Exam 2- Brit Lit fitzgerald txst fall 16 – Flashcards

-Wrote Poetry, novels, critism, and drama.

Dad was knighted for charity work, was an eye specialist. Mom wrote revolutionary poems in newspaper, paper was later raided. (they had kids from prev. marriage)

His 10 yo sister died (Isola) from a sudden fever. Wilde kept a lock of her hair in an envelope and carried it around.
-Significant b/c “Earnest” dies of a fever in A1S2

-Education: Trinity(Dublin), and Oxford (graduated with honors)

Constance Lloyd, had sons.
-Edited “frivolous magazine” called Women’s World for extra money to treat family well.

-Relationship with Wilde (Gay) for 4 years.

Bosie’s dad, for libel.
-backfired, he was charged with gross indecency, found guilty, and sentenced to 2 years of hard labor and and imprisonment.

His wife, Constance, moved to Switzerland, changed their sons name.

He briefly tried to rekindle his romance with Bosie, failed.
-Couch surfed from friend to friend, died some 5 years later of meningitis in Paris.

Separation of art and morality.

-Art for arts sake

-(Beauty in nature, and the arts) rather than didactic (teaching) potential

Wilde went on tour after gaining popularity as a speaker in Oxford. 140 times in 260 days, almost a year, topic was aesthetic.

Cynical, used common tropes.

-Mocked conventional morality in their dress, behavior, and sexual practices

-A short, sharp, memorable statement that expresses an idea in a witty or amusing way

(pg.1738)- Algernon: The truth…
(pg.1743)-Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it…

(pg.1736)-Algernon: What one shouldn’t…
(pg.1739)-Jack: For heavens…/ Alg: Then your wife will…
(pg.1743)- Gwen: Yes, but….
(pg.1746)-Alg: All women…/ Alg: The only way../ Jack: Sick of clever…
(pg.1747)-Alg: Awfully hard work…
(pg.1753)-Prism: No married man (GOOD EXAMPLE)
(pg.1769)-Brack: Never speak

-Resulting from or showing sincere or intense belief/ conviction

-Jack was named Earnest, Jack was honest the whole time but the lied about Earnest (Lying about name)
-Fitting for Jack’s character, what trying to think/do. Stands up for what he believes in.
-Honest, and sincere, nothing is honest or sincere in the play. (GOOD EXAMPLE)

-The conduct and codes of a social group or class, usually sophisticated high society.

-A stereotypical character that readers/ audiences recognize b/c of convection and overuse.

(pg.1734)-Lane/Alg: Hear it/ I didn’t
(pg.1735)-Alg: really don’t…
(pg.1742)-Gwen: But your name in diary= love
(pg.1743)-Brack: I am pleased to hear it…
(pg.1744)-Brack: A country home!…/Ah, nowadays…

-A contradiction or disparity between appearance or expectation and reality

-Occurs when there is a difference between a character’s perspective and what the audience or readers already know to be true

eiron, means stock character, character pretends to be weak, and ends up winning.

(pg.1762)-Cecily/Gwen: Arguing about being engaged to the same person
Cecily: I’m afraid…

Dorset in Southwestern England 6/2/1840

the natural world

went to a school in the country until he was 14, then went to become an architect apprentice at 15, where he developed an interest in writing

Emma Gifford in 1874, they had no kids

No, it was not. He and his wife drifted apart because his wife resented his fame, and controversy over his work put a strain on the marriage.
-Her death in 1912 did greatly affect Hardy, mourned for the rest of his life.
-Emma poems some of his best work.

Yes, to a woman 39 years his junior.

Fiction and short stories and novels.
-Leads to outraged Victorian society, they think his work is scandalous.
-His work challenged the treatment of women.

Jude the Obscure “Jude the Obscene”
-Publicly burned by a bishop, because it mocked religion.
-This made Hardy afraid of criticism.

The frailty of humanity against the greater forces.

a literary movement in which writers pessimistically depicted pathetic protagonists with little, if any control over their destinies
-Hardy

the world can be made better by human effort
-Hardy

line 10: end of century, beginning of modern movement
line 21: how does the aged bird find happiness

Hardy, “Life’s little ironies”

frail because forces like nature, society, and even our own human impulse pull at us
-page 1916, paragraph 4, 1st line illustrates this
“insignificant human beings being pushed and pulled by the machinations of fate”

a carousel

“it is” a figure of speech that associates 2 distinct things without using a connective word such as “like” or “as”

life is a machine
-circular relationship between Anna, Edith, and Charles.
-Charles travels in a circuit?

Fitz provided example: pg 1925 Edith made a mistake by marrying her husband, shes lonely. really all women had was getting married, Victorian woman is “angel of the house”
pg 1918 bottom of the 4th paragraph, idea of carousel being a metaphor, the 1st look of love would come to nothing good.

traditional definition: a serious and often somber

-Founded the Irish Literary theatre
-Nobel prize for Literature in 1923
-Abbey theater group, Gaelic Revival and Celtic Twilight/ Revival
-Torn by politics

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-Education: Metropolitan School of Art

-The political, economic and social domination of Ireland between the 17th century and the early 20th century by a minority of landowners.

-Irish Identity, Irish mythology, culture, Irish politics, and distrusts or man-made systems.

-1889 Yeats met Maud
-Irish Republican Brotherhood
-Irish Literacy society, National literacy society, and new Irish library.

-1897 Yeats met Lady Gregory
-Founds the Irish literacy theatre

-Recapturing Ireland’s lost past
-Recreating Ireland

-Musical

-Longing for an idealized pastoral Ireland. Imagining rural self-reliance and escape from urban desolation. Mythologizing/Constructing an independent, (non-British)

-“Heather Island” in Gaelic
-Punning “Island free” in English

-pg.2087: Line 6- “Dropping…”
Line 10- “Lake water..” “While I stand…”
Line 12- “I hear it…”

Congloves woods school, belvidre (both Catholic) jusuit

Priest to poet considered being a priest but wound up as a poet. Catholics were not allowed to go to Trinity College

Nora Barnaele met her in 1904 didn’t get married till 1930, still lived like a couple

Victorian, early modern, late modern

Dubliners 1914

Highly autobiographical coming from age story (1916) toddler to basic education similar to Joyce thinks of becoming a priest but focuses on artistic Independence

Pics of where a portrait of an Artist as a Young Man left off

Took Joyce the longest to write

The creation of new words

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Refers to anything outside of Dublin
(Joyce)
Literal connotation: means outside civilized area metaphorical connotation: means outside of conventional boundaries of behavior class
symbolically represents: literary modernism
“art that goes beyond style, genre, challenging tradition”

Nobody liked King Edward
Outsiders
death of Victoria
World War 1 (modernism)
welfare
8% of British population killed or wounded
World War II (post-modernism)
women’s suffrage
Colonial Empire failing
Irish Rebellion 1916 class struggles

Not all minds are typical, personalities are constructed

-increasing evidence for evolution, theory of relativity, e=mc^2
-this scientific advancement was challenging religion, seeing death from WW1 also influenced this change in public opinion
Suffrage: women had independent political existences
Class struggles after war made slipping of colonial power and influence more evident

Make it new make old things new example new way to tell a story instead of the old way the anxiety of influence often had effect of tradition on authors didn’t want to copy this

A subjective narration of ongoing events that attempts to reconstruct the Consciousness flow of past and present experience through the conscious mind trying to make it to reproduce the way we think not linear more realistic

Ulysses takes place in one day

Allusion to Odyssey it opens with Stephen Douglas as opposed to Ulysses we follow Leopold and Molly bloom through their day Leopold is trying to make it home similar to Ulysses in The Odyssey takes place like in Epic spreads out over distances even though it is just in Dublin Molly had a son Ruby but he died as a baby this motivates a lot of Leopold and Molly’s actions Steven becomes their proxy son bloom Meets up with Steven, Leopold brings him home to where he and Molly live Molly is sleeping Leopold attempts to Stover Steven up in the last paragraph Molly bloom recite a soliloquy using stream-of-consciousness with memories of childhood to 16 years of marriage and she says “yes” this is an affirmation of love

The Gilbert Street schema illustrates the layers of characters and events between James Joyce’s Ulysses poems and Homer’s Odyssey

James Joyce’s Ulysses was banned for 11 years a magazine tried to sterilize it and the u.s. Postal Service banned it in 1933 became available again in US and Britain

It Chronicles the stages of life childhood adolescence maturity society as a whole

A sudden revelation of spiritual or moral meaning usually as to the essential nature of a person or thing

Greek 2 review revelation of God Jesus Christ was divine and human

The word Epiphany was written many times

The third story

They both have epiphanies at the end and goes through a stage of childhood or adolescence and review what happened

Living death Dublin was Center of paralysis cause of stalemate in Irish nationalism didn’t happen for a long time even though they were willing to die for it

A lack of ability to move on comma desolation and Gloom in araby symbolizes succession of deaths, emotional and spiritual

On page 2279 there is a sense of Gloom with the rain and more than once it is mentioned that the boy is in the room where the priest died

Insecure when he’s talking to Lily about the wedding on page 285 she refers to be indelicate cracking of feet and presents and air of egotistical being better than everyone he’s questioning what people want to hear about in his speech because he thinks they’re stupid on page 2293 he says his aunt’s are ignorant on page 2296 there is a display of lack of emotional intelligence on page 2310 he weeps generous tears doesn’t really know what love is

On page 22900 they questioned why Gabriel doesn’t want to go to the coast doesn’t want to claim Irish heritage Miss ever calls him a West Briton or a culture vulture because his newspaper is Pro British even though he only writes about literature and not about nationalism

Just as dates was Anglo and Irish Joyce