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literary movements

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Naturalism (19" century) - -Extension of Realism • Themes are darker: crime, poverty, prejudice, etc. • Naturalist writers tried to understand scientific or psychological reasons behind behavior
Imagism (early 20 century) Movement in poetry that favored the use of images as the things themselves • Motto: "The natural object is always the adequate symbol." • Willingness to play with forms • Most notable poets: Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams
The Lost Generation (1914) • phrase coined by writer Gertrude Stein and later made popular by Ernest Hemingway • the generation who lost fathers, husbands, sons and brothers in World WarI and felt aimless • Manywere disillusioned by traditiona american values - ex patriots
The Harlem Renaissance (1920s) The explosion of African American visual art, dance, music, and literature in the 1920s, primarily centered in Harlem, New York • Poet Langston Hughes is often seen as the symbol of the period.
Romanticism (mid-19* century) Valued feeling over reason • Valued the individual, but recognized the alienation of the individual • Literature characterized by elements of the supernatural, appreciation for the beauty of nature, personal introspection
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