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31 Cards in this Set
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Romanticism
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18th century, artistic and intellectual movement. Stressed strong emotions, imagination, and freedoms
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Neo- Romanticism
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Opposition to naturalism, adds feeling and internal observation. Characteristic themes include longing for perfect love, utopian landscapes, nature reclaiming ruins, romantic death, and history-in-landscape. Lacks adequate conception of truth.
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French Naturalism
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Movement in theater, film, and literature that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality.
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Heroic comedy
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A literary work with an honorable protagonist with a flaw within a romanticized comedy.
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Naturalism
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Seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality
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Feminist Criticism
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Examines gender politics in works and traces the subtle construction of masculinity and femininity, their relative status, positioning, and marginalization with works.
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Realism
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Representation of common life, focuses on individual in their social environment.
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Romanticism
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Emphasis on imagination and emotions. Focused on enthusiasm for nature. The individual as a unique and creative being.
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Transcendentalism
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General protest to the state of culture at the time. Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller
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Symbolism
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The practice of representing things by means of symbols, significance to objects, events, or relationships.
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Close readings
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Not only understanding the meaning of individual printed words but making yourself sensitive to all nuisances and connotations
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Grotesque
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Situations or characters that often posses some cringe inducing qualities typically racial bigotry and egotistical self.
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Grace
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The sovereign favor of God for humankind especially in regards to salvation.
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Epic
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Poem of hero taking a long journey
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Epic Hero
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Has powers and society admires and often wishes to emulate
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Monomyth
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General pattern of adventures that mythological heroes encounter during quest
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Myth
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A myth is often thought to be a lesson in story form which has deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for preliterate cultures.
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Myth Criticism
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Attempts to bring out the cultural myths underlying literature. Explores nature, function, and significance of ancient images, or archetypal patterns
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Ur Text
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believed to be the primordial language that, when said correctly, physically manifests what is said.
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Dystopia
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Antithesis of a utopian society. Characterized by extreme governmental tyranny and exploitation of the people.
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Utopia
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Hypothetical perfect society.
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Gynotopia
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Term used in describing a women utopia
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Ecotopia
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deals with themes of responsibility toward nature's web of life and planet earth.
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Humanism
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Commitment to the search for truth and morality thru human means in support of human interests.
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Marxism
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Theory of socialism which states that the oppression of the working class will eventually lead to a revolt by the workers.
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Naturalism
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writing that reflects life as it seems to the common reader. Rooted in post darwinian biology.
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Dharma
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Religion; law of one's being; righteousness, Code of religion and morals.
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Enlightenment
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Coming to awareness and realization of the truth after being ignorant and aware of it.
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Nirvana
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State of enlightenment, in which the causes of rebirth are eliminated.
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Eightfold path
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"Right views,intention,speech,action, livelihood,effort, mindfulness,&concentration" which are sometimes further reduced to wisdom, morality, and meditation.
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4 Noble Truths
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First teaching given by buddha. The truth of suffering, the cause of suffering, the end of suffering, and the path to end suffering.
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