Literary Movements - Final
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- Chopin
- realism
- responding to "God is dead" - Nietzsche
- modernism
- "brute within," warring passions, man against himself
- naturalism
- use of irony and humor
- Realism
- tradtion and anti-tradition (by being different, actually following the herd)
- modernism
- no moral spin at all
- naturalism
- 1890-1910
- naturalism
- responsible morality; a world truly reported
- realism
- rejection of history
- modernism
- writers are removed from the subject; no motivation for change
- naturalism
- Social and Aesthetic
- Realism
- Miller
- modernism
- emphasis upon morality, which is found through self-realization
- realism
- humans governed by their instincts and passions
- naturalism
- democratic, yet elitist
- modernism
- everyday experiences and actions
- realism
- Gilman
- realism
- 1914-1945
- modernism
- response to social breakdown
- modernism
- searching for new forms of direction and expression
- modernism
- Twain
- realism
- literature between the wars
- modernism
- point of view is detached from subject
- modernism
- snapshot of reality
- realism
- aim to change social values/beliefs/morals
- Realism
- Wharton
- naturalism
- 1860-1900
- realism
- loss and despair
- modernism
- nature as an indifferent force
- naturalism
- decadence and decay
- modernism (contradictions refer to Gilded Age)
- deliberate break from past
- modernism
- objectivity and detachment
- naturalism
- philosophical position: brute within
- naturalism
- verisimilitude
- Realism
- humans also affected by forces of heredity and environment
- naturalism
- anti-romantic; nature is desolate and without function
- modernism
- authorial objectivity
- realism
- retain a veneer of civilization despite external pressures
- naturalism
- unavoidable change
- modernism
- character more important than plot
- realism
- violence and alienation
- modernism