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World Lit Test
World Lit II Test Review
116
Literature
Undergraduate 2
05/02/2013

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Liberte, fraternite, equalite
Definition
"liberty, fraternity, equality french revolution moto and current day french motto
Term
Phiosophes
Definition
men and women who compiled knowledge in to the Encyclopede
Term
Academy
Definition
government institute of learning (ex. would pay poets and painters to produce government appropriate works)
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Salon
Definition
gathering in houses and discussion of intellectual talk
Term
Boroque
Definition
Enlightenment- super fancy
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Deism
Definition

belief of supreme being creating universe and stepping back

 

founding fathers were all this

Term

Satire

 

Swift and Voltaire

Definition

real conflicts and social importance brought into a humorous light

 

who did this?

Term

Optomism

 

Candide

Definition

Enlightenment people attacked optomism

 

What story was had optomism being attacked?

Term

The Age of Reason

 

The Enlightenment Period

Definition

Reason became available and people were able to make individual choices and reasoning

 

What time period?

Term

Fetes Galantes

 

The Upper Class

Definition

Character who was sophisticated ad enjoyed the fleasures of the world

 

Who was it mimicking?

Term

"What is Enlightenment?"

 

Kant

Definition

Establishes the principles of Enlightenment-was an essay responding to a magazine article

 

Who wrote it?

Term
Rococo
Definition
Artistic style reflecting people enjoying pleasures of the world (broke away from the government art)
Term

"Sapere Aude"

 

Kant

Definition

"Dare to be wise"

 

Who wrote this?

Term
Rouseau
Definition

Genevan Philosopher/Composer/Writer

 

Wrote Social Contract

Term
Jacobin Club
Definition
French Revolution club-vital to the revolution
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Pantheon
Definition
Tomb in Paris where famous people are buried, including ROUSEAU
Term
Reign of Terror
Definition
followed French Revolution-beheading of tens of thousands
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Rousseau (Social Contract)
Definition
"Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains"
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Wolstencraft
Definition
Founder of Feminism
Term
Wolstencraft
Definition
Vendication of the Rights of Women
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William Goodwin
Definition
radical philosopher (married to Mary Wolstencraft and father of Mary Shelley)
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Libertine
Definition
devoid of moral restraint (Marque de Sade)
Term
Sadomasicism (De Sade)
Definition
pleasure from inflicting and receiving pain
Term
Bastille
Definition
French Prison de Sade was held at (Stormed during French Revolution)
Term
Chawnton
Definition
Insane asylum where de Sade died while writing books and living with lovers
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Ireland
Definition

Johnathon Swift and Joyce lived here

-People were impoverished and overlooked during Enlightenment (Modest Proposal)

Term
Modest Proposal-Swift
Definition
satirical proposal to eat babies
Term
de Sade
Definition
"Philosophy in the bedroom"
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"Escae l'infame!" - Voltaire
Definition
"crush infamy!" - end injustices by goverment and religion
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G.W. Von Leibniz
Definition
Philosopher who's views are crushed by Candide (optomisim)
Term

Bildingsroman-Voltaire

 

Definition

German for "formation model"-growth of protagonist

-coming of age story

Term
El Dorado
Definition
"Candide"-Eutopica world without corruption
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"We must cultivate our garden"
Definition
"live simply"-farmer from Candide
Term
Pangloss
Definition
Optimist
Term
Martin
Definition
Pessimist
Term
Candide
Definition
"Things can not be otherwise than as we are"
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Faust
Definition
Mephisto-devil
Term
Gretchen/Margarete
Definition
Girl Faust had interest in and won over by jewelery
Term
Gothic-Romantic Period
Definition

grotesque, dark

-all extravagences of irregular fantasy

 

Which period?

 

Term
Sublime
Definition
above ordinary human qualities
Term
high, enlightenment, anbiguous
Definition
3 types of gothic
Term
Poe
Definition

dark/gothic/alcoholic - family all died of TB

-Baudelaire made famous by translating his work to French

Term
Tell-tell heart
Definition
the eye of evil
Term
Jingling cap of bells
Definition
cask of montelogo -lured into casks to look for wine
Term

1800-1900

 

Definition
Romantic Period Dates
Term
1700's
Definition
Enlightenment Period Dates
Term
Macabre
Definition
death and decay horror (Poe) "beauty of death"
Term

sentimental melancholy

 

Keats

Definition

deep long sadness

 

Who coined this?

Term
Symbolists
Definition
"beauty in the darkness" (captured fleating moments)
Term
Victorian Period
Definition
Queen Victoria's reign- appearance did not match reality
Term
1837-1901
Definition
Victorian Period dates
Term

Trancendentalist

 

Whitman, Emmerson, Thoreau

Definition

communing with nature in America

 

Which Authors?

Term
Blake
Definition
Romantic poet/artist/engraver
Term

visionary

 

-Blake, Whitman, Rimbaud

Definition

literary figure ahead of their time - could tap into the out of ordinary

 

Examples?

Term
Coleridge
Definition

Romantic Poet-"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

 

-had dreams and hellucinations and was friends with Wordsworth

Term

Suspension of Disbelief

 

coleridge

Definition

readers leave the reality at the door

 

who coined this term?

Term
Albatross
Definition
symbol of burden
Term
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Definition
The Wedding Guests
Term
Death
Definition

Took shipmates in Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 

Term
Life in Death
Definition
Let the Mariner live with the burden and guilt his whole life
Term

Lyrical Ballads

 

Coleridge and Wordsworth

Definition

collection includes "rime of the ancient mariner"

 

who wrote them?

 

Term
Wordsworth
Definition
"We Are Seven"
Term
Lord Byron
Definition
Animal lover/vegetarian - had limp (self conscious) depressed/ beautiful
Term

Villa Diodati

 

Shelly, Byron, Mary Shelly, Shelly's step sister

Definition

Where they stayed in the "Haunted Summer"

 

 

Who stayed there?

Term

About Byron's lover

 

Definition
"She walks in Beauty"
Term
Claire Clairmont
Definition
Byron's lover-mother of Alegra-Byron had put away to be raised by nuns, where she died
Term
Fanny Brawne
Definition
John Keats' lover (died before they could marry)
Term
Keats-talking about Fanny Brawne
Definition
"Bright Star"
Term
Keats
Definition
"When I have fears that cease to be"
Term

Consumption

 

1 in 7 deaths

Definition

Tuberculosis name

 

How common?

Term
Poets' Corner at Westminster Abby
Definition
tribute to poets in England
Term
Boatswain
Definition
Byron's dog
Term
Shelly
Definition
"Ode to the West Wind"
Term
Peteloo Masacre
Definition
political demonstration gone bad (Calvary raided protest and killed a lot of people) - lots of writers fed off of this
Term
Emerson- set transcendentalist movement in motion
Definition
Essay "Nature"
Term
The Dial
Definition
magazine by and for the transcendentalists to promote poetry
Term
Emerson
Definition
"must get rid of slavory of we must get rid of freedom"
Term
Waldon Pond
Definition
Thoreau spent two years writing "Walden" while communing with nature
Term
Emersonians
Definition
followers of Emerson
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Transcendentalist
Definition
communing with nature
Term
Thoreau
Definition
"i never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude"
Term
Emerson
Definition
"Old grey beard"
Term

Whitman

 

about Abe Lincoln's death

Definition
"O Captain, My Captain"
Term
Eulogy of Lincoln by Whitman
Definition
"When lilacs last and dooryard blood"
Term
Whitman (includes "Songs of Myself")
Definition
Leaves of Grass
Term
Decadent
Definition
no morals (lurid moral content or vision)
Term

Poete Maudete

 

Keats, Rimbaud

Definition

cursed poet

 

examples

Term
Baudelaire
Definition
"flowers of evil"
Term
Vagabond
Definition
wonderers and explorers
Term

Absinthe

 

Symbolists

Definition

"The Green Fairy"

 

who loved this stuff?

Term
Malarme
Definition
"Afternoon of a Fawn" and "Tomb of Poe"
Term
Verlaine
Definition
followed Rimbaud around/drunk/insecure
Term
Verlaine (Symbolists definition)
Definition
"Never the color, always the shade"
Term
Verlaine/DeBussy
Definition
"Clair de Lune"
Term
"Fin de Siecle"
Definition
"end of the century" - everyone starts to write like the world is ending
Term
Rimbaud
Definition
"Derangement of all the senses"
Term
Enfant Terrible
Definition
Rimbaud's nickname
Term
Ribaud ( a lot about Verlaine)
Definition
"A Season in Hell"
Term
Debtor's Prison
Definition
prison for people who couldn't pay their debts
Term
Mister Feziwig
Definition
Scrooge's employer
Term
1914-1916 (WWI-beginning of Civil Rights Movement)
Definition
Modern Period Dates
Term
Modern Period
Definition
Alienation, Loss, Dread, Disparity
Term
Extentialism
Definition

we create our own meaning to life

-anxiety, absurdity, born to die

 

Term

Surrealism

 

Kafka

Definition

1920's represent sub conscious and juxdaposing things that don't match

 

example?

Term
Nihlism
Definition
philosophy that there's no way to make our lives mean anything.
Term
Kafka
Definition
German writer/wrote Metamorphosis/died of stavation
Term
Max Broad
Definition
executive of Kafka's estate who did not destroy Kafka's works
Term
Kafkaesque
Definition

style of writing by Kafka

-alientation, misunderstood, victim of society

Term
Michael Furey
Definition

Gretta Conroy's teenage lover from "the Dead"

 

Term
Prufrok-Elliot
Definition
Story of a man who was too afraid of life (no confidence)
Term

The Wasteland

 

Elliott

Definition
major poem of the modern period
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