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- Read every single story
- go over all notes on blackboard
- no questions on “regionalism” on test
- Don’t look at “real thing” discussion questions
- know 3 waves of feminism

- Romanticism: earliest, full of feeling and emotion. Not just romantic. Exaggeration of feelings; fear, aw, love, etc.

- Realism: CHOICE; the narrator has a moral choice.

- Naturalism: narrator has lack of choice; he is forced.

-Modernism: uncertainty.

Week 1 both
Week 2 both
Week 3 both
Week 4 both
Week 5 both
Week 6 both, “but regionalism” term is not on exam
Week 7 both
(pretty much everything before Feb 26)

“Historicism”: not a literary movement; it’s a way of analyzing literature.

-Ways to analyze literature:
Historicism
New Criticism
-Literary Movements (periods of literature): These are in order!
Romanticism.
Realism
Naturalism
Modernism
Postmodernism

- Don’t worry about years, but know the order above for the different movements.

- know quotes and what literary movements they pair with, knowing what story it is from will help decide what literary term it is from.

- “The Nose” is not categorized as any; hard to classify
- “The Lady With the Dog” is Realism***

Historicism – A mode of thinking in literary criticism that assigns a central importance to a specific context, such as historical period, geographical location, and evolving culture.

Especially important if you want…

To find out the motives behind an author’s writing.
To understand references that is no longer widely recognized.
To infer the frame of mind of a work’s contemporary audience.

Historicism rejects…

The notion that all readers receive and process a piece of literature in the same way.
Universal and fundamental interpretations of only the text.

Examples of evidence that might be used in literary criticism include:

An author’s biographical information, such as social and cultural views, written letters, and accounts of the author written by

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