Epochy americké literatury
The Earliest Literature in America.
E x p l o r a t i o n W r i t i n g s
- Bjarni: (a Norseman) blown off course (985)
- Leif Ericsson: establ. a settlement ‘Vinland’ [= ‘Newfoundland’ >> New En.] (1000)
- Christopher Columbus:...
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Literature of the American Revolution.
I d e o l o g i c a l B a c k g r o u n d
- the 18th c. = the age of reason and enlightenment
- development of natural sciences
T h e C o n c e p t o f G o d :
(a) 17th c.,...
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Beginnings of the American National Literature.
C r e a t i n g t h e N a t i o n a l L i t e r a t u r e
- attempts to create the Am. national lit. x but: disagreements about the way:
(a) the Am. lit. lacks national feeling, seeks...
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Romanticism in American Literature.
R o m a n t i c i s m
- associated with imagination and boundlessness x classicism
- demands a greater personal freedom for the individual, and spontaneity in thought and action
- struggles against...
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New England Brahmins and Transcendentalism.
N e w E n g l a n d B r a h m i n s/S c h o o l r o o m P o e t s
- the name: from the term for the highest of priestly caste among the Hinds
- humorously applied to the New En. upper-class...
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The Gilded Age (1865 - 1912).
Ch a r a c t e r i s t i c s
- 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 s m :
- A. Lincoln’s...
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Realism and Naturalism in American Literature.
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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Modernism in American Literature.
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 colonial power, loses colonies, and evokes a colonial...
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African-American Literature.
A b o l i t i o n i s m ( 1 9 t h c e n t u r y )
- started with the Enlightenment – became a large movement in several 19th nations seeking to abolish slavery and the slave...
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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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The Twentieth Century American Drama.
D r a m a u n t i l t h e 2 0 t h C e n t u r y
- mostly Eur.-produced plays
- melodrama, spectacle, and bombastic performances by actors
- actors = great celebrities...
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