Literární část
Background for Topic 39: The Gilded Age. (1865 - 1912).
T h e G i l d e d A g e ( 1 8 6 5 – 1 9 1 2 )
- 1865, Lee’s surrender – 1912, A. Lincoln’s death
- boom times of vulgarity, specious glitter, and superficial glow
H u m a n i t a r i a n i...
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(39) Mark Twain and American Oral Culture: Tall Tale and Hoax, J. C. Harris, Ballads and Fables.
T h e G i l d e d A g e
[See "Background for Topic 39..."]
M a r k T w a i n ( 1 8 3 5 – 1 9 1 0 )
L i f e :
- b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- grew up in Hannibal, a frontier town...
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Background for Topics 40 and 48: Realism and Naturalism.
R e a l i s m ( 1 8 4 0 s – 9 0 s )
- attempted from the oldest time
- orig. in Fr. (Flaubert, Balzac, & oth.), prominent in the 1840s – 90s
- portrays life with fidelity: no idealisation,...
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(40) American Realists and the First Generation Naturalists: Parallels and Differences.
(M. Twain, W. D. Howells, H. James, J. London, S. Crane, F. Norris, and T. Dreiser).
R e a l i s m a n d N a t u r a l i s m
[See "Background for Topics 40 and 48..."]
M a r k T...
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Background for Topics 41-44: American Modernism (1920s - 30s).
M o d e r n i s m ( 1 9 2 0 s – 3 0 s )
H i s t o r i c a l B a c k g r o u n d ( W W I + )
- the infl. of politics upon the arts: GB ceases to be the foremost...
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(41) Modernism in American Literature: American Literary Expatriates in Europe and Elsewhere.
(H. James, G. Stein, T. S. Eliot, E. Pound, L. Hearn, etc.).
A m e r i c a n M o d e r n i s m ( 1 9 2 0 s – 3 0 s )
[See "Background for Topics 41-44..."]
H e n r y J...
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(42) Followers of W. Whitman and Epic Poetry (1900 – 1940).
(C. Sandburg, E. L. Masters, V. Lindsay, and R. Jeffers).
A m e r i c a n M o d e r n i s m
[See "Background for Topics 41-44..."]
C h i c a g o R e n a i s s a n c...
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(43) Modernist Poets in America.
(R. Frost, C. Sandburg, E. L. Masters, V. Lindsay, H. Crane, W. C. Williams, W. Stevens, and e. e. cummings).
A m e r i c a n M o d e r n i s m
[See "Background for Topics 41-44..."]
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(44) Modernist Experiments in Fiction.
(S. Crane, G. Stein, S. Anderson, W. Faulkner, J. Dos Passos, and E. Hemingway).
A m e r i c a n M o d e r n i s m
[See "Background for Topics 41-44..."]
S t e p h e n C r a...
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Background for Topics 45-46: Afro-American Literature.
A b o l i t i o n i s m ( 1 9 t h c . )
- started with the Enlightenment – became a large movement in several 19th nations seeking to abolish slavery and the slave trade
- the chief philos....
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(45) African-American Nineteenth Century Literature.
(P. Wheatley, F. Douglass, J. C. Harris, B. T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, C. W. Chesnutt, and P. L. Dunbar).
A f r o - A m e r i c a n L i t e r a t u r e
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(46) Harlem Renaissance.
(L. Hughes, C. Cullen, C. McKay, Z. N. Hurston, and J. Toomer).
A f r o - A m e r i c a n L i t e r a t u r e
[See "Background for Topics 45-46..."]
L a n g s t o n H u g h...
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Background for Topic 47: The Jazz Age (1920s).
H i s t o r i c a l B a c k g r o u n d :
- an age of bohemian rebellion in the 1920s
- characteristic by the sense of rootlessness and the lack of sense of a serious purpose
(–) WW I...
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(47) The Lost Generation and the Jazz Age: Experiment, Myth, and Tradition.
(F. S. Fitzgerald, E. Hemingway, and J. Dos Passos).
T h e J a z z A g e
[See "Background for Topic 47..."]
F r a n c i s S c o t t F i t z g e r a l d (...
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(48) Women Fiction Writers: Issues, Forms, and Reception.
(K. Chopin, W. Cather, Z. N.Hurston, and S. O. Jewett).
R e a l i s m a n d N a t u r a l i s m
[See "Background for Topics 40 and 48..."]
K a t e C h o p i n ( 1 8 5...
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