Studied by 7 peopleBret Harte
Realist, wrote Outcast of Poker Flats
John Oakhurst
main character in Poker Flats. 20 ft of snow and Uncle Billy stole the Mules. He dies in exhile.
T.S. Elliot
anti-romantic, free verse poetry
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Elliot, couldn’t live in harmony with the real world. Stuck by his thoughts, wants a lover.
Journey of the Magi
T.S Elliot, Die to yourself in order to live eternally
Imagism
Written in free verse, Ezra Pound was the leader of the movement. Portrays images through writing.
Example of imagism
In a station of the metro- ghost like faces, petals on wet black branches
WASP
White Anglo-Saxon protestants. Immigration tears them apart.
Flappers
Modern women. Bob haircuts, short skirts.
Naturalism
no soul, radical thinking, hostile environment
Realism
confined to physical world, the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
Three big dogs
Darwin, Freud, Marx
Objective Correlativeness
Series of events trying to make you think something
WW1
blew things up, started modernism. End of realism
mimesis
Aristotle’s word that imitates literature’s based on the imitation of life
satire
ridiculing vice (envy) and folly (stupid), the feud in Huckleberry Finn
bildungsroman
a youth who is innocent and through a series of experiences becomes mature.
omniscient
knowing everything
Limited Omniscient
We know all the thoughts of just one character
objective narrator
One who relates the events of the story and characters' actions without directly telling the reader the characters' inner thoughts or feelings. Provides unbiased view from the reader
Nietzsche
Athesit,’, believed heaven was just a world of ideas, attempts to unmask religion
Ibsem
Imitation, lifelike experiences, realist
Law of club and fang
Law of force and power. (Spitz)
Christ figure in Huckleberry Finn
Jim. He sacrifices for Huck. Betrayed multiple times. Got bit in leg by snake, protoevangelium
atavism
the reemergence of ancestral biological traits which are aroused by dangerous circumstances
local color
Realism utilization of regional dialect
solidarity
oneness
Mass Men/herd mentality
all men doing the same thing
proletariat
working class men
Super structure
supports the base such as art, movies, books, etc.
base
capitalism
Bourgeois
The means of production, business owners, middle-class
Oedipus Complex
Getting with mom and killing dad
Electra Complex
Getting with dad and killing mom
Type of Christ in “A view of the woods”
Mary Fortune getting innocently whipped by Pitts
agnst
Sense of dread or emptiness
What are the three stages
Anesthetic, ethical and religious stage
Anesthetic stage
lives in the moment, seeks pleasure
Ethical stage
Serious, has morals
Religious stage
Open arms to God, Christianity
Nihilism
Nothing means anything, life is meaningless. Rejection of all morals and religion
Alienation
being isolated from a group or place that you should be involved in
I-thou
real person, get treated with feelings
I-it
just another thing, don’t get treated as a person
everydayness
experiencing the same thing every single day and never switching up
Verisimilitude
the idea of being close to the truth
Harlem Rennisance
black people trying to find their identity
Claude McKay
Roman Catholic, wrote Tropics of New York, If We Must Die, Outcast and St. Issac’s Church
William Faulkner
Wrote Intruder in the Dusk, modernist
Crawford Gowrie
Intruder in the Dust, murderer of his brother Vincent and Jake Montgomery
Mrs. Habersham
Intruder in the Dust, helps Lucas so he doesn’t get falsely accused
Hope Hampton
Intruder in the Dust, sheriff
Free Verse
No rhyme scheme
Mark Twain
Realist, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 13 year old boy, outcast
Tom
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Foil to Huck, Huck eventually abandons him, stubborn
Widow Douglas
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Patient with Huck, Huck likes her
The Grangerfords
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, they let Huck stay with them
Ezra Pound
Uses imagism in his poems. Modernist. Wrote In a station of the metro and The Garden
Scott Fitzgerald
Romantic, wrote The Great Gatsby.
Nick Carraway
The Great Gatsby, moves to West Egg in New York from Minnesota to learn about bond business
The Great Gatsby POV
First person limited
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn POV
First Person
Of Mice and Men POV
objective
Tom Beauchamp
The Great Gatsby, marries Daisy, wealthy, has high moral standards for those around him
Myrtle Wilson
The Great Gatsby, Toms lover whom is married to George, whom dies.
John Steinbeck
Wrote Of Mice and Men, Modernist
Candy
Of Mice and Men, has an old dog that gets shot, handyman that lost his hand. Wants to be part of their dream
Curley
Of Mice and Men, picks fights with larger men
Slim
Of Mice and Men, friend to George after he shoots Lennie
Walker Percy
Deep Catholic faith, wrote The Moviegoer
Paul Dunbar
Part of Harlem Renaissance period. Wrote Douglass, We Wear the Mask and Life’s Tragedy
Countee Cullen
Harlem Renaissance poet, wrote The Black Christ and Yet I do Marvel
Intruder in the Dust POV
Third person limited
Tennesse Williams
Wrote The Glass Menagerie, southern gothic style
Laura Wingfield
The Glass Menagerie, crippled, daughter of Amanda, Sister of Tom
Jim O’Conner
The Glass Menagerie, gentlemen Caller
Flannery O’Conner
Wrote A view of the Woods, Parkers Back, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Violent Bear it Away
A View of the Woods
Flannery O’Conner, Mary fortune loves her grandpa and then turns on him and her grandpa kills her
Parkers Back
Man got a tattoo of Christ on his back for his wife and she hit him saying it was idolatry
The Power and the Glory POV
3rd person limited to omniscient
Langston Hughes
A negro speaks of rivers
Claude McKay
Atheist and Communist who becomes a Catholic
Mark Twain
He wrote about James Fennimore Coopers literary
Unities
realistic play should have one plot, one place
Symbolism
Shows realism’s lack of depth and lack of mystery (the great Gatsby) (Fitzgerald)
line of ism’s
Romantism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Modernism
Modernism
Society has shattered into fragments after world war one
Huxley
Disciple of Darwin that believes that men are electro-magnetic current
Darwinism
Buck’s biology, he has no free will
adaptation
Buck hiding in the snow to survive
Marx
Gold rush fated Mercedes to die, economics is fated men
Bourgeois
Marx’s wealthy class
ID
Acting on forbidden desires, shaped by early traumas
herd instinct
Proletariat following the rich
Freud
Human behavior shaped by unconscious
dialectic materialism
All conflicts are solved by two opposing forces
couplet
Two rhymed lines of poetry
ascendants
repeating vowels
Ballad
The haunted Oak in four three meter
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