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15 Cards in this Set
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nature "original relation to the universe" investigates multiple ideas about nature-: Neo-Platonism (natural environment as deeper realities and a more materialistic approach tat sees nature as a spiritual an material source not enviromentalist work by today's standards |
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Thoreau |
disciple of Emerson took a different approach and emphasized the spiritual discipline of simplicity, physical labor, and paying careful attention to natural phenomena wrote Waldon considered an American classic of nature writing Inspired Ghandi and Dr. Martin Luther King and several post WW2 counter-cultural movements dedicate oneself to simplicity and material minimalism can lead to spiritual uplift |
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Watt |
Scotsman who created a steam engine efficient enough to replace animal labor |
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Carson |
Silent Spring incited the Kennedy administration to hold hearings about the use of chemical pesticides |
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Counter- Cultural Movements |
Beats, hippies, back-to-the-landers, the Black Power, gay rights, feminism, anti-war movement |
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Rob Nixon |
Scholar who termed Agent Orange "slow violence" |
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sublime |
conceptual category used to describe overwhelming sensory experience causing awe-struck from the natural world |
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American Transcendentalism |
Distinctly American literary, philosophical, and religious movement that began in 1836 with te formation of a Unitarian discussion group known as the Transcendental Club. emphasized the individual's ability to apprehend truts that lay higher or deeper than mere experience could garner. rejected rationalism, preferring ideas of idealist philosopers and Romantic poets. appreciated Eastern thought (Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, Taoism, Confucianism) |
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Romanticism |
originating in Germany late 18th century then moving to England the rest of Europe and then the US in the early 19th century personal experience,and emotional expression, with an interest in the sublime, gothic, psychology, folklore, common people, nature, and new forms of artistic expression examples: William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe, Shelley, John Keats, |
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Victorian |
defined by the reign of Queen Victoria I. English literature flourished espescially poetry and novels Britains empire spread over 1/4 of the Earth mistaken golden age Dickens, Browning |
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Orientalism |
an ideologically study of eastern political servility, despotism, unchanging culture and outlooks, inability to innovate. and a kinda of stasis caused by the inertia of longstanding civilizations created ideological justification for European imperialism in North Africa, Asia Minor, and the rest of Asia |
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Italian Sonnet |
made famous by Petrach 14th Century octave and a set set ABBA ABBA CDCDCD CDECDE |
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English Sonnet |
3 quatrains and a couplet Shakespearean 2 love objects a young man and a dark lady |
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Narrative |
storytelling in prose or verse long prose is a novel |
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Deep Ecology |
The phrase that describes a branch of the |
