Literary Movements
This sub-movement concentrated on unique features of an area, including dialect, customs, tradition, topography, history, and characters.
What is Regionalism?
Post-WWI writers disillusioned with society
What are the Lost Generation?
This author's breakout masterpiece was almost certainly an expression of his own anxieties, including still being a virgin at age 26.
Who is T. S. Eliot?
"Just then something long, round, limp and black fell upon her shoulders and slithered to the floor beside her."
What is "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston?
"Up above, men wore black clothes and boiled shirts, and women dressed in beautiful gowns. Also, there were good things to eat, and there was plenty to eat. This much for the flesh. Then there were the things of the spirit. Up above me, I knew, were unselfishnesses of the spirit, clean and noble thinking, keen intellectual living."
Who is Jack London?
This type of novel was heavily informed by journalistic techniques, such as objectivity and fidelity to the facts of the matter.
What is the realist novel?
Millions of black sharecroppers/farmers moved to the urban North in search for opportunity and freedom from racial hostility
What is The Great Migration?
At age 11, this author had a poem called "Autumn Musings" printed in the New York Sunday Atlas, and his family merely pointed out the poem's defects.
Who is Bret Harte?
"He had been born high, and he thought of himself as a spiritual aristocrat. And he was proud of his father. It was a passion with him."
What is "House of Pride"?
"As he turned to go on, he spat speculatively. There was a sharp, explosive crackle that startled him. He spat again."
Who is Jack London?
Writers of this literary movement observed that life did not follow the pattern of a traditional story arc and felt that the novel shouldn't either.
What is Realism?
Despite their resounding pessimism, these authors were genuinely concerned with improving the situation of the poor in America and the world.
Who are the Naturalists?
Mark Twain stayed in this man's cabin in Jackass Hill after fleeing the consequences of a barroom brawl.
Who is Jim Gillis?
"She was entertained only by the gratification of her desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm."
What is "Winter Dreams"?
"They are safe from him. People whose lives are a part of this peace and dignity are beyond his touch, he no more to them than a buzzing wasp: capable of stinging for a little moment but that's all."
Who is William Faulkner?
This literary movement occurred during the period between World War I and World War II (around 1910-1945)
What is Modernism?
This author was one of the first black authors who could support himself through his writing and was one of the early figures whose writing "showed the dignity and beauty of black life."
Who is Langston Hughes?
This author was called the Dean of American Literature and, as editor of the Atlantic Monthly, recruited new authors of his generation who shared his beliefs in the merits of realism versus romanticism.
Who is William Dean Howells?
"Long streamers of garments fluttered from fire-escapes. In all unhandy places there were buckets, brooms, rags and bottles. In the street infants played or fought with other infants or sat stupidly in the way of vehicles. Formidable women, with uncombed hair and disordered dress, gossiped while leaning on railings, or screamed in frantic quarrels."
What is "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets"?
"Now that illumination had begun, however, it blazed to the zenith, and what he presently stood there gazing at was the sounded void of his life."
Who is Henry James?
Proponents of this literary movement tended to define and present the imagination as the ultimate shaping or creative power, the primary faculty for creating all art.
What is Romanticism?
The name of the fictional county in which William Faulkner used as a setting for much of his writing.
What is Yoknapatawpha County?
This author was considered the pioneer of the ironic mode in poetry; that is, deceptive appearances hiding difficult truths.
Who is T. S. Eliot?
"There was no room for the lesser vices; there was little or no drunkenness; the gaudily dressed and painted women who presided over the wheels of fortune or performed on the harp and piano attracted no attention from those ascetic players. The man who had won ten thousand dollars and the man who had lost everything rose from the table with equal silence and imperturbability."
What is "Bohemian Days in San Francisco"?
"The mystery that had bewildered her was solved by the word; and from that moment she rose from grovelling in shame and self-pity, and began to live again in the ideal."
Who is William Dean Howells?
This literary movement viewed heredity and social conditions as unavoidable determinants in one's life.
What is Naturalism?
This social theory stated that the process of competition invigorates society by perpetuating the strong eliminating the weak.
What is Social Darwinism?
Authors of the Lost Generation became expatriates and often hung out at the home of this novelist's Parisian salon.
Who is Gertrude Stein?
"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor--Bare."
What is "Mother to Son"?
"I could've come. I stayed away because it weren't cheerful--and that's why I ought to have come. I--I've never liked this place. Maybe because it's down in a hollow and you don't see the road. I dunno what it is, but it's a lonesome place and always was."
Who is Susan Glaspell?