Journalist at San Francisco. Born and raised in the South. Inspired by his life. Interested in local way of life/nostalgia. 'Adventure of Tom Sawyer' about a dilemma, racism.
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Francis BRET-HEART
Journalist and editor in San Francisco. Born in NY and arrives in California at 18. 'The Gold Rush' 'The Luck of a Roaring Camp' 'The Outcast of Poker Place'
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Joel CHANDLER HARRIS
Portrait of the South; romantic portrait, idyllic. Famous for the creation of 'Uncle Remus' old slave who tells story to black children.
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Kate CHOPIN
Louisiana. Fiction explores racial, dominating theme -> opposition between social and the individuals need. 'Desirée's baby' enormous criticism and bound in some states. Female liberation.
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Charles CHESNUT
Set in the South. Aimed at teaching: moral lesson. Enable to read, using humours. Out of black prejudices.
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William Dean HOWELLS
'The Common Place of the Banal' try to represent as accurately as possible way american were living. Challenges in social . Major writer influenced 3 generations of Americans.
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Ambrose BIERCE
Fiction much pesismistics and bitter. Participated in the Civil War, establisheda reputation as journalist in California. Short stories -> deal with the Civil War and partely autobio reflect the feeling of disgust and bitter view of life.
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Henry JAMES
Chose to focus on the complexity of individuals and how individuals react to moral conflict. Modernist. Devoted his life to finding, discovering and developping rights tools to write fiction. British citizen in 1915 because refused to enter in WWI.
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Hamlin GARLAND
Short stories. Drw portraits of poverty and oppression by farmers in the Mid-West. Call himself a 'Verytist', sees life in terms of why might be as well as what it is. Realist and reformers.
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Franck NORRIS
Gave a new darker emphasis. Looking for naturalism that show the premitive instinct of human being. 'The Octopus' criticism rail-road California.
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Steve CRANE
Determination of life. Victim of social circonstances. Poet and journalist mainly famous because of his prose work. 'Maggie a girl of the Street' show tremendous force.
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Jack LONDON
Naturalist. Struggle for existence. 'The Call of the Wild' ' White Fang' Delinquent -> commited suicide, considered as an act of power.
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Julia FOOTE
Domestic servant. 15 years old, religious, spiritual equality, autobiography.
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Paulina Elizabeth HOPKINS
Race and gender. Double discrimination.
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Louisa MAY ALCOTT
Support family, middle-class. 'Work = a story of experience' Autobio fiction.
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Charlotte PERKINS GILLMAN
Essays 1898 'Women and Economics' economic dependance women on men.
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Theodore DREISER
Wrote about determinism, wealth, success -> only aims they can know 'Sister Carrie'.
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Sinclair LEWIS
1930: 1st american to win Nobel Prize Literature. Satire provincial middle-class.
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Sherwood ANDERSON
New methods storytelling style and narration technic. Structure into a cyde. Same city -> Wineburg, Ohio. Life has no meaning.
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Gertrude STEIN
Relation reality and language. 1903: Paris rich. Salon -> invited internat artist. Expatriate, fiction autobio. 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Todas.'
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F.S FITZGERALD
Autobiography too. 'The Great Gatsby' 20s Jazz Age.
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John DOS PASSOS
Matter -> The crisis of capitalism in 1930s. Greatest work: USA three books. Subject dominate: conflict between humanity and system. Modernist technics because of disconnection with narrative technic. Learned from abstract impressionist painters.
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Ernest HEMINGWAY
Modernist or realist. Essential condition of life is solitary and serious business is the management of solitude. Life was war. Writing was the only true form of storytelling 'The Sun also Rises' about 'the lost generation' before the WWI.
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William FAULKNER
Each book related with an other one. Shaped by the oral tradition and technic of modernism. Experiment something but unable to understand it, exploration of family, community and culture 1950: awarded a Nobel Prize of Literature.
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Card 2
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Journalist and editor in San Francisco. Born in NY and arrives in California at 18. 'The Gold Rush' 'The Luck of a Roaring Camp' 'The Outcast of Poker Place'
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Francis BRET-HEART
Card 3
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Portrait of the South; romantic portrait, idyllic. Famous for the creation of 'Uncle Remus' old slave who tells story to black children.
Back
Card 4
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Louisiana. Fiction explores racial, dominating theme -> opposition between social and the individuals need. 'Desirée's baby' enormous criticism and bound in some states. Female liberation.
Back
Card 5
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Set in the South. Aimed at teaching: moral lesson. Enable to read, using humours. Out of black prejudices.
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