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Undergraduate 2
01/24/2010

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2 swords of God:

1) Church (man's spiritual and moral affairs)

2) Government (God controls ppl through taxes, laws, etc)

Definition

Puritan/Colonial Period

Age of Reason/Augustan Age/Neo-Classic Age

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Philosophical Rationalsim
Definition
Rise of Realsim
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Christian Imperialism (Christianize all ppl) 
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Puritan/Colonial Period
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Resurgence of optimism of the human spirit
Definition
Romantic Revolt/Romantic Movement & Transcendentalism
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White Man's Burden: Europeans should go out & conquer anyone not white
Definition
Puritan/Colonial Period
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Frame Narrator: someone telling a story through his/her own eyes
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Rise of Realism
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New Eden/New Canaan
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Puritan/Colonial Period
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Writer's Individual Interpretation of Experience
Definition
Rise of Realism
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Regionalism
Definition
Rise of Realism
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Referential Narrative
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Rise of Realism
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Rebellion Against Reason
Definition
Romantic Revolt/Romantic Movement & Transcendentalism
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The Literature of Witness
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Literature to 1620
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Local Color/Realism: dialect of different states
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Rise of Realism
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Rejection of Transcendentalism
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Rise of Realism
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Flowering of Transcendentalism: new age ppl (hippies); more of a philosophy than a religion
Definition
Romantic Revolt/Romantic Movement & Transcendentalism
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Election Via Predestination
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Literature to 1620

The Puritan/Colonial Period

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New World Propaganda
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Literature to 1620

Puritan/Colonial Period

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Devout faith in God
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Literature to 1620

Puritan/Colonial Period

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The Children of Satan
Definition
Puritan/Colonial Period
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stressing common place or sordid and brutal aspects of life
Definition
rise of realism
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man as both a political & utilitarian creature
Definition
age of reaosn/augustan age/neo-classic
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man as measure of all things
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age of reason/augustan age/neo-classic age
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Deism:belief in only God the Father;not His Son Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit

  • the God who created the universe took no part in His creation after He created it.
Definition
age of reason/augustan age/neo-classic age
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Rationalism
Definition
age of reason/augustan age/neo-classic age
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highly polished literature 
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age of reason/augustan age/neo-classic age
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Frank, mature literary topics
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rise of realism
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didactic literature (Christian literature) didactic literature that teaches
Definition
puritan/colonial period
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transoceanic encounter

  • marks the advent, the spanish colonization
Definition
literature to 1620
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idealistic impressionistic concept of reality

  • reality is subjective, not objective; its not the same for everyone
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romantic revolt/romantic movement & transcendentalism
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true celebration of the american spirit:"we can do it"
Definition
romantic revolt/romantic movement & transcendentalism
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oral performance oral tradition-orature
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literature to 1620
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rise of atheistic humanism

  1. no God
  2. situational ethics
Definition
  • puritan/colonial period
  • age of reason/augustan age/neo-classic age
  • romantic revolt/romantic movement & transcendentlism
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divine rights of kings: you don't kill God's beloved, He'll come back & get you
Definition

puritan/colonial period

age of reaosn/augustan age/neo-classic age

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noble savage
Definition
romantic revolt/romantic movement & transcendentalism
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