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41 Cards in this Set
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what is reflected in the writing since the 1960s?
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turmoil of that decade
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an intellectual climate is also reflected that scholars continue to label?
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postmodernism
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how are rejections of modernists described?
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outdated and irrelevant
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Experimentation with unconstrained expressive limitation is without?
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a common centrality of meaning
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words and texts of this era dont have what?
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no stable meanings
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by the 1990s early energy of postmodernism began to dissipate as what?
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as writers became less innovative and more responsive to the traditions of a genre
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critics drew back some of the more extreme positions of what years?
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1970s and 1980s
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American writing has continued its power in what during the 20th century?
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mimetic thrust
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and what else has american writing continued its power in?
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increasing contributions of multiculturalism
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POETRY
how was poetry affected by the changes of the 1960s as academic strongholds of older poetics began to fall into? |
it fell to adherents of loose rhythms and vernacular voices
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where are these styles seen?
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on the practices of William Carlos Williams
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what is the most striking and permanent accomplishment of recent poets?
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mastery of a new speech
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a precise and beautiful American?
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vernacular
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a corresponding directness in?
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figurative equivalents
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controlled but?
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flexible rhythm
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the sound of live?
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speech
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FICTION
writers such as Updike and Roth continue to replicate? |
the long shadows of the earlier generation
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they continue to publish works with what type of theme?
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realistic appraisals of contemporary life
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what did postmodernists increasingly support their fantasies with?
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a meticulous verisimilitude of time and place
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what did realistic writers like Joyce Carol Oates defend in their writing?
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violence and incoherence
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an accurate reflection of what realists once called...
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"the way we live now"
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little fiction of lasting merit resulted from which wars?
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Korean and Vietnam wars
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what type of commentary did literature of this period witness?
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fictional and nonfictional
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often it is difficult to distinguish fact from?
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fiction
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and historic truth from?
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novelistic liberties
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what dominated into the 1990s by writers long establish?
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short stories
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what were these stories grounded in?
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external and psychological realism
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what continues to be a force from the 1960s although the movement gradually lost the excitement generated by early works?
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postmodernism
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most accomplished new writers of fiction of the 80s gravitated towards which style?
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a realism minimalist in content and form
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what does this become a product of?
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aesthetics of emptiness and loss
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MULTICULTURALISM
in the last third of the 20th century, what increased at a rate unprecedented? |
multiculturalism
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borders between what two things begin to erode during this movement?
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borders between universal concerns of majority and special interests of miniorites
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What becomes more important than differences of race and ethnicity when concerning the overarching american identity?
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culture, education, and economic condition
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what relinquished insistence of declaring caucasian, native american, black, hispanic, or asian; now choose "mixed"
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2000 census bureau
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where does new literature of multiculturalism come from?
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native americans and by members of cultural groups underrepresented in literature; hispanics and asian americans
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GLOBALIZATION
when did this take place? |
late twentieth century
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what has played an increasing role in world community?
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globalization stretching outward from our shores and american language
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which place do writers begin calling home?
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USA
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with what do writers do to enliven American literature far outside the american tradition that existed prior to 1945?
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with talents and sensibilities
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who is the nobel laureate since 1962 native born to america?
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Toni Morrison
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what type of nation will be reflected in the future than the one that existed through the first half of the 20th century?
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a more cosmopolitan nation
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