Title: THE LITERARY TIME PERIODS
1THE LITERARY TIME PERIODS
2COLONIAL
- Also know as Puritan
- Foundations of America to 1800s
- Writing styles plain style puritan writing style
- Famous authors Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan
Edwards - Book of the time Salem Witch Trials, A Narrative
of the Captivity, The Crucible
Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
3COLONIAL
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4REVOLUTIONARY
- Also know as the Age of Reason
- Rationalists believed people could improve
themselves by thinking in an ordered manner - Used rationalism in writing and rhetorical
questions - Logos and pathos
- Form of allusion
- Famous authors Patrick Henry, Ben Franklin,
Washington Irving, Thomas Paine - Books The Autobiography, Poor Richard's Almanac,
All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
5REVOLUTIONARY
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6ROMANTIC
- 1800s - 1860s
- Individualism was very important
- Formed the American Romantic Hero
- Bold and confident writings
- Started transcendentalism
- Feeling over reason and imagination over science
- Authors Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Ralph Emerson, Walt Whitman - Books Nature, The Black Veil, Song of Myself,
Leaves of Grass
Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
7ROMANTIC
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8REALISTIC
- From the start of the Civil War to 1914
- Writers started to accurately portray life
- Used local color, vernacular, humor, and
naturalism in their writings - Authors Fredrick Douglas, Stephen Crane, Jack
London - Books/Poems Narrative of the Life of Fredrick
Douglas, War is kind, To Build A Fire, A Pair of
Silk Stockings
Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
9REALISTIC
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10MODERN
- 1914- 1939
- People lost faith in the American Dream
- Started the Lost Generation
- Found new themes and styles
- Characters who behave honorably in a world
without purpose - Inspired by rhymes found in everyday speech
- Authors Ernest Hemmingway, John Steinbeck,
William Faulkner, Robert Frost - Books The Great Gatsby, Soldier's Home, A Rose
for Emily
Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
11MODERN
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12POSTMODERN
- 1939 present
- Surrealism, existentialism, traditionalism
- Literature is open to multiple interpretations
- Writers are now better trained in writing skills
- Poetry emphasizes intellectual analysis
- Authors Alice Walker, Tennessee Williams, Arthur
Miller, Kurt Vonnegut - Books The Catcher in the Rye, Night
Wood, Laura et al. Elements of Literature.
Austin Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 2005.
13POSTMODERN
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