Literary Movements
The period from approximately 1900-1945 is known as this movement.
What is Modernism?
This author is probably best known for her coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street.
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
This romantic transcendental American poet published only a handful of poems in her lifetime, but is now considered one of the most unique and important poets in U. S. history, thanks to poems like "Because I could not stop for Death" and "Hope is the thing with feathers."
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Joseph Campbell developed this theory, which states that all stories throughout recorded history have followed the same basic pattern.
What is the Hero's Journey, or the Monomyth?
Because English partially derives from Germanic and Scandinavian languages, four of our days of the week are still named after gods from this mythology.
What is Norse mythology?
This period is famous for rebelling against systems of rational thought and praising the individual human spirit and the Natural world.
What is the Romantic movement?
William Butler Yeats's poem "The Second Coming" inspired the title of this novel, about African colonization.
What is Things Fall Apart?
This generation of American poets includes Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and inspired poet-songwriters like Bob Dylan and Patti Smith.
Who is the Beat Generation?
This character archetype, famously seen in ancient mythic characters like Loki and Anansi, uses deception in order to get his way.
Who is the Trickster?
A story structured so that it is told entirely through "found documents," like letters, journal entries, interviews, and newspaper clippings, like Frankenstein or "Green Tea."
What is epistolary?
The earliest period of English-language literature starts over 1,000 years ago during this movement, named after the Germanic tribes that conquered England.
What is the Anglo-Saxon movement?
What is Stardust?
Most closely associated with the Romantics, this poet-painter famously had religious visions from early childhood, and is best known today for his Songs of Innocence and Experience.
This popular character type can be seen from Hercules, to Beowulf, to Superman, often using superior strength to fight for the good of humanity.
What is the Hero, or Warrior?
Aram Saroyan's controversial "lighght" is an example of this type of poetry.
What is minimalist poetry?
One of the most popular literary movements for theatre, this era produced geniuses like Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and, of course, William Shakespeare.
What is the Renaissance?
This author is most famous for science fiction novels like The Time Machine and The Invisible Man.
Who is H. G. Wells?
This specific poetic form always has fourteen lines in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.
What is a Shakespearean or English sonnet?
Romeo and Juliet are probably the most famous characters that fall under this archetype.
What are the Lovers?
This philosophical theory states that life has no inherent meaning but that we are free to make our meaning from it.
What is existentialism?
Sometimes called the Dark Ages, this movement was dominated by epic poetry, chivalrous romances, knights, kings, and magic.
What is the Medieval Era?
Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and famous for creating the "Cthulhu Mythos," this cult author explored strange dream worlds in his short stories.
Who is H. P. Lovecraft?
The term used to describe writing about art, as in W. H. Auden's "Les Musee des Beaux Arts," which is about Breughel's painting "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus."
What is ekphrasis, or ekphrastic poetry?
The creator archetype can best be seen in this popular myth, in which Daedalus builds wings for himself and his son to escape imprisonment.
What is "The Myth of Icarus"?
This critical theory can be applied to a text in order understand how money and class affect its meaning.
What is Marxist, or socio-economic theory?