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12: Novel (part 5)

Alex Nguyen English High School Diploma Englisch 58 Karten

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  1. 1Name two fields that developed during the beginning of the 1890's* Psychology
    * Anthropology
  2. 2Name an anthropologist and one of his worksJames Frazer
    /The Golden Bough/
  3. 3Name a psychologistHavelock Ellis
  4. 4Name a psychologistSigmand Freud
  5. 5What was he considered asThe father of modern psychology
  6. 6What does his psychological work emphasizeThe power and importance of the unconscious
  7. 7What was the effect* To direct attention to men's mental & emotional condition
    * To concede that men might not always have direct control over his impulses
  8. 8Which writer is the son of a minerD. H. Lawrence
  9. 9Where did he grow upIn England's industrial Midlands
  10. 10What did he use his novels forTo explore relationships between people in an industrial and technological environment
  11. 11What was his first major novel, what type of novel is it and where was it set* /Sons and Lovers/
    * Autobiography
    * Set in the bleak, so destroying yet powerful, environment of the mining region he came from
  12. 12Name his other works* /The Rainbow/: suppressed soon after publication
    * /Women in Love/: one of his masterpieces
    * /Lady Charlettey's Lover/: was banned
  13. 13What did Somerset Maugham write* /Of Human Bondage/
    * /Cakes and Ale/
    * /The Razor's Edge/
  14. 14What was /Of Human Bondage/ aboutLong detailed account of the long & torturous love affair between a med student & a working class girl
  15. 15What was the reaction to the horror of the war (3)* The Jazz Age in England and America
    * The Jazz Age in the 20's was bright, gaudy, frenzied and shallow
    * Its symbol: flappers and Charleston
  16. 16What did John Galsworthy attackThe possessiveness and acquisitiveness the society left without faith or principles and whose purpose was to have a good time
  17. 17What did he write and name the first book* /Forsyte Saga/ = 12 books
    * /Man of Property/
  18. 18What was the main theme in his early books and name an example of book* Possessive instinct
    Ex: /Man of Property/
  19. 19What did the books after the war showThe shattering effect if the conflict on a society with basicVictorian foundations
  20. 20What did he see himself asAs throwing light on the evils and abuses of life for the guidance of others
  21. 21What did Virginia Woolf foundBloosmbury group
  22. 22What was the Bloomsbury groupA group of artists and writers who gathered at her place for conversations
  23. 23What did she start"Stream of Consciousness"
  24. 24What is itA technique of moving in poetic language between actual events and the timeless flow of contemplation within the characters' mind = a person's thoughts & reactions to events (past, present, future)
  25. 25What were her books concerned withThe problems of love and loneliness
  26. 26According to her, real experiences do not...... lay in external relations, but within human consciousness
  27. 27What happened in 1941She committed suicide
  28. 28What did she write* /To the Light House/
    * /The Waves/
    * /Mrs. Dalloway/
  29. 29Who brought the "stream of consciousness" to its peakJames Joyce
  30. 30Where did he come fromDublin, but he never wanted to go back
  31. 31What was he concerned withWith re-creating the world from which he had made himself an exile => Dublin = setting of his works
  32. 32What did he write* /The Dubliners/
    * /Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/
    * /Ulysses/
  33. 33How long did it take to write /Ulysses/7 years
  34. 34What is it aboutAbout one day in the lives of 3 Dubliners (Molly Bloom, Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus)
  35. 35What are we presented withThe consciousness of his characters, always multiple, driving both from their immediate situation and the whole of their past experience
  36. 36What are the difference levels of /Ulysses/1) Lvl of realistic description (good pictures of the 18th C. Dublin life)
    2) Lvl of psychological explanation
    3) Lvl of style
    4) Symbolic lvl
  37. 37Who or what influenced him* Homer, Dante, Shakespear
    *Literature, history and philosophy
  38. 38Who was pessimistic about the human conditionT. S. Eliot
  39. 39How did he call the post-war eraA waste land
  40. 40What did he try to do to poetryTried to make it more precise, subtle, suggestive
  41. 41Who were his models* Metaphysical poets
    * French symbolists
  42. 42What did he write* "Four Quartets"
    * "Journey of the Magi"
    * /Murder in the Cathedral/: play about the murder of Thomas Beckett at the Canterbury cathedral
    * /Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats/ (collection of poems)
    --> musical: /Cats/
  43. 43What did Aldous Huxley write/Brave New World/
  44. 44What was it aboutA future utopia which had become a moral nightmare because technological sophistication had answered all of man's need => removing his functions
  45. 45What did Orwell write/1984/
  46. 46What type of nightmare do we find in this bookPolitical nightmare
  47. 47Both /Brave New World/ and /1984/ are called...... dystopian or anti-utopian novels
  48. 48Both /Brave New World/ and /1984/ have basically the same theme...The warning of what could've happened if science, technology, governments, etc. were pushed to an extreme
  49. 49When did Huxley dieNovember 22, 1963
  50. 50By 1963, what was happening in EuropePolitical shadows were lengthening all over Europe
  51. 51What was a rehearsal for WW2The civil was in Spain
  52. 52In Germany, how did Hitler's Nazi regime become strongerThrough repression and mass propaganda
  53. 53What happened at that time in BerlinThe rise of the Nazis and decadents of life
  54. 54By who was it shown and in which novels* By Christopher Isherwood
    * /Goodbye to Berlin/ (musical: /Cabaret/)
    * /Mister Norris Changes Trains/
  55. 55What happened on September 1st 1939* Hitler invaded Poland
    --> brought 6 years of slaughter, concentration camps, the murder of millions of Jews and the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  56. 56Since 1945, what happened to literature of the Western worldHas turned away from the themes and purposes of the literature written between the wars
  57. 57After 1945, what did writer seekIn a new and threatening age of alienation, writers have sought new and often experimental forms and themes
  58. 58What has their work mirroredThe diffusion and tension of their time

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