Postwar American Literature

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Postwar American Literature
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Postwar American Literature

• I. The 1940s Generation
• Elizabeth Bishop " Sestina", "One Art"

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Postwar American Literature

• Postmodernism
• a term used to designate a multitude of trends in
  the arts, philosophy, religion, technology, and
  many other areas that come after and deviate from
  the many 20th
• century movements that constituted modernism.

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Postwar American Literature

• II. The Confessional School
• Confessional Poetry
• A form of Poetry in which the poet reveals very
  personal, intimate, sometimes shocking
  information about himself or
• herself.
• Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and
  John Berryman wrote poetry in the confessional
  vein.
• Robert Lowell Life Studies
• Sylvia Plath "Daddy", "Lady Lazarus"

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Postwar American Literature

• III. The Beat Generation
• A period featuring a group of American poets and
  novelists of the 1950s and 1960s including Jack
  Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William
  S. Burroughs, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti who
  rejected established social and literary values.

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Postwar American Literature

• IV. The New York School
• ( a group of collagists, Dadaists, and
  surrealists, in the 1960s)
• V. The Black Mountain Poets
• (Black Mountain College)

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Postwar American Literature

• VI. Postwar Novel
• Important writers
• Saul Bellow (1915-2005), Jewish writer, Nobel
  prize winner of 1976, whose main works are
  Dangling Man, The Adventures of Augie March,
  Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Seize The Day,
  Mr. Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift, More Die
  of Heartbreak, etc.

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Postwar American Literature

• J.D. Salinger (1919- ) The Catcher in the Rye
• John Updike (1932- ), with his Rabbit pentalogy
• Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) We Were the
  Mulvaneys, Blonde, The Fall, etc.
• John Cheever (1912-1982 ) The Eenormous Radio
  and Other Stories
• Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) A Good Man Is Hard
  To Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge,
  etc.

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Postwar American Literature

• Novelist of the Absurd
• Joseph Heller(1923-1999) Catch-22
• Catch-22 is like no other novel It is one of the
  funniest books ever written, a key-stone work in
  American literature, and even added a new term to
  the dictionary.