- •1. Literature of the 17th c. John Milton. “Paradise Lost”. “Paradise Regained”
- •2. The Eglish Enlightment. The birth of the English novel, its development. Defoe, Swift
- •3. The Mature and Late enlightenment. S.Richardson, h. Fielding, l. Sterne
- •4. Romanticism, its peculiarities. 2 generations of Engl. Romanticists. The Lake poets. W. Scott’s work
- •5. Romanticism, its peculiarities. The poetry of g.G.Byron, p.B.Shelly, j.Keats
- •6. Critical realism in e lit. The Bronte sisters, Ch.Dickens, w.M. Thackeray
- •7. English Realism of the 2nd half of the 19th c. Gaskell, Eliot, Hardy
- •8. Aestheticism. O.Wild and his program. Neoromanticism and its representatives. R.Kipling, j.Conrad
- •9. Critical realism of the early 20th c. J.Galsworthy, h.Wells, b.Shaw, their major works
- •10.English modernism. J.Joyce and V.Woolf, their aesthetic programms
- •11.English modernism. D.H. Lawrence
- •12. Literature of the “lost generation” r.Aldington, e.Hemingway, f.S.Fitzgerald
- •13. Two generations of American Romanticists. J.F.Cooper, e.A.Poe, w.Irving
- •14. American Romantism. N. Hawthore. H. Melville
- •15. Transcendentalism, the works of r.Emerson and h.Thoreau. The poetry of w.Whitman
- •17. Critical realism in Am literature. M.Twain
- •18. Naturalism in Am. Literature. S.Crane, j.London
- •19. The American Novel of the 1st half of the 20th c. Th. Dreiser’s work
- •20. Modernism in American Literature. W. Faulkner
19. The American Novel of the 1st half of the 20th c. Th. Dreiser’s work
At the beginning of the 20th century, American novelists were expanding fiction's social spectrum to depict both high and low life and sometimes connected to the naturalist school of realism. Some directly political writings discussed social issues and power of corporations. Journalistic critics depicted a stinging description of the education system and modern life. Race was a common issue as well, discussing racial and sexual inequalities. Depression era literature was blunt and direct in its social criticism.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, was published in 1911. An American Tragedy, published in 1925 expresses a highly critical view of the American legal system also made him the adopted champion of social reformers.
20. Modernism in American Literature. W. Faulkner
AM is a cultural movement in the US starting at the turn of the 20th c. with its core period between WW I and II,cont. into the 21st century. AM is a trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve, and reshape their environment. Celebrated Modernists include Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, and a romantic poet, Walt Whitman is sometimes regarded as a pioneer of the modernist era in America. The modernist period also brought changes to the portrayal of gender roles and especially to women's role in society. Gatsby, for example, deals with such topics as gender interaction in a mundane society. Many AM writers explored the psychological wounds and spiritual scars of the war experience. American modernists focused on "build a self". Race relations between blacks and whites.
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, in 1897 Faulkner earned his fame from a series of novels that explore the South’s historical legacy. This grouping of major works includes The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1931), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). In his writing, Faulkner was particularly interested in exploring the moral implications of history. Gothic atmosphere in Faulkner’s “ghost story,” gestures to broader ideas, including the tensions between North and South, changing world order, disappearing aristocracy, and rigid social constraints placed on women.