PPT-Literary Movements in American Literature

Or how we ended up with all these pieces of literature we have to study in school Overview There are many different literary movements and not everyone agrees on what qualifies things to be a movement. As with any analysis this requires you to break the subject down in to its component parts Examining the different elements of a piece of literature is not an end in itself but rather a process to help you better appreciate and understand the work o A Brief Guide to Major . B. ranches. What is Literary Criticism?. The study of literary works through various theoretical “lenses.” (The Branches). Every work of literature can be analyzed in a different way by each reader/critic.. Literary Devices. Parallelism Definition. Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning . or meter. . Parallelism examples are found in literary works as well as ordinary conversations. . Native American . Literature: Cultural Diversity. At . time . of . Columbus, . 350 distinct languages existed in . North America. Thousands of distinct cultural groups existed as well.. No . single Native American culture or . Life and Works . February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968. John Steinbeck. Born in Salinas, California.. He used this setting for many of his stories. . One of the best known and most widely read American writers of the 20. English 113. Literature-Based Research. Suzann Ledford. Introduction to Literary Criticism. Literary criticism has two main functions:. To analyze, study, and evaluate works of literature.. To form general principles for the examination of works of literature.. the Age of Reason . (1750-1800). The literary implications of the American Revolution. . Military victory and . p. olitical independence from Britain spanned nationalistic hopes for a great . national. Cultural . Liberation. Literature and the arts:. Most of earlier genteel writers had died by 1920s. New Yorker Edith Wharton and Virginia-born Willa Cather continued to be popular. Now new modernists becoming popular (see Thinking Globally section). English . 4U. by . Carlinda. . D’Alimonte. This presentation is partly based on a PowerPoint by . Suzann . Ledford.. Introduction to Literary Criticism. Any piece of text can be read with a number of different sets of “glasses,” meaning you are looking for different things within the text.. Literary: anything having to do with written works (books, poems, stories…). Literary Genres. Literary: anything having to do with written works (books, poems, stories…). Genres: this is where books are sorted and divided by different topics, areas, departments, subjects or . lenses. . applied to an object under consideration; they bring certain qualities into focus or call our attention to particular issues.. . Why do we use different forms of criticism?. Literary criticism is an extension of the social activity of interpreting. One reader writes down his or her views on what a particular work of literature means so that others can respond to that interpretation. The critic's specific purpose may be to . Extraocular muscles and their control. Oculomotor nuclei in the brainstem. Circuits controlling different types of eye movements. Cortical control of eye movements. Superior colliculus. FEF. Corollary discharge and saccadic . Midterm Review What you need to know for your Midterm: American Literary History through 1914 Terminology used in discussing literature How to find rhyme, rhythm and meter How to do basic literary analysis & . Literary Techniques. Literary devices. There are two types of literary devices: . literary elements . and . literary techniques. .. Literary elements . are found in . every. well-written piece and are essential to the creation of the literary work..