British Literature Unit 5

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Katherine Mansfield

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

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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

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James Joyce

Experimental fiction put Ireland at the center of the modernist movement

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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

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Epiphany

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

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RoseMary

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

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Philip

What was the name of Rosemary’s husband?

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No

Does Philip seem like a good person?

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Dubliners

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

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Determinism

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

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James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence

demonstrated determinism in their works

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

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Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield

were female authors who focused on gender and class barriers

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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

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Sigmund Freud

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

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William Butler Yeats

Widely considered the greatest lyric poet of the twentieth century

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Modernist

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

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Satire

A popular genre of modern literate

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Determinism

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

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Alienation and Fragmentation

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

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Gender and class barriers

What did Woolf and Mansfield focus on?

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Lewis

Who is particularly known for defending a Chirstian worldview

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Stream of Consciousness

experiencing with individual perspective and though processes, creating a technique

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Concrete images and spare diction

What did Yeats challenge the later generation to focus on?

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Apologetics

What is Lewis known for?

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Lyric poems

What did Yeat often write?

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Allusions and Symbols

What did Yeat carefully incorporate into his work?