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ENG 209:
AMERICAN LIT AFTER 1865
SPRING 2014
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HARLEM RENAISSANCE
a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
MODERNISM
Although generally called a movement, it is more valid to see modernism as an international body of literature characterized by a new self-consciousness about modernity and by radical formal experimentation. Several literary movements and styles were fostered within modernism, which flourished from around 1890 until 1940.
SOUTHERN RENASCENCE
the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren, and Zora Neale Hurston, among others.
POSTMODERNISM
a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”.
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