Writing Movements Flashcards
generally a high regard for the classical period and classical antiquity (Ancient Greens to the rise of Alexander the Great)
Classicalism
The Odyssesy
Homer
The Illiad
Homer
The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Republic
Classicalism
The Republic
Plato
a dense symbolism and a supernatural, mysterious, and sometimes dark tone. Belief in the individual or common man
Romanticism
Edgar Allen Poe, Moby Dick, The Scarlett Letter
Romanticism/American Renaissance
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
characterized by the idea that literature should report what happens in a realistic way without judgement, simple characters from lower or middle class
Realism
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Red Badge of Courage
Realism
emphasis on social Darwinism and the inescapability of herdity and class (Novels)
Naturalism
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton