American Literature II Exam 2

What is literary modernism?

The use of non-traditional literary forms to represent the transformation of traditional society under the pressures of modernity

What was the first major showcase of the Euro-American avant-garde?

The New York Armory show of 1913

When did Literary Modernism occur?

1914-1945 or 1912-1950s

What was the ethos of Literary Modernism?

A reaction to historical/philosophical modernism in many ways

What characterized historical/philosophical modernism?

Secular Institutions, empiricism, progress, and democracy

What is Autonomy of Art?

Art is an ideal order that “suffices” for what has been lost in the modern world

What is the concept of fragmentation?

True reality is too complex for conscious comprehension

What is the concept of solipsism (and alienation)?

We create the world in the act of perceiving it

What do existentialism and nihilism convey in the ethos of literary modernism?

Pessimism regarding the value of institutions and belief systems

What are the characteristics of modernist literature?

The strategy and structure of fragmentation, abrupt shifts in persona, voice, tone, perspective, suggestive rather than assertive, and purposefully difficult, and streamlined

What are the key modernist movements?

Futurism, vorticism, imagism, objectivism, and surrealism

What does avant-garde mean?

Clearing away all tradition and conventionality to forge new systems

What is solipsism?

Creating a world, or system, within one’s own mind that has little dialogue with the expectations of society

What is elitism/authenticity?

Art that speaks to other artists, primarily. The artist must be willing to defy and even demonize conventional expectations

What are modernism attributes in Mina Loy’s Feminist Manifesto?

Forceful, aphoristic, energetic style, return to primordial roots, disavowal of culture and wealth for cultivation of the spirit, and call for departure from social norms/traditions

According to Ezra Pound’s A Retrospect, what is an image?

That which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time

What are the principles of imagism?

Direct treatment of the thing, whether objective or subjective, to use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation, and rhythm

According to Ezra Pound, what is rhythm?

To compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of the metronome

What are Ezra Pound’s “don’ts”?

Fear abstraction, fear ornament, fear imitation, fear popular sentiment, fear practice and hard work

Which author was born in Haley, ID, but moved to Philadelphia as an infant?

Ezra Pound

Which author studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where he befriends WCW and dates H.C?

Ezra Pound

Which author earned a Ph.B at Hamilton College?

Ezra Pound

Which author graduated with an M.A from University of Pennsylvania in languages?

Ezra Pound

Which author learned well seven languages?

Ezra Pound

Which author studied Latin, Old English, French, and Italian at Penn?

Ezra Pound

Which author was fired from his instructorship at Wabash College and then moved to London?

Ezra Pound

Which author published six volumes of verse?

Ezra Pound

Which author became Poetry magazine’s international correspondent and wrote a number of literary periodicals?

Ezra Pound

Which author lived with Yeats and acted as his editor/secretary?

Ezra Pound

Which author helped publish Joyce’s Ulysses in serial form?

Ezra Pound

Which author moved to Paris and helped establish American expatriate literary circles there?

Ezra Pound

Which author was arrested for treason after making anti-American radio broadcasrs in Italy?

Ezra Pound

Which author was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and was confined in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington DC?

Ezra Pound

Personae

Ezra Pound

Riposetes

Ezra Pound

Des Imagistes

Ezra Pound

Cathay

Ezra Pound

Hugh Selwyn Mauberly

Ezra Pound

ABC of Economics; ABC of Reading; Make It New; Jefferson and/or Mussolini (essays)

Ezra Pound

The Cantos

Ezra Pound

Which author had a tireless advocacy for poets of all types, especially those who wanted to “make it new”?

Ezra Pound

Which author was known for his revolutionary ideas for what makes for good poetry in the modern age?

Ezra Pound

Which author was known for his notion of “the poem including history”?

Ezra Pound

Which author was known for his taut, vigorous line?

Ezra Pound

Which author was born in St. Louis?

T. S. Eliot

Which author spent his undergraduate years at Harvard and earns his BA and MA degrees there?

T. S. Eliot

Which author spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris?

T. S. Eliot

Which author returned to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student?

T. S. Eliot

Which author starts his doctoral thesis on F.H. Bradley and finishes the dissertation, but never defends it?

T. S. Eliot

Which author goes to England on fellowship, where he meets Ezra Pound?

T. S. Eliot

Which author took a position at Lloyds Bank in the Colonial and Foreign Department, but later leaves because they were ill and exhausted?

T. S. Eliot

Which author entered the Church of England and assumed British citizenship?

T. S. Eliot

Which author gave many lectures and readings in England and America?

T. S. Eliot

Which author focused on verse-plays from the mid-1940s on?

T. S. Eliot

Which author won the Nobel Prize for literature?

T. S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Observations

T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land

T. S. Eliot

Ash Wednesday

T. S. Eliot

Murder in the Cathedral

T. S. Eliot

The Four Quartets

T. S. Eliot

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

T. S. Eliot

The Cocktail Party

T. S. Eliot

Which author is in the canon because he was an influential cultural and literary critic?

T. S. Eliot

Which author’s early poetry had depictions of the alienation and spiritual deprivation of the modern world?

T. S. Eliot

Which author used an influential technique of fragmentation combined with multiple allusions to ancient myths and imagistic vignettes of contemporary life?

T. S. Eliot

Which author was known for his late poetry’s philosophical meditations on time and eternity?

T. S. Eliot

Which author was known for his highly successful verse-plays?

T. S. Eliot

Which author was known for his ability to integrate myth and modern culture?

T. S. Eliot

What was Eliot’s “Objective Correlative”?

A pattern of objects, actions, or events that can serve effectively to awaken in the reader an emotional response without being a direct statement of that subjective emotion

What did Eliot use “Objective Correlative” to do?

Characterize literature as indirect speech

What is “Dissociation of Sensibility”?

A disjunction of thought and feeling that Eliot believed to be a symptom of modernity

What was Eliot’s notion of tradition?

A living web of interconnected voices; the great poet does not state a new idea or describe new emotions, but rather through technique he finds new means to express old verities

What was Eliot’s idea about the impersonality of the poet?

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion

Which author was born in Rutherford, NJ?

William Carlos Williams

Which author attended school in Europe and later travels there?

William Carlos Williams

Which author had a medical practice as a pediatrician?

William Carlos Williams

Which author had poems published in Pound’s Des Images anthology?

William Carlos Williams

Which author wins an award from both The Dial and Poetry?

William Carlos Williams

Which author recognizes a shift in his poetics as he works toward his epic poem?

William Carlos Williams

Which author receives National Book Award and Bollingen Prize?

William Carlos Williams

Which author has a series of strokes?

William Carlos Williams

Which author was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress but then was dismissed because of his connection with Pound and suspicions of anti-Americanism?

William Carlos Williams

Which author is awarded a Pulitzer posthumously?

William Carlos Williams

Al Que Quiere!

William Carlos Williams

Sour Grapes

William Carlos Williams

Spring and All

William Carlos Williams

In the American Grain

William Carlos Williams

Paterson

William Carlos Williams

The Desert Music

William Carlos Williams

Journey to Love

William Carlos Williams

Pictures from Brueghel

William Carlos Williams

Which author was known for his prolific, diverse, and continually innovative body of work in many genres?

William Carlos Williams

Which author was known for his constant effort at articulating the aims of art and poetry that influenced the next generation of writers?

William Carlos Williams

Which author was known for his concrete imagery often without comment?

William Carlos Williams

Which author was known for his formal experimentation with line and rhythm that led to his “variable foot”?

William Carlos William

Which author was known for his insistence on “the local” as the subject for poetry and colloquial diction as the language of poetry?

William Carlos William

Which author forged a peculiarly American brand of modernism that countered Pound’s and Eliot’s cosmopolitanism?

William Carlos William

Which author was born in Kirkwood, MO and moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania at age seven?

Marianne Moore

Which author became associated with the American avant-garde by publishing poems in The Egoist, Poetry, and Others?

Marianne Moore

Which author became editor of The Dial, which later ceased publication and some accused them of being too strict in taste and prudish in morals?

Marianne Moore