The Isms An American Lit. Overview. Puritanism: Beginnings to 1750 Writing style: plain Theocracy: the church is the gov. God all important Hymns, histories,

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The Isms An American Lit. Overview

Puritanism: Beginnings to 1750 Writing style: plain Theocracy: the church is the gov. God all important Hymns, histories, diaries, journals Hard work is important

Rationalism Life guided by reason and logic over imagination Order, tradition, balance important Quest for democracy The Revolutionary War-Ben Franklin

Romanticism Love of nature The individual Imagination over reason The Fireside poets

Romanticism Transcendentalis m Man, God, & nature united in the Oversoul Optimistic-man basically good Emerson & Thoreau Dark Romantics / Anti- Transcendentali sts Believed man capable of evil Psychological & supernatural Poe

Realism Everyday events/ slice of life Honest / observant Revolt against Romanticism

Realism Regionalism Captured essence of region through landscape, details, speech & customs Regional Dialect Chopin / Masters Naturalism Extreme version of realism Human existence determined by natural forces over which man has no control=heredity & environment Nature is indifferent/ cruel Steinbeck’s OF MICE AND MEN

Modernism Tries to capture the essence of modern life in form and content Themes of uncertainty & disillusionment No exposition, resolution Implied themes Stream of consciousness Free verse-poetry Hemingway, e. e. cummings

Modernism Harlem Renaissance Black voices of art, music, theater, poetry, & lit. Voices of anger and frustration Dialect Countee Cullen & Langston Hughes Imagism “Make it new” Captures a single moment using everyday language to create a single emotion with word pictures Short, brief poems like Japanese Haiku Ezra Pound