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1 PERIODS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
1650 – present day

2 Pre-Colonial/ Native American [  1600]
CHARACTERISTICS 1ST Americans Creation & Origin Myths Legends Storytelling Oral Tradition Trickster Conjurer

3 Pre-Colonial/ Native American
Writers & Works How the World was Made Sky Tree

4 Colonial Puritan Terms [1600-1700]
Plain Style – communicates ideas as clearly as possible; non-ornate; focus is on message, not ability of writer personal and historical narratives – these are true stories of a person’s life or of historical event told in a story form Providence – divine care of guidance and a foresight of God over the creatures of the earth Sermon – a discourse or speech delivered for the purpose of religious instruction

5 Colonial (Puritans & Age of Reason) [1600-1700]
CHARACTERISTICS PURITANS [ ] Sermons Personal Narratives Plain Style Authority of Bible & church Providence

6 COLONIAL HISTORY PURITAN Person’s fate determined by God
All are corrupt & must be saved by Christ Settlement of British Colonies in America Religious freedom Prospect of new life and new land

7 Colonial Puritan Authors
William Bradford – Of Plymouth Plantation Mary Rowlandson – A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson Jonathan Edwards – “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Anne Bradstreet – “Upon the Burning of our House” and “To My Dear and Loving Husband”

8 Colonial (Age of Reason) [1700-1800]
CHARACTERISTICS AGE OF REASON [ ] Political pamphlets Ornate Style Persuasive Writing Patriotism

9 COLONIAL HISTORY AGE OF REASON Revolutionary War Instructive in values

10 Colonial Age of Reason Authors
Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine Patrick Henry

11 VALUE FEELING & INTUITION OVER REASON
ROMANTICISM [ ] CHARACTERISTICS VALUE FEELING & INTUITION OVER REASON IMAGINATION MYSTERY SLAVE NARRATIVES POETRY SHORT STORIES

12 ROMANTICISM HISTORY Expansion of magazines, np, and book publishing
Slavery debates Industrial Revolution: “old ways” of doing things are now irrelevant

13 ROMANTICISM WRITERS Washington Irving William Cullen Bryant
Paul Laurence Dunbar Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Herman Melville

14 TRANSCENDENTALISM/ Anti-Transcendentalism
CHARACTERISTICS TRANSCENDENTALISM [ ] “American Renaissance” Self-Reliance Individualism Inner-Light Idealist Utopia Intuition

15 TRANSCENDENTALISM/ Anti-Transcendentalism
CHARACTERISTICS ANTI-TRANSCENDENTALISM “Dark Romanticism” Symbolism Sin, Pain, & Evil

16 TRANSCENDENTALISM/ ANTI-TRANSCENDENTALISM
WRITERS TRANSCENDENTALISM Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Nathaniel Hawthorne* ANTI-TRANSCENDENTALISM Edgar Allan Poe*

17 REALISM/ REGIONALISM/ NATURALISM
CHARACTERISTICS “Verisimilitude” “Local Color” Ordinary People Real-life, Every-day events Objective Narrator Open Interpretation

18 REALISM/ REGIONALISM/ NATURALISM
HISTORY [ ] Civil War & post Civil War Influence of Sigmund Freud & Charles Darwin Demand for “truer” type of lit. that does not idealize people or places Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

19 REALISM/ REGIONALISM/ NATURALISM
WRITERS Walt Whitman Mark Twain Ambrose Bierce Stephen Crane Frederick Douglas Kate Chopin Edith Wharton Edwin Arlington Robinson

20 Use of interior monologue & stream of consciousness
MODERNISM CHARACTERISTICS Pessimism “American Dream” Imagism Lost Generation Beat Generation Use of interior monologue & stream of consciousness Plays, Poetry, Novels

21 “Jazz Age”/ “Roaring 20’s”
MODERNISM HISTORY [ ] WWI & WWII “Jazz Age”/ “Roaring 20’s” Harlem Renaissance The Great Depression Karl Marx rise of youth culture

22 William Carlos Williams
MODERNISM WRITERS F. Scott Fitzgerald Robert Frost T.S. Elliot John Steinbeck William Faulkner Langston Hughes W.E.B. DuBois Ezra Pound William Carlos Williams Arthur Miller*

23 POST-MODERNISM/ CONTEMPORARY
CHARACTERISTICS [1950 ] Mix of fantasy w/ non-fiction Media culture interprets values Narratives Anti-Heroes Emotion-Provoking Humorous Irony Storytelling Autobiographies Individual Isolation Social Issues (ethnic & feminist)

24 POST-MODERNISM/ CONTEMPORARY
HISTORY Post WWII prosperity New century & millennium Space exploration Korean War Vietnam War Gulf War WTC/ 9-11 Iraqi War Advances in technology

25 POST-MODERNISM/ CONTEMPORARY
WRITERS Arthur Miller Toni Morrison Sylvia Plath J.D. Salinger “Beat Poets” Maya Angelou Alice Walker

26 …and the rest is unwritten…


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