Puritan Literature
Group of Protestants who wanted to “purify” the Church of England.
Who are the Puritans?
Short sayings with a message
What is an aphorism?
A person who accepts these ideas not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships.
What is a transcendentalist?
Romantic writers (and artists) saw themselves as revolting against this (1700-1770) and its classical values.
What is the age of reason?
Focuses on small geographical area in attempt to reproduce speech & mannerisms
What is regionalism?
This phrase attributed to Ezra Pound, became a rallying cry for writers who participated in this cultural movement
What is make it new?
Cultural movement in the early 1920’s involving African American artists, writers, musicians, and performers
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Considered to be the father of southern gothic literature
Who is Poe?
God had already decided, before birth, whether someone would go to heaven or to hell
What is Predestination?
He wrote Poor Richard's Almanac
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This writer tried to put transcendentalism into practice
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
American Romanticism is closely related to this literary period.
What is Transcendentalism?
The philosophical standpoint of this literary style that scientific laws control life
What is naturalism?
A style that some Modern writers use to portray the inner workings of a character’s mind.
What is stream of consciousness?
African Americans move to northern cities during WWI
What is the great migration?
Came from this country in the late 1700’s - early 1800’s
What is Germany?
Wrote a famous sermon titled "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
Emphasis was placed on this as opposed to faith alone
What is reason?
For two years Thoreau carried out the most famous experiment in self-reliance when he went here to built a hut, and tried to live self-sufficiently without the trappings or interference of society.
Where is Waldon Pond?
They transcended by placing importance on this
What are feelings?
In literature, this gives us a picture of life as it really is.
What is realism?
Many modernists rejected traditional philosophical and religious systems of belief in favor of this, which suggests a meaningless, chaotic, Godless world.
What is Existentialism?
This historical event brought the movement to an end
What is the great depression?
The themes of this gothic classic relate to science, poetry, psychology, alienation, politics, education, family relationships, etc
What is Frankenstein?
These statements can be classified as this. Bible provided model - individual life is a “journey to salvation.” Connections between Biblical events and their own lives. Used writing to explore their inner and outer lives for signs of God’s work. Diaries and histories were most common. Plain style stressed clear expression and avoided complicated figures of speech
What are the characteristics of puritan literature?
Writers focused on justifying this war
What is the American Revolutionary War?
Writers stated that the past is unimportant. Knowledge comes from experience. It is not derived from studying the past. We can’t learn anything truly valuable from the past or from the people who lived before us. Their knowledge was based on their experience, and ours should be too. We should not worship anybody or anything that has come before us. therefore we should place emphasis on this instead.
What is the here and now?
This is more important than the masses.
What is the individual?
This author had a theme in his writings of introducing children to the evil and immorality.
Who was Henry James?
These significant historical events took place during the modernist movement.
What are World War 1, the great depression, riots, KKK, and World War 2?
These published the work of African artists and sponsored literary contests to encourage young artists
What are newspapers?
The purpose was to evoke this in the reader because of situations bordering reality/unreality
What is terror?
Her works explore religion, a personal relationship with God, and her husband (even though the love between a husband and wife was supposed to be repressed so that there was no distraction from a relationship with God)
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
A shift from a God-centered way of life to this view of life.
What is a man-centered?
To rise above the lower animalistic impulses of life (animal drives) and moves from the rational to a spiritual realm
What is transcend?
The American romantic movement was a rejection of these.
What are the industrial revolution and puritan religious values?
This author said novels “should make you think . . . and shame you into wishing to be a more helpful creature than you are.”
Who is William Dean Howell?
The pervasive sense of this many writers said that they felt led them to leave the U.S. and live in “voluntary exile” in England and Europe.
What is alienation?
The red summer of 1919 was characterized by this
What are race riots?
Popular in Southern writing and incorporates local speech and patterns i.e. ain’t, y’all etc. and misspelling of words to display meaning i.e. yuh (you) and lak (like)
What is dialect writing?