front 1 Native American Lit. (How the text looks) | back 1 Explains nature and often takes place in a primal world |
front 2 Native American Lit. | back 2 Formation of the world through struggle and Movements from a sky world to a water world by means of a fall |
front 3 Native American Lit. (Authors) | back 3 John Rollin Ridge, Sherman Alexie, but MOSTLY ORAL TRADITION |
front 4 Native American | back 4 Trickster heroes provide for disorder and change |
front 5 Colonial Lit. (How the text looks) | back 5 Written in a plain style, unadorned with figurative language |
front 6 Colonial Lit. | back 6 Diaries and letters |
front 7 Colonial Lit. | back 7 Themes of Salvation, man’s sinfulness, and Moral Law |
front 8 Colonial Lit. (Authors) | back 8 Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradford, and Cotton Mather |
front 9 Age of Reason Lit. (Enlightenment or Revolutionary) (How the text looks) | back 9 Emphasis on Logic and Rational Thought |
front 10 Age of Reason Lit. (Enlightenment or Revolutionary) | back 10 Humanity’s inherent goodness and the universe is orderly |
front 11 Age of Reason Lit. (Enlightenment or Revolutionary) (Authors) | back 11 Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin & Thomas Paine |
front 12 Age of Reason Lit. (Enlightenment or Revolutionary) | back 12 Influence helped the creation of the Declaration of Independence |
front 13 Age of Reason Lit. (Enlightenment or Revolutionary) | back 13 Reason over Faith, or “Common Sense” |
front 14 Romantic Lit. (How the text looks) | back 14 Inspired by myths, legends, and folktales (Fantasy); & Prefers innocence over sophistication |
front 15 Romantic Lit. | back 15 A journey is often a flight from something and a flight to something |
front 16 Romantic Lit. (Authors) | back 16 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, & Oliver Wendell Holmes |
front 17 Romantic Lit. | back 17 The Fireside Poets |
front 18 Transcendentalism Lit. (How the text looks) | back 18 Had a sense of intense individualism and “Self-Reliance” |
front 19 Transcendentalism Lit. | back 19 Valued Individuality, Non-conformity, & Freethought |
front 20 Transcendentalism Lit. (Authors) | back 20 Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson |
front 21 Transcendentalism Lit. | back 21 Valued Nature and Human Intuition |
front 22 Transcendentalism Lit. | back 22 Immanuel Kant wrote, in his Critique of Practical Reason (1788): “To him, Transcendentalism meant the knowledge or understanding a person gains intuitively, although it lies beyond direct physical experience.” |
front 23 Realism Lit. (How the text looks) | back 23 Settings are familiar to the author & plots emphasize “the norm of daily experience.” |
front 24 Realism Lit. | back 24 Reveal ugliness & cruelty of life, but leaves the conclusions to the reader |
front 25 Realism Lit. (Authors) | back 25 Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, & Herman Melville |
front 26 Realism Lit. | back 26 Began with the suffering of the Civil War |
front 27 Realism Lit. | back 27 Slavery |
front 28 Naturalism Lit. (How the text looks) | back 28 Influenced by Determinism or Fatalism |
front 29 Naturalism Lit. | back 29 Futile attempts of human beings to exercise free will in a universe that ironically reveals that free will is just an illusion. |
front 30 Naturalism Lit. (Authors) | back 30 Jack London, Stephen Crane, & Edith Wharton |
front 31 Naturalism Lit. | back 31 Characters as Marionettes |
front 32 Naturalism Lit. | back 32 A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.” |
front 33 Modernism Lit. (How the text looks) | back 33 Use of classical allusions and juxtapositions |
front 34 Modernism Lit. | back 34 Alienation of the individual & Breakdown of Societal Norms |
front 35 Modernism Lit. (Authors) | back 35 F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, & William Faulkner |
front 36 Modernism Lit. | back 36 This period is heavily associated with the time between the two world wars |
front 37 Modernism Lit. | back 37 Urbanization, Harlem Renaissance, Jazz, The Great Gatsby |
front 38 Postmodernism Lit. (How the text looks) | back 38 Comments on itself, can overlap fiction & nonfiction and features cultural diversity |
front 39 Postmodernism Lit. | back 39 Irony, playfulness, and black humor |
front 40 Postmodernism Lit. (Authors) | back 40 Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, & Joseph Heller |
front 41 Postmodernism Lit. | back 41 Paranoia |
front 42 Postmodernism Lit. | back 42 Plurality and Cultural Diversity |