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elegies, poems
biographies, histories
sermons, propaganda |
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unadorned, simple, natural
useful, didactic, Biblical |
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scientific writings
poetry
political pamphlets & essays |
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| Neoclassical characteristics |
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clarity, rationality
progress, perfectibility of man
efficacy of reasoning; God's beneficience |
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| Neoclassical philosophy (ies) |
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Rationalism; Deism
science > Theology, reason > faith
skepticism > authority |
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emotion, imagination, "love" of nature
Common Man, personal exp.
author's individual personality (late) |
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| Romantic philosophy (ies) |
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Pantheism, Transcendentalism
mysterious, adventurous |
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novel, essays
short stories
NO POETRY! |
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dialect, local color
clear & direct language, truthful treatment
concerned with earthly & immediate |
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| Naturalism characteristics |
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distorted view of life & reality
evolutionistic thinking
photographic accuracy
pessimism; scientific approach |
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| Naturalism philosophy (ies) |
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applying Darwin to literature
Determinism (fate -> outside forces)
Fatalism (fate -> other beings)
Imagism |
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| Modernism characteristics |
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rejected traditional lit forms & subject matter; experimentation
alienation of man, rebellion
little morality; fear, chaos, violence |
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| Modernism philosophy (ies) |
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Evolution
Freudianism
Marxism |
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| Contemporary characteristics |
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patriotic; social protest
counterculture, immortality
social criticism |
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Emerson, Thoreau
Hawthorne, Poe
Longfellow |
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Howells, Twain, James
Jewett, Freeman |
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Garland, Bierce
Crane, London |
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Eliot, Robinson, Williams
Lowell, Masters, Fitzgerald
Dunbar, Frost
Cather, Hemingway |
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