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    AMERICAN PERIOD (1898-1941) Historical Background June 12‚ 1898-Independence day Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo-the first president of the Philippine Republic Fil-American was resulted in the defeat of Gen. Miguel Malvar in 1903 The Peace Movements started a early as 1900 3 Popular Newspapers 1. EL NUEVO DIA (The New Day) – Sergio Osmeña 2. EL GRITO DEL PUEBLO (The Call of the Nation) – Pascual Poblete 3. EL RENACIMIENTO (The Rebirth) – Rafael Palma PLAYS: 1. KAHAPON‚ NGAYON AT BUKAS – Aurelio

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    English Romanticism 1798-1832 Historical Background Industrial Revolution 1776 American Revolution 1789 - 1815 Revolutionary and Napoleonic Period in France 1789 storming of the Bastille 1793 King Louis XVI executed Political unrest in Britain‚ harsh repressive measures against radicals Edmund Burke‚ Reflections on the Revolution of France 1790 Tom Paine‚ Rights of Man 1791 Mary Wollstonecraft‚ A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792 1793 Britain at war with France

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    The setting of a piece of literature gives the reader a proper understanding of the roots of a story. The setting is an especially important in African American literature‚ because it shows readers many of the conditions African Americans had to face‚ unlike caucasians. Works such as Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson‚ “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston‚ and “Equal Opportunity” by Walter Mosey‚ show different settings‚ which allows for different points of view on how the

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    Western Europe culture and society from 1800 to 1850 is characterized as being the peak of Romanticism. This intellectual‚ artistic‚ musical‚ and literary movement was in response to the Age of Enlightenment (1685-1815‚ coinciding with Neoclassicism) which was an earlier movement in Europe that held rationalization of nature and universal truths above all else. The disillusionment with the ideas of the Enlightenment and skepticism of the pursuit of reason caused influential philosophers and more

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    school year of American Literature‚ poetry has been one of my favorite units we have studied. Without realizing it‚ I had been missing out on many extraordinary poets‚ works of poetry‚ and useful poetry elements- which hindered my ability to fully grasp the deeper truth which had been laid in many poems. One of the many eye-opening poets to my new-found love of poetry is Emily Dickinson. Even though her poems were not intended for the public eye‚ they were flawless and unique. From her interesting

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    Literature is a way to tell a story to its readers in the hope that they learn something. Regardless of the story‚ the author creates this story not just for the sake of entertainment‚ but in hopes of changing the way people think and view their own lives. Through the writings of Charles Darwin‚ W.E.B. Dubois‚ and Rachel Carson‚ we see three stories very distinct from each other in terms of the subject of their writing‚ but all three authors write these pieces of literature for the purpose of critiquing

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    12. Discuss the characteristic features of the experimental prose in 1960-2000 on chosen examples. Experimental literature refers to written works - often novels or magazines - that place great emphasis on innovations regarding technique and style. Naked Lunch is a novel by William S. Burroughs‚ a complete American edition(1962). • The book is structured as a series of loosely-connected vignettes. Burroughs himself stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order. The reader

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    2013 Realism in Huckleberry Finn Between the end of the civil war in 1865 to about 1910‚ two styles of literature dominated American literature: realism and naturalism. Realism presents the world as it really is. One of the well known writers of realism‚ William Dean Howell’s‚ wrote “realism in nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.” Realism in literature tends to be the plain and direct account of whatever is being written about. Writers of realism fill their

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    Realism & Naturalism in the American literature I. The Realistic period: (1865-1900). During this period modern America was born and the American dream has been intellectually lost. After the civil War a strong critical movement toward realism appeared. Realism has been defined by one of its most vigorous advocates‚ W.D.Howells‚ as “the truthful treatment of materials” (i.e. realism= verisimilitude “the appearance of being true or real”). * What is realism: Realistic fiction is often

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    com/arthistory/c17th-mid19th/baroque.htm) An example of Baroque art is The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew . This painting is about what was going on in that time. The artist‚ Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio‚ painted about what was going on in that time in society. Romanticism was big on individualism‚ subjectivism‚ irrationalism‚ imagination‚ emotions and nature - emotion over reason and senses over intellect. Romantic artists were more interested in things like inner struggle and passion‚ not on things that were going

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