats idea of two Gyres--two spinning 2000 year periods, with the birth of Christ at the center.
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Babylonian Mathematical Starlight
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According to Yeats, the 1st of the two spinning Gyres--Grecco Roman
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Christian Period
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According to Yeats, the 2nd of the two spinning Gyres. The Christian Period was about to come to an end--the Christian world view was running out.
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Epiphony
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When 3 wisemen came--The revelation of Christ to the world. Or a moment of enlightenment--James Joyce focus in his writing and Ireland's way out of Paralsis.
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Expatriate
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Someone who doesn't live in their own Country. James Joyce was Irish, but he lived in France.
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Paralysis
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James Joyce belief that the Irish people were trapped emotionally, historically and religiously--Catholicism was a trap.
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Ulysses
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James Joyce writing that was banned because of obscenity--woman in bathroom. Gives a detailed account of the day in the life of a man from Dublin. Joyce uses a different style for each day.
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Finnegan's Wake
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James Joyce completely reinvents the English language.
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Poly-Vocality
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Many different contrasting speakers in one work. T.S. Eliot uses this in The Wasteland--Originally called "He do the Police in Different Voices"
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