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10 Cards in this Set
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Anton Chekhov
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Russian Playwright. Upper-class life.
THe Seagull Uncle Vanya The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard Naturalism and Symbolism |
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Eugene Ionesco
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French. Theatre of the Absurd
The Bald Soprano Exit the King Rhinoceros |
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Eugene O'Neill
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American
Beyond the Horizon (Pulitzer) Mourning Becomes Electra Desire Under the Elms The Iceman Cometh Long Day's Journey into the Night |
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Thomas Mann
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German novelist and essayist.
Death in Venice The Magic Mountain Buddenbrooks Doctor Festus Nobel Prize The role and character of the artist in relation to society is a constant theme. |
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Marcel Proust
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French novelist.
Remembrance of Things Past (Theme: the recovery of the lost past and the releasing of its creative energies through the stimulation of unconscious memory) |
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William Butler Yeats
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Irish.
Sailing to Byzantium The Countess Cathleen The Celtic Twilight Lede and the Swan Nobel Prize |
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James Joycee
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Irish. Modernist Movement.
Ulysses - revolutionized the structure of the modern novel and the stream of consciousness technique. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Finnegans Wake |
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EM Forster
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English.
A Room with a View A Passage to India |
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Walt Whitman
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American Poet
Leaves of Grass (free verse collection) I Sing the Body Electric Song of Myself: Drum Taps and Sequel to Drum Taps |
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Sherwood Anderson
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Winesburg Ohio. All of the characters are "grotesque." Lonliness and frustration of small town life.
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