- •12Th century;
- •17Th century;
- •18Th century;
- •20Th century
- •20Th century
- •To which literary subgenres did women like Ursula k. LeGuin increasingly turn in order to overturn male stereotypes about gender?
- •Which of the following voices had not had literary production encouraged and expanded during and after the 1960s thanks to increased political protests and activism?
- •How did the literary fortunes of Native American writers change as a result of the political and social movements of the 1960s?
- •Which does not represent one of the social tensions that the publication and impact of Howl (1956) and Life Studies (1959) illustrate about American society?
- •Which of the following best describes the ideal aesthetic value of contemporary literature?
- •Which of the following best describes how the realism of h. James and e. Wharton differs from that of w. D. Howells?
- •How is nature represented in Jack London’s “The Law of Life” and Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”?
- •Which work of nineteenth-century intellectual prose had the most influence on literary naturalism?
- •Which of the following American realists is best known for his comic experiments in regional vernacular?
- •Which sentence best describes the characteristic tones of the novels of American naturalist authors Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Theodore Dreiser?
- •What literary movement did William Dean Howells describe as “nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material”?
- •How does Hamlin Garland portray Midwestern farmers in his story “Under the Lion’s Paw”?
- •How did local color writing about the legendary West compare with native American writings by Zitkala–Ša, Ohiyesa, and s. Winnemucca in their characters’ relationship to the land?
- •In 1893, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner wrote The Significance of the Frontier on American History. Where did he place the frontier in that essay?
- •Which of the following sentences best defines literary naturalism?
- •Why did Jim run away from Miss Watson?
- •What was the effect of modernism on African American writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, and Langston Hughes?
- •Why did American authors treat the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, condemned to death in 1921 for a robbery and homicide, from a sympathetic standpoint?
- •How did new scientific advances concerning relativity, uncertainty, quantum theory affect the relationship between science and literature?
- •Which was not one of the three characteristic “issues” of American literary modernism?
- •In what way did authors use Hollywood to bridge the divide between serious and popular modernist literature?
- •Why did the writings of Karl Marx appeal to so many American writers and intellectuals in the 1920s and 30s?
- •What was the name of the small, experimental theater group, founded in 1915 by s. Glaspell, e. O’Neill in order to challenge Broadway’s control over the American drama scene?
- •What effect did de-emphasis of closure and certainty have on the types of subjectivity represented by modernist works?
- •Which of the following types of dramas performed in the us was not a distinctively American innovation (rather than one borrowed or adapted from another culture)?
- •In what way did the social debates of the 1920s mirror Ralph Waldo Emerson’s belief, in the 1840s, that “whosoever would be a man, must be a non-conformist”?
- •Which of the following events in European modernism occurred before World War I?
- •How did modernist poets’ emphases on directness, precision, and vividness of expression affect both poetry and prose during this period?
- •Which of the following best describes how the influential authors of the period 1914-1945 responded to the “internal fractures” caused by modernity?
- •Why did travel literature become an increasingly popular subgenre in the 1840s?
Why did Jim run away from Miss Watson?
He believes she is planning to sell him to a slave trader from New Orleans;
She had ordered that he be publicly whipped;
He met some abolitionists who persuaded him to run away;
He wants to join his brother who had escaped to Boston
What was the effect of modernism on African American writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, and Langston Hughes?
most black authors became expatriates like the preeminent modernists of their day;
black authors were largely repelled by American modernism, which they considered racist and treated blacks stereotypically;
black authors were inspired by the modernist spirit and mixed African American elements like blues, jazz, and folk culture into traditional genres;
black authors were heartened by the emphasis on fighting racism in the works of prominent white authors like William Faulkner and Katherine Anne Porter
Why did American authors treat the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, condemned to death in 1921 for a robbery and homicide, from a sympathetic standpoint?
they believed that Sacco and Vanzetti’s membership in the Communist Party had been held against them during their trial;
they believed that the death penalty was too harsh a punishment for Sacco and Vanzetti’s crime;
they believed that Sacco and Vanzetti had been convicted mostly because they were anarchists;
they believed that the real murderer was the kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby
How did new scientific advances concerning relativity, uncertainty, quantum theory affect the relationship between science and literature?
authors represented scientists and their experiments in a heroic light within their novels and poems;
scientists and authors joined together to propose radical new ways of representing and understanding the world;
scientists looked to authors to articulate the social and human consequences of their discoveries because of their greater skill with language;
authors began to think of literature as an alternate explanation of reality, far better than science at explaining subjective experience, moral choices, and meaning
Which was not one of the three characteristic “issues” of American literary modernism?
what kind of relationship should serious literature have with its audience?
how involved should literature be with social and political struggle?
how should authors engage with literary tradition?
does popular culture have a place in serious literature?
In what way did authors use Hollywood to bridge the divide between serious and popular modernist literature?
authors like Faulkner and Fitzgerald treated motion pictures as an opportunity to further their aesthetic ambitions by expanding their audience;
many imagist poets experimented with writing film shorts because they saw similarities between film montage and their juxtaposed fragments;
many modernist poets and novelists turned their attention to film later in their careers because motion pictures were ideal vehicles for satire and social commentary;
authors like Raymond Chandler used motion pictures to establish a respectable artistic reputation through experimentation with the new medium of film