American Literature 1865 - 1945

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M M A G O G S H B T W C S D R O J F L J Y
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  • '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. (7, 4, 7)
  • 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. (7, 8)
  • 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. (7, 6)
  • 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' (7, 4, 5)
  • 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. (6, 9)
  • New methods storytelling style and narration technic. Structure into a cyde. Same city -> Wineburg, Ohio. Life has no meaning. (8, 8)
  • Portrait of the South; romantic portrait, idyllic. Famous for the creation of 'Uncle Remus' old slave who tells story to black children. (4, 8, 6)
  • Set in the South. Aimed at teaching: moral lesson. Enable to read, using humours. Out of black prejudices. (7, 7)
  • Support family, middle-class. 'Work = a story of experience' Autobio fiction. (6, 3, 6)
  • Wrote about determinism, wealth, success -> only aims they can know 'Sister Carrie'. (8, 7)

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