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| "First,it is the duty of black men to judge the south discriminatingly." |
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Du Bois "Of Brooker T. Washington"
-separate from Washington, saying there are serious wrongs in past, Immediate change. Lynching- destroying black individuals and identity. Debate over activism.
-Sets up three forms of reaction (revold adjust and assimilation) Says that Assimilation (Washington's way) is wrong. DuBois said Washingtons problem was his view of reality/his lense. |
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| "This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character." |
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Turner "Significance from Frontier in American History"
-Americanism
- Frontier Theory vs. Germ Theory
-Given during Chicago World Fair, celebrate America, ending the frontier, exceptionalism, nationalism, environmental influence. |
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| "If he tries to retain his old language, in a few generations it becomes a barbarous jargon; if he tries to retain his old customs and ways of life, in a few generations he becomes an uncouth boot." |
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Roosevelt "True Americanism and American Ideals"
-Americanization, assimilation, nationalism, exceptionalism, Little Englandism |
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| "The failure of the melting-pot, far from closing the great American democratic experiment, means that it has only just begun." |
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Bourne "Transnational America"
-American assimilation exposed as a lie
-Democracy about mixing not melting |
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| "to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze" |
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Conrad "Heart of Darkness"
-impressionism; hazy, meaning outside, all of human nature is dark- not just a deep interior look, |
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| "They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity" |
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Conrad "Heart of Darkness"
-Impressionism, visual imagery, imperialism, humanity- likens blacks to himself, bleak modern ending, in the end we are all brutes- the horror! |
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| "All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz" |
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Conrad "Heart of Darkness"
-Kurtz- a mixed European "a mut"; cosmopolitan, not even Kurtz could stand staring at humanity and colonization, Transnational problem, go in with values and come out with nothing. Loss of soul. Went in with all of the ideals yet they failed (exposing the absurdity of Victorian ideals) |
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Conrad "Heart of Darkness"
-nihilism, existentialism, two kinds of Europeans: manager with no principles; philanthropist with principles that they loose. |
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Conrad "Heart of Darkness"
-all have hollowness; all as shallow as brutal blacks. Manager-type character. |
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| "The horror! The horror!" |
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Conrad "Heart of Darkness"
-Modernism- bleak outlook, Philanthropic European protecting woman as domestic icon(need to add notes!) |
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| "This is the reason why I affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say. He said it" |
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Conrad "Heart of Darkness"
naturalism:absence of style; |
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| "Things fell apart, the centre cannot hold/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned." |
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Yeats "Second Coming"
- gyre, chaos, trying to restore order- Modernism |
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| "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity." |
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Yeats "Second Coming"
-gyres 200 years, chaos, Christ will need to come put it in order, cynical -Modernist, Hatred for humanity. |
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| "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" |
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Yeats "Second Coming"
-slouching beast- sphynx in Egypt.
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| "One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot." |
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Joyce "Letter To Harriet"
-nonlinear plot; snatches of cutdry grammar but mixed with daydreams, thoughts, human ex. not always clearly defined, only get snatches, stream of consciousness. |
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| "Gabriel felt humiliated by the faulure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks." |
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Joyce "The Dead"
-epiphany comes by tradition(after knowing past he now understands his wife's future condition), burden of past weighing on present, starts in medias res, anti-hero, last name Fury- haunting ghosts, stream of consciousness. |
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| "His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world." |
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Joyce "The Dead"
-epiphany, anti hero, messanger figure, questions if he likes himself, impressionism-grey. |
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| "And indeed there will be time/To wonder, 'Do I dare?' and, 'Do I dare?'" |
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T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
-exemplary anti-hero, shows doubt (modernism), Hamlet character- irony, tradition, against Victorian poet-prophet, expressionism- expressing what is going on. |
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| "I am no prophet- and here's no great matter." |
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T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
-antihero, going against old tradition of Poet Prophet. He is Hamlet. Attempting to make meaning to life. |
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| "Were we led all this way for/ Birth or Death?" |
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T.S. Eliot "Journey of Magi"
-we are all led away- doubt, dramatic monologue, conncets to Christ, end of era
-journey to birth and see images foreshadowing death- dark, bleak modernism, collapsing and connecting birth and death
-end of one dispensation is the beg on another w pain.Death brings birth do the world. (gyres)
-Christ's birth is meaningless w/o his death. Assign meaning through the death.
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| "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of perosnality, but an escape from personality." |
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T.S. Eliot "Tradition/Individual Talent"
-notion of conformity, quest for originality |
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| "Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more/ But dipped its top and set me down again." |
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Robert Frost "Birches"
-popular appeal, more accessible, All-American poet, fragmented narration (switch from focus on boy-ice)
-against transcendentalist views. Wants to stay grounded |
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| "I shall be telling this with a sigh" |
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Frost "Road Not Taken"
-individualistic, regrets and impossibility, wants to be two people, divided self, attempt to make meaning to his decision, cannot give value to his choice. |
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| "Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end." |
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Woolf "Mrs. Dalloway"
-expressionism, interior monologue, fragmented narration, existentialism, stream of consciousness, Crisis of Modern living |
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| "Those five years- 1918 to 1923- had been, he suspected, somehow very important. People looked different." |
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Woolf "Mrs. Dalloway"
-Peter Walsh, end of an era, England not so grand anymore, Little Englandism |
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| "He went to France to save an England which consisted almost entirely of Shakespeare's play and Miss Isobel Pole in a green dress walking in a square." |
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Woolf "Mrs. Dalloway"
-Little Englandism |
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Term
| "the sin for which human nature had condemned him to death; that he did not feel" |
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| "She somehow felt very like him- the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away." |
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| "It marked the edge/ of one of many circles" |
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| Stevens "Thirteen Ways To...Blackbird" |
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| "there never was a world for her/Except the one she sang and, singing, made." |
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Stevens "Idea of Order at Key West"
-existentilism; she made a purpose for herself in life. |
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| "for a moment he could not even see, could not see....But he could hear..." |
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Faulkner "Barn Burning"
-interesting sensory experience, limited 3rd person, ..? |
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| "There was the ring of singing metal on wood. Fifteen times." |
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Hurston "The Gilded Six Bits"
- tradition breaking, Modernism, buying his wife back- prostitution, local color, regionalism, quest for cultural authenticity, restore to proper place |
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| "What's a body but a toy?" |
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Hughes "Mulatto"
-Mulatto in structure even, call and response create community, double-consciousness, fragmented narration
-consequence of the system, status of the mother as a commodity, victim.
-nature responing to what is happening (dusk, terpentine, yellow stars) |
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| "it seemed as though it telescoped so that you might put it all into one paragraph if you could get it right" |
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Hemmingway "Snows of Kilimanjaro"
-minimalistic, journalistic prose |
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| "I was tired of the whole pack of them with their private stores of Coca-Cola and... their too wide cars" |
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Greene "The Quiet American"
-exceptionalism, loud, materialistic, idealistic Americans. (irony on title). |
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| "I envied those who could believe in a god and I distrusted them...Death was far more certaint han God" |
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| Greene "The Quiet American" |
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| "Thomas here's the best friend I have" |
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| Greene "The Quiet American" |
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| "I wish sometimes you had a few more bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings" |
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| Greene "The Quiet American" |
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Nietzche.
Modern theme; death of Victorianism, trying to make sense of life in Godless world. |
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| "The sun never sets on the British Empire" |
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| Anon. British Empire, Imperialism, big, powerful,m shows Empire is crumbling through irony. |
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Pound.
Ideology behind Vorticism and Imagism; slogan of modernism |
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| "While doing this, you can be sure in the future, as in the past, that you and your families will be surrounded by the most patient, faithful, law-abiding, and unresentful people that the world has seen." |
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| Washington- Exposition Address; DuBois ralled against Washington. Washington's ideas would hinder a black identity. |
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| "The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to." |
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Washington: Exposition Address
-rights must be earned, graual change, racial unity, representive voice of his race. |
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| "Douglass, in his old age, still bravely stood for the ideals of his early manhood,--ultimate assimilation trhough selfassertion" |
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Du Bois "Of Brooker T. Washington"
-two competing visions for social change
-double-consciousness |
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