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PERIODS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

Early Colonial/ Native American [ ?1750]. NATIVE AMERICAN CHARACTERISTICS1ST AmericansCreation

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PERIODS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

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    1. PERIODS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE ?1750– present day

    2. Early Colonial/ Native American [ ?1750] NATIVE AMERICAN CHARACTERISTICS 1ST Americans Creation & Origin Myths Legends Storytelling Oral Tradition

    3. Early Colonial/ Native American [ ?1750] EARLY COLONIAL CHARACTERISTICS Sermons Personal Narratives/Journals Plain Style Authority of Bible & church Not for entertainment

    4. Pre-Colonial/ Native American [ ?1750] Writers & Works The Iroquois Constitution William Bradford’s Mayflower Compact Anne Bradstreet Jonathan Edwards

    5. Colonial [1750-1800] CHARACTERISTICS Colonial Period [1750-1800] Political pamphlets Ornate Style Persuasive Writing Patriotism

    6. COLONIAL HISTORY Revolutionary War support Instructive in values

    7. COLONIAL Writers Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine Patrick Henry

    8. ROMANTICISM [1800-1860] CHARACTERISTICS SLAVE NARRATIVES POETRY SHORT STORIES VALUE FEELING & INTUITION OVER REASON IMAGINATION

    9. ROMANTICISM HISTORY Expansion of magazines and book publishing Slavery debates Industrial Revolution: “old ways” of doing things are now irrelevant

    10. ROMANTICISM WRITERS Washington Irving William Cullen Bryant Paul Laurence Dunbar Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman Edgar Allan Poe

    11. TRANSCENDENTALISM/ Anti-Transcendentalism CHARACTERISTICS TRANSCENDENTALISM [1840-1860] “American Renaissance” Self-Reliance Individualism Inner-Light Idealist

    12. TRANSCENDENTALISM/ Anti-Transcendentalism CHARACTERISTICS ANTI-TRANSCENDENTALISM “Dark Romanticism” Symbolism Sin, Pain, & Evil

    13. TRANSCENDENTALISM/ ANTI-TRANSCENDENTALISM WRITERS TRANSCENDENTALISM Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Nathaniel Hawthorne ANTI-TRANSCENDENTALISM Edgar Allan Poe

    14. REALISM/ REGIONALISM/ NATURALISM CHARACTERISTICS “Verisimilitude” “Local Color” Aesthetic Realism Social Realism Objective Narrator Open Interpretation

    15. REALISM/ REGIONALISM/ NATURALISM HISTORY [1855-1900] Civil War & post Civil War Influence of Sigmund Freud & Charles Darwin Demand for “truer” type of lit. that does not idealize people or places

    16. REALISM/ REGIONALISM/ NATURALISM WRITERS Mark Twain Ambrose Bierce Stephen Crane Frederick Douglas Kate Chopin Edith Wharton

    17. MODERNISM CHARACTERISTICS Plays, Poetry, Novels “American Dream” Optimism Use of interior monologue & stream of consciousness

    18. MODERNISM HISTORY [1900-1950] WWI & WWII “Jazz Age” Harlem Renaissance The Great Depression Karl Marx rise of youth culture

    19. MODERNISM WRITERS F. Scott Fitzgerald Robert Frost T.S. Elliot Carl Sandburg John Steinbeck William Faulkner Arthur Miller* Langston Hughes W.E.B. DuBois

    20. POST-MODERNISM/ CONTEMPORARY CHARACTERISTICS POST-MODERNISM [1950 ?] Mix of fantasy w/ non-fiction No heroes Individual Isolation Social Issues (ethnic & feminist)

    21. POST-MODERNISM/ CONTEMPORARY CHARACTERISTICS CONTEMPORARY [1970?] Narratives Anti-Heroes Emotion-Provoking Humorous Irony Storytelling Autobiographies

    22. POST-MODERNISM/ CONTEMPORARY HISTORY POST-MODERNISM Post WWII prosperity Media culture interprets values CONTEMPORARY New century & millennium Media influence

    23. POST-MODERNISM/ CONTEMPORARY WRITERS POST-MODERNISM Arthur Miller Sylvia Plath Nikki Giovanni Truman Capote J.D.Salinger “Beat Poets”

    24. POST-MODERNISM/ CONTEMPORARY WRITERS CONTEMPORARY Sandra Cisneros Gary Soto Maya Angelou Alice Walker John Grisham Amy Tan

    25. …and the rest is unwritten…

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