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Final Exam
World Lit Final (Dr. Cofer, ABAC)
14
Literature
Undergraduate 2
04/28/2013

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Term

Postmodernism

Definition

A late 20th-century style in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism.

Term
Qualities of Postmodernism
Definition

1. An emphasis of impressionism, abstraction and subjectivity. 

2. Manipulation of point of view (perspectivism)

3. Genre blurring (experimental)

4. Media Blurring

5. Manipulation traditional story arc

6. Stream of Concsiousness (Narrator's thoughts)

7. Self-consciousness (calls attention to theirselves)

8. More epiphanies

9. Subtler, more ambiguous endings.

Term

The Power and the Glory

(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters)

Definition

Author: Graham Greene

Main Plot: Priest trying to find his way home

Main Characters: The Priest, The Lieutenant, The Mestizo, Coral Feltlows, The boy, Brigida, Maria, Padre Jose, Mr. Tench, The Gringo, Captian Fellows, Mr. Lehr, Miss Lehr, The woman, Juan, The pious woman, the jefe.

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Franny and Zooey 

(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters)

Definition

Author: J.D. Salinger

Main Plot: Franny is going through something and Zooey helps her understand

Main Characters: Franny Glass, Zooey Glass, Bessie Glass, Buddy Glass, Lane Coutell

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Everything is Illuminated

(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters)

Definition

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

Main Plot: Jonathan goes on a journey to find out who hepled his grandpa, with help of Alex, his grandfather, and a dog. 

Main Characters: Alex, Grandfather, Lista, Jonathan Safran Foer

Term

The Guest

(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters)

Definition

Author: Albert Camus

Main Plot: Daru has to decide on whether to take the Arab to jail or not.

Main Characters: Daru, Balducci, The Arab

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Good Country People

(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters)

Definition

Author: Flannery O'Connor

Main Plot: Hulga meets a bible salesman and get tricked

Main Characters: Joy/Hulga, Manly Pointer, Mrs. Hopewell, Mrs. Freeman

Term

Black Woman

(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters)

Definition

Author: Leoplod Sedhar Senghor

Main Plot: The Beauty of a black woman

Main Characters: The Black woman

Term

Notes of a Native Son

(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters)

Definition

Author: James Baldwin

Main Plot: The little boy has to try and tackle the racism at the time. esp with his white teacher

Main Characters: the boy, father

Term

The Yellow Woman

(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters)

Definition

Author: Leslie Marmon Silko

Main Plot: The native american woman runs of with a random guy and she is thinking that she is the "Yellow Woman" her grandfather told her about. 

Main Characters: Kochininako/Yellow Woman, Narrator, Old Grandpa, The Rancher, Silva, 

Term

Chike's School Days

(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters)

Definition

Author: Chinua Achebe

Main Plot: 

Main Characters: 

Term

Girl

(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters)

Definition

Author: Jamaica Kincaid

Main Plot: A mother tells her daughter how to live, gives advice.

Main Characters: Mother, Girl

Term

Sensini

(Author, Main Plot, Main Characters)

Definition

Author: Roberto Bolano

Main Plot: The narrator writes back and forth to a writer named Sensini, who gives him advice

Main Character: Narrator, Sensini, Sensini's Daughter

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