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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Hardy | ENGLAND; "Drummer Hodge," "A Trampwoman's Tragedy," "Channel Firing," "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Conrad | POLAND; Heart of Darkness
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Brooke | ENGLAND; "The Soldier"
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Sassoon | ENGLAND; "They," "The General," "Glory of Women," "Everyone Sang"
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Owen | ENGLAND; "Dulce Et Decorum Est,""Strange Meeting," "Disabled," "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Flint and Pound | ENGLAND (POUND = AMERICA); Imagisme, A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Hulme, Pound, H.D. | ENGLAND (POUND & HD = AMERICA); An Imagist Cluster
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Pound | AMERICA; Blast
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Loy | ENGLAND; "Parturition," Feminist Manifesto, "Songs to Joannes"
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Hulme | ENGLAND; from Romanticism and Classicism
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Eliot | AMERICA; The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prefrock
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: McKay | JAMAICA; Old England, If We Must Die, Quashie to Buccra
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Bennett | JAMAICA; Jamaica Language, Colonization in Reverse
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Orwell | INDIA; Shooting an Elephant, Politics and the English Language
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Ngugi | KENYA; Decolonising the Mind
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Rushdie | INDIA; English is an Indian Literary Language
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Joyce | IRELAND; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Mansfield | NEW ZEALAND; The Garden Party
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Yeats | IRELAND; "The Rose of the World," "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "September 1913," "Easter, 1916," "The Second Coming," "Leda and the Swan," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Politics"
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Woolf | ENGLAND; Mrs. Dalloway, from a Room of One's Own
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Auden | ENGLAND; "As I Walked Out One Evening," "Musee des Beaux Arts," "In Memory of W.B. Yeats," "The Unknown Citizen," "Poetry as Memorable Speech"
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Smith | ENGLAND; "Sunt Lenones," "Our Bog is Dood," "Not Waving but Drowning," "Pretty"
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| BIRTHPLACE AND PIECES: Beckett | IRELAND; Waiting for Godot
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| YEAR: Hardy's Wessex Poems | 1898
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| YEAR: Conrad's Heart of Darkness | 1899
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| YEAR: Pound's Blast | 1914
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| YEAR: Eliot's The Waste Land | 1922
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| YEAR: Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 1916
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| YEAR: Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway | 1925
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| YEAR: Beckett's Waiting for Godot | 1953
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| What do the literary terms subject and theme mean? | Subject is what the work is literally about.
Theme is the main point the author is making about that subject.
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| That year did Queen Victoria die? | 1901
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| What year did the Edwardian period begin and what year did it end? | 1901-1910
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| What are the major characteristics of Victorianism? Name at least three ways in which Victorian works distinguish themselves? | conservative in subj and style (not innovative or experimental); didactic; sincere, focus on death rather than bodily functions or sex
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| What are the major characteristics of Modernism? Name at least four ways in which Modernist works distinguish themselves? | consciously innovative (Pound's "Make It New"); reject Victorian conservative nature; not for popular audience; ironic; subjective experience
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| What was the Education Act of 1870? | established a system of 'school boards' to build/manage schools; elementary edu act of 1870 established formal edu for children 5-12 in England and Wales, with subsequent laws making elementary education compulsory in 1880 and free of charge in 1891
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| What river does Marlow travel up in Conrad's Heart of Darkness? | Congo River
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| What year did WWI begin and what year did it end? | 1914-1918
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| Which of our authors served in WWI? Which of them were killed in the war? | Owen (killed), Sassoon, Brooke (died while serving of infection)
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| Which poet did Wilfred Owen meet and come under the influence of while being treated for shellshock? | Sassoon
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| Which poet from our readings wrote an open letter to his commanding officers saying that he believed the first World War had become a war of "aggression and conquest"? | Sassoon
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| What is pararhyme? Which of our authors pioneered the use of pararhyme? | partial rhyme between words with the same pattern of consonants but different vowels, such as light and late. Owen.
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| What are the basic rules of Imagism, as laid out by F.S. Flint and Ezra Pound? | 1) Direct treatment of the "thing", whether subjective or objective 2) To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation 3) As regarding rhythm: to compose in sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of the metronome.
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| What year were women in Britain first granted the right to vote? | 1918
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| Is Northern Ireland predominantly Catholic or Protestant? Generally speaking, what are the political differences between Catholic and Protestants in Ireland? | Protestant. CATH: Native Irish ancestry, Nationalists (fighting for indep), Southern + western Ireland (including Dublin), Rural, Poor, Green. PRO: British ancestry, Unionists, Northern Ireland (including Belfast), Urban, Middle Class, Orange
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| Who helped T.S. Eliot edit and drastically pare down The Waste Land? | Pound
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| Define the term "objective correlative." | the presentation of objects or events to evoke emotion
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| What war did George Orwell report on? | Spanish Civil War
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| What was the East India Company? | massive export company that was the force behind much of the colonization of India
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| What was the Sepoy Rebellion and what year did it begin? | 1857; It was a rebellion of 'Sepoys,' or native Indian troops, against the British colonization of India. It came as a response to what the Sepoys saw as attempts to convert them to Christianity (aka them ignoring customs of the native people).
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| What year did India gain independence? | 1947
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| What is the difference between the United Kingdom (also known as Great Britain) and England? | The United Kingdom is a country that consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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| Define master-narrative. | the "grand" narrative that explores the experiences and knowledge of a culture (often by ignoring or denying other cultures their own traditions a history)
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| Define cultural imperialism. | imposes the values of one culture onto another. This usually means that everything that is European ("occidental") is considered superior and normal, and everything non-European ("oriental") is considered exotic and inferior.
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| Define hybridization. | when imperialist ideas and values are superimposed on indigenous traditions.
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| What was the Easter Rebellion? | in 1916, about 2000 Irish nationalists took over Dublin and declared independence (within 5 days suppressed; 15 leaders sent to death)
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| What was the Abbey Theatre? Which of our authors is affiliated with it? | theatre in Dublin (Yeats helped start in 1904, focused on presenting Irish plays); Yeats
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| Which of our authors was part of secret societies such as the Theosophical Society and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn? | Yeats
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| What was the Bloomsbury Group? Which of our authors were a member of it? | group of intellectuals and artists in Bloomsbury in 1st decade of 20th century; Woolf
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| What was the Married Women's Property Act and when was it established? | 1870 and 1882; shift in way marriage regarded; provided wages and property which a wife earned through her own work as her own seperate property
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| What war did W.H. Auden witness and report on? | Spanish Civil War
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| Which of our authors became naturalized as an American? | Auden
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| Which of our authors drew "doodles" to accompany his or her poetry? | Smith
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| What language, besides English, did Beckett primarily write in? | French
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| What year did WWII begin and what year did it end? | 1936-1945
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