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Absurd, literature of the (c. 1930-1970)
“illogicality and purposelessness of human life”
"art for art's sake."
A group of male British writers
A group of American writers
An informal group of friends and lovers
The elements of farce and buffoonery
antilogical prose
Age of Reason
William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser.
brooding, mysterious settings and plots "horror stories."
A flowering of African-American literature, art, and music
during World War I. sense of disillusionment.
Gabriel García Márquez. that combines realism with moments of dream-like fantasy
combined direct language with ingenious images, paradoxes, and conceits.
The transitional period between Anglo-Saxon and modern English. chivalric romances, allegorical poems, and a variety of religious plays.
stream of consciousness
the golden age of modernist literature
social conditions, heredity, and environment. shaping human character.
rediscovery of classical works of ancient Greece and Rome that emphasized balance, restraint, and order.
in favor of neutrally recording the experience of sensations and things.
Literature by and about people from former European colonies
disjointed, fragmented pastiche of high and low culture that reflects the absence of tradition and structure in a world driven by technology
The Pre-Raphaelites combined sensuousness and religiosity through archaic poetic forms
aimed at accurate detailed portrayal of ordinary, contemporary life.
The Romantics celebrated spontaneity, imagination, subjectivity, and the purity of nature.
“storm and stress” German literary movement advocated passionate individuality in the face of Neoclassical rationalism and restraint
sought to break down the boundaries between rational and irrational, conscious and unconscious, t
A group of French poets who reacted against realism with a poetry of suggestion based on private symbols, and experimented
primacy of the individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. and Henry David Thoreau's
Though remembered for strict social, political, and sexual conservatism. prolific literary activity and significant social reform and criticism.
