Writing
What is a topic sentence?
The first sentence in a paragraph.
What does "post" mean?
Who did the Romanticists favour in their literature/art?
farmer/child/outsider/noble savage
What was the "motto" of Modernism?
"Make it new!"
The art style made popular by Picasso is called...
Cubism
What is allitteration?
Words beginning with the same consonant
self-conscious literary style in which the narrator or characters are aware that they are part of a work of fiction
Metafiction
What is the sublime in Romanticism?
the experience of wild, untamed, grand nature - it terrifies and overwhelms us
What is "stream of consciousness"?
narrative style that tries to capture a character's thought process in a realistic way. It's an interior monologue
"Sturm und drag" is an typical expression from what period?
Romanticism
Why is 1st person point of view called an "unreliable narrator"?
Sometimes, these characters deviate from the truth or have mental conditions that limit their abilities to tell the story accurately. We only have their word for it...
the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality,
Hyperreality
Some claim that "Frankenstein" is a critique of something; what is it criticizing?
Enlightenment
What is "lost generation"?
a group of American modernist writers and poets who all lived during World War I.
How is the painting on p. 91 a good illustration of the Enlightenment?
At least 2 things.
*Scientific experiment (and not religious motif)
*Beauty is found in knowledge
*The people around are enlightened.
*Details
*Both girls and boys
In for examlple Mrs. Dalloway, the author sometimes uses long sentences broken up by dashes and containging smaller sentences. What does she acheive by writing like this?
Chaos, unstability, uncertainty, ...
How does Postmodernist fiction often treat the concept of time?
Not chronological, but shifting backwards and forwards almost at random.
What is typical for the Romantic hero.
Rebelling against society's conventions, been rejected by society, self-centered, flawed individuals (not idealized heroes)..
What significant historical and human events may have influenced modernism?
At least two things.
World War 1
Techonolgical, scientific and psychological development.
The idea behind the work is more important than the finished art object or traditional aesthetic concerns. This art is called.....
Conceptual art
What is a faulty parallelism?
When words in a series do not have the same grammatical form.
What is the theme in "Happy endings"? Explain
*The ending is always the same; we die. It is the life itself that is interesting. A critique to the focus of Modernist writers to have a "perfect" ending.
"The madwoman in the attic" is originally a character from Jane Eyre, and it has become an image for feminist literary criticism. Explain why.
She is an image of society's suppression of women. She is a representative of women who were treated as mad, because they did not fit into "their role".
Explain what is Modernist about the poem: "In a station at the metro" by Ezra Pound.
short, form, imagery
Explain Modern art vs traditional art in terms of their purpose.
Traditional art: explain, show, tell a story
Modern art: show a feeling, criticising society/art, no purpose, callenge/provoke....