Literary Movements Flashcards
The _____________ was a rebirth of African-American literature, art and music during the 1920s - beginning in Harlem, New York City. Popular writers of this movement include W.E.B. DuBois, Zora Neale’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, as well as the Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.
Harlem Renaissance (1918-1930)
This movement used very detailed realism in order to suggest that social conditions, heredity and our environment were inevitable in shaping our human character. Writers during this time include Emile Zola, Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane.
Naturalism (1865-1900)
______________was a movement throughout Europe which emphasized reason, liberty and technological progress. It is also known as the Age of Reason. Most of the writing during this time was nonfiction, such as essays and philosophical treatises by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Rousseau and Descartes.
Enlightenment (1660-1790)
The ________ Poets were a group of poets from Boston that were often read by the fireside for family entertainment and were memorized by students in school.
Includes: Longfellow, Holmes. and others.
Fireside Poets (19th Century)
__________ is a style of writing that strives to depict life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing it.
Realism (19th Century)
___________ was a movement in the Romantic tradition that advanced the idea that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition. Emerson and Thoreu key to it.
Transcendentalism (19th)
_________ was a movement in art and literature that started in Europe to replace conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind. The poet T.S. Eliot was influenced by it.
Surrealism (1920s)
The ____________ was a group of American writers, including Ginsberg and Kerouse. They were known for its nonconformity, experimentation with drugs, interest in Eastern Religions, and rejection of materialism. Also often associated with jazz.
Beat Generation (1950s)
_____________ was a group of poets who wrote in the 1950s, including Plath, Lowell, and Sexton.
Confessional School (1950s)
This literary and artistic movement was a response to the restraints and scientific approach of the Enlightenment. These writers loved imagination, subjectivity, the romance of nature and spontaneity.
Writers of this movement include: Jane Austen, William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth. As for the American Romantic movement, prominent writers included Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, William Cullen Bryant, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Romanticism
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Victorian Literature
The ____________ movement, which was initiated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the mid-nineteenth century, desired to see literature taken back to the realism, sensuousness, and devotion to detail–wanted to move away from being too formal, academic, and unrealistic.
The Pre-Raphaelite
The _______ Movement was:
- heavily influenced by classic Greek and Roman literature and ideas.
- Shakespeare was a part of this movement
- belived that man should be subject of study, not God
- Focus on humanism
Renaissance
The ___________ movement in literature that began in the 1800s that stressed personal emotion, free play of the imagination, and freedom from rules of form.
Romantic
______ literature was:
- predominantly English genre of fiction writing
- popular from roughly the 1910s into the 1960s.
- fiction that spoke of the inner self and consciousness.
- Instead of progress, these writers saw a decline of civilization.
- instead of new technology, they saw cold machinery and increased capitalism, which alienated the individual and led to loneliness.
Modernist
