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1850-present American Lit
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Undergraduate 1
08/09/2010

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boston marriage
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19th and 20th century arrangement where 2 women would live together, independent of male support.
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Angel in the house
Definition
Poem by Coventry Patmore published in 1854. It was about the courship of his first wife, Emily, who he thought was perfect. it became known as the romanticization of the victorian woman: cult of domesticity, devoted to children and submissive to husband.
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new woman
Definition
feminist ideal that emerged in the late 19th century, fought against male-dominated society
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novella
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a short novel or long story
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social realism
Definition
the realistic depiction in art of contemporary life, as means of social or political comment
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patriachy
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system where man was head of the family and power was only in male hands
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motif
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a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition
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existentialism
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a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of will
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canon
Definition
a list of literary or artistic works considered to be permanently established as being of highest quality
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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A White Heron
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Kate Chopin
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The Awakening
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The Yellow Wallpaper
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Edith Wharton
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The Other Two
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Americanization
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make american in character, nationality, or cultural. (first appears with the lesson on fitzgerald)
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modernism
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a style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms.
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American Modernism
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thought that affirms the power of humans to create, improve and reshape the environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology and practical experimentation, and is thus in its essence both progressive and optimistic.
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new criticism
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movement in literary criticism that stressed the importance of focusing on the text itself rather than being concerned with external biographical or social considerations.
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intentional fallacy
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the fallacy of basing an assessment of a work on the author's intention rather than on one's response to the actual work
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individualism
Definition
a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control
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yellow journalism
Definition
based on sensationalism and crude exaggeration
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Jazz age
Definition
1920s in the US characterized as a period of carefree hedonism
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harlem renaissance
Definition
literarey movement in the 20s that centered on Harlem and was an early manifestation of black consciousness
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The Negro Problem
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the theory on race relations in the mid 20th century, focused on the social boundaries that were erected preventing black americans to assimilate with culture.
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double consciousness
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coined by WEB DuBois. describes an individual whose identity is divided into several facets
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miscegenation
Definition
interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial types
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patronage
Definition
a patronizing or condescending manner
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Booker T. Washington
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from Up from Slavery
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W. E. B. DuBois
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The Souls of Black Folk
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Mules and Men; Sweat
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Langston Hughes
Definition
a bunch of poems
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imagism
Definition
a movement in early 20th century english and american poetry that sought clarity of expression through the use of precise images.
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parallelism
Definition
The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
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metonymy
Definition
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example "suit" for "business executive"
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hypallage
Definition
a transposition of the natural relations of two elements in a proposition, e.g. "Melissa shook her doubtful curls"
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personification
Definition
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to to something nonhuman or representation of an abstract quality in human form
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Wallace Stevens
Definition
Sunday Morning
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T. S. Eliot
Definition
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Love is not all; it is not meat or drink
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E. E. Cummings
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poems

* "[in Just–]," 2120.

* "[next to god of course america i]," 2121.

* "[anyone lived in a pretty how town]," 2124.
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enjambment
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(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
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beat generation
Definition
a movement of young people in the 50s who rejected conventional society and favored buddhism, modern jazz, free sex, and recreational drugs
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feminine mystique
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a theory by Friedan: Society is structures such that women have to find their identity through their husband and children
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"William Faulkner
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barn burning
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Flannery O'Connor
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A good man is hard to find
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Allen Ginsberg
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Howl; supermarket in california; america
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Anne Sexton
Definition
Her kind; self in 1958
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consciousness raising
Definition
seeking to make people aware of social/ political issues
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sinophobia
Definition
dislike of china or its people and culture
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Ojibway
Definition
natives that live around Lake Superior
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magic realism
Definition
a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy
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machismo
Definition
strong or aggressive masculine pride
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Toni Morrison
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Playing in the Dark
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Raymond Carver
Definition
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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The Woman Warrior
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Alice Walker
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Everyday Use
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Louise Erdrich
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Lulu's Boys
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