The Call of the Wild, The Great War, and a Raisin in Harlem
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The Call of the Wild, The Great
War, and a Raisin in Harlem
I. Naturalism
1880-1940
I. NaturalismA. Beginnings of Naturalism
- began as a part of Realism
I. NaturalismA. Beginnings of Naturalism
*Realism: people wanted to show the world like it really was
ex: slavery, industrial revolution, overpopulation, racism, etc.
I. NaturalismA. Beginnings of Naturalism
*Naturalists: focused on the sad reality of people’s lives
I. NaturalismB. Main Topics and Ideas*Heavily influenced by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
I. NaturalismB. Main Topics and Ideas*Heavily influenced by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution- just like all other animals, people are controlled by nature
I. NaturalismB. Main Topics and Ideas*unlike Romanticists/Transcendentalists, they believed that nature was indifferent or uncaring;not noble
Hurricane Sandy
I. NaturalismB. Main Topics and Ideas*characters are often helpless victims of nature, the environment, and their own heritage/background
I. NaturalismB. Main Topics and Ideas*Important Authors: Jack London, Theodore Dreiser
II. Modernism
1900-1950
II. ModernismA. Major Historical Events*1900-10: new technology made people hopeful for a bright future
II. ModernismA. Major Historical Events*1910-20: World War I – 6th bloodiest war ever, made possible by new technology
II. ModernismA. Major Historical Events*1920-30: “Roaring Twenties” – economy boomed, radio and movies became popular, people tried to distract themselves from World War I
II. ModernismA. Major Historical Events*1930-40: Great Depression – stock market crashed, ¼ of Americans unemployed; New Deal – helped people get jobs again
II. ModernismA. Major Historical Events*1940-50: World War II, bloodiest war ever, nuclear bomb
II. ModernismB. Key Ideas of Modernist Literature*after WWI and WWII, people felt lost and disillusioned with America and the modern world
II. ModernismB. Key Ideas of Modernist Literature*many people no longer believed in the power of the individual
II. ModernismB. Key Ideas of Modernist Literature*writers began to look down on the old ways of writing and experimented with creative new ways to write (e.g. stream of consciousness)
II. ModernismB. Key Ideas of Modernist Literature*literature from other cultures (e.g. women, African Americans) gained attention
II. ModernismB. Key Ideas of Modernist Literature*Major Authors: Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot
III. Harlem Renaissance
1920-1935
III. Harlem Renaissance
Key Ideas: an explosion of African American art that took pride in being black and studied the experiences of black people in America
III. Harlem Renaissance
*Major Authors: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
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