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Title: Postwar American Literature


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Postwar American Literature
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Postwar American Literature
  • I. The 1940s Generation
  • Elizabeth Bishop " Sestina", "One Art"

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Postwar American Literature
  • Postmodernism
  • a term used to designate a multitude of trends in
    the arts, philosophy, religion, technology, and
    many other areas that come after and deviate from
    the many 20th
  • century movements that constituted modernism.

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Postwar American Literature
  • II. The Confessional School
  • Confessional Poetry
  • A form of Poetry in which the poet reveals very
    personal, intimate, sometimes shocking
    information about himself or
  • herself.
  • Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and
    John Berryman wrote poetry in the confessional
    vein.
  • Robert Lowell Life Studies
  • Sylvia Plath "Daddy", "Lady Lazarus"

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Postwar American Literature
  • III. The Beat Generation
  • A period featuring a group of American poets and
    novelists of the 1950s and 1960s including Jack
    Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William
    S. Burroughs, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti who
    rejected established social and literary values.

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Postwar American Literature
  • IV. The New York School
  • ( a group of collagists, Dadaists, and
    surrealists, in the 1960s)
  • V. The Black Mountain Poets
  • (Black Mountain College)

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Postwar American Literature
  • VI. Postwar Novel
  • Important writers
  • Saul Bellow (1915-2005), Jewish writer, Nobel
    prize winner of 1976, whose main works are
    Dangling Man, The Adventures of Augie March,
    Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Seize The Day,
    Mr. Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift, More Die
    of Heartbreak, etc.

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Postwar American Literature
  • J.D. Salinger (1919- ) The Catcher in the Rye
  • John Updike (1932- ), with his Rabbit pentalogy
  • Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) We Were the
    Mulvaneys, Blonde, The Fall, etc.
  • John Cheever (1912-1982 ) The Eenormous Radio
    and Other Stories
  • Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) A Good Man Is Hard
    To Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge,
    etc.

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Postwar American Literature
  • Novelist of the Absurd
  • Joseph Heller(1923-1999) Catch-22
  • Catch-22 is like no other novel It is one of the
    funniest books ever written, a key-stone work in
    American literature, and even added a new term to
    the dictionary.
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