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The Importance of Being Earnest

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Author: Oscar Wilde
Summary: Jack (Earnest) wants to marry Gwendolen, has to change name to Earnest. Has pretend brother Jack, who Algernon "bunburies" as. Algernon falls for Cecily and also wants to change name to Earnest.

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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Author: W.B. Yeats
Summary: The poet declares that he will arise and go to Innisfree, where he will build a small cabin “of clay and wattles made.”

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Adam's Curse

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Author: W.B. Yeats
Summary: Addressing his beloved, the speaker remembers sitting with her and “that beautiful mild woman, your close friend” at the end of summer, discussing poetry.

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Easter 1916

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Author: W.B. Yeats
Summary: The poem begins by paying tribute to the Irish people for leaving behind their previously mundane, trivial lives to dedicate themselves to the fight for independence.

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The Second Coming

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Author: W.B. Yeats
Summary: The speaker describes a nightmarish scene: the falcon, turning in a widening “gyre” (spiral), cannot hear the falconer; “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold”; anarchy is loosed upon the world; “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned.”

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Sailing to Byzantium

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Author: W.B. Yeats
Summary: The speaker, referring to the country that he has left, says that it is “no country for old men”: it is full of youth and life, with the young lying in one another’s arms, birds singing in the trees, and fish swimming in the waters

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The Tower

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Author: W.B. Yeats
Summary: The speaker decries the absurdity of the contrast between his old body and his young spirit.

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The Wheel

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Author: W.B. Yeats
Summary: The speakers, identified as “we,” call in winter for spring, in spring for summer, and in summer for winter. In winter “we” call for nothing, because the spring will not come again. “We” only long for the grave.

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Leda and the Swan

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Author: W.B. Yeats
Summary: The speaker retells a story from Greek mythology, the rape of the girl Leda by the god Zeus, who had assumed the form of a swan.

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The Circus Animals' Desertion

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Author: W.B. Yeats
Summary: The speaker describes searching in vain for a poetic theme: he says that he had tried to find one for “six weeks or so,” but had been unable to do so. He thinks that perhaps, now that he is “but a broken man,” he will have to be satisfied with writing about his heart, although for his entire life he had played with elaborate, showy poetic themes that paraded like “circus animals”

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The Wasteland

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Author:T.S. Eliot
Summary:

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Author:T.S. Eliot
Summary:Prufrock, the poem’s speaker, seems to be addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to “force the moment to its crisis” by somehow consummating their relationship.

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Dubliners

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Author: James Joyce
Summary: The Sisters- A boy grapples with the death of a priest, Father Flynn
Araby- A young boy falls in love with his neighbor Mangan’s sister.
Eveline- A young woman, Eveline, sits in her house and reviews her decision to elope with her lover, Frank, to Argentina.
The Boarding House- In the boarding house that she runs, Mrs. Mooney observes the courtship between her daughter, Polly, and a tenant, Mr. Doran.
A Little Cloud- One evening after work Little Chandler reunites with his old friend, Gallaher. Little Chandler aspires to be a poet, and hearing about Gallaher’s career in London makes Little Chandler envious and determined to change his life.
Counterparts- After an infuriating day at work, Farrington embarks on an evening of drinking with his friends.
Clay- On Halloween night, Maria oversees festivities at the charity where she works
A Painful Case- Mr. Duffy develops a relationship with Mrs. Sinico at a concert in Dublin
The Dead- With his wife, Gretta, Gabriel Conroy attends the annual dancing party hosted by his two aging aunts, Julia and Kate Morkan, and their niece, Mary Jane.

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Haunted House

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Author: Virginia Woolf
Summary:Along with her husband, the narrator experiences the sensations of a home literally alive with memories.

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Monday/Tuesday

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Author: Virginia Woolf
Summary: No real plot, just beautiful words.

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Mark on the Wall

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Author: Woolf
Summary: In her efforts to find or create another narrative mode than the one which she felt exercised a tyranny of demands (e.g. a plot) Woolf suggested that a writer might "Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day."

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Shooting Party

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Author: Woolf
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Lappin/Lapinova

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Author: Woolf
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Solid Objects

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Author: Woolf
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Moments of Being

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Author: Woolf
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Legacy

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Author: Woolf
Summary: Shows how the character Gilbert Clandon from Virginia Woolf's "The Legacy" illustrates one of Woolf's underlying beliefs about fiction--that it should not present reality as absolute and neatly packageable, but rather as subjectively experienced by individuals.

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Waiting for Godot

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Author: Samuel Beckett
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A Distant Shore

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Author: Caryl Phillips
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Aeotheticism

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french movement

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parody

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a composition imitating another, usually serious piece it is designed to ridicule a genre, a specific text, an author or a style

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inversion

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to create parody you have to look at the actual thing and flip it and turn it upside down

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Aphorism

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a concise statement of principle or precept given in a few pointed words

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Modernism

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-overlaps with Victorian era
-confused with aestheticism
-a time of incredible upheaval/change
-technological advances
-urban and cosmopolitan idea
-breaks with traditional forms of western art
-artists question things of 19th century (social organization, religion, morality)

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interior monologue

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worried about what's going on in our minds

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Nationalism

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Austrian Hungarian empire took over small countries. The countries did not want to belong to it. Archduke Frans Ferdinand was assassinated

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Promoted masculinity

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if you’re a man, you go and fight for your country. Soldiers felt as if they were being feminized when they had to cook for their buddies, etc. had a psychological problem

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Romanticism

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-socially and politically engaged
-create emotional assertion of self
-thinking about infinite and transcendent through interior contemplation
-interested in sublime, nature
-Moving away w/ traditional poem forms, wants away to use language as really used

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Symbolist Movement

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-French poetic movement at 1870-1850 that influenced W.B. Yeats
-Evoking subjective moods through the use of private symbols
-Interest in the affinities between ideas and the accrual of multiple, complex meanings to a single image or symbol
-Incorporation of synesthesia (-confusion between senses)

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pseudo-couple

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couple that doesn't quite work

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Fraytag's pyramid

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exposition -> rising action -> climax -> falling action -> denouncement (wrap-up)

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Catharsis

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Aristotle's theory in the poetics that the audience's emotional response is the purpose of tragedy: "through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation [catharsis] of these emotions"

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Brecht's Epic Theatre

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-purpose of a play is to present ideas and invite the audience to make judgements on them
-presentation of opposing sides of an argument
-Audience should always be aware that it is watching a play, emotions are not engaged
-Verfrendungseffekt

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Verfrendungseffekt

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usually translated as "alienation effect"
real translation more like "foreign, unknown"