A sudden feeling of knowledge that brings to light what was so far hidden and changes one’s life is called epiphany. It is a term used by James Joyce in his works : Portrait of the artist as a youngman, Dubliners.
William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He practiced engraving throughout his life but was also deeply interested in political and social issues of his time. Blake supported causes like the French Revolution and abolition of slavery. He saw imagination and visions as a way to understand the world beyond rationalism. Blake is known for his illuminated printing, combining text and images, and illustrations for books. His collections Songs of Innocence and of Experience use simple language and symbolism to contrast childhood purity with the injustices of adult experience.
The document discusses three literary movements that emerged in the United States after the Civil War: Realism, Naturalism, and Regionalism. Realist writers sought to portray ordinary life realistically rather than focusing on the imaginative. Naturalist writers believed human destiny is determined by heredity, environment and economic factors beyond our control. Regionalist writers captured the essence of life in different regions through their use of local dialects, customs, and landscapes.
This Presentation is about Modern Century literaure, Modernism, Poetry and Modern Novel. and Stream of Consiousness. also discuss about Poets and Novelists. This era started from 1900 to 1961
Imagism was a poetic movement established in 1912 by American and English poets including Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, and Richard Aldington. It reacted against overly sentimental and emotionally dishonest "genteel" poetry of the time. Imagist poems aimed to present vivid, concise images and events with exact language and without excessive sentiment. They were influenced by Japanese haiku poems and sought to capture a single moment or image. Key aspects included direct treatment of the subject, precise word choice, and presentation of an intellectual and emotional complex within an instant. The movement published in journals and anthologies between 1914-1917.
The document provides an overview of literary modernism in the early 20th century. It defines modernism as an international movement characterized by experimentation with form and a rejection of absolute knowledge. The document lists some key dates and developments in modernist literature, painting, music, and thought. It discusses some of the major themes, techniques, and influential figures of modernism, including a rejection of tradition, focus on individual experience, and interest in the unconscious and primitive cultures.
This document provides an overview of American literature from the Native American period through the present day. It summarizes the major literary periods and movements, including Colonial, Revolutionary, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. For each period, it outlines the dominant themes, styles, and representative authors. It also discusses some of the overarching themes in American literature like individualism, the American Dream, cultural diversity, and tolerance.
American Romanticism between 1800-1860 valued feeling and intuition over reason, placing faith in inner experience and the imagination. It championed individual freedom and found beauty in nature, exotic locales, mythology, and the imagination. While some American Romantics had a more optimistic vision, others like Poe, Hawthorne, and Irving examined humanity's darker aspects through narratives of criminals, insanity, evil, terror and grief.
A sudden feeling of knowledge that brings to light what was so far hidden and changes one’s life is called epiphany. It is a term used by James Joyce in his works : Portrait of the artist as a youngman, Dubliners.
William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He practiced engraving throughout his life but was also deeply interested in political and social issues of his time. Blake supported causes like the French Revolution and abolition of slavery. He saw imagination and visions as a way to understand the world beyond rationalism. Blake is known for his illuminated printing, combining text and images, and illustrations for books. His collections Songs of Innocence and of Experience use simple language and symbolism to contrast childhood purity with the injustices of adult experience.
The document discusses three literary movements that emerged in the United States after the Civil War: Realism, Naturalism, and Regionalism. Realist writers sought to portray ordinary life realistically rather than focusing on the imaginative. Naturalist writers believed human destiny is determined by heredity, environment and economic factors beyond our control. Regionalist writers captured the essence of life in different regions through their use of local dialects, customs, and landscapes.
This Presentation is about Modern Century literaure, Modernism, Poetry and Modern Novel. and Stream of Consiousness. also discuss about Poets and Novelists. This era started from 1900 to 1961
Imagism was a poetic movement established in 1912 by American and English poets including Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, and Richard Aldington. It reacted against overly sentimental and emotionally dishonest "genteel" poetry of the time. Imagist poems aimed to present vivid, concise images and events with exact language and without excessive sentiment. They were influenced by Japanese haiku poems and sought to capture a single moment or image. Key aspects included direct treatment of the subject, precise word choice, and presentation of an intellectual and emotional complex within an instant. The movement published in journals and anthologies between 1914-1917.
The document provides an overview of literary modernism in the early 20th century. It defines modernism as an international movement characterized by experimentation with form and a rejection of absolute knowledge. The document lists some key dates and developments in modernist literature, painting, music, and thought. It discusses some of the major themes, techniques, and influential figures of modernism, including a rejection of tradition, focus on individual experience, and interest in the unconscious and primitive cultures.
This document provides an overview of American literature from the Native American period through the present day. It summarizes the major literary periods and movements, including Colonial, Revolutionary, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. For each period, it outlines the dominant themes, styles, and representative authors. It also discusses some of the overarching themes in American literature like individualism, the American Dream, cultural diversity, and tolerance.
American Romanticism between 1800-1860 valued feeling and intuition over reason, placing faith in inner experience and the imagination. It championed individual freedom and found beauty in nature, exotic locales, mythology, and the imagination. While some American Romantics had a more optimistic vision, others like Poe, Hawthorne, and Irving examined humanity's darker aspects through narratives of criminals, insanity, evil, terror and grief.
William Faulkner was an American writer known for his novels, short stories, poems, screenplays and plays. Some of his most famous works include The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 for his innovative style and portrayal of the American South. The Sound and the Fury uses stream of consciousness techniques to tell the story of the declining Compson family through the perspectives of different narrators.
The document discusses different trends in early 20th century modern poetry in the UK and Europe. It describes the Georgian Poets who celebrated English traditions and values in conventional language. It also describes the War Poets like Wilfred Owen who depicted the horrors of WWI in unconventional language. Additionally, it discusses Imagist Poets like Ezra Pound who focused on precise images in short poems. Symbolist Poets like T.S. Eliot were also discussed who used allusive language and sound to evoke feelings rather than state them directly.
This document discusses the literary movement of Imagism. It began in the early 1900s as a reaction against traditional "genteel" poetry. Imagist poems aimed to freeze a single moment in time through precise imagery and concise language, capturing the essence and emotions of that moment without explanation. Famous Imagist poets like Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T.S. Eliot employed Imagist techniques in their works by using vivid, concrete descriptions to establish atmospheric scenes and moods. Students are taught to analyze Imagist poems by identifying the moment portrayed, listing the imagery, imagining a backstory, and determining the associated emotions.
The earliest English dramas originated in the form of liturgical plays performed in churches to instruct people about Christianity. Over time, they evolved to include more actors and action and were moved outside to churchyards and marketplaces. As the clergy were forbidden from public performances, lay guilds took over producing miracle and mystery plays that retold Bible stories in the vernacular to educate audiences. Morality plays then focused on the inner moral conflict between good and evil. Interludes in the 15th century began adding humor and social commentary during performances. Finally, exposure to Greek and Roman literature in the 16th century led English drama to feature more human emotions and situations in the first regular tragedies and comedies that shifted the
General Characteristics of Modern LiteratureBudhiditya Das
The document summarizes the key characteristics of modern literature. It notes that modernism broke with tradition and promoted relative truths and individual meaning-making. Modern literature reflected the chaos of the time through experimentation, symbolism, and themes of fragmentation. It also explored interior psychology, socio-economic issues like class, and was influenced by world events like the world wars. Overall, modernism promoted freedom of thought and rational inquiry while grappling with anxiety over a lack of stable values in the modern world.
The Theatre of the Absurd developed in response to the senselessness of World War II and aimed to capture the absurdity of life. It was formed by separate playwrights in different places over time, though the term was coined by Martin Esslin. Absurdist plays by figures like Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Arthur Adamov featured bewilderment in an unexplainable universe and questioned human traits through devices that left some details ambiguous. The Theatre of the Absurd influenced modern drama and introduced philosophy to theatre in a basic way.
This document summarizes the major periods of English literature and provides details on William Wordsworth and the emergence of Romanticism. It outlines the periods from the Medieval era to modernism. Romanticism emerged in response to Neo-Classicism, with Wordsworth playing a key role. As a major Romantic poet, Wordsworth published works like The Prelude and served as Poet Laureate. He also wrote influential literary criticism in works like prefaces, arguing poetry should use common language to transmit ordinary experiences transformed by imagination.
Stream of Conscious in James Joyce novel: PORTRAIT OF ARTIST AS YOUNG MAN S...Fatima Gul
The document discusses stream of consciousness as a literary technique where the character's thoughts and emotions are portrayed as they experience them. It provides 5 excerpts from James Joyce's novel "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" as examples of stream of consciousness. The excerpts depict the thoughts and feelings of the young protagonist as he experiences different moments like being sick in the infirmary, playing football, and walking through the city recalling different authors and poems. Stream of consciousness allows the reader to get inside the character's mind and experience events as the character perceives them in the moment.
W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet who was considered both a traditional and modern poet. He was influenced by Irish folklore and mythology. Some key characteristics of Yeats' poetry included obscurity, occultism, mysticism, and use of symbols. Common symbols in his poetry included the rose, swan, and Helen of Troy, which had both traditional and personal meanings. Overall, Yeats' poetry is characterized by its complex use of symbols to represent different concepts.
The Harlem Renaissance began in the 1920s as African Americans migrated north to Harlem, New York after World War I, seeking jobs and escape from oppression in the south. This migration transformed Harlem into the center of African American culture and intellectual life. Writers, artists, musicians, and thinkers celebrated black identity and creativity through literature, visual art, dance, and music. The Harlem Renaissance had a significant impact on challenging racism and establishing African American arts and literature.
This document provides biographical information about Samuel Taylor Coleridge and summarizes some of his views on literary theory and criticism. It includes Coleridge's name, paper details, contact information, and introduces that Biographia Literaria contains 24 chapters of Coleridge's critical work. It then discusses Coleridge's views on the nature and functions of poetry, and two conditions of poetry: fidelity to nature and novelty through imagination. The document also provides biographical details about Coleridge's early life and education.
Walt Whitman was an influential American poet born in 1819 on Long Island, New York. He wrote Leaves of Grass, considered a landmark work of American literature. Whitman celebrated themes of democracy, nature, love, and friendship in his free verse style. He sought to capture the spirit of the everyday American experience and envisioned democracy not just as a political system but as a way of life.
William Butler Yeats was a modern poet known for his use of Irish folklore and mythology in his works. While his early poems celebrated the Romantic ideals found in Irish legends, his style became more Modernist in response to World War I and the Irish civil war. Yeats was influenced by occult ideas and used complex symbols and themes of mysticism in his poetry. His works also reflected the disillusionment and pessimism common in modern poetry during that turbulent time period.
The document provides an overview of modernism during the early 20th century. It discusses how World War I, technological advances, and the Great Depression shaped the modernist era. It then describes characteristics of modernism like nihilism, rejection of belief systems, and a focus on individual works of art. Key modernist writers like Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce are highlighted along with some of their major literary works. William Butler Yeats is also briefly introduced.
The document provides biographical information about T.S. Eliot and contextualizes his modernist poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". It notes that Eliot was an American-English poet born in Missouri who lived much of his life in London. The poem is considered one of the most influential works of the 20th century. Modernism emerged in response to World War I and Victorian ideals, featuring experimental styles and questioning social norms. "The Love Song" examines the emptiness of the social world through Prufrock's self-analysis and is a prime example of modernist poetry through its fragmented form and themes.
The document discusses Dark Romanticism, a subgenre of Romantic literature that emerged in 19th century America. While influenced by Transcendentalism, Dark Romantic works were less optimistic about humanity, nature, and divinity. Dark Romantics portrayed individuals as prone to sin, not inherently divine, and depicted nature as sinister rather than spiritual. The document also provides brief biographies of three key Dark Romantic authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.
The document summarizes the key developments in literature between 1915-1946 known as the Modern Age. It describes how World War I shattered optimism and faith in social institutions, leading writers to experiment with fragmented styles reflecting the modern world. Modernist works often rejected traditional narratives and forms in favor of stream-of-consciousness, free verse, and techniques from surrealism and imagism to depict psychological realities. Notable movements included the Lost Generation expatriates and the Harlem Renaissance, while authors like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner gained international recognition.
This document summarizes the major themes in Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey, including poverty, fighting for ideals, the debilitating effects of poverty, escapism, religion, reality and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, and feminism. It notes that the play depicts the poverty of its characters and conflicts between dreams and reality. It also analyzes O'Casey's portrayal of women as more realistic and responsible than the men. The document concludes by arguing the play stresses women's instinctive good sense and role in modern life.
This document defines and discusses post-modernism in literature. It begins by explaining that post-modernism emerged in the 1970s as a rejection of modernism, featuring fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, and unrealistic plots. It then lists some influential post-modern novels like Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse Five that display characteristics like irony, playfulness, and questioning of traditional narratives. Finally, it outlines some key themes and techniques of post-modern fiction, including intertextuality, pastiche, metafiction, and an exploration of subjectivity over external reality.
The document discusses realism in visual arts during the 19th century. Realist artists rejected the subjectivism of romanticism and aimed for accurate depictions of ordinary people and everyday life. They portrayed the lives of the working classes. In France, realism emerged after the 1848 revolution and expressed democratic values. Key realist artists like Courbet, Daumier, and Millet broke conventions and painted scenes of modern life. The Barbizon school also aimed to paint landscapes realistically based on nature. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Britain sought to reform academic art with accurate details and colors, often depicting medieval or classical subjects.
The Realistic Period in literature began in the mid-19th century and focused on representing reality faithfully, particularly through depicting the lives of ordinary middle-class people and exploring personal themes and psychological examinations of characters. Realist literature is defined as occurring between 1840-1890 in Europe and the US, beginning with Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant in France. It was also represented by Russian writer Anton Chekhov, English novelist George Eliot, and American pioneers Mark Twain and William Dean Howells. Realism aimed to provide faithful representations of common life.
William Faulkner was an American writer known for his novels, short stories, poems, screenplays and plays. Some of his most famous works include The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 for his innovative style and portrayal of the American South. The Sound and the Fury uses stream of consciousness techniques to tell the story of the declining Compson family through the perspectives of different narrators.
The document discusses different trends in early 20th century modern poetry in the UK and Europe. It describes the Georgian Poets who celebrated English traditions and values in conventional language. It also describes the War Poets like Wilfred Owen who depicted the horrors of WWI in unconventional language. Additionally, it discusses Imagist Poets like Ezra Pound who focused on precise images in short poems. Symbolist Poets like T.S. Eliot were also discussed who used allusive language and sound to evoke feelings rather than state them directly.
This document discusses the literary movement of Imagism. It began in the early 1900s as a reaction against traditional "genteel" poetry. Imagist poems aimed to freeze a single moment in time through precise imagery and concise language, capturing the essence and emotions of that moment without explanation. Famous Imagist poets like Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T.S. Eliot employed Imagist techniques in their works by using vivid, concrete descriptions to establish atmospheric scenes and moods. Students are taught to analyze Imagist poems by identifying the moment portrayed, listing the imagery, imagining a backstory, and determining the associated emotions.
The earliest English dramas originated in the form of liturgical plays performed in churches to instruct people about Christianity. Over time, they evolved to include more actors and action and were moved outside to churchyards and marketplaces. As the clergy were forbidden from public performances, lay guilds took over producing miracle and mystery plays that retold Bible stories in the vernacular to educate audiences. Morality plays then focused on the inner moral conflict between good and evil. Interludes in the 15th century began adding humor and social commentary during performances. Finally, exposure to Greek and Roman literature in the 16th century led English drama to feature more human emotions and situations in the first regular tragedies and comedies that shifted the
General Characteristics of Modern LiteratureBudhiditya Das
The document summarizes the key characteristics of modern literature. It notes that modernism broke with tradition and promoted relative truths and individual meaning-making. Modern literature reflected the chaos of the time through experimentation, symbolism, and themes of fragmentation. It also explored interior psychology, socio-economic issues like class, and was influenced by world events like the world wars. Overall, modernism promoted freedom of thought and rational inquiry while grappling with anxiety over a lack of stable values in the modern world.
The Theatre of the Absurd developed in response to the senselessness of World War II and aimed to capture the absurdity of life. It was formed by separate playwrights in different places over time, though the term was coined by Martin Esslin. Absurdist plays by figures like Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Arthur Adamov featured bewilderment in an unexplainable universe and questioned human traits through devices that left some details ambiguous. The Theatre of the Absurd influenced modern drama and introduced philosophy to theatre in a basic way.
This document summarizes the major periods of English literature and provides details on William Wordsworth and the emergence of Romanticism. It outlines the periods from the Medieval era to modernism. Romanticism emerged in response to Neo-Classicism, with Wordsworth playing a key role. As a major Romantic poet, Wordsworth published works like The Prelude and served as Poet Laureate. He also wrote influential literary criticism in works like prefaces, arguing poetry should use common language to transmit ordinary experiences transformed by imagination.
Stream of Conscious in James Joyce novel: PORTRAIT OF ARTIST AS YOUNG MAN S...Fatima Gul
The document discusses stream of consciousness as a literary technique where the character's thoughts and emotions are portrayed as they experience them. It provides 5 excerpts from James Joyce's novel "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" as examples of stream of consciousness. The excerpts depict the thoughts and feelings of the young protagonist as he experiences different moments like being sick in the infirmary, playing football, and walking through the city recalling different authors and poems. Stream of consciousness allows the reader to get inside the character's mind and experience events as the character perceives them in the moment.
W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet who was considered both a traditional and modern poet. He was influenced by Irish folklore and mythology. Some key characteristics of Yeats' poetry included obscurity, occultism, mysticism, and use of symbols. Common symbols in his poetry included the rose, swan, and Helen of Troy, which had both traditional and personal meanings. Overall, Yeats' poetry is characterized by its complex use of symbols to represent different concepts.
The Harlem Renaissance began in the 1920s as African Americans migrated north to Harlem, New York after World War I, seeking jobs and escape from oppression in the south. This migration transformed Harlem into the center of African American culture and intellectual life. Writers, artists, musicians, and thinkers celebrated black identity and creativity through literature, visual art, dance, and music. The Harlem Renaissance had a significant impact on challenging racism and establishing African American arts and literature.
This document provides biographical information about Samuel Taylor Coleridge and summarizes some of his views on literary theory and criticism. It includes Coleridge's name, paper details, contact information, and introduces that Biographia Literaria contains 24 chapters of Coleridge's critical work. It then discusses Coleridge's views on the nature and functions of poetry, and two conditions of poetry: fidelity to nature and novelty through imagination. The document also provides biographical details about Coleridge's early life and education.
Walt Whitman was an influential American poet born in 1819 on Long Island, New York. He wrote Leaves of Grass, considered a landmark work of American literature. Whitman celebrated themes of democracy, nature, love, and friendship in his free verse style. He sought to capture the spirit of the everyday American experience and envisioned democracy not just as a political system but as a way of life.
William Butler Yeats was a modern poet known for his use of Irish folklore and mythology in his works. While his early poems celebrated the Romantic ideals found in Irish legends, his style became more Modernist in response to World War I and the Irish civil war. Yeats was influenced by occult ideas and used complex symbols and themes of mysticism in his poetry. His works also reflected the disillusionment and pessimism common in modern poetry during that turbulent time period.
The document provides an overview of modernism during the early 20th century. It discusses how World War I, technological advances, and the Great Depression shaped the modernist era. It then describes characteristics of modernism like nihilism, rejection of belief systems, and a focus on individual works of art. Key modernist writers like Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce are highlighted along with some of their major literary works. William Butler Yeats is also briefly introduced.
The document provides biographical information about T.S. Eliot and contextualizes his modernist poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". It notes that Eliot was an American-English poet born in Missouri who lived much of his life in London. The poem is considered one of the most influential works of the 20th century. Modernism emerged in response to World War I and Victorian ideals, featuring experimental styles and questioning social norms. "The Love Song" examines the emptiness of the social world through Prufrock's self-analysis and is a prime example of modernist poetry through its fragmented form and themes.
The document discusses Dark Romanticism, a subgenre of Romantic literature that emerged in 19th century America. While influenced by Transcendentalism, Dark Romantic works were less optimistic about humanity, nature, and divinity. Dark Romantics portrayed individuals as prone to sin, not inherently divine, and depicted nature as sinister rather than spiritual. The document also provides brief biographies of three key Dark Romantic authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.
The document summarizes the key developments in literature between 1915-1946 known as the Modern Age. It describes how World War I shattered optimism and faith in social institutions, leading writers to experiment with fragmented styles reflecting the modern world. Modernist works often rejected traditional narratives and forms in favor of stream-of-consciousness, free verse, and techniques from surrealism and imagism to depict psychological realities. Notable movements included the Lost Generation expatriates and the Harlem Renaissance, while authors like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner gained international recognition.
This document summarizes the major themes in Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey, including poverty, fighting for ideals, the debilitating effects of poverty, escapism, religion, reality and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, and feminism. It notes that the play depicts the poverty of its characters and conflicts between dreams and reality. It also analyzes O'Casey's portrayal of women as more realistic and responsible than the men. The document concludes by arguing the play stresses women's instinctive good sense and role in modern life.
This document defines and discusses post-modernism in literature. It begins by explaining that post-modernism emerged in the 1970s as a rejection of modernism, featuring fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, and unrealistic plots. It then lists some influential post-modern novels like Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse Five that display characteristics like irony, playfulness, and questioning of traditional narratives. Finally, it outlines some key themes and techniques of post-modern fiction, including intertextuality, pastiche, metafiction, and an exploration of subjectivity over external reality.
The document discusses realism in visual arts during the 19th century. Realist artists rejected the subjectivism of romanticism and aimed for accurate depictions of ordinary people and everyday life. They portrayed the lives of the working classes. In France, realism emerged after the 1848 revolution and expressed democratic values. Key realist artists like Courbet, Daumier, and Millet broke conventions and painted scenes of modern life. The Barbizon school also aimed to paint landscapes realistically based on nature. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Britain sought to reform academic art with accurate details and colors, often depicting medieval or classical subjects.
The Realistic Period in literature began in the mid-19th century and focused on representing reality faithfully, particularly through depicting the lives of ordinary middle-class people and exploring personal themes and psychological examinations of characters. Realist literature is defined as occurring between 1840-1890 in Europe and the US, beginning with Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant in France. It was also represented by Russian writer Anton Chekhov, English novelist George Eliot, and American pioneers Mark Twain and William Dean Howells. Realism aimed to provide faithful representations of common life.
Realism and existentialism were popular literary movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Realism focuses on realistic depictions of ordinary life, while existentialism examines individual existence and meaning. Famous authors who wrote in these styles include Stephen Crane, known for realistic fiction, and Albert Camus and Franz Kafka, who explored existential themes. T.S. Eliot also used existentialism in works like The Wasteland. These writers brought philosophical ideas to life through their realistic and existential fiction.
British Social Realism films focus on realistic portrayals of working class life and social issues. Some common conventions of the genre include using unknown or non-professional actors, portraying social classes and locations accurately, and addressing themes like poverty, drugs, sex and crime. The target audience for social realism films varies depending on the specific film, but often appeals both to younger viewers due to portrayals of teenagers, as well as older audiences who remember the time periods depicted. Some classic examples that exemplify the genre include Kes, Billy Elliot, and This is England.
This document provides historical context about American literature between 1850 and 1914, specifically focusing on the Realism and Naturalism movements. It describes the growth of science, industry, and population in this time period. The idealism of earlier periods was seen as outdated, leading writers to focus more on ordinary characters and everyday reality. Realism aimed to depict life as it really was, while Naturalism saw larger forces like heredity and environment as determining individual destiny. The document also discusses Regionalism and the "Literature of Discontent" that addressed social issues. Prominent authors from this period included Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Bret Harte, Jack London, and Kate Chopin.
This document discusses the philosophy of realism in education. It defines realism as portraying life as it is and focusing on the real world. It describes different forms of realism including humanistic realism, social realism, and sense realism. It discusses how realism influences the aims, curriculum, teachers, and view of children in education by emphasizing practical knowledge, vocational subjects, and preparing students for real life. However, it also notes disadvantages like neglecting imagination and over-focusing on the physical world.
The document discusses the Realist art movement, which began in the 1850s in France. Realist artists aimed to depict ordinary people and everyday life in an accurate, objective manner through painting, rejecting the idealism of Classicism and Romanticism. Notable Realist painters included Gustave Courbet, who challenged academic ideas of art by painting subjects like peasants and the working poor. Courbet's paintings, like "A Burial at Ornans", depicted scenes and people realistically as they were, rather than in idealized forms. Realism made accurate observations of the real world its goal.
Realism asserts that there are objective truths about the real world that exist independently of human ideas. Realists view reality as materialistic and emphasize teaching students to develop their thinking abilities by studying established subjects like mathematics and science. For realists, the purpose of education is to organize and systematize important knowledge and transmit it to students, who are considered receptacles to be filled by teachers.
The document provides an overview of Victorian literature and some of its major authors. It discusses the Victorian period from 1837 to 1901 during Queen Victoria's reign, known for peace and prosperity in Britain. Major novels of this time responded to industrialization and addressed the individual's place in society. The work of famous authors like the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are overviewed, with summaries of some of their most notable novels including Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, David Copperfield, and Browning's poem "How Do I Love Thee?". Victorian poetry is also described as developing in the context of the novel and showing Romantic influences.
This document discusses the literary movements of Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism in late 19th century American literature. It provides context around the Romantic period that preceded these movements. Realism focused on accurately portraying ordinary life through careful observation. Regionalism represented specific geographic areas through local dialects, customs, and folkways. Naturalism extended Realism by emphasizing human behavior as influenced by instinct and environment beyond individual control. The document lists prominent American authors from each movement, including Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Jack London, and Ambrose Bierce.
The document discusses Victorian literature during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. It provides context on the growth of the British Empire, the Industrial Revolution, and changing social conditions including urbanization and the role of women. Major literary genres of this period are described, including the rise of the novel, poetry, and drama. Key authors like Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Oscar Wilde are mentioned in relation to their contributions to Victorian literature.
The Victorian period in Britain saw significant social, cultural, and economic changes due to the British Empire, the Industrial Revolution, and influential thinkers. [1] The Industrial Revolution transformed Britain from an agricultural to an industrial nation but also led to overcrowded cities with poor living conditions and child labor. [2] Major authors like the Brontës, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy wrote novels that brought attention to social issues. [3] Poetry focused on subjects like history, child labor, and women's rights while drama declined except for playwrights like Wilde and Shaw.
Realism is a philosophy that believes the physical world is objective and knowledge comes from the senses. Key principles of realism in education include basing education only on science, emphasizing behavior and experimentation, and making the child's present life the center of education. Realism supports a curriculum developed according to utility and daily needs, with subjects like science, math, and geography. Teaching methods focus on being scientific, objective, and experiential. The classroom environment is highly structured and standardized testing is used. Realism aims to prepare children for happy, successful, and real lives.
Mama Mocha's serves up the best espresso in Auburn, Alabama. Mama roasts her beans herself, and customers can buy them by the bag, along with a slue of other locally-made goods.
The document discusses initiatives to make Belgrade, Serbia a more child-friendly city, focusing on improvements to public spaces along the Sava riverbank. It describes the Child Friendly City Belgrade project launched in 2012 and efforts to develop the area with local and international experts. This includes turning the neglected USCE park and Promenada walkway into a multi-functional space for play, entertainment, sports, and socializing, with ideas inspired by parks in Paris and Stockholm that incorporate green space, art, and environmental aspects. A 2013 workshop involved universities and companies to develop concepts like a floating garden and open-air cinema for the Sava riverbank.
The document describes the process of experimenting with layout, fonts, sizes, and effects for text on a cover in Photoshop. The author added text and experimented with different font sizes to see what looked best. Glow and shadow effects were added to make the text more visible on the background image. Different colors and effects were also tested to create more visual interest and link the text to the background image.
The document provides an analysis of the front cover, contents page, and additional pages from student magazines. It discusses various design elements across the magazines, including fonts, images, colors, layouts, and how these elements portray the magazines' themes, the schools, and the students. Key points analyzed include the use of fall colors and leaves on the front cover to represent the autumn issue; the sophisticated yet simplistic fonts, images and short coverlines used on the contents page to intrigue readers; and how additional pages balance traditional designs with scattered modern elements to portray the schools' academic breadth and relaxed atmospheres.
Tutorial ini menjelaskan langkah-langkah untuk berbagi data antar dua laptop melalui kabel jaringan. Pertama, hubungkan kedua laptop dengan kabel LAN dan atur alamat IP masing-masing seperti 192.168.137.1 dan 192.168.137.2. Kemudian, konfigurasi pengaturan berbagi file dan folder pada laptop sumber agar dapat diakses laptop tujuan dengan mengetik alamat IP-nya di explorer. Dengan begitu, file yang dibagikan dap
The document provides an overview of American literature from the Colonial Period through Modernism. It summarizes key characteristics of each period, including dominant genres, religious influences, and notable authors. The Colonial Period was dominated by Puritan beliefs and emphasized faith, with authors like Bradford and Wheatley. The Revolutionary Period focused on nationalism and American identity with writers like Franklin and Paine. Romanticism celebrated individualism and nature with authors such as Irving, Bryant, and the Fireside Poets. Realism sought to convey life realistically through local color writers like Twain and post-Civil War authors. Naturalism took a darker view of determinism, and Modernism experimented with style amidst world wars and social change.
In linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation[1] that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970[2] reformulating the ideas of Zellig Harris (1951,[3]) and further developed by Ray Jackendoff (1974,[4] 1977a,[5] 1977b[6]), along the lines of the theory of generative grammar put forth in the 1950s by Chomsky.[7][8] It attempts to capture the structure of phrasal categories with a single uniform structure called the X-bar schema, basing itself on the assumption that any phrase in natural language is an XP (X phrase) that is headed by a given syntactic category X. It played a significant role in resolving issues that phrase structure rules had, representative of which is the proliferation of grammatical rules, which is against the thesis of generative grammar.
In linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation[1] that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970[2] reformulating the ideas of Zellig Harris (1951,[3]) and further developed by Ray Jackendoff (1974,[4] 1977a,[5] 1977b[6]), along the lines of the theory of generative grammar put forth in the 1950s by Chomsky.[7][8] It attempts to capture the structure of phrasal categories with a single uniform structure called the X-bar schema, basing itself on the assumption that any phrase in natural language is an XP (X phrase) that is headed by a given syntactic category X. It played a significant role in resolving issues that phrase structure rules had, representative of which is the proliferation of grammatical rules, which is against the thesis of generative grammar.
X-bar theory was incorporated into both transformational and nontransformational theories of syntax, including government and binding theory (GB), generalized phrase structure grammar (GPSG), lexical-functional grammar (LFG), and head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG).[9] Although recent work in the minimalist program has largely abandoned X-bar schemata in favor of bare phrase structure approaches, the theory's central assumptions are still valid in different forms and terms in many theories of minimalist syntax.
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This document provides an overview of early American literature during the Romanticism period from 1800-1855. It discusses major writers and works that helped establish a uniquely American style and identity, differentiating from European influences. Key points include:
- Washington Irving was considered the first famous American writer and wrote some of the first American short stories.
- Edgar Allan Poe created new genres like the detective story and modern short story form.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville wrote about sin, guilt, and the consequences of human flaws and actions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau established Transcendentalist philosophy emphasizing individualism and self-reliance.
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The document provides a summary of the key developments and major figures of the Romantic period in English literature from approximately 1800 to 1850. It notes that Romanticism was influenced by the ideals of the French Revolution such as freedom, equality, and human dignity. Poetry dominated this period, with famous Romantic poets including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Walter Scott. Prose works also increased including essays, biographies, literary criticism and the historical novel genre pioneered by Walter Scott. Female writers like Jane Austen also rose in prominence during this time.
This document summarizes major developments in English literature from 1900-1940. It discusses the impact of World War I, including disillusionment with patriotism and the emergence of cynical attitudes. Major poets of this period shifted away from traditional forms and included Yeats, Eliot, and Housman. Prose writers like Joyce and Woolf developed new "stream of consciousness" techniques. Shaw, Galsworthy, and Eliot made significant contributions to drama during this time as well.
This document provides an overview of the major periods and developments in American literature from the 17th century to the present. It discusses the Colonial and Early National period from 1600-1830, characterized by practical writing by British settlers. The Romantic period from 1830-1870 saw an emphasis on individualism and nature. Realism and Naturalism from 1870-1910 brought a focus on accurate depictions of contemporary life. The Modernist period from 1910-1945 was defined by breaks from tradition amid world events. The Contemporary period from 1945 to today features increasingly diverse voices and perspectives.
American Romanticism was a literary movement that emerged in response to industrialization and emphasized emotion, nature, and the individual. Notable authors of the period included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote about transcendentalism, nationalism vs. sectionalism, and the dark side of human nature. The movement also saw the rise of popular poets like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who celebrated American culture and heritage.
The document discusses the realism period in literature. It emerged in the late 19th century as a reaction against romanticism. Realist works depicted everyday life realistically, focusing on ordinary people and contemporary social issues rather than imagination or emotion. Character development was prioritized over plot. Common realist techniques included the use of natural language and predictable, realistic events. The document lists characteristics of realism and provides examples of famous realist writers like Tolstoy, Eliot, and Dickens. It also names some renowned realist works and notes the historical context surrounding the rise of literary realism.
Overview of Early American Literature (English 244)Ariadne Rooney
This document provides an overview of the major periods and genres of early American literature from the beginnings to 1900. It summarizes that Native American oral traditions were the earliest literature, followed by explorers' accounts. The Colonial period was dominated by Puritan religious writings. The Revolutionary period focused on justifying the American Revolution. Romanticism emphasized emotion and individualism. Realism portrayed life realistically during turbulent times like the Civil War.
POEMS by Emily Dickinson· 1830-1886; one of the two most impor.docxstilliegeorgiana
POEMS by Emily Dickinson
· 1830-1886; one of the two most important figures (the other being Walt Whitman) in establishing the specific identity of AMERICAN POETRY (especially MODERN American poetry)
· from a prominent Amherst, Massachusetts, family (father a lawyer)
· After school (Amherst Academy and a year at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary), she lived as a RECLUSE, almost never leaving the Dickinson family home.
· She remained close with her family, particularly her brother, and maintained several “friendships” via correspondences, most notably with the Boston writer and critic Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who eventually—POSTHUMOUSLY!—published her poems with the help of another of Emily’s friends, Mabel Todd Loomis.
· Only 7 of her poems were published—anonymously!—during her lifetime. THERE ARE 1,775! Not all of them reached print until 1955!
· eccentric punctuation: especially DASHES indicating emphasis and interruption
· influenced by the English Romantics, especially Keats, and the early Victorian poets, especially Elizabeth Barrett Browning
· a mixture of death, uncompromising truth, and playful humor
· ROMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS:
· sentimental melancholy
· importance/exceptionality of the poet
· the failure of knowledge/reason
· fascination with the grotesque
· mystical imagery
· unorthodox religious interpretation/beliefs
· wish to transcend worldly cares/priorities
· ROMANTIC INVERSIONS: American “Dark” Romanticism (according to literary critic Leslie Fiedler)
· disturbingly falling short of salvation (uncertainty or damnation, etc.)
· mocking the false comforts that sweet, picturesque imagery might provide
QUESTION #11:
Citing examples from her poems, discuss Dickinson’s Dark Romanticism. (3 paragraphs)
Walt Whitman
· 1819-1892; born in West Hills, Long Island, New York
· revolutionized American poetry: the long line, “catalogs,” frank subject matter, “free verse”
· responded to the call in Emerson’s “The Poet” (1842) for an all-encompassing American bard
· persona characteristics: amoral (even seeming to fatalistically excuse the atrocities associated with Manifest Destiny and colonially expansionist drive); representatively omnipresent (Transcendentally pantheistic); “American” universality and commonality represented sexually (as metaphor)
QUESTION #12:
How does both the form of Whitman’s poem and the imagery it uses reflect Emerson’s Transcendentalist call for an “American” poet?
Rebecca Harding Davis
· 1831-1910; born in Washington, Pennsylvania
· had a long career as both a fiction writer and a journalist
· “Life in the Iron-Mills” (1861) made her a literary celebrity; an early American literary example of combining REALISM, NATURALISM, and MUCK-RAKING
REALISM:
· mainly a reaction against the aesthetics and ideals of Romanticism, roughly surfacing as a consistent literary movement in the mid-19th century
· focus: a fidelity to actuality in its representation in literature (verisimilitude)
· focus ...
The novel originated in the 14th century from Italian novellas and was influenced by ancient Greek and Roman stories and medieval romances. It developed as a popular genre in the 18th century with works like Robinson Crusoe and Pamela. Major 19th century novelists like the Brontës, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy established conventions of complex plots, character development, and social commentary. The Victorian era saw the rise of the novel as a dominant literary form. In the 20th century, modernist novels experimented with narrative techniques and addressed wider themes. Key features of the novel include telling a story through prose narrative of extended length with fictional characters and events.
This document provides an overview of the history of American literature from the colonial period to the present. It summarizes some of the key authors and works from each period, including early colonial writings by John Smith and Benjamin Franklin, influential works during early nationhood by Jefferson and Madison, the development of a unique American style with Irving and Cooper in the early 19th century, and the rise of major literary movements like Realism with Twain and James, Modernism in the early 20th century, and the Beat generation following World War II. The document traces the evolution of American literature as it developed its own identity and traditions over time.
This document summarizes major literary periods and trends in American literature from the Colonial Period to the Contemporary Period. It covers Native American literature, captivity narratives, slave narratives, and spiritual autobiographies in the Colonial Period. The Romantic Period celebrated individualism, nature, imagination and emotions. Realism and Naturalism emerged after the Civil War depicting everyday life and how environment influences people. Modernism used complex styles and forms. Contemporary literature explores fantasies and extremes in styles like Beat Generation, Southern Gothic, and Post-Modernism. Famous authors are listed for each period.
This document provides an overview of three literary influences on Christopher McCandless: Leo Tolstoy and realism, Jack London and naturalism, and Henry David Thoreau and transcendentalism. It discusses the key aspects of realism and naturalism as literary movements and examines the works and philosophies of Tolstoy, London, and Thoreau, focusing on Tolstoy's War and Peace, London's The Call of the Wild, and Thoreau's Walden.
The document summarizes American literature from the Colonial Period through the American Renaissance. It discusses prominent works and authors from each time period. Key points include: influential early works like Bradstreet's poetry and Smith's histories; Revolutionary-era documents like the Declaration of Independence and Federalist Papers; the rise of uniquely American styles in the Early National Period with Irving and Cooper; and the flowering of American Romanticism in the Renaissance with Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Douglass, and Stowe exploring transcendental, gothic, and abolitionist themes through novels, essays, and poetry.
Realism was a literary movement between 1865-1900 that focused on depicting ordinary people and events realistically. It emerged as a reaction against Romanticism and emphasized truth and depictions of everyday life and society. Realist authors like Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Kate Chopin wrote about common people and contemporary social issues in a natural style. The development of photography also supported Realism by allowing very realistic depictions of reality.
American Realism aimed to depict everyday life and social realities in a realistic style through literature, art, and music in the late 19th century. As industrialization increased, so did immigration, trade, growth, and cultural expression captured through realist works. Mark Twain used colloquial language that helped define an American voice and works like Huckleberry Finn condemned racism. Henry James transitioned between realism and modernism with novels examining social dynamics and stream of consciousness writing. American Naturalism that emerged viewed humans as subject to deterministic forces beyond their control, as seen in Faulkner's Gothic story A Rose for Emily.
The document provides a detailed overview of the history of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the modern period. It summarizes the key social backgrounds, literary periods, genres, authors, and works for each historical period. Some of the major topics covered include the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the Medieval period, William Shakespeare's plays in the English Renaissance, John Milton's Paradise Lost in the 17th century, and modernist novels by authors like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf in the 20th century.
This document provides an overview of the history of American literature from the colonial period through the 20th century. It summarizes key authors and works from each time period, including colonial writings by John Smith and Benjamin Franklin, early US works by Thomas Jefferson and Washington Irving, 19th century poetry by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, realism in Mark Twain and Henry James, and modernism in F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck. The document concludes with a brief discussion of post-World War II literature and the Beat generation.
1. The document provides a 55-point summary of the plot of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It outlines key events and characters, including that the story takes place in Verona, Italy and the feuding families are the Montagues and Capulets. It describes how Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love at a Capulet party, marry in secret with the help of Friar Laurence, and the tragic events that lead to their deaths and end the long-standing family feud.
This document provides guidance on how to write an explication of a poem. It begins with an introduction to poetic terms like meter, foot, and different verse forms. It then explains that an explication analyzes the meaning, content, context, and relationships within a poem. The document offers tips for preparing an explication, like reading the poem aloud and considering the voice and conflicts. It provides direction on how to structure an explication, beginning with an overview paragraph and then exploring elements of form, rhetoric, syntax and vocabulary through line-by-line analysis. The document emphasizes writing in the present tense and using specific verbs to describe elements of the poem rather than passive language. Sample paragraphs and an example explication are also included
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American realism 1880 1910
1. M S . Y A E G E R
Regionalism and Realism
1880-1910
2. Literary Movement
Post Civil War
U.S rapidly changing
Writers turn away from Romanticism
Life as they saw it, not imagined
Regionalism- the color movement
Writers portrayed distinct traits of parts of the U.S
Naturalism- later, more extreme
Scientific objectivity the effects of environment and heredity
on character
Darwinism
3. Areas of Study
Realism
Regionalism
Naturalism
Regionalism and Naturalism-subsections of Realism
4. Realism
Honore’ de Balzac- father of Realism
The Human Comedy
90 novels-detail the panorama of French society
Focused his work on all social levels
Focused on the “faithful representation of reality”
Believed the individual was simply a person
Think of realists as almost pessimists
5. European Realism Leaders
Gustave Faubert
Leo Tolstoy
George Eliot
Charles Dickens
All examined the psychology of human behavior
6. Realism
European novelists examined the psychology of
human behavior
Created characters who struggle w/ problems
readers could recognize
U.S Realism
Traced to disillusionment following Civil War
War destroyed romantic view of humanity
Presented life as cruel and never embellished
7. American Realists
Kate Chopin and Women
Criticized for her realistic portrayal of women.
First American to write frankly about suppression and gender
roles.
“The role of an artist is to be a rebel”
Sometimes considered a Regionalist
Stories depicted customs of Creoles and Cajuns in L.A
Used their language to describe their lifestyles
Made their world real and refused to judge their lives or
struggles
8. Feminist Movement Leaders
Emily Dickinson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sarah Orne Jewett
Kate Chopin
Edith Wharton
Ellen Glasgow
Willa Cather
9. Paul Laurence Dunbar and African Americans
Earliest African American poets to gain widespread
recognition
Best known for use of African American dialect
Reflect post-war lives of African Americans
Frustrated aspirations in a society dominated by whites
Struck a balance between European literary
conventions and African American folk culture
10. Edith Wharton and the Upper Class
Characters inhabited the upper crust of New York
society
Depict desires, prejudices, and foibles of her
privileged and affluent characters
The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth
Presents culture which devalues the individual in favor of
class divisions
Social status
Pursuit of enjoyable wealth
Satire of the hypocrisy of the American aristocracy-of which
she was a member
11. Naturalism
End of 1800’s
Strongly influenced by Charles Darwin’s theory of
evolution
People had little control over their lives
Wrote about ordinary people; but focused on the
middle class and the poor
12. Edwin Arlington Robinson and Fate
Felt “doomed” or sentenced for life, to the writing of
poetry
Characters often loners or misfits; like Edwin
himself
Creativity is misunderstood or simply ignored
Focus on individual or individual relationships
Tone; blend of irony and compassion
Characters lives end in failure or despair
13. Jack London and Nature
Helped support family with hard labor from age 9
Sympathetic towards working class
Convinced capitalist society was brutal and repressive
Drawn to Darwinism
Seen in many works such as
The Call of the Wild
The Sea-Wolf
Spent time in Alaskan wilderness and the South Seas
Stories demonstrate power of nature over
civilization
14. Stephen Crane and War
War ended 6 years before he was born
Used it as the subject of his works
Red Badge of Courage
Short stories express belief in the necessity of
courage, honesty, and poise in the face of an
indifferent universe
“An Episode of War”- “Oh, well,’ he said, ‘I don’t
suppose it matters so much as all that.”
After a young officer reacts to the loss of his arm
15. Wrap up
1880-1910-Midwest, Great Plains, and West enriched
literature w/new kinds of American landscapes,
characters and styles of speech
Realism-widespread effects, seen in journalism, film,
the novel, and painting.
Challenged the conventions of Romanticism
Redefined boundaries of acceptable content
Beginning in the 1890’s-Naturalism shone a bright,
but harsh light on the human condition
Presented life as brutal, losing battle between individuals
Extremely diverse-crossing many cultural boundaries
16. Assignment
Present author to class- from text book
Focusing on literary techniques
Language
Story lines
No Laptops