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45 Cards in this Set
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Most famous work is "The Scarlet Letter"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“in truth the heart of many an ordinary man perchance he could not read” on Emersonian ideas
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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precursor to the French symbolists
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Founded the North Star
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Frederick Douglas
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"A Romantic Of The Future"
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Walt Whitman
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Wrote 2,000 poems, published 12
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Emily Dickinson
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3 categories of Emily Dickinson's poetry
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-Metaphysical questions - Observations of nature
- Philosophical analysis |
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golddigger of Daisy Miller
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Giovanelli
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wants his works to be a “substitute for nature (or reality)”
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Stephen Crane
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"The Open Boat"
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Stephen Crane
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When was the Depression
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1930
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opposite of fascism
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socialism
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renovation of past, attempt to create a new reality
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modernism
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Reasons people left for Europe
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escape racism, industrialization, materialism, boom market, thought US to be stuffy
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Two types of poem
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lyric and blank verse
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inspired "The Road Not Taken"
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indecisive Edward Thomas
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experiments with language
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Sherwood Anderson
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"Winesburg, Ohio"
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Sherwood Anderson
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attempt to capture the african american experience
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"Cane" by Jean Toomer
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influenced Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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Henry James
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Made Francis Fitzgerald rich
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"The Romantic Egoist"
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generally regarded as greatest 20th C writer
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Faulkner
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fictional place created by Faulkner
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Yoknapatawpha County
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"There's a certain slant of light."
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Emily Dickinson
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“I prefer weak tea.”
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Daisy Miller
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“No one could see the sky”
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Stephen Crane
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“Lilacs”
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Walt Whitman
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"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."”
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Frederick Douglas
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display of virtuosity or “tour de force”
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"As I Lay
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most famous writer of his time
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Ernest Hemmingway
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medic/driver in WWI
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Ernest Hemmingway
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Made Hemmingway famous
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"The Sun Also Rises"
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1993 First African American Nobel Prize Winner
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Toni Morrison
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break out novel for Toni Morrison
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"Song of Solomon"
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What story did Toni Morrison win a pulitzer prize for?
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"Beloved"
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uses tightly metered lines and turns them into incredibly evocative poems
- poems are about loss (father died, mother crazy) and travel |
Elizabeth Bishop
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- published under 100 poems in her life
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Elizabeth Bishop
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2 works: “North & South” “Geography 3”
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Elizabeth Bishop
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. “A work of art is not a fragment of their life”.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Why was learning to read good and bad for Frederick Douglas.
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Good = he can read. Bad = showed him how bad slavery is.
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like Thoreau he had a better reputation after death.
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Herman Melville
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-influenced Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Beat Poets(Allen Ginsburg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
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Walt Whitman
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“I would prefer not to”
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"Barnaby The Scrivener"
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she’s very reclusive, she dressed only in white and her neighbors thought she was eccentric, rebelled against convention and the world she was born in to. Her family was puritans. Like Hawthorne hated his frozen purgatory. She went to school as female seminary.
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Emily Dickinson
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He is a naturalist (Naturalism), his life was short due to tuberculosis
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Stephen Crane
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