Genres Flashcards
Realism
-Characters rather than plot
-Reproduce the real world
-Victorian period: growing concern for the plight of the less fortunate
Regional Realism
-‘Local Colour’
-Importance of setting
-Dialect, customs, history and landscape
-Nostalgia and resistance to change
Naturalism
-Sought to be more explanatory than realism
-A poor immigrant couldn’t escape their life of poverty because of their pre-conditions
Puritanism
-Uphold the word of God and the Bible
-Believed in religious freedom
Colonialism
-Colonial fascination with science, nature, freedom, and innovation
-Often addresses the problems and consequences of colonisation
Revolutionary
-Politically motivated
-Enlightenment thinkers and individualists
-Colonial fascination with science, nature, freedom, and innovation
-Attempt to change government, regime, or society by violence
Romanticism
-Glorification of the past and nature
-Concerned with the individual more than society
American Gothic
-The inability of many gothic characters to overcome perversity by rational thought
-Sucked into the realm of madness
American Renaissance/ Transcendentalism
-Advocated for reforms in church, state, and society
-Represented a new way of understanding truth and knowledge
Modernism
-Marked a sudden and unexpected break with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world
Social Realism
-Focuses on the daily lives of the working class
-Aimed to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class
What genre is TGG?
Modernism, a social satire
What genre is Passing?
Modernism, Harlem Renaissance
What genre is GOW?
Realism/naturalism
