English 11 Final Review: Literary Time Periods

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English 11 Final Review: Literary Time Periods Romanticism 1800-1860 Transcendentalism Common man and childhood Knowledge gained through intuition Nature is important Celebration of the individual Importance of the imagination Reaction against Rationalism Read: “A Psalm of Life” and Rip Van Winkle Dark Romanticism Explored the dark side of the world Nature is cruel Shows individuals failing Read: “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Poe God can be found in nature Overly optimistic view of the world Intuition over reason and logic Self reliance Reaction against Puritan religious doctrine Read: Walden and Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Self-Reliance by Emerson and modern day transcendentalist text: excerpt from Into the Wild

Realism 1860-1900 Reaction to Romanticism Started with the civil war Realistic characters and settings Including natural vernacular and a depiction of negative aspects of people and places Regionalism and Naturalism are subgenres Regionalism: focus on the specific customs and topography of a specific region Naturalism: shows the environment controlling the main character Read: Huckleberry Finn

Modernism 1900-1946 Turn of the century: U.S. is changing dramatically and the literature is reflective of this World War 1 Themes of alienation and disconnectedness Ideal hero is flawed Stream of consciousness writing Ambiguity in writing Lost Generation: Hemmingway, Fitzgerald Read: The Great Gatsby Harlem Renaissance: sub-genre Centered in Harlem, NY Promoting African American rights/propaganda through writing, art and music Read: “Miss Cynthie”, “How it Feels to be Colored Me”, and various poems

Postmodernism 1950-present Includes many of the same ideas as modernism Themes of alienation still present New Subjects include: media and pop-culture influences; and the influence of gender and culture Writing included fragments and questionable narrators Read: The Catcher in the Rye

Add to your list: Bildungsroman and Catcher in the Rye How does Catcher in the Rye draw from the influences of Romanticism, realism and modernism?