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Literary Movements and Writing Styles
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| Classicism | A movement or tendency in art, literature, and music reflecting the principles manifested in the art of ancient Greece and Rome. Value is placed on reason, clarity, balance and order. The Declaration of Independence is an example of Classicism. |
| Expressionism | A movement in literature and art that emphasized the life of the mind and feelings, rather than the realistic, external details of everyday life. |
| Harlem Renaissance | A flowering of African American writing, art, and music in the 1920's. Harlem, NY was at the heart of the movement, which aimed to define and preserve black heritage, protest black oppression, and make other Americans aware of black culture. Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen are writers from the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Imagism | A movement in American and English poetry begun in 1912 by the American poet, Ezra Pound. The four basic premises of Imagism are: direct concentration on the precise image, use precise words and language of common speech, create new rhythms (free verse), and exercise complete freedom in choice of subject |
| Naturalism | An extreme form of Realism in which writers usually depict the sordid side of life and show characters who are severley limited by their environment or heredity. Stephen Crane and John Steinbeck are examples of Naturalist writers. |
| Ornate Style | A highly elaborate style of writing popular in England and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Jonathan Edwards, a Puritan Revivalist, is an example of Ornate style. |
| Plain Style | A simple and clear style of writing which began as a revolt against ornate style. Plain style was promoted by Puritan writers, such as William Bradford, and influenced writers such as Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, and Ernest Hemingway. |
| Realism | The attempt in literature and art to represent life as it really is, without sentamentalizing it or idealizing it. |
| Romanticism | A movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in Western culture during most of the nineteeth century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. Romanticism upholds feelings and imagination over reason and fact. Romanticism favors the emotional, exotic, picturesque and mysterious. Henry David Thoreau and Edgar Allen Poe were both considered Romantic writers. |
| Transcendentalism | An extension of Romanticism, Transcendentalism is a philosophy which holds that basic truths can be reached through intution rather than reason. Transcendentalism stresses the beauty of nature, the divinity of all people, and the importance of the human spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were both Transcendentalist writers. |
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