- •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 the writings of Karl Marx appeal to so many American writers and intellectuals in the 1920s and 30s?
after 1917, Americans of Russian descent hoped to replicate the communist revolution in the Soviet Union within the United States;
anarchists and anti-democracy agitators saw communism as a convenient vehicle to overthrow the American government;
Marx’s economic ideas explained the growing inequalities between labor and management, and his political agenda offered a means to help the struggling workers;
when the Great Depression exacerbated the tensions between owners and workers, Marx’s explanations of such tensions became widely popular
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?
the Provincetown Players;
the Wall Street Theater Guild;
the Washington Square Players;
the Actors’ Studio
What effect did de-emphasis of closure and certainty have on the types of subjectivity represented by modernist works?
authors tried to present serious subject matter, such as allusions to classical and biblical subjects, in order to present a coherent subjectivity;
authors included traditionally “unliterary” perspectives and references drawn from the author’s personal life experiences to make the text seem more realistic;
modernist characters were usually depicted ironically by a narrator that knew much more than the characters themselves;
authors expected readers to fill in the blanks left by their fragments and suggestions, and to read their characters ironically
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)?
Eugene O’Neill’s structural experiments with lighting and stage production;
Moss Hart and George Kaufman’s wisecracking domestic comedies;
Clifford Odets’s radical social commentaries, like Waiting for Lefty;
Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rogers’s musical comedies
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”?
slower-paced small town lifestyles were replaced by faster, hectic urban alternatives as more and more Americans adopted city fashions and lifestyles;
small town values of respectability and duty clashed with new emphases on diversity and tolerance in the younger generation;
relatively tolerant, small-town sexual mores gave way to a national, religious zeal to fight what some considered to be too permissive about American culture;
after a long period of expansion from the East to the West and Midwest, Americans began to migrate from the central small towns back to the coastal cities
Which of the following events in European modernism occurred before World War I?
Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiers, and causes a riot, in Paris;
The New York Armory Show introduces paintings such as Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase to American viewers;
James Joyce publishes Ulysses, a modern retelling of Homer’s Odyssey set in Dublin, Ireland;
Salvador Dali and Man Ray establish the surrealist school of painting and photography