- Literary Periods, Movements, and History - online literature
Literature History Henry Augustin Beers was a literature historian and professor at Yale who lived at the turn of the 19th century He wrote intensely detailed histories of American and English literature, covering the periods up until what were his modern times We have collected those works below English Literature History
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- Trancendentalism - Literature Periods Movements
The literary productions of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman shifted the balance of power in English literature away from the British Isles and towards the United States The new American literature was bold, fresh, and young It encompassed the sweep of the prairies and the energies of the explorers
- Existentialism - Literature Periods Movements
Contemporary literature adopts, discards, and modifies so many philosophical and aesthetic perspectives that holistic points of view like existentialism gets washed out by all the competing voices However, the influence of existential thought is not totally swept away, as many filmmakers and novelists still claim the likes of Kafka or Sartre
- William Butler Yeats - online literature
He was elected to the Irish senate the same year, where he served for six years before resigning to due to failing health In December of 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and continued to work on his essays, poetry and the poetry anthology Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935 (1936) In 1933, Yeats participated in his first
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- Ch. 5: Masculine Literature
But that great branch of literature--Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and all down later times, shows beyond all question, the influence of our androcentric culture Literature is the most powerful and necessary of the arts, and fiction is its broadest form If art "holds the mirror up to nature" this art's mirror is the largest of all, the most used
- Romancticism - Literature Periods Movements
Contrary to the English example, American literature championed the novel as the most fitting genre for Romanticism’s exposition In a broader sense, Romanticism can be conceived as an adjective which is applicable to the literature of virtually any time period
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