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Period/MovementDates & Historical ContextInteraction & CohesionPhilosophyAuthors & Literary WorksStyle & ThemesImpactExtras
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What events led to the development of this literary movement? What was happening in the U.S. during this time? What was happening in the world?Who or what unified artists, writers and thinkers during this period? Who or what facilitated interaction between these creative individuals?What ideas and beliefs define this period or movement?List the five most influential writers from the period and their most well-known works.What aspects of style define the writing and art of this period or movement? In what ways did these writers influence or represent society & culture?
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Contemporary
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Postmodernism
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Beat GenerationThe Howl Trial (1957)
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Theater of the Absurdexistentialism

Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
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ModernismGuernica (1937) by Pablo Picasso

Modern Paintings

abstraction
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Magical Realism
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Harlem Renaissance
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Surrealism
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Imagism
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Dadaism
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Southern Gothic
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Lost Generation
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Naturalism / Realism
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Victorian era
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Transcendentalism
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Romanticism
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Gothic fiction
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Enlightenment
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Elizabethan
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Middle English
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Old English
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Patristic period
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Classical Roman
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Classical Greek
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Classical Chinese Literature
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Japanese Literature
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Latin American Literature
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Native American Literature
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Arabic Literature
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Persian Literature
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African Literature
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Caribbean Literature
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Russian Literature
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South Asian Literature
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