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General Attributes of Modernism
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Disengaged from bourgeois values
Cosmopolitan; sense of urban cultural dislocation Sense of meaningless (World War I) |
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Theoretical Attributes of Modernism
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Freud and the persistence (& fundamental nature) of the irrational
James Frazer and cultural relativism (as opposed to hierarchy) Breakdown of faith in objectivity |
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Formal Attributes of Modernism
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Rejection of Victorian conventions
Rejection of assumed consensus between author and reader Experimental, avant-garde, complex |
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Modernist Poetry
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Fragmentary
Techniques: juxtaposition & multiple points of view |
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Modernist Prose
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Rejection of Realism (breakdown of faith in objectivity; advent of "psychological" realism)
Rejection of chronological development New ways of representing characters' though (e.g., stream-of-consciousness) |
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What are the three Aristotelian Unities?
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Time, Place, Action
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Who wrote "Waiting for Godot"?
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Samuel Becket
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We Are Seven
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William Wordsworth
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Samuel Coleridge
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Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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William Blake
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Ode to a Nightingale
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John Keats
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Preface to Lyrical Ballads
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William Wordsworth
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Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley
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Mont Blanc
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Percy Shelley
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Tinturn Abbey
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William Wordsworth
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Ode to a Grecian Urn
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John Keats
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Prometheus
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Byron
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The Lamb
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William Blake
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The Tyger
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William Blake
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The Garden of Love
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William Blake
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"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."
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Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth
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Ode to the West Wind
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Percy Shelley
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A superior protagonist who commits a great sin and is punished, but heroically endures or resists his punishment is called a ...
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Byronic hero
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The belief that the ideal realm is the true world, and that the material world is merely a poor, shadowy copy of it, is a component of ...
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Neo-platonism
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The belief that the material world, experience via our perceptual system, is the true world (or at least the only one that we can truly know) is called ...
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empiricism
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Blank Slate
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John Locke
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The poet most closely identified with the notion that we "half create [and half] perceive" the world around us is ..
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Wordsworth
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In 1798, the seminal collection of poetry that inaugurated the era of Romantic poetry in England was published. It was a collaborative effort by ...
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Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
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