Name the Novel
Ernest Hemingway claimed that this novel is the one book from which all modern American literature springs.
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
invented the detective story
Edgar Allan Poe
What kinds of boundaries did Modernists break?
They broke social, artistic, and even grammatical conventions
“On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.”
Personification
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
Nick Carraway--The Great Gatsby
It exposes the dark side of the American dream
The Great Gatsby
Most famous romantic poet and only wrote in free verse
Walt Whitman
What are some characteristics of Puritan literature?
Puritan literature used formal structures and biblical imagery to discuss themes of faith.
Lived a tune, rare nut, a devil, Lived a devil! Lived a devil! Wets dab noses on bad stew, Evil deeds live!
Palindrome
"Defeat is worse."
Frederic Henry-- A Farewell to Arms
Has been interpreted as a reflection on the human condition
Waiting for Godot
composed nearly 1,800 poems
Emily Dickinson
What styles or forms did Romantic and Transcendentalists prefer?
Transcendentalists often used essays. Romantic poets often used free verse.)
I sat outside in the hall. Everything was gone inside of me. I did not think. I could not think. I knew she was going to die and I prayed that she would not. Don’t let her die. Oh, God, please don’t let her die. I’ll do anything for you if you won’t let her die. Please, please, please dear God, don’t let her die. . . . You took the baby but don’t let her die. That was all right but don’t let her die. Please, please, dear God, don’t let her die.
Stream of Consciousness
“I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them...”
Orleanna Price-- The Poisonwood Bible
The book includes a lot of foreshadowing.
The Poisonwood Bible
The government put this author on a special watch list. He was kept under tight surveillance for more than 12 years.
George Orwell
Authors in this era encourage readers to not only challenge conventions but also to deconstruct literature and to question how meaning is produced.
postmodernism
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
Winston- 1984
Another title for this book was going to be
The Last Man in Europe.
1984
His writing style is named after him
Ernest Hemingway
They generally do not subscribe to the belief that there can be a singular truth or unified means of engagement. As a result, a single text can embody a multiplication of meanings.
Postmodernists
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.”
Vladimir- Waiting For Godot