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Brit Lit- Final Exam
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Undergraduate 2
05/01/2010

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First World War
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1914-1918
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Publication of Eliot's The Wasteland
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1922
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Publication of Joyce's Ulysses
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1922
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Second World War
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1939-1945
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Imagism
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a movement in early 20th century literature that favored precision of imagery and clear, precise language - wanted to get away from the fuzzy language of symbolist poetry- Ezra Pound
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Symbolism
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emerged in France during the 2nd half of the 19th century, uses highly symbolized language - T.S. Eliot
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Stream of Consciousness
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usually a first-person narrative that seems to give the reader access to the narrator's mind as it perceives or reflects on events, prior toto organizing those perceptions into a coherent narrative. Joyce, Ulysses
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epiphany
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a sudden revelation about an underlying truth
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naturalism
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literary movement taking place from 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character, expose the harshness of life, grew out of realism but also interested in the underlying causes of circumstances
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Freudianism
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henever a psychic drive or urge is suppressed, repressed, or driven below (or out of) consciousness, its energy inevitably appears elsewhere. Freud proposed that the Id (the essentially biological element), the Ego (the socializing element), and the Superego (the dispenser of rewards and punishment) interact dynamically. (Put more idiomatically: The Id says, "I want it now!!"; The Ego says, "No wait, please. Accept this substitute" (sublimation); and the Superego judges either "Well done!" or "You shouldn't have done that. Now you will have to suffer guilt.") Their relative strengths in different people produce differences in personality.;his findings have led critics to treat literary works from the vantage point of psycho-biography, inquiring about personality traits or traumas that shed light upon an author's work.
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existentialism
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a term applied to the work of a number of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,generally held that the focus of philosophical thought should be to deal with the conditions of existence of the individual person and their emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts.Existentialism became fashionable in the post-World War years as a way to reassert the importance of human individuality and freedom
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postmodernism
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a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative
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"the Second Coming"
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Yeats
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"Sailing to Byzantium"
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Yeats
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"Leda and the Swan"
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Yeats
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"Byzantium"
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Yeats
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"The Circus Animals' Desertion"
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Yeats
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"Under Ben Bulben"
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Yeats
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"The Mark on the Wall"
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Woolf
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A Room of One's Own
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Woolf
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"Professions for Women"
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Woolf
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The Dead
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Joyce
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"Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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Eliot
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"The Waste Land"
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Eliot
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The Four Quartets: Little Gidding
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Eliot
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Murder in the Cathedral
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Eliot
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Arcadia
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Stoppard
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"Darkness"
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Byron
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"She Walks in Beauty"
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Byron
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father was a painter
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Yeats
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spent childhood in Ireland
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Yeats
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"religious skeptic but believed in religion of art
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Yeats
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sought all his life to compensate for his lost religion
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Yeats
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founded the Irish Literary society
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Yeats
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came to see his poetry as contributing to the rejuvenation of Irish culture
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Yeats
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hybridized Irish and English traditions- imposes Irish rhythms , images, genres and syntax on English -language poetry
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Yeats
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Maud Gonne refused to marry
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Yeats
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disliked the middle class and looked for ideal characters in beggars or aristocrats
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Yeats
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founded the Abbey Theater
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Yeats
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appointed senator of the Irish Free State
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Yeats
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married Georgie Hyde Lees
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Yeats
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"gyre"
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Yeats
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paradoxes of time and eternity, change and continuity, spirit and the body, arrested him from the start
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Yeats
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both a literary traditionalist and a restless innovator who disrupts generic conventions
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Yeats
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briefly drawn to fascism
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Yeats
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associated with the Bloomsbury Group
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Woolf
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bisexual
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Woolf
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drowned herself in a river
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Woolf
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founded the Hogarth press
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Woolf
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abandons linear narratives in favor of interior monologues
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Woolf
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concerned with the position of women and the consciousness under which they suffered
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Woolf
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proposed literature that would be androgynous in mind and resonate equally with men and women
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Woolf
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regarded himself as a rebel against the shabbiness and philistinism of Dublin
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Joyce
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not always an easy person to get along with
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Joyce
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suffered from eye diseases and underwent 25 operations
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Joyce
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wrote only and always about Dublin
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Joyce
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epiphany
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a dramatic but fleeting moment of revelation about the self or the world
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born in Missouri
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Eliot
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director of Faber & Faber
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Eliot
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Joined the hurch of England in 1927
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Eliot
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sought to make poetry more subtle, more suggestive, and at the same time more precise
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Eliot
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Like the imagists, he emphasized the necessity of clear and precise images
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Eliot
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concerned with aspects of cultural decay in the modern Western world
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Eliot
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considered himself a classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion
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Eliot
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favored order against chaos, tradition against eccentricity, authority against rampant individualism
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Eliot
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gained the nobel prize in literature
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Eliot
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awarded the Order of Merit by King George VI
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Eliot
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the greatest and most English of these artists
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Byron
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most contemporaries thought negatively of him; except Shelly
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Byron
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incestuous relations with half-sister
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Byron
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"Lake Isle"
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Yeats
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"When you are old"
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Yeats
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"Adam's Curse"
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Yeats
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"September 1913"
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Yeats
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"Wild Swans"
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Yeats
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"Easter 1916"
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Yeats
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