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Enlightenment- Modernism
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09/27/2007

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Enlightenment Time Period
Definition
Death of King Charles -1649
1793 Louis XVI
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Romanticism Time Period
Definition
~1790-1830
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Realism Time Period
Definition
~1830-1870
Term
Modernism Time Period
Definition
World War I - Mid 1900s
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A&T Enlightenment
Definition
Voltaire (Candide)
Rene Descartes
Kant
Term
A&T Romanticism
Definition
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Wordsworth "...Tintern Abbey"
"Nutting"
John Keats
Term
A&T Realism
Definition
Gustav Flaubert "A Simple Heart"
Term
A&T Modernism
Definition
(All Premodernist)
Joseph Conrad "Heart Of Darkness"
Francis Ford Coppola "Apocalypse Now"
Charles Darwin
Nietzche
Karl Marx
James Frasier
Term
Enlightenment
Definition
"I Think Therefore I am", Reason (Scientific Knowledge), Encyclopedias, Discovery & Exploration, Spread of lit. among middle class, satire, religious warfare, Nature (discover laws that gov. hum. nat.) Question Hierarchy, EPIC
Term
Romanticism
Definition
"I FEEL Therefore I am", Passion, IMAGINATION, Nature(not understandable), Brotherhood of men(anti-hierarchy), Contemplation, Perception LYRIC
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Realism
Definition
OBJECTIVE REALITY
beauty(everything matters no matter how small)
common/realistic heroes
DETATCHED
Term
Modernism
Definition
CONSCIOUSNESS
Fragmentation(HOD overhearing parts of a converstation)
Modernist project(re-create meaning through art)
Story within story (HOD)
Minimalist (Woolf)
Complexity
Term
Negative Capability
Definition
The ability to exist in a condition of uncertainties, mysteries or doubts without any reaching after fact or reason.
Romanticism
Keats
Term
Transparent Eyeball
Definition
Sees everything
Not judgemental
Sees thing for what they are
Romanticism
Emerson
Term
Strophe
Definition
Irregular or rhymed
Romanticism
Wordsworth- "Tintern Abbey)
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Stream of Consciousness
Definition
Unhindered thoughts
Modernism
Woolf - inner monologue
Term
Berlin Conference 1885
Definition
Goal of "civilizing" continent of Africa
Africa was divided among the powers of EU.
Term
King Leopold II of Belgium
Definition
responsible for the massacre of estimated 3 million Africans in Congo.
Wanted rubber and ivory
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Charles Darwin
Definition
Modernism
Darwin's Theory of Evolution
"Natural Selection"
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Definition
Modernism
Used aphorism(concise statement expressing a general truth)
Questioned religion
Term
Karl Marx
Definition
Modernism
Believed that capitalism>radical socialism >turn into communism
Everything based around economics
Term
James Fraser
Definition
Anthropologist
Influence the early stages of mythology and comparative religion
Term
Sigmund Freud
Definition
Theories of the unconscious mind
Father of psycho analysis
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Optimism
Definition
Tendency to expect the best possible outcome
Enlightenment-candide-pangloss show change in opinion about coincidences
Term
Utopia
Definition
Ideally perfect place
Romanticism-Candide-Eldorado
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Satire
Definition
Used in order to bring change
Human folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit
Enlightenment- Voltaire "Candide" shows how voltaire thought about imperialism without directly criticizing it.
Term
Parody
Definition
Used for humor imitates a characteristic or style of another literary work
Realism- Gustav Flaubert- A simple Heart- shows the weakness of writing in romanticism
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Verisimilitude
Definition
Appearance of truth or authenticity
Voltaire- enlightenment
Term
Battle of the books
Definition
Satire written by Jonathan swift
Debate Epic vs. Lyric
Ancient writing vs. moderns
Enlightenment
Term
Solipsism
Definition
Self is the only reality
Enlightenment- Candide
Term
Picaresque
Definition
Genre of satiric prose depicting humorous detail of an adventure of a hero in a corrupt society
Enlightenment- Voltaire- candide
Term
Sublime
Definition
Monumental acts of nature
Romanticism-Ralph Waldo Emerson- Nature-
Revels at the scene of the planets
Term
Voltaire
Definition
Crushed infamy
Targets Aristocracy
Exile in England convinced him that england was most advanced
Commitment to freedom of though, to religious toleration, scientific art progress, to the reform of justice, Empiricism guided his life.
Term
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Definition
His country's greatest spokesperson for personal integrity & imaginative vision
Proponent of Abolition
Term
William Wordsworth
Definition
Simple- wrote for the common man- Easy language
French Revolution
Often political & religious topics including slavery & death penalty
Term
John Keats
Definition
Negative Capability
Spoke for pagan and Christianity
Morality & Eternity
Term
Gustav Flaubert
Definition
Realism
Convinced that style rather than content should be decisive
Simple heart was written in order to move hearts & Provoke pitty
Offensive morality
Term
Joseph Conrad
Definition
Traveled by ship and recieved a first-hand view of imperialism
Presents a world of uncertainty & moral choice
Expects educated reader
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Virginia Woolf
Definition
Art as human nature in itself
Upper class
Interior monologue
Hogarth press
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