Unseen Prose: Literary Theory Flashcards
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How did the atomic bomb impact American writing?
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- Increase in black humour/absurdist fantasy and themes such as paranoia and imposture.
- Found the naturalistic approach incapable of communicating the rapid pace and implausibility of contemporary life.
- Self-conscious fiction emerged, laying bare its own literary devices, imitating or parodying earlier fiction.
- Reality had grown inaccessible, undermining the traditional social role of fiction.
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Multi-Cultural Fiction
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3
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Post-Colonial Writing
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Postmodernism
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5
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Magical Realism
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Deconstruction
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7
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New Historicism
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8
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How did Feminism influence literature?
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Post-Structuralism
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