35338927
Description
Flashcards by Miriam González Cano, updated more than 1 year ago
|
|
Created by Miriam González Cano
almost 3 years ago
|
|
| Question | Answer |
| At the beginning of the 20th century, USA entered... | Progressive Era |
| Progressist president: | T. Roosevelt |
| WWI dates | 1914-1918 |
| 1920s were known as... | New Era |
| Great Depression started in... | 1929 |
| Lost Generation refers to... | a group of American writers who gained popularity during the 1920s, heavily influenced by the post-WWI period |
| The term "lost" makes reference to... | their profound disaffection provoked by the horrors of the war, leading to the rejection of traditional pre-war values |
| Characteristics of the Lost Generation: | -Inherited values=no valid -Unattached -Lived in exile -Decadence, gender roles & idealized past |
| Scott Fitzgerald was born in... | Minnesota |
| Scott Fitzgerald attended... | St Paul's Academy & Princeton (not finished) |
| Fitzgerald fell in love with... | Zelda Sayre |
| Fitzgerald's wols: | -This side of paradise -The great Gatsby -Tender is the night |
| It is an autobiographical novel where the hero represents the hero of the lost generation. This novel was about a young soldier with his same experience in life, whose own egotism had prevented his finding happiness. | This side of paradise (Fitzgerald) |
| The Great Gatsby was published in... | 1925 |
| The main theme of the novel is the clash between reality and idealism. Its style is light and clear, with many details, and including dialogues and flashbacks. | The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) |
| Tender is the night was published in... | 1934 |
| It is a complex study of the spiritual depletion of a psychiatrist, who married a wealthy former patient. | Tender is the night (Fitzgerald) |
| John Steinbeck was born in... | California |
| Steinbeck attended... | Stanford University (left to New York) |
| Steinbeck's works: | -Tortilla flat -The grapes of wrath |
| The novel, which portrays a group of “paisanos” after the end of WWI, was his first critical and commercial success. | Tortilla Flat (Steinbeck) |
| The Grapes of Wrath was published in... | 1939 |
| Being regarded as authentic material from the Depression, this novel represented a national tragedy which shocked the nation. | The grapes of wrath (Steinbeck) |
| Steinbeck was a war correspondent in... | WWII |
| Steinbeck's prze: | -Pullitzer Prize -Nobel Prize |
| Ernest Hemingway was born in... | Illinois |
| Hemingway was volunteer in... | WWI |
| Hemingway's works: | -The sun also rises -A farewell to arms -A death in the afternoon -For whom the bell tolls -The old man and the sea |
| It portrays a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to Spain in order to see the “Festival of San Fermín”. | The sun also rises (Hemingway) |
| It focuses on a tragic wartime love affair between an ambulance driver and a nurse, who escape to Switzerland during the war. | A farewell to arms (Hemingway) |
| The characters are young Americans living in Paris, who are either expatriates or had fought in the war, and now are considered to be useless. | A death in the afternoon (Hemingway) |
| Hemingway was a correspondent in... | Spanish Civil War |
| It is about an American volunteer in a Republican guerrilla unit during the civil war. | For whom the bell tolls |
| The old man and the sea was published in... | 1952 |
| Main themes in "The old man and the sea" | heorism, stoicism and tradition |
| William Faulkner was born in... | Mississippi |
| Faulkner's works: | -Soldier's Pay -Mosquitoes -Sartoris -The sound and the fury -As I lay dying -Absalom, absalom! -The portable Faulkner |
| It was a perfect portray of the sense of isolation experienced by soldiers returning from WWI to a civilian world of which they seemed no longer a part. | Soldier's Pay (Faulkner) |
| satirical work based on artist and art lovers in New Orleans, and it is considered his weakest novel. | Mosquitoes (Faulkner) |
| an imaginary area in Mississippi with a colourful history and a richly varied population which was to be used as the setting for Faulkner's novels and stories | Yoknapatawpha County |
| Primary theme in Faulkner's novels: | abuse suffered by Afro-Americans |
| It tells the economic decline of a family, recounted from four different perspectives: from the three brothers and from the black servant. | The sound and the fury (Faulkner) |
| a story about the journey of a family to bury their mother | As I lay dying (Faulkner) |
| a fable of the old South which is told backwards | Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner) |
| It presented his Yoknapatawpha legend as a whole, including extracts from his novels in chronological order | The portable Faulkner (Faulkner) |
Want to create your own Flashcards for free with GoConqr? Learn more.