Isms or Literary Movements A brief study These
“Isms”, or Literary Movements A brief study
These are a few literary movements (“isms”) of interest n n n n Classicism Medieval/Dark ages Enlightenmentrenaissance Neo-classicism Romanticism Realism Modernism Post Modernism
Classicism Rome & Greece n Homer—Greek The Iliad ; The Odyssey n Virgil—Latin(Rome) ; The Aeneid n Classical work mentions mythology. Mythic gods define rules of behavior
Dark Ages—Medeival Period Clerics n Not much written n
Enlightenment--Renaissance Appeal to reason n Science, politics & art explode n Earth not the center of the universe n Newton, Rousseau, Des. Cartes, n Locke Treatise on Government n Hobbes Leviathan n
Neo-Classicism Hearkens back to the classical era n Mythology & religious references provide grandiose background n
Romanticism (transcendentalism) Rejects reason n Experience is best teacher n Truth found in nature n Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Blake (British) n J. F. Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Irving, Whitman (the greatest) (Americans) n
Realism & Naturalism Rejects the warm & fuzzy aspects of romanticism n Tells it how it is without adornment n Highly detailed n Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris n
Modernism Struggle of humankind in an industrial world n Fear induced by WWI n Laments reduction of humanity n Longs for the peaceful aspects of the past n Stein, Anderson, Hemmingway, Fitzgerald n
Post Modernism Considers the human struggle without lamentation n Meta narrative—mechanisms of the story apparent to reader n Baudrillard’s simulacra n Holden Caulfield is the poster child n
Contemporary Literature No common themes n Highly popular n Twilight, Harry Potter n
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