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Literary Timeline: Contemporary Writers
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Ezra Pound, ABC of READING: "Literature is news that stays news.". Literature of 1946 to the Present. In the years since Wold War II, American life has grown more and more diversified and complex. This diversity is reflected in the wide variety of different types of literary works written in the last decades. Through periods of stability and then unrest - only to be repeated again and again. In form, style, and content. Has remained a dominate poetic form, and many poets have continued to focus on creati...
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Literary Timeline: Modern Drama
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Ezra Pound, ABC of READING: "Literature is news that stays news.". World War I first war of mass destruction. Grief over loss of past; fear of eroding traditions. Rise of youth culture. Writers see to create a unique style. Writing highly experimental: use of fragments, stream of consciousness, interior dialogue. Beginning the American Tradition. A New Nation: Romanticism. New Poetic Form - Dickinson. New Poetic Form - Whitman. View my complete profile. Abstemious Acclaim Acclivity Adulation.
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Literary Timeline: Contemporary Fiction
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Ezra Pound, ABC of READING: "Literature is news that stays news.". People observe life as media presents it rather than experiencing life directly. Insistence that values are not permanent but only "local" or "historical". Media culture interprets values. People now in a new century, a new millennium. Lines of reality blurred; mix of fantasy and nonfiction. Concern with individual in isolation. Detached, unemotional, usually humorless. Emergence of ethnic and women writers. Catcher in the Rye,. Updike's ...
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Literary Timeline: Modern Short Stories
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Ezra Pound, ABC of READING: "Literature is news that stays news.". Modern Short Stories (1915-1945). World War I first war of mass destruction. Grief over loss of past; fear of eroding traditions. Rise of youth culture. Writers see to create a unique style. Writing highly experimental: use of fragments, stream of consciousness, interior dialogue. His most famous work is Winesburg, Ohio. Read "Sophistication" and answer these questions:. Adventures in American Literature. At the end of the story, what do ...
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Literary Timeline: New Poetic Form - Dickinson
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Ezra Pound, ABC of READING: "Literature is news that stays news.". New Poetic Form - Dickinson. Her poetry broke with convention: did not “look right,” did not rhyme. In her time, her poetry considered too bold, too radical. Concrete imagery, forceful language, unique style. Wrote 1775 poems, published only seven in her life. Success is counted sweetest. By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar. Not one of all the purple Host. Who took the Flag today. Can tell the definition. So clear of Victory.
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Literary Timeline: New Poetic Form - Whitman
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Ezra Pound, ABC of READING: "Literature is news that stays news.". New Poetic Form - Whitman. In the literary world between 1855 and 1865, a period of transition occurred when no new movements developed. However, the wartime era did produce Walt Whitman, one of the most important and influential poets in the history of American literature. While the country was being. Rejected conventional themes, forms, subjects. Used long lines to capture the rhythm of natural speech, free verse. So fierce you whirr.
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Literary Timeline: Overview
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Ezra Pound, ABC of READING: "Literature is news that stays news.". Two phases: The Age of Faith from 1607 until 1750. And The Age of Reason from 1750 until 1800. I The Age of Faith (1607-1750). Separated from the Anglican church of England. Aligned with a religion that dominated their lives and writings. Work ethic - belief in hard work and simple, no-frills living. Sermons, diaries, personal narratives, slave narratives. First published American poet. To My Dear and Loving Husband". Expansion of book pu...
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Literary Timeline: Contemporary Drama
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Ezra Pound, ABC of READING: "Literature is news that stays news.". The Play in the Classroom. The Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts. Images from the Witch Trials. Beginning the American Tradition. A New Nation: Romanticism. New Poetic Form - Dickinson. New Poetic Form - Whitman. View my complete profile. Abstemious Acclaim Acclivity Adulation. Antidote Arbitrate Aroma Attenuate. Axiomatic Bliss Badger Baffle. Banter Benign Buxom Calumnious. Chagrin Chasm Cherub Complacent. Doldrums Dregs Droll Eclectic.
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Literary Timeline: Anti-Transcendentalism
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Ezra Pound, ABC of READING: "Literature is news that stays news.". Expansion of book publishing, magazines, newspapers. Short stories, novels, poetry. Imagination over reason; intuition over fact. The law of the universe was not static but dynamic with change, growth, and development. Focused on the fantastic of human experience. Writing that can be interpreted two ways: surface and in depth. Focus on inner feelings. Transcendentalism stressed individualism, intuition, nature, self-reliance. Gall Gentili...
