English Literary Movements 2
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-Born in Great Depression
-Cold War/WWII
-Korean War - Beat Generation
- -After American Civil War
- Regionalism
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-Born before Civil War
-New England; mainly Boston - Transcendentalism
- -lived almost through entire 19th century
- Anti Transcendentalism
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-WWI and WWII
-Second Industrial Rev. - Modernism
- -adults directly after WWI until beginning of Great Depression
- Lost Generation
- -children and grandchildren of slaves
- Harlem Renaissance
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-scribbled notebooks
-bottomless; from bottom of mind
-genius all the time - Beat Generation
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-mankind naturally good
-look at what is; not whats represented
-freedom of individual - Romanticism
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-regional dialect
-stereotypical characters
-descriptions of setting
-frame story structure - Regionalism
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-emphasis on individual
-intellectual
-emphasis on nature
-understanding;intuition - Transcendentalism
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-characters=lower class
-urban setting
-god=insignificant
-nature is apathetic; indifferent - Naturalism
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-accurate portrayl of lives
-characters in charge of fate
-imagery - Realism
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-limitations/destructiveness of human spirit
-sin and evil
-nature represents good vs evil - Anti-transcendentalism
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-unconventional use of metaphor
-exerimented w/ chronology and time
-displacement/alienation - Modernism
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-complex symbolism
-romantic cliches abandoned
-language is honest - Lost Generation
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-desperation; sadness
-discrimination;racial pride
-rhythm
-identity issues - Harlem Renaissance
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-human experience
-experimentation
-satire; parody; wit
-self-awareness - Post-Modernism
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-Time and space
-improbable plots
-socially harmful morality - Romanticism
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-Nostalgia
-Preservation of old values
-Resisting change
-conflict b/w urban ways and rural values - Regionalism
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-individual=spiritual center of universe
-nature is a living mystery
-self realization - Transcendentalism
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-Pessimistic
-man's uncertainty
-evil is its own entity - Anti-transcendentalism
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-re-examination of life
-embracing progress
-"the new" is good/accepted - Modernism
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-extreme loneliness
-spiritual alienation; despair; aimlessness - Lost Generation
- On the Road
- Jack Kerouac
- Howl
- Allen Ginsberg
- The Scarlett Letter
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Romance
- Edgar Allen Poe
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Mark Twain
- In the Tennessee Mountains
- Mary Noailles Murfree
- Nature
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Walden
- Henry David Thoreau
- The Red Badge of Courage
- Stephen Crane
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The Call of the Wild
The Sea Wolf
White Fang - Jack London
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A Modern Instance
The Rise of Silas Lapham
A Hazard of New Fortunes - William Dean Howells
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Moby Dick
Typee
Mardi
Pierre - Herman Melville
- Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Gertrude Stein
- The Wasteland
- T.S. Eliot
- The Sun Also Rises
- Ernest Hemmingway
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This Side of Paradise
The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night
The Beautiful & the Damned
Last Tycoon - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Quicksand
Passing - Nella Larsen
- Dreams Deferred
- Langston Hughes
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The Paragon
Indian Summer
Peace Breaks Out - John Knowles
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Catcher in the Rye
For Esme With Love and Squalor - Jerome David Salinger