part 3 Flashcards
American literature has become broad and varied in terms of theme, mode, and purpose.
American Contemporary Period
Church has a big influence in writing and some author were discredited because of religion
Middle Ages
Rebirth of intellectual and artistic inquiry of the Ancient Greece and Rome; Theology and Christian themes
Renaissance
movement/protest of the general state of culture and society
Transcendentalism
more themes about the American life rather than Romantic notions
Realism period
is a text of profound Christian vision of humankind’s temporal and eternal destiny
Divine Comedy
Making things unfamiliar or strange
Defamiliarization
A Raisin in the Sun
MARXISM:
The Color Purple
FEMINISM:
Can be understood as the reading method that requires intimate study of a text with the objective of getting its literary or linguistic meaning
INTENSIVE READING
can be defined as casual reading performed for pleasure or to gain general understanding of a topic when a person is engrossed in a book, magazine, or newspaper.
EXTENSIVE READING