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.
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| The Bell Jar, Daddy, Lady Lazarus | Sylvia Plath
Autobiographical (BJ)
Suicide, mental illness
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| Ernest Hemingway | Hills Like White Elephants
The Sun Also Rises
Hills of Mt. Kilmajaro
Many affairs, expatriate
Journalist, short concise writings
Committed Suicide
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| J.D. Salinger | Catcher in the Rye
Harsh criticism
Is a recluse
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 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
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Babylonian Revisited
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| e.e. cummings | anyone lived in a pretty how town, of course of america i, and i sing olaf glad and big
sarcastic, disillusionment
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| T.S. Eliot | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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