15 +16 . Postwar american poetry and prose, american position in the 20th century, isolationism, world wars, cold war, culutre, media, architecture, painting, sculpture

it was both _______ and _____ mood

both literary and cultural mood

what did they reject?

normality

what did they emphasize?

sexuality, religions and spirituality

what is formalism, when was it founded

formalism was founded in 1940s and it was based on teaching literature and poetry at universities

with emphasis on?

on traditional forms, meter, rhyme and stanzaic symmetry

who founded the beat generation

allen ginsberg and jack kerouac

who were they influenced by

jack london and walt whitman

what did the writers mainly write under

under the influence of drugs, were mentailly ill or homosexuals

whatmagazine did beat generation publish

neurotica

who was allen ginsberg, why arrested, who rs with, what did he write about, poem?

professor of literature, cuz of smoking marihuana, had rs with students, wrote about atomic bombs, HOWL

what did jack kerouac write

novel ON THE ROAD about his joruney on a boat where they were drinking and smoking marihuana with ginsberg

what did confessional poets write

poets who wrote about extreme moments and personal traumas, suicide...

who belings to confessional poets

robert lowell

sylvia plath

anne sexton

what do you know about robert lowell

had bipolar disorder, went to jail for 5 months cuz he refused to fight in us army

who were lowells students_?

sylvia plath and anne sexton

did he commit suicide?

no.

what did he write

skunk hour, land of unlikeness

what did sylvia plath write about, what did she suffer from

about her father who died when she was 8, suffered from depression

what did plath write

daddy

what was anne sexton diagnosed with, what did she write about

postpartum depression, what is is like being woman, menstruation, abortion

what poems did she write

wanting to die

again and again and again

the truth the dead know

there were many wars..

cold war, wwi,wwii

what do yu know about cold war

it was military tension between Western Bloc (US, NATO) and Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union, communist party) from the 1940s to 1990s.

when was wwi?

1914 to 1918

why was wwi?

because of tension that had been building up in europe for many years

how did the wwi end?

with treaty of versailles

when was wwii

1939-1945

who was in axis?

Germany, Italy, Japan

who was in allies

Great Britain, France, Russia

when did hitler come to power

1933

when was first bomb launched, when second?

1945 august 6, hiroshima

10 august nagasaki

how many ppl dead

100 000 and more

how much did it cost US

350 bilion

as for prose, who belongs to prose postwar?

kurt vonnegut

vladimir nabokov

william styron

what did kurt vonnegut write about, what are some of his works?

pessimistic and satirical novels

player piano - in future, humans being taken over by machines

slaughterhouse five - experience in dresden in germany

what did vladimir nabokov write? where is he from

lolita, the defense, the gift

born in st. petersburg, moved to paris, then USA

what did styron write?

sophies choice

what is william styron noted for

for his treatment of tragic themes

what is the freedom of speech protected by

amendment 1

what are some newspapers

new york times, washington post, usa today

what are some popular magazines

people, playboy, natioanl geographic, cosmopolitan

what tv channels

fox, nbc, discovery channel

is music diverse in usa?

yes, many cultures, jazz, blues, rock and roll, country, hip hop

what architectures exist in usa?

skyscrapers (ny, chicago)

colonial (new england)

neoclassicism (from greece)

what is washington monument

obelisk for first president george washington, worlds tallest obelisk

what is white house, what style

official residente of president of usa, neoclassical style

what is jefferson memorail

thomas jefferson memorial, neoclassical style

what movement was populat in postwar american poetry?

beat generation

what year is beat generation

1950s