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Cultural and Literary in Modernity

What are the differences between conservative modernism and progressive modernism ?

What are the differences between conservative modernism and progressive modernism ?

A. Conservative modernism came to look to the past for inspiration and hope, while progressive modernism looked to the future.
B. Conservative modernism supported the status quo, while progressive modernism was deeply engaged in political and social amelioration.
C. Conservative modernism celebrated aesthetic formalism, while progressive modernism celebrated innovation and attacked aesthetic formalism.
D. All of the above

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of “Modernism” ?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of “Modernism” ?

A. A radical project of experimentation with literary and artistic form
B. A belief in the power of the natural world to communicate transcendent truth
C. The use of irony and parody
D. Both A and B

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Which of the following best describes Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” ?

Which of the following best describes Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” ?

A. Beckett’s work expresses a certain frustration with the inability of language to fully capture the human condition.
B. Beckett’s play explores how language helps to form one’s notion of self.
C. Beckett’s work captures an almost transcendent melancholy as it explores human
desires for a redemption that may or may not ever materialize.
D. All of the above

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Which of the following best describes James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” ?

Which of the following best describes James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” ?

A. It begins with the famous line: “Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…”?
B. It is a semi-autobiographical account of Joyce’s “coming of age” as an artist.
C. It captures the conflict that Stephen Dedalus has with his Irish and Catholic heritage.
D. All of the above

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According to Tristan Tzara’s “Manifesto on Dadaism,” which of the following does NOT define Dadaism ?

According to Tristan Tzara’s “Manifesto on Dadaism,” which of the following does NOT define Dadaism ?

A. “Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family”
B. “A protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action”
C. “Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity”
D. “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

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Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?

Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?

A. “The Sun Also Rises”
B. “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
C. “The Cantos”
D. “To the Lighthouse”

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