Characters, Titles, Names
This bird was the central focus of a short story set in Maine.
white heron.
Gave birth to "gospel music"
Harlem Renaissance
This author was friends with Mark Twain and wrote about the Spanish-American War.
William Dean Howells
"When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad"
" A Rose for Emily"
He sought to honestly portray the joys and hardships of working-class black lives, avoiding both sentimental idealization and negative stereotypes
Langston Hughes
story is set in the Civil War- famous for irregular time sequence and twist ending
"Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Work during this time period examines realities of life, human frailty. Depiction of ordinary people in everyday life with an Objective narrator
Key here--Does not tell reader how to interpret story
Realism
She spent the civil War in St. Louis, a city where residents supported both the Union
and the Confederacy. She was one of the first authors to be widely published in Vogue and The Atlantic Monthly
Kate Chopin
This story was written long before the environmental
movement took hold, but it certainly embraces environmentalist ideas. It also embodies Romantic ideals of nature and individualism.
"A White Heron"
The New Colossus’ was commissioned to help raise money for the statue’s construction, but it was only after her death, in 1887, that the poem was published.
Emma Lazarus
____ “wanted Judy Jones ever since he was a proud, desirous little boy”-- Name the character in the story.
fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region
local color/ regionalism
Considered one of the four or five greatest American authors; works contain a great deal of psychological realism
Henry James
"She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her."
Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin
a literary giant whose
finest writing held meaning far beyond the
agonies and conflicts of his own troubled
South.
William Faulkner
These two leaders were in constant conflict over how to extend progress, education, and equality for African Americans, especially post Civil War.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois
This literary time period includes Sin, pain, evil and Contains elements of gloom, mystery, the grotesque
Gothic
She was treated by a famous Philadelphia nerve specialist, Dr. S. Weir
Mitchell, who prescribed a "rest cure"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"He thought Almighty God had dealt cruelly and unjustly with him; and felt, somehow, that he was paying Him back in kind when he stabbed thus into his wife's soul. Moreover he no longer loved her, because of the unconscious injury she had brought upon his home and his name."
"Desiree's Baby"
_____ is a style that some Modern writers use to portray the inner workings of a character’s mind.
Stream of Conciousness
The term embraces Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Hart Crane, and many other writers who made Paris the centre of their literary activities in the 1920s.
The Lost Generation
Characteristics of this literary time period include:
The pursuit of the American Dream
America as the land of Eden
Experimental as writers seek a unique style
Use of interior monologue & stream of consciousness
His Devil’s Dictionary (1911), compiled during most of his writing career, offered dark, satiric definitions of common words.
Ambrose Bierce
"'I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.'
"There is no honor above America with me. In this great hour there is no other honor.
Editha by William Dean Howells
A modernist poet, he became an inspiration to the Beat generation in the 1950s and 60s ( and had multiple careers in different fields)
William Carlos Williams