Literary Movements
This movement places emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion
What is Romanticism?
A writer's attitude toward his subject, communicated through diction, choice of details, or direct statements of his or her position. It reflects the feelings of the writer.
What is tone?
The category and field of literary writings began because of this invention
What is the printing press?
This president was instrumental in designing programs that provided economic and individual financial incentives in the wake of the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Name the defining features of American Literature.
Those few works of fiction, poetry, and the drama which have been written in any place that is now part of the United States or by anyone who has ever lived in one of these places and which rank among the acknowledged masterpieces of Western writing (canon).
Literary period defined by progress, capitalism, and the steam engine.
What is Modernism?
Using descriptive or figurative language to create mental pictures for the reader.
What is imagery?
This concept by Benedict Anderson depicts a nation as socially constructed
What is an imagined community?
This person revolutionized the American workday, forever changing Americans relationship to capital.
Who is Henry T. Ford?
Name two ways Alain Locke defined the “New Negros” of the 1920s.
Not in the South (city foreward); resides in Harlem; “thinking” Negro (no self pity); advances the race by contributing to society; non-primitive
Broad and wide-reaching twentieth century movement general distrust of grand theories and ideologies; focused on free form and abstraction as a way of drawing meaning.
What is postmodernism
This word can both be a description of a musical genre that was developed in the South as well as the mood of a body of work that is often associated with realism/naturalist movements.
What is the Blues?
We can trace the history of American Literature to this this period which is considered “classic” and lasted throughout from the 15th century to the 17th century
What is the (English) Renaissance?
A renowned women's rights activist who authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman a classic feminist text.
Who is Mary Wallstonecraft?
We can trace the history of American Literature to this this period which is considered the classical period of writing and lasted throughout from the 15th century to the 17th century. Name the country it grew out of and the defining feature of the movement.
Italy; Appeals to God and doing art in service to God.
Humanist-focused movement challenging readers to look past myths, assumptions, and social norms in order to see the world as it really is. Attention was given to the lower and middle class, and gritty details of American life.
Related to the concept of irony, this refers to the author using multiple voices, talking to multiple audiences, or using a concept to represent something that has a deeper meaning other than that which can be taken at face value.
What is double speak?
This event that took place in 1773 was the beginnings of what we now know of as individualism, excess, capitalism, and private property.
What is the England's Enclosure Act?
This Black writer focused on mapping the unique cultural and folk customs of the South using anthropological methods of embedding herself in a community and documenting aspects of it that had long gone unrecorded
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Why did Romanticism come after the Enlightenment period?
Believed that the advances made by the Enlightenment period lead to a cold, oppressive, and conformist society. And that science and rationality could never truly understand the world because it was cold and sterile.
A style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of environmental detail such as Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
What is naturalism?
Refers to the use of an object, figure, event, situation, or other idea in a written work to represent something else. In the Great Gatsby, the green light is one of these.
What is a symbol?
The scholar Paul Gilroy states that instead of Black Modernity beginning in the twentieth century (1900s), it begins with this historical event
What is the TransAtlantic Slave Trade?
This early sociologist and intellectual wrote a foundational text that describing “the veil” covering him as related to the fact that he had no cultural history which others could relate to him through.
Who is WEB DuBois?
Name three major themes of white women writing American Literature and three major themes of Black women writing American Literature.
White Women: institutionalization/psychosis, sexual freedom/liberation, cult of domesticity
Black Women: domestic labor, sexualization, rape, colorism, wealth, radicalization.