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BIG 6??? Puritanism, Rationalism, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Post Modernism
Puritanism time period 1600s -- early 1700s
Puritanism plain style of writing -- emphasis on God, hard work, family, and symbols/sermons that focused on God and hard work and family
Rationalism time period mid to late 1700s
Rationalism democratic, no frills, all business; the collective good, emphasis on persuasion through logic
Romanticism time period mid 1800s
Romanticism valued feeling over reason; valued the individual, but recognized the alienation of the individual --> characterized by elements of supernatural, appreciation for the beauty of nature, personal introspection
subset of Romanticism Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism time period mid 1800s
Transcendentalism led by Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson; favored self-reliance and non-conformism, sought to see the sublime in the ordinary, believed that to transcend was to reach beyond ordinary experience --> aimed self perfection
Realism time period mid to late 1800s --> pre and post civil war
Realism writers rejected sentimentally, wanted to represent true life experience, including the way people really acted and spoke; shunned flowery diction and Romanticism; *the rise of the women's movement*
Realism subsets Regionalism, naturalism
Regionalism time period 1800s
Regionalism focus on local setting, customs, and dialects
Naturalism time period 1800s
Naturalism themes are darker: crime, poverty, prejudice; naturalist writers tried to understand scientific or psychological reasons behind behavior
Modernism time period 1918 - 1945 --> end of WWI to end of WW2
Modernism industrial revolution (machines), Mass immigration to the USA, women's rights, the Great Depression; alienation and the loss of the individual to the machine are major themes
Modernism subsets imagism, the lost generation, the Harlem renaissance
Imagism time period early 1900s
Imagism movements 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 *Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams
The Lost Generation time period 1914 -
The Lost Generation referred to the generation who lost fathers, husbands, sons, and brothers in WW1 and who felt aimless and without foundation --> many became expatriots and left the USA
The Harlem Renaissance time period 1920s
The Harlem Renaissance the explosion of African American visual art, dance, music, and literature in the 1920s (Harlem, NY) --> Langston Hughes
Post Modernism time period 1945 - 9/11 --> started at end of WWII
Post Modernism social issues --> racism, sexualism, classism ; post-apocalyptic, satire, the absurd, anti-heroes, alienation due to race, gender, and sexual orientation
Post Modernism subsets The Beat Movement, Gonzo Journalism, Magical Realism
The Beat Movement time period 1950s
The Beat Movement Allen Ginsberg + Jack Kerouac; rejected mainstream American values and embraced nonconformity and Eastern philosophy --> forefather of the 1960s counter-culture movement (hippies)
Gonzo Journalism time period 1970s -
Gonzo Journalism Hunter S. Thompson --> Journalism from 1st POV, new kind of journalism where the writer can be part of the story, blending factor and fiction
Magical Realism time period 1960s -
Magical Realism magic or supernatural elements appear in otherwise realistic circumstances *Realism with magical elements*
Creative Nonfiction time period late 1900s to early 2000s
Creative Nonfiction a genre that blends elements of literature with nonfiction --> memoir, travel and places essays, personal narratives
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