Authors: Literary Analysis

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Authors Literary Analysis

• Spring Semester 2009

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Authors

• Anne Bradstreet

• Emily Dickinson

• To My Dear and Loving Husband
• Colonial Period
• 1st American Poet

• The Soul Selects Her own Society
• Romantic Period
• Secluded Life
• Poems reflective and written for self

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Authors

• Kate Chopin

• Katherine Anne Porter

• A Pair of Silk Stockings
• Naturalist Time Period
• Forerunner of Feminist authors of 20th century
• Popular for short stories

• The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
• Post Modern Time Period
• Journalist, essayist, novelist, short story
  writer
• Dark Themes
• Political Activist

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Authors

• Maya Angelou

• Louisa May Alcott

• Still Rise
• Post Modern/Contemporary Tim Period
• Popular for poetry and autobiographies

• A Hole in the Wall
• Romantic Period
• American novelist
• Author of Little Women

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Authors

• Gwendolyn Brooks

• Flannery OConner

• To Black Women
• Post Modern Time Period
• American award winning poet

• A Good Man Is Hard To Find
• Post Modern Time Period
• Southern Writer- southern gothic style
• Georgia Native

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Authors

• Eudora Wealty

• Sylvia Plath

• A Worn Path
• Modern and Post Modern Time Period
• Wrote about American South
• Award winning photographer

• Mirror
• Post Modern Time Period
• Popular for confessional poetry

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Authors

• Willa Cather

• Edith Wharton

• A Wagner Matinee
• Naturalist Time Period
• Novelist
• Depicted frontier life

• The Mission of Jane
• Modern Time Period
• Novelist
• Popular for dramatic irony

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Authors

• Sarah Orne Jewett

• Edgar Allen Poe

• A White Heron
• Civil War Time Period
• Local color and regionalism

• The Purloined Letter
• Romantic Period
• Father of short story
• Gothic style

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Authors

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

• From Nature
• Romantic Period
• Original Transcendentalist

• From Civil Disobedience
• Romantic Period
• Transcendentalist

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Authors

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Herman Melville

• The Ministers Black Veil
• Romantic Period
• Gothic style
• Psychological works

• Bartleby
• Naturalist Time Period
• Influenced by seafaring lifestyle

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Authors

• Walt Whitman

• Stephen Crane

• From Song of Myself
• Poet- Bard of Democracy
• Civil War Time Period

• The Veteran
• Naturalist Time Period
• Influenced by adventurous lifestyle- war,
  traveling, risky experiences

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Authors

• Mark Twain

• Carl Sandburg

• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• Civil War Time Period
• Rural Humor and Satire

• Chicago
• Modern Time Period
• Reporter
• Poet

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Authors

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• T. S. Elliot

• Winter Dreams
• Modern Time Period (1920s)
• Popular for short stories and later novels

• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Modern and Post Modern Time Periods
• Poet

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Authors

• Robert Frost

• Washington Irving

• Mending Wall
• Award winning poet
• Depicted rural life- life and landscape of New
  England
• Post Modern Time Period

• The Devil and Tom Walker
• Romantic Time Period
• Popular for short stories
• 1st internationally recognized American author

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Authors

• Ernest Hemingway

• William Faulkner

• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
• Modern Time Period
• World War I Veteran
• Journalist, Novelist, Short Story writer

• The Bear
• Southern writer- southern gothic/ grotesque
• Modern and Post Modern Time Periods

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Authors

• John Steinbeck

• Langston Hughes

• The Chrysanthemums
• Modern and Post Modern Time Periods
• Stories of struggling characters

• Theme for English B
• Harlem Renaissance
• Popular American Poet- influenced by jazz music
• Playwright

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Authors

• Richard Wright

• John Updike

• Big Boy Leaves Home
• Post-modernist writer
• Explored racial issues, stereotypes and
  boundaries
• Many works considered controversial
• Many works focused on African-American life in
  the slums of Chicago

• The Slump
• Post Modern Time Period
• Most popular for short stories- deal with
  American small town
• Literary and Art critic

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Authors

• Bret Harte

• Ray Bradbury

• The Outcasts of Poker Flat
• Author and poet
• Wrote about the pioneering lifestyle in
  California during the 1800s
• Short stories Naturalism and Realism

• There Will Come Soft Rains
• Post-Modernist and Contemporary writer
• Writer of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and
  mystery
• Famous for works on dystopian societies

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Authors

• Henry James

• Jack London

• The Turn of the Screw
• Key writer Realism
• Master of the novel/novella
• Writing explored the psychology of human
  relationships and moral questions

• To Build a Fire
• Author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang
• Made a living as a commercial magazine writer
• Lived many adventures he enjoyed writing about in
  his books

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Authors

• Truman Capote

• Kurt Vonnegut

• A Christmas Memory
• Writer famous for Breakfast at Tiffanys and In
  Cold Blood
• Explored sexual stereotypes in his writing

• Welcome to the Monkey House
• German-American writer
• Humanist
• Famous for Slaughterhouse-Five
• Blended satire, black comedy, and science fiction

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Authors

• James Thurber

• James Baldwin

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• Writer and cartoonist
• Best known for his contributions to The New
  Yorker
• Many of his stories are humorous fictional
  accounts from his life

• From Go Tell It On The Mountain
• Inspired by Richard Wright
• Civil rights activist
• Explored racial and sexual stereotypes