Literary Movements And Periods Flashcards
A movement primarily in theater
Responded to illogicality and purposeless ness of human life in works marked by a lack of clear narrative, understandable psychological motives, or emotional catharsis
Literature of the Absurd
Rejected the view that art had to possess a higher moral or political value and believed instead in “art for art’s sake”
Aestheticism
Group of male British writers who created visceral plays and fiction at odds with the politically established and self-satisfied middle class
John Osborne’s “Look Back In Anger”
Angry Young Men
American writers in the 50’s and 60’s who sought release and illumination through a bohemian counterculture of sex,drugs, and Zen Buddhism
Jack Kerouac “On the Road”
Allen Ginsberg “Howl”
Beat Generation
Informal group of friends and lovers
Lived in the Bloomsbury section of London
Considerable liberalizing influence on British culture
Clive bell, EM Forster, Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, and John Maynard Keynes
Bloomsbury Group
Improvisational comedy developed in Renaissance Italy that involved stock characters and centered around a set scenario
Elements of farce and buffoonery, standard characters and plot intrigue; had tremendous influence on western comedy
Comedia dell’Arte
Avant-grade movement that began in response to World War One
Based in Paris, led by poet Tristan Tzara
Produced nihilistic and anti logical prose poetry and art
Rejected traditional rules and ideals of prewar Europe
Dadaism
Intellectual movement in Europe that emphasized importance of reason, progress, and liberty
Aka…Age of Reason
Associated with essays and philosophical treatises
Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and René Descartes
Enlightenment
Flourishing period in English literature especially drama
Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser
Elizabethan Era
Genre of late eighteenth century literature that featured brooding, and mysterious settings and plots
Grew to incorporate anything that attempted to add an atmosphere of horror or the unknown
Edgar Allan Poe’s works
Horace Valpole’s “Castle of Otranto “
Gothic Fiction
Flowering of African American literature art and music during the 20s in New York City
Harlem Renaissance
Group of Connecticut writers active around the time of the American Revolution
Conservatives
Joel Barlow, Timothy Dwight, and John Trumbull
Hartford Wits
Term used to describe the generation of writers that to maturity during World War One
Sense of disillusionment
F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Ernest Hemingway
Lost Generation
Style of rioting popularized by Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Günter Grass
Combines realism its moments of dream-like fantasy within a single prose narrative
Magic Realism
Group of poets who combined direct language with ingenious images, paradoxes, and conceits
John Doone and Andrew Marvell
Metaphysical Poets
Transitional period between anglo-Saxon and modern English
Cultural upheaval followed the Norman conquest of England
Saw a flowering of secular literature, including ballads, chivalric romances, allegorical poems, and a variety of religious plays
Middle English
Golden age of modernist literature
High Modernism
Literary and artistic movement that provided a radical break its traditional modes of western art, thought, religion, social conventions, and morality
Themes include attacks on notions of hierarchy, experimentation in new forms of narrative, doubt of knowable, objective reality, attention to alternate viewpoints, and self-referentiability
Modernism
Literary movement that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character
Naturalism
Literary movement inspired by rediscovery of classic works of Ancient Greece and Rome
Emphasized balance, restraint, and order
Neoclassicism
French movement led by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Dispensed with traditional elements of the novel, such as plot and character
In favor of neutrally recording the experience of sensations and things
Nouveau Roman
By and about people of former European colonies
Aims to expand the traditional canon of western literature
Challenge Eurocentric assumptions through examinations of questions of otherness, identity, and race
Post colonial Literature
Characterized by a disjointed, fragmented pastiche of high and low culture that reflects the absence of tradition and structure in a world driven by technology and consumerism
Postmodernism
Drew inspiration from Italian artists working before Raphael
Combined sensuousness and religiosity in archaic poetic forms an medieval settings
Pre-Raphaelites
