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35 Cards in this Set
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Meliorism |
The belief that the world is neither entirely bad nor entirely good and can be made better by human effort; holds that progress is a real concept leading to improvement of the world |
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Paradigm |
A typical example, model, pattern; a template by which understanding/interpretation is ordered |
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Pessimism |
A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view |
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Nihilism |
Philosophical doctrine suggesting that life is without objective meaning, purpose or intrinsic value; there is no universal truth or underlying reality |
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Agnosticism |
The disbelief in all claims to ultimate knowledge |
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Iconoclasm |
The breaking of images, particularly those of religious or cultural importance |
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Imagism |
A literary movement launched by British and American poets in early 20th century; advocated use of free verse, freedom in subject matter, common speech patterns, clear concrete images |
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Futurism |
An artistic movement that sprang from Italian poet filippo marinetti's 1909 futurist manifesto. |
The movement celebrated violence, technology, and speed. |
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Manifesto |
A written statement stating publicly the often revolutionary views and intentions of the author. |
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Cubism |
A style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements. |
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Vortcism |
An avant garde movement in the literary and visual arts deriving it's name from Ezra pound's choice of the "vortex", which he described as "the point of maximum energy" as an appropriate image for the modern transformation of art. |
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Authentic |
True, authoritative, honest |
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Ontology |
A branch of metaphysics (philosophy) that deals with the nature of "being" |
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Existentialism |
A modern philosophical movement stressing the importance of personal experience and responsibility and the demands they make on the individual, who is seen as a free agent in a deterministic and seemingly meaningless universe |
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Absurd |
The term that says human existence is meaningless because human acts have no external (objective) justification. |
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Mysticism |
Belief that union with/absorption into the Deity, or absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender |
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Theosophy |
Any of various philosophies or religious systems that propose to establish direct contract with Devine principle through contemplation, revelation, gaining thereby insight superior to empirical knowledge |
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Objective Correlative |
A situation, image, chain of events that symbolize/create the "formula" for a particular emotion in the reader |
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Primordial |
Existing at or from beginning of time; primeval-syn. ancient, instinctive, primal, visceral |
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Relic |
Part of or belonging to a person of religious significance; worthy of veneration |
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Stream-of-consciousness |
Person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow |
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Diachronic time |
Something happening over time, used in several fields of research |
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Synchronic time |
Limits its concern to a particular moment of time |
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Shamanic |
Person who has access to the spirit world/forces, or is an intermediary between the natural and supernatural worlds; practices divinations, healing. |
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Thomas Hardy |
Are you digging on my grave |
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Edward Thomas |
The Soldier |
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Sassoon |
They, Glory of Women |
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William Butler Yeats |
The Second Coming, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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T. S. Eliot |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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Dylan Thomas |
The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower, Fern Hill |
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Seamus Heaney |
Digging |
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Wilfred Owen |
Dulce Et Decorum Est |
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Virginia Woolf |
The Mark on the Wall |
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Samuel Beckett |
Waiting for Godot |
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Philip Larkin |
Church Going, High Windows, This be the Verse |
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