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American Lit Exam

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The Awakening, The Storm, Desiree's Baby Kate Chopin, 1899 Naturalism and Realism, roots of feminism Focus on Creole and Cajun Culture, local color stories.
The Bell Jar, Daddy, Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath Autobiographical (BJ) Suicide, mental illness
Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants The Sun Also Rises Hills of Mt. Kilmajaro Many affairs, expatriate Journalist, short concise writings Committed Suicide
J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye Harsh criticism Is a recluse
Naturalism late nineteenth and early 20th century response to revolution in thought produced by science Characters:lower class-governed by instinct setting-urban themes: survival (man v. nature, self), freedom as illusion
Modernism Flourish in 1920s and 1930s. Experimented with literary forms, devices, styles loss of sense of "being" vagueness; collapse of values; fragmented loss of faith in moral center new psychoanalytic, scientific, and social theories alienation of humanity
Realism reaction against Romanticism (no improb. plot twists, objective presentation of details, no exotic and imaginative settings. truthful rep. of life, focus on common person and the everyday present-day Plain style, birth to local color and historical
Romanticism celebration of the individual self-reliance nature=harmony optimism emotion over reason, remoteness of setting (past, sublime), looseness in style, return to medieval (ballads, folklore)
William Faulkner A Rose for Emily; gruesome "southern" lit; women kills lover to keep him by her side, sleeps with corpse; first person plural stream of consciousness
F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylonian Revisited
e.e. cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town, of course of america i, and i sing olaf glad and big sarcastic, disillusionment
T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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