Connections, Themes, Contexts, and Critical Interpretations (OCR A-Level English Literature): Flashcards
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Publication year of Sense and Sensibility
Publication year of Sense and Sensibility
1811
Central dialectic in Sense and Sensibility
Central dialectic in Sense and Sensibility
Sense (rational judgement) vs sensibility (emotional response)
Austen's narrative technique
Austen's narrative technique
Free indirect discourse
Woolf's narrative technique in Mrs Dalloway
Woolf's narrative technique in Mrs Dalloway
Stream-of-consciousness
What Barton Cottage symbolises
What Barton Cottage symbolises
Dashwood family's reduced circumstances & economic confinement
Septimus Warren Smith's narrative role
Septimus Warren Smith's narrative role
Clarissa's psychological double
Definition of primogeniture
Definition of primogeniture
Inheritance system where eldest sons inherit entire estates
When women over 30 gained the vote in UK
When women over 30 gained the vote in UK
1918
Big Ben's structural function in Mrs Dalloway
Big Ben's structural function in Mrs Dalloway
Marks hours, creates urgency, reminds characters of mortality
Marriage in Austen vs Woolf
Marriage in Austen vs Woolf
Economic salvation vs emotional prison/sterility