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15 Cards in this Set
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Symbolism
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points to reality beyond itself, sought to evoke rather than describe, liberate techniques of poetry
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Verlaine
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The Art of Poetry - interested in poems that dont rhyme but is interested in sounds, he refrains from clarifying things and builds a sequence of images for us to imagine - he is very inconsistent which is a trademark of his writing
symbolism is an effort to bright us to a heightened emotional state |
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Modernism
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Questioning of the axioms of the previous age, the industrializing world calls for new beliefs - there is the recognition that the world is becoming more complex
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TS Elliot
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The Waste Land
abrupt changes in speaker/location dissociation of sensibility: both the head and heart need to be challened objective correlative: show rather than describe emotional state of character unreal city: points out the cyclical lifestyle, it is also so superficial that it may as well not exist the golden bough: suggests that Elliot can draw on any culture and its values for inspiration |
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Yeats
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The Second Coming, cyclical view of history - every 2000 years the world falls apart. post WWII the way things have been working will end, hawk flying away in circles - eventually it will seperate
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Proust
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Remembrance of things past
psychology: advances in thought - proust brings us inside the heads of the characters time: we are not a sum of our experiences (he writes in long sentences to show relations) discusses how habbit prevents us from thinking, i.e. the Madeline cookie |
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Pirandello
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
fourth wall: boundary we pretend is there, audience accepts it it there without giving it any thought - allowing them to enjoy the fiction "reality" is only what one happens to believe in the moment, characters are more real because they are eternal and unchanging - what is unreal is not necessarily untrue. art has the ability to bring us closer to the truth the 4th wall, actor vs. character, real vs. true |
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Brecht
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The Good Woman of Setzuan
alienation effects: prevents the audience from losing themselves in the play (doesnt allow surprise and speaks to us because he wants us to learn something) he disrupts our sense that we are watching real life (anti-mimetic) |
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Post-Modernism
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Celebrates discontinuity, the world is meaningless so dont pretend art can make meaning out it - play with it! repeated meaningless actions
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Beckett
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Endgame - characters have a past but there is no hint to their future
theatre of the absurd: presents a world which cannot be logically understood necessary fiction: Beckett strips away most elements but we still have a fiction |
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Borges
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Borges & I: interested in action, game olay, attention paid to action
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Grillet
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The Secret Room
The new novel focuses on OBJECTS - it is way more abstract and doesnt contain cause & effect but we still enjoy it very ambiguous (rape/love making) |
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Achebe
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Things Fall Apart
debt to yeats: cyclical life, Achebe shows transition of world orders and who is going to succeed in a time of chaos - also wants audience to relate to passing generations how do you deal with imperialism etc. |
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Walcott
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Omeros
microcosm; melting pot of cultures - who does he belong to!? allusion: constantly echoing Homer (poem tells us cultural traditions) also alludes to Elliot, how do we bring conflicting times together and unify them!? |
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Rimbauld
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From the letter of the Seer
call for new ideas and forms - we need to make the familiar strange, he confuses our senses (smoking oatmeal) |
