Naturalistic & Symbolistic Period Flashcards
- Ethan Frome-
- The Age of Innocence (Pulitzer Prize 1921)-
- The House of Mirth-
Edith Wharton
Naturalistic & Symbolistic Period
1900-1930
“So Big” (1925 PP Fiction)
Edna Ferber
1st PP Fiction (1918) -His Family-
Ernest Poole
1929 PP Fiction
-Scarlet Sister Mary-
Julia Peterkin
People living in an agricultural society espousing to the merits of such a society. Southern American writers who published -The Fugitive-. Includes: John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, & Cleanth Brooks, who helped found New Critism.
Agrarians
1900-1930
Divided by WW1
Founding of Poetry Magazine
Naturalistic & Symbolistic Period
-The Iceman Cometh-
-Desire Under the Elms
(Nobel Prize)-
Pulitzers:
-Beyond the Horizon-
-Anna Christie-
-Strange Interlude-
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night-
(Plays)
Also wrote -The Hairy Ape-
Eugene O’Neill
Pre Pulitzer Awards
Poetry Society Awards
1918-Love Songs
PSA
Sara Teasdale
1919- Old Road To Paradise
PSA
Margaret Widdemer
1919-Corn Huskers
PSA
Carl Sandsburg
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
Wrote the 1st American villanelle. “Little Orphant Annie”
James Whitcomb Riley
4 Pulitzers in Poetry:
- A Boys Will-
- North of Boston-
- Mountain Interval-
- New Hampshire-
Robert Frost
- The Call of the Wild-,
- The Sea-Wolf-.
Jack Landon
Wrote naturalistic novels & short stories known for plot twists @ the end. Nom de plume of William Sydney Porter.
-Cabbages & Kings-
O’ Henry
-The Sunday Also Rises-
-A Farewell to Arms (PP)-
-The Old Man & the Sea (PP)-
-In Our Time-
-A Moveable Feast-
-For Whom the Bell Tolls-
Won the Nobel prize in 1954.
Ernest Hemingway
-Tristam (PP-1928)-
-Collected Poems-
1st PP for Poetry-1922
-The Man Who Died Twice (PP-1925).
Edwin Arlington Robinson
1st PP Drama-
-Why Mary?-
Jesse Lynch Williams
- The Ballad of the Harp Weaver (Nobel-1923)-
- A Few Figs from Thistles (PP-sonnets)-
Edna St. Vincent Millay
-The Sound & the Fury-
-As I Lay Dying-
-The Reivers (PP)-
-A Fable (PP)-
Nobel 1949.
William Faulkner
- One of Ours (PP-1923-Fiction)-
- O’ Pioneers!-
- My Antonia-
- A Lost Lady-
- Death Comes for the Archbishop-
Willa Cather
Plays: -Our Town (PP)- -The Skin of Our Teeth (PP)- Fiction: -The Bridge of San Luis Rey (PP)-
Thorton Wilder
-Poems-
-The Wasteland-
Ash Wednesday. Nobel 1948.
T.S. Elliot
-The Jungle-
-Dragon’s Teeth (PP-1943)-
Was part of the Muckrakers.
Putin Sinclair
Wrote naturalistic novels & -Sister Carrie-.
Theodore Dreiser
- Alice Adams (PP-1919)- &
- The Magnificent Ambersons (PP-1922)-.
Booth Tarkington
-Cornhuskers-. Was a poet in middle America & won the 1951 PP.
Carl Sandburg
-The Spoon River Anthology-
Edgar Lee Masters
- Sword Blades & Poppy Seeds-,
- Men, Women, & Ghosts-,
- Pictures of the Floating World-,
- What’s O’clock (PP-Poetry)-.
Amy Lowell
-Main Street-
-Arrow Smith (PP-declined)-
Nobel-
Sinclair Lewis
A group of American writers born around 1900 who served in WW1 & reacted against certain tendencies of older writers in the 1920’s. Spent time in Paris, New York, even | | came from |Lertaude| Steins’ remark-
Hemingway’s -The Sun Also Rises-
Lost Generation
A succession of efforts to encourage the writing & production of significant plays, as opposed to production designed for box office success. Originated from André Antoine in Paris. Began in America (1906-1907)- 3 theatre groups formed.
Little Theatre Movement
Group of American writers between 1902 & 1911 who worked to expose the dishonest methods & unscrupulous motives in business & government. Magazines & novels:
-The Jungle (U. Sinclair)-
Bunyman’s -The Pilgrim’s Progress-
Muckrakers
Idea that a work of art is an object in itself; a special kind of language to talk about it; subjects it to close analysis. It was primarily a protest against traditional ways of viewing life & art. Included: John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks.
New Criticism
