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42 Cards in this Set
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Romanticism year
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1850-1865
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Realism year
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1865-1890
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Naturalism year
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1890-1910
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New negro movement year
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1900-1945
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modernism
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1900-1945
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romanticism
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all writing is always and already a political act.
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transcendentalism
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- go beyond reality
-intuition -imagination romanticism |
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importable plots
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plots that dont make sense
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romanticism
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-flat characters
-good vs. evil -high class literature |
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ralph waler emerson -1850
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representative man
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nathaniel hawthorne -1850
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Scarlett letter
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Flerman Millville -1851
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Moby dick
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Harriet Betcher Stow- 1852
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uncle toms cabin
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Henry David Thoart1854
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walden
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Walt Witmen- 1855
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leaves of grass
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realism class literature and characters
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-middle class literature
-round characters |
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verisimilitude
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faithful representation of the real
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realism is
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objective
everyday reality complexity of life detailed ethnical delima free will matter of fact |
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vernacular
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actual spoken language of the people
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Paul Dunbar
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the first acclaimed national and international african american writer
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Mark Twain
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-first celebrated american writer
-his real nam is Samuel Langhorne Clemens -his name means safe passage |
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William Dean
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dean of realism
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Grace king
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-new orleans writer
- Author of "the little convent girl" -she writes "balcony stores" -want to write about the eclectic society in New orleans. |
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naturalism
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lower class literature
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naturalism characteristics
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-brute beast
-deterministic -God is dead -man vs. man -man vs. nature -plot of decline/degeneration -indifferent -pessimistic literature -class antagonism |
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naturalism war
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civil war
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Charles Darwin
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-evolution
-"survival of the fittest" -science -brute beast -deterministic |
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Karl Marx
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class antagonism
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Sigman Freud
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-psychology
-clinical objectivity |
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new negro movement characteristics
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-community building
-racial uplifting -fight racism -experimentation( ex. jazz, music, poetry) -political, artistic and economic power |
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New negro movement
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end of the civil war (harlem renaissance)
-great migration- world war I |
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Booker t washington
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-realism
-old negro -comes to power in 1865-1870 -atlanta compromise -HBCU |
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Web Dubois
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professor of sociology
-political power -NAACP (1909)- national association for the advancement of colored people. -the souls of black folk (1903) -double consciousness |
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Alain Lucke
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-artistic power
-cultural pluralism -first african american to be a rhodes scholar |
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Louis Armstrong
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greatest horn player in history
-jazz- art form of america -blues -Bessie Smith-first jazz album everybody went to see them. |
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Marcus Garvey
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-he was from Jamaica
-economic power -black star line -UNIA -never made any trips (KKK) |
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Countee Cullen
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greatest black poet
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naturalism
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year of the woman
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Longston Hughes
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started the magazine "fire"
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Zora Neil Hurstan
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-most prolific writer of new negro-published a great deal movement
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james weldon nellson
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started the newspaper- first african american
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the great depression
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1903-1935 (modernism)
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