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Naturalistic & Symbolistic Period Flashcards

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  • Ethan Frome-
  • The Age of Innocence (Pulitzer Prize 1921)-
  • The House of Mirth-
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Edith Wharton

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Naturalistic & Symbolistic Period

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1900-1930

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“So Big” (1925 PP Fiction)

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Edna Ferber

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1st PP Fiction (1918) -His Family-

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Ernest Poole

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1929 PP Fiction

-Scarlet Sister Mary-

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Julia Peterkin

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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.

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Agrarians

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1900-1930
Divided by WW1
Founding of Poetry Magazine

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Naturalistic & Symbolistic Period

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-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-

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Eugene O’Neill

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Pre Pulitzer Awards

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Poetry Society Awards

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1918-Love Songs

PSA

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Sara Teasdale

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1919- Old Road To Paradise

PSA

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Margaret Widdemer

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1919-Corn Huskers

PSA

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Carl Sandsburg

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Winesburg, Ohio

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Sherwood Anderson

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Wrote the 1st American villanelle. “Little Orphant Annie”

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James Whitcomb Riley

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4 Pulitzers in Poetry:

  • A Boys Will-
  • North of Boston-
  • Mountain Interval-
  • New Hampshire-
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Robert Frost

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  • The Call of the Wild-,

- The Sea-Wolf-.

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Jack Landon

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Wrote naturalistic novels & short stories known for plot twists @ the end. Nom de plume of William Sydney Porter.
-Cabbages & Kings-

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O’ Henry

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-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.

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Ernest Hemingway

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-Tristam (PP-1928)-
-Collected Poems-
1st PP for Poetry-1922
-The Man Who Died Twice (PP-1925).

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

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1st PP Drama-

-Why Mary?-

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Jesse Lynch Williams

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  • The Ballad of the Harp Weaver (Nobel-1923)-

- A Few Figs from Thistles (PP-sonnets)-

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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-The Sound & the Fury-
-As I Lay Dying-
-The Reivers (PP)-
-A Fable (PP)-
Nobel 1949.

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William Faulkner

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  • One of Ours (PP-1923-Fiction)-
  • O’ Pioneers!-
  • My Antonia-
  • A Lost Lady-
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop-
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Willa Cather

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Plays: 
-Our Town (PP)-
-The Skin of Our Teeth (PP)-
Fiction: 
-The Bridge of San Luis Rey (PP)-
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Thorton Wilder

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-Poems-
-The Wasteland-
Ash Wednesday. Nobel 1948.

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T.S. Elliot

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-The Jungle-
-Dragon’s Teeth (PP-1943)-
Was part of the Muckrakers.

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Putin Sinclair

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Wrote naturalistic novels & -Sister Carrie-.

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Theodore Dreiser

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  • Alice Adams (PP-1919)- &

- The Magnificent Ambersons (PP-1922)-.

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Booth Tarkington

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-Cornhuskers-. Was a poet in middle America & won the 1951 PP.

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Carl Sandburg

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-The Spoon River Anthology-

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Edgar Lee Masters

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  • Sword Blades & Poppy Seeds-,
  • Men, Women, & Ghosts-,
  • Pictures of the Floating World-,
  • What’s O’clock (PP-Poetry)-.
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Amy Lowell

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-Main Street-
-Arrow Smith (PP-declined)-
Nobel-

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Sinclair Lewis

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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-

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Lost Generation

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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.

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Little Theatre Movement

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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-

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Muckrakers

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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.

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