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14 Cards in this Set
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Romanticism
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18th-19th Century. Imagination rather than logic. Lord Byron "Don Juan"
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American Romantics
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(Fiction) 18th-19th C. Focuses on dark aspects of history. Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter"
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Transcendentalism
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(19th C.) Philosophy and self reliance. Emerson and Thoreau
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Dark Romanticism
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(19th C.) Reaction to transcendentalism. Man is inherently sinful and self destruction [nature is dark]. Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Leppard.
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Realism
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Late 19th Century. Simplified style/image-interested in poverty and everyday concerns. Balzac, Tolstoy.
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Naturalism
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Late 19th Century. Heredity and environment control people. Zola, Crane "The Open Boat"
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Symbolism
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French Movement based on thought rather than poetic form/image influenced Poe and James Merrill.
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Modernism
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Primitive reaction to science and technology--T.S. Elliot.
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Stream of Consciousness
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Write what you think--no concern. Early 20th Century. Joyce and Woolf. "Ulysses"
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Lost Generation
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Ex-pats (WWI-Great Depression). Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Pound, Pierce.
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Post Modernism
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Post War-diversity and irony. (Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut)
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Beats
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Mid 19th Century. Concerned with the counterculture and youth alienation. Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs.
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Confessional Poetry
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Sylvia Plath (1960's).
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Post Colonial
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Writers from former Euro-colonies--politically charged. Kincaid, Naipaul, Rushdie.
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