American Literary Movements
1) Most experimental type 2) Used fragments, stream of consciousness, & interior dialogue 3) Strived to create a unique style to set the writers apart
3 main focus points of Modernism writing ?
1) Political Pamphlets 2) Essays 3) Travel Writings 4) Speeches 5) Documents
5 types of writings during the Age of Reason ?
1) More romantic view of the world 2) Imagination dominated 3) Intuition over facts 4) Large emphasis on common man and on nature
How did Romanticism differ from the Age of Reason ?
1) Colonial 2) Age of Reason 3) Romanticism 4) Transcendentalism & Anti-Transcendentalism 5) Realism & Naturalism & Regionalism 6) Modernism 7) Contemporary
Order the movements: Modernism Romanticism Age of Reason Contemporary Transcendentalism Anti-Transcendentalism Naturalism Realism Regionalism Colonial
To describe the Americas in word and picture
Thomas Hariot's purpose for writing "A Brief and True Report of the New-Found Land of Virginia" ?
Thomas Paine & Benjamin Franklin
What are 2 writers from the Age of Reason ?
Nathaniel Hawthorne & Herman Melville
What are 2 writers from the Anti-Transcendentalism ?
Anne Bradstreet & William Bradford
What are 2 writers from the Colonial Period ?
F. Scott Fitzgerald & John Steinbeck
What are 2 writers from the Modernism ?
Stephen Crane & Jack London
What are 2 writers from the Naturalism ?
Mark Twain & Henry James
What are 2 writers from the Realism ?
Mark Twain & Kate Chopin
What are 2 writers from the Regionalism ?
Washington Irving & Edgar Allen Poe
What are 2 writers from the Romanticism ?
1) Stressed individualism and self-reliance 2) Often used nature to stress the importance of survival 3) Believed in the inherent good in man, nature, & universe
What are 3 main points of Transcendentalist Literature ?
Alice Walker, J.D Salinger, & Joyce Carol Oates
What are 3 writers from the Contemporary ?
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, & Walt Whitman
What are 3 writers from the Transcendentalism ?
Gothic Literature: stories with characters who had good/evil traits and supernatural elements
What is a sub-genre of Romanticism ? Explain it
Late 1770's - Early 1800's
What time period was the Age of Reason movement ?
1946 - Present
What time period was the Contemporary movement ?
1915 - 1946
What time period was the Modernism movement ?
1865 - 1915
What time period was the Realism & Naturalism & Regionalism movement ?
1800 - 1850
What time period was the Romanticism movement ?
1840 - 1855
What time period was the Transcendentalism & Anti-Transcendentalism movement ?
Early America - 1776
What time period was the colonial movement ?
Puritanical Writers
What type of writers stressed the importance of God, believed in the soul facing spiritual dangers, and did not allow joy ?
Writing in many genres and more variety than any other movement
What was the Contemporary writing ?
The limitation of mankind and its potential destructiveness of society/nature
What was the focus of Anti-Transcendentalism ?
On their own reasoning rather than church teachings, and patriotism
What was the focus of authors during the Age of Reason ?
By writing about specific regions, authors explored the culture of that area (language, customs, beliefs, history, etc)
What was the importance of Regionalism writing ?
1) Viewed people as hopeless victims of immutable natural laws 2) A darker view of realism which believed in predestination & not in free will 3) Demonstrated lives being controlled by uncontrollable forces
What were 3 views of Naturalism ?
Puritanical
What were one type of writers during the Colonial Period ?
Began during civil war. Truthful and objective writing about ordinary characters in ordinary situations
When did Realism begin and what was its focus ?
Age of Reason
Which movement was the Declaration of Independence written in ?
