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FINAL SEMESTER 2 V2
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10th Grade
05/27/2009

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Modern
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1900-
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A reaction to or break from previous styles of story telling. conscious movement away from conventional methods
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Modern
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Attempt to offer or encourage a new way of looking at ourselves
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Modern
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Post Modern
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1950-
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existential in philosophical Perspective
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Post Modern
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Not a chronological time period, but a new style or approach
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Modern
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Marked by a strong and conscious break from traditional forms and techniques
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Modern
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Historical discontinuity alienation loss and despair are typial characteristics or factors
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Modern
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Rejects traditional society and its values
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modern
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Emphasizes individual over society and the unconscious over the self conscious
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Modern
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Emphasizes passion and individual will over reason and systematic morality
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Modern
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It is a reaction to realism and naturalism and the science of their foundations
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modern
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It is highly experimental in language, form, and symbol
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Modern
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It is based on the belief of "the impossibility of accessing the truth" and that "you can't tell a story anymore, especially if you want to get the truth"
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Modern
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Oresents a world with no anchor, no commitment
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Post Modern
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utilizes a defamiliarism method to force us to see things a new way
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Post Modern
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Denial of order and fragmentation
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Post Modern
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Alienation and social individualism
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Post Modern
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Discontinuity, alienation, intricate forms or repetition of images, opposition of order, anti-hero
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Post Modern
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Historical discontinuity
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Post Modern
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On themes, work exists in and of its own
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Post Modern
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Fragmentation vs totalarization
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Post Modern
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Indeterminacy, not definite answers
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Post Modern
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The more we learn, the more we are humbled by our inability to explain ourselves
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Post Modern
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Decanonization, so special words, deligitimize the master codes of society
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Post Modern
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Removal of the organizing principles we are used to
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Post Modern
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Connections without sequence
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Post Modern
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Deviation from the trope, the master narrative, a common cliche type of story
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Post Modern
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Emphasis on aesthetic impact rather than intact form
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Post Modern
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The self is often obscured, the narrator is not fleshed out
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Post Modern
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Sometimes plays with the notion that there is no "you" there, we are defined by hte people around us
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Post Modern
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no depth to stories
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Post Modern
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carnivalization, assaulting good with evil, celebrating immorality or attacks on traditional morality
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Post Modern
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Hybridization,not quite journalism or fiction, but something in between
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Post Modern
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Unrepresentable, that which traditionally can not be presented is revealed, even emphasized or glorified
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Post Modern
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Sometimes characterized by performance and participation
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Post Modern
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Harlem Renaissance
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1920~1930
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1919~1926
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African-americans move to northern cities
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The New Negro
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Locke, 1925
Influential
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"The New Negro"
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Coined in 1925 by Locke
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