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50 Cards in this Set
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Washington Irving
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Romanticist.
End or Revolutionary War Satirist successful book (sketchbook of jeffrey gent)(characters- Rip Van Winkle and headless horseman) symbolism literary devices pieces between europe and america gent book gave american voice inspired emerson, melville, and poe |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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transcendentalist
influenced by emmanual kant and Thomas Carlyle "Nature" |
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Henry David Thoreau
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Romanticist/ Renaissance
Wrote "waldon" simple style with fundamental beliefs friends with Emerson went to Harvard |
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Nathanial Hawthorne
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Romanticist
Lived on brookfarm(based novel Lyeddle Romance) didn't like transcendentalist views wrote scarlet letter worked on u.s. counsel used sin and guilt in works. had an ancestor in salem witch trials |
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Herman Melville
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Romanticist
Moby Dick- greatest achievement Typee- 1st novel |
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Mark Twain
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Realism
Life on Mississippi River Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry finn( localism- regional voice) "Life on the Mississippi" exaggerations for humor humor and morals in eveyry work cynicism when family died |
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Stephen Crane
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Realism
"Girl of the Streets" brutality and alcoholism beginner of naturalism used city and slums as settings "Red Badge of Courage"- used impressionism |
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Kate Chopin
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Realism
controversial themes repression of Victorian lady The awakening- |
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Willa Cather
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Modernist
moved out west influenced by immigrant stories themes- nostalgia Wrote "o Pioneers" - pioneers traveling west |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Modernism
defined jazz age ancestor of francis scott key "This Side of Paradise, The great Gatsby, and Tender is the Night. didn't finish Last Tycoon |
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Ernest Hemingway
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rejected from WWI
loved to hunt and fish theme- disillusionment within an optimistic and patriotic society |
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Modernism
poor, black women American Renaisasance wrote "their Eyes were watching God" |
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John Steinbeck
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modernism
greatest of protest novels wrote about big businesses and corporation traveled with okies and wrote The Grapes of Wrath Travels with Charley- personal narrative Of Mice n Men |
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James Thurber
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Modernism
humorist of 20th century cartoonist wrote about chaos of contemporary america theme- little men couldn't claim power in world of women when showing relationbetween men and women- women was big |
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William Faulkner
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Modernism
1st book- Soldiers Pay wrote about slavery and discrimination used pointed view, not chronological order Comedy of american south Sound and Fury (controversial) complex writing style influenced by Sherwood womanizer/ alcohol problem |
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Bernard Malamud
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Minority Literature
Jewish writer characters w/ bare substance material came from jews suffering in WWI believed in power of story and plot |
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John Updike
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Contemporary
common experiences gave stories substance Pulitzer Award for Rabbit Series evoked response from ordinary events |
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Julia Alvarez
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Minority
wrote about learning to compromise new cultures conflicting views between american culture and latin culture How Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents |
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Amy Tan
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minority
parents fled communist china fought what was expected of chinese girls wrote good luck club- stores of mother and daughters |
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Tim O' Brien
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Contemporary
military experience in vietnam - material for (If I die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home) tired of realistic novels national book award for going after cacciato incorporates psychology, human character, terror, questions of courage and obligations to due and conscience |
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Anne Tyler
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contemporary
grew up in quaker community writes stories novels- searching for caleb and earthly possessions stories in newspapers and magazines |
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E. B. White
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Modern nonfiction
Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little inspired by WWII modern essays elements of style |
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Russell Baker
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modern nonfiction
essayist wrote in NY times humorous Growing Up and Little Red Riding Hood Revisited |
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Richard Wright
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modern nonfiction
dealt with racism Black Boy - autobiographical joined communist party -realized he was wrong Native Son- Bigger Thomas kills girlfriend |
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James Baldwin
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modern nonfiction
Harlem Renaissance essayist controversial in 20th century spokes person for being black and racial injustice Notes of a Native Son |
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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Modern nonfiction
chinese immigrant parents A Woman Warrior- autobiography; myths; fiction; poetic compilation ^national critics award China Men |
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Alice Walker
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modern nonfiction
share-crop parents activist in civil rights Once- 1st published poem Meridian, The Color Purple, and Temple of my Familiar |
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Sandra Cisneros
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modern nonfiction
mexican-american poet solitude. loved emily dickinson Bad Boys- 1st book of poems Novel- House on Mango Street |
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Jamaica Kincaid
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modern nonfiction
Influenced by Antigua bad relation ship with mother sharp tongue themes- social injustices of island and her mother poetic style and repition |
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Arthur Miller
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drama
theater and literature death of a salesman (tony, pulitzer) Anti-antisemitism The Crucible - against paranoism domestic realism stream of consciousness individual vs. society (death of a) |
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Thornton Wilder
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drama
our town- themes of enjoying little things accused of plagiarism wrote during jazz age and great depression |
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Jack London
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Realism
born in San Francisco, California very poor; did not go to school At age 18 joined an oyster priate ship hobo read a lot; took an exam and got accepted to University of California went to the Yukon for the Goldrush wrote fiction and made over a million alcoholic committed suicide at 40 |
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William Least Heat Moon
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Modern Nonfiction
Wrote Blue Highways: Journey Into America Travelled through America Blue Highways is a personal narrative of that trip |
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Sylvia Plath
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Poet
First work published in 17 Magazine Austrian background versatile tone suffered from depression committed suicide because husband had an affair other woman also committed suicide created confessional poetry wrote Bell Jar almost an autobiography had dark thoughts |
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Robert Frost
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Poet
father died when he was 11 4 out of 6 of his children died wife died My Butterfly was his 1st poem Read 2 poems at Pres. Kennedy's inaugeration poems about humanity, feelings, truths was rejected at the Atlantic Weekly at first used his own voice focused on realism and used narrative dialogue and imagery |
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Allen Ginsberg
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Poet
born 1929 in New Jersey father Jewish and mother dealt with Communists fears conformity attended Columbia University father of beat poetry father was poet obscene poetry; sometimes banned influenced by Walt Whitman and Thoreau refers to homosexuality and drugs and nudity wrote Howl free expression very important part of poetry and tone |
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Langston Hughes
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Poet
born in 1902 grandson of 1st black woman and man to attend Oberlin College wanted harmony between blacks and whites loved harlem and black culture used jazz rhythm in poetry used metaphors ( Harlem is the edge of hell) Influenced by Carl Sandburg |
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Emily Dickinson
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Poet
born in 1930 in MA fears normality and society in love with Thomas Wentworth but he loved someone else and he was a pasture wrote about death, nature, and loss of love not scary death but a calming experience civil war took place during lifetime but did not write about it; she was criticized for not writing about it |
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Ezra Pound
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Poet
Essayist spokesperson of imagism movement spoke different languages (greek..latin..) Adopted Chinese and Japanese literary forms (haiku) imagism makes a bold statemnt with images alone moved to Italy and supported Mussolini father of Facism had radio show in 1940 sent to phych ward for 12 years food friends with Hemingway |
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Edgar Lee Masters
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Poet
born in Kansas wrote Spooner of Anthology, which symbolizes how life is not what it seems on a magazine cover touched by death practiced law |
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poet
has skill in conventional poetic forms turned to more extensive use of common speech 1)poetry should reflect own experience and based on speech and rhyths of urban black culture 2) development of expansion black consciousness and black power from 1950-1960 gave advice to new black writers- made into professional career autobiography= Report from Part One |
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T.S. Elliot
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Poet
Claimed to be the greatest poet The Wasteland coined the word wasteland his play, CATS, was turned into a musical |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Poet
part of modern era wrote with realism and native voice Had an ironic view of human behavior the town he lived in, Gardner, was the setting of many of his books won Pulitzer Prize 3 times |
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Tennessee Williams
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American Drama
Glass Menagerie - the play is a memory with hazy setting. uses colorful women in story and Stanley is stable male character ^setting is Great Depression critic saved the play- told people to watch it |
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Lorraine Hansberry
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American Drama
African woman that lived in hostile white community Went to Univ. of Wisconsin and wrote a play there- "A Raisin in the Sun" ^play about family problems died of cancer |
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Walt Whitman
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Poet
had immigrant parents Read Shakespeare, Homer, and the bible used 2 sided imagism in poetry His poetry must be read with careful attention. |
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Countee Cullen
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Poet.
Color was first volume of poetry. Published Caroling Dusk- an anthology of black poetry that contributed to the Harlem Renaissance. Wanted black poets to write about things other than racial themes Wrote 4 collections of poetry until the 1930s. Taught in Harlem until death influenced by English Romantic poets (John Keats). Wanted to write romantically, but poems ended up being racial |
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Carl Sandburg
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Poet
wrote myths wrote "Chicago & Fog" part of modern literature used vernacular voice- cliches and plain experiences of social faith |
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E. E. Cummings
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poet
used imagism and rugged individualism changed syntax with typography and separation of words part of Elitism used satire of the unman (unemotional men) "Tulips and Chimneys" collection of his poems |
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Anne Sexton
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poet
committed suicide Wrote emotional poems She was bipolar so writing emotional poems was her therapy studied writing with Robert Lowell Influenced by W.D. Snodgrass Won Pulitzer prize in 1976. Wrote about women in society. wrote "To Bedlam and Port way back" |
