American literary time periods

Native American

Nature, formation of worlds through struggle, sky world to water world, JON ROLLIN RIDGE

Colonial period

plain style, diaries and letters, salvation JONATHAN EDWARDS

Age of reason

Logic and rational thought, humanities goodness, THOMOS JEFFERSO, helped create declaration, reason over faith

Romantic Period

myths and legends, a journey is often a flight from somthing and a flight to somthing, HENRY WADSWORTH, fireside poets

Transcendentalism

individuality, nonconformity, and free thought, HENRY DAVID THOREU, valued nature, “to him ___ meant the knowledge or the understanding a person gains intuitively, although it lies beyond direct physical experience.”

Realism

Settings the norm of daily expierince, uglieness and cruelty of life, MARK TWAIN, begain with civil war, slavery

naturalism

determinism or fatalism, futile attempsts, JACK LONDON, marrionettes, “sir i exist!”

modernism

classical allusions, allienation of individual, FSCOTT FITZGERALD, time period between two worlds, urbanization

postmodernism

Comments on itseld, irony, playfulness, KURT VONNEGUT, paranoia, plurality