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Praxis
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Literature
Undergraduate 4
12/02/2012

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Regionalism
Definition
the tendency to emphasize and value the qualties and particulers of a geographicrea exemplifies
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Pragmatism
Definition
is a philosophical doctrine according to which there is no absolute truth. all truths change thir truenes as their practical utility increases or decreases
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Pragmatism: A New Way for some old ways of thinking
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Published by William James, 1907
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Pantheism
Definition

philoshopy acoording to which god is omnipresent in the world, everything is god and god is everything

 

ex Spinoza, Wordsworth, Shelly, emerson

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Abstract Expressionism
Definition

movement in american art

 

began in 1940s with artists such as Kooning and Gorky

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Victorian period
Definition

diversity and quality of literature

 

Dickens-- Oliver twist, great expectations, misery and complexities of society

 

Browning-- My last Duchess

 

Robert Louise Stevenson-- treasure island, dr jekyll mr hyde

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Canterbury tales
Definition

Chaucer, medievel england

 

 

first english literature. written in street english

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Beowulf
Definition

epic poem

anglo-saxon period

archetypal hero

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A Doll's House, Ibsen
Definition

first feminist play.

 

door slamming symobilzes leads emanipation from traditional society

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Ibsen plays
Definition

Hedda gabler- feminist shoots herself

the wild duck-- deals with conflict betwen idealism and family secrets

ghosts-- most controversial, social ills: alcholism incest and religious hypocrisy

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Benjamin Franklin; Rules by Which a Great Empire May be Reduced to a Small One
Definition

ironic tone

 

warn british of probable outcome in the colonies if they persist with their policies. discussed one by one

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Neoclassicists
Definition

american colonial writers primarily

 

Content was american but style was british. in larity and balance

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Examples of neoclassicists
Definition

William Bradford, The myflowers compact

Anne Bradstreet's poetry

wiliam byrd a history of the dividing line

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The cricible by Arthur miller runs parrallel to which real life event
Definition

Senator Mccarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee Hearing

 

 

1950's

 

witch hunts= communist hunts

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Maya Angelou
Definition

Poet and fomaous black memoirist

I Know why the caged bird sings (1970)

And i still rise (1978)

All God's children need travelling shoes (1986)

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Richard Wilbur
Definition
POET AND TRANSLATOR OF FRENCH DRAMATISTS RACINE AND MOLiere
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Richard Wright
Definition
african american novelist of Native Son and Black Boy
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Sandra Cisneros
Definition

the house on mango street

 

latina female literature

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Native American Literature
Definition

started as oral traditions- 15th century

characteristics: hardiness of body and soul. remorsefor destruction of thenative American way of life, and th genocide of many tribes.

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Examples of Modern Native American Fiction

 

Definition
Duane Niatum, Gunn Allen, Louise Erdich, N Scott Momaday
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Russian Naturalism characteristics
Definition
Pessimistic
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Russian Naturalism
Definition

started with Belinsky in 1840s

best know from: Dstoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekov, and Turgenev

 

 

Anna Karenina and Crime and Punishment--dark outlook

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Didactic
Definition
intended to teach some lesson
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A visit from st nicholas-- Clement Moore
Definition
children's literature that was didactic, cheery non threatening child's view of the night before xmas
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The Outsiders
Definition

SE Hinton

 

six grade reading level

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Grade level appeal of the Outsiders
Definition

9th grade

 

faced with changing bodies and relationships. has tehm face issues just sprouting

 

universal to adolescents

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Children's literature establisment
Definition

17th century

 

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17th century chldrens lit writers
Definition

France

jean de La Fontaine- fables

pierre Perreailts Tales

d'Aulnoye's novels

Beaumont- beauty and the beast

England

oliver Smith- the renowned history of little goody two shoes

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John Bunyan
Definition

religious writer

 

Grace Abounding to the cheifof sinners (Autobiography)

 

the hoy city, or the new jerusale, (1665)

A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice (1672)

the holy war (1682)

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Joseph Addison
Definition

founded the spectator mag. with Richard steele

play: Cato (1712)

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Richard Steele
Definition

Tatler, Spectator--mags

 

play- the funeral

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Alexander pope
Definition

Satircal Poet and Essayist

 

 

The Rape of the Lock

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Characteristics of first American Literature
Definition
Maudlin and self pitying egocentricism
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classical literature compared to pop literature

 

ex: Harry Potter and greek/roman myths

Definition
common themes that center on the universal truths of love, fear, and hate
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William Wordswordth
Definition

19th century

Romantic poet

My heart Leaps up

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Romantiscism
Definition

19th century

emphasis on feelings, emotions and passions

  • William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  • William Wordsworth – The Prelude
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron – Don Juan "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound "Adonais" "Ode to the West Wind" "Ozymandias"
  • John Keats – Great Odes "Hyperion" "Endymion"
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neoclassicism chararcteristics
Definition
classical ideals of proportians, common sense, and reason
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Victorian lit characteristics
Definition

late 19th century

exerted more restraint on emotions and feelings

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naturalism
Definition
world is depicted harshly and objectively
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