English 2250 Review

1865-1914

Which term best describes this work of art?

Dey ain na'er a man in dis settlement wat won't tell you ole Julius McAdoo uz bawn en raise on dis yer same plantation.

Death is the end of all, and between life and death is nothing but a brutish life.

Emphasis on individualism, celebration of the self, reverence of nature, emotion over intellect

This movement's years are 1914-1945

Creating art and identity is about citation, recycling.

Which of these literary movements was influenced by theories from Darwin and Marx?

What aspect of postmodern culture does this image represent?

More inclusive ideas about American democracy; More upbeat than the gloominess and alienation of conventional modernism

Themes of loss, alienation, and disillusionment; fragmentation in form and content

Themes of Determinism and Compulsion

"Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, / I heard a Negro play."

What literary/artistic movement best describes this piece?

In a Station of the Metro / The apparition of these faces in the crowd: / Petals on a wet, black bough.

Looser, more organic forms, including accident and flux; no closure, raggedy endings

Fictive narrative is not about something but is something--not a representation of the world but something added to it.

Its most famous slogan is "Make it new."

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked

Documents the unique characters, settings, and culture of particular regions of the country. “Local Color”

Among twenty snowy mountains, / The only moving thing / Was the eye of the blackbird.