British Literature Unit 5

D.H. Lawrence

An English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet

Foreshadow

hint at events later in the story

Exposition

introduces the setting, characters, and conflict

Inciting Incident

event initiating the conflict

Rising Action

obstacles the protagonist must overcome, leading to the climax

Crisis

major turning point for the protagonist

Climax

highest point of interest in the story

Falling Action

leads to the story’s conclusion

Denouement

story’s conclusion

1913

what year was Sons and Lovers published?

Sons and Lovers

Lawrence published what book in 1913?

Lady Chatterley's Lover

What is Lawrence's most famous novel?

1930

What year did Lawrence die?

Marriage

What is the inciting incident in A Sick Collier

Katherine Mansfield

Considered a great master and innovator of the short-story form

Third-person limited point of view

the narrator stands outside the story, refers to the characters in the third person, and “gets inside” only one character’s head

James Joyce

Experimental fiction put Ireland at the center of the modernist movement

Stream of-consciousness technique

a type of writing in which the author attempts to reproduce the flow of thoughts in a character’s mind with little attention to grammar or logic

Epiphany

a sudden revelatory insight into some aspect of life or reality that springs from an ordinary person, object, or event

RoseMary

What was the name of the girl in the cup of tea?

Philip

What was the name of Rosemary’s husband?

No

Does Philip seem like a good person?

Dubliners

Joyce's first significant work is a collection of masterfully written short stories titled _?

Determinism

closely related to naturalism, holds that man is at the mercy of the controlling roles of human nature and society

James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence

demonstrated determinism in their works

The themes of alienation and fragmentation developed form feeling the effects of society’s unfair expectations and class division

Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield

were female authors who focused on gender and class barriers

William Butler Yeats

resolved the modernists’ search for meaning apart from a Christian worldview by constructing his own worldview composed of Celtic mythology and a cyclical view of history

Sigmund Freud

had a profound influence on psychology by theorizing the power of the unconscious mind

William Butler Yeats

Widely considered the greatest lyric poet of the twentieth century

Modernist

Who was dissatisfied with society tat revealed widespread disillusionment with Victorian morals and ideals

Satire

A popular genre of modern literate

Determinism

What did James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence demonstrated in their works?

Alienation and Fragmentation

What themes developed from feeling the effects of society's unfair expectation and class division

Gender and class barriers

What did Woolf and Mansfield focus on?

Lewis

Who is particularly known for defending a Chirstian worldview

Stream of Consciousness

experiencing with individual perspective and though processes, creating a technique

Concrete images and spare diction

What did Yeats challenge the later generation to focus on?

Apologetics

What is Lewis known for?

Lyric poems

What did Yeat often write?

Allusions and Symbols

What did Yeat carefully incorporate into his work?

Virginia Woolf:

English novelist, essayist, and publisher whose fiction experimented with modernist forms while exploring feminist themes

Interior Monologue:

a type of stream-of-consciousness narration in which the speaker’s inner thoughts tumble onto the page seemingly just as they do inside his or her head