Transcendentalism, Realism, Modernism

transcendentalism is…

a literary movement that emphasized intuition, individualism, nature, self-reliance, nonconformity, rejection of materialism, and the goodness in these and other things

who wrote On Nature/quick synopsis

Ralph Waldo Emerson/to promote the connection of human life and nature

who wrote Where I Lived and What I Lived For/quick synopsis

Henry David Thoreau/his decision to move to a cabin and live a life based on Transcendentalist views.

transcendentalist poets

Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson

realism is…

a literary movement that wanted to depict life more accurately, without idealization, for the everyday middle/lower class American, against romanticism, character > plot, moral completing, social issues

Who Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave/quick synopsis

Fredrick Douglass/the full truth of his story and his families story's as slaves

Who Wrote An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge/quick synopsis

Ambrose Bierce/trying to escape being excited by soldiers on the bridge, uses flashbacks/dream like sequences to elongate his falling

modernism is…

a literary movement that broke tradition and explored disillusionment and alienation, fragmented narratives, unreliable narrators, existential themes

modernism themes

disillusionment with the America Dream, breaking traditional values, meaning in a broken world

who wrote The Killers/quick synopsis

Ernest Hemingway/hitmen arrive in order to kill target, shows randomness, violence, avoiding emotion, speaking shortly

New American Hero

modernism characters who are often flawed marked by stoicism and their personal code of honor