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33 Cards in this Set
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Robert Penn Warren
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All the King's Men
Poet, Scholar, Professor |
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Theo. Roethke
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Author of the ambiguous poem "My Papa's Waltz"
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Eudora Welty
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Petrified Man (1941)
- situation comedy -a sketch in the Mark Twain tradition -modernist tradition of Faulkner -"Southern Gothic" |
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Elizabeth Bishop
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-Friends with Robert Lowell
--1960s: lauded by critics as leaders in postwar American verse --Focused on love, loss, family issues --Distanced herself from the confessional style |
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Tennessee Williams
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Author of numerous plays including
Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie |
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John Cheever
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Short story author of "The Swimmer"
Focused on the New York suburbs of the post-war era. Dealt with a surreal "epic" quest and the state of males in the post-war era. |
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Randall Jarrell
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Jarrell believed that poetry was a democratic genre, and he attempted to compose poems that would speak to a wide audience. His poetry is marked by its plain voice and by the speaker's ability to identify with the heartbreak, loneliness, and dreams of everyday life.
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (1945) |
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Ralph Ellison
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Invisible Man is in some ways an autobiographical novel, based on his own experiences.
begins with a man in a hole in the ground in Harlem, a hole with hundreds of blazing lights and electricity diverted from a company called Monopolated Light and Power. |
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Saul Bellow
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In his novels and short stories, most often focuses on the lives and intellectual adventures of men and women in American cities, most often Chicago or New York City.
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) |
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Arthur Miller
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Important American playwright who exposes the post-modern corruption of the American Dream in his tragedy Death of a Salesman.
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Robert Lowell
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The "confessional"
--his poem “Skunk Hour” which he dedicated to Bishop i --Influenced a wide range of poets including James Merrill, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath |
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Gwen. Brooks
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Used Chicago's ghettos as the setting of her poems.
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Jack Kerouac
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This author (and poet) remains a figure of adulation, an icon for independent and rebellious youth, and a free spirit hitting the open road.
-- Big Sur --Beat Lit. |
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Kurt Vonnegut
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0fire bombing of Dresden as a POW in WWII
-Slaughterhouse-Five --Post-modern novel |
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James Dickey
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--Uses nature imagery and angel imagery as well as drowning.
--Wrote poems and the novel Deliverance. |
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Hunter S. Thompson
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Gonzo Journalism
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
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James Baldwin
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His short story Going to Meet the Man (1965)
-an African American writer explores, from the inside, the mind of a southern white racist |
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Flannery O'Connor
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this short story author is labeled as a regionalist, a post-modern naturalistic author, and a master of the Southern gothic and the grotesque
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James Merrill
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author of “An Urban Convalescence,” often used his family and personal experience as inspiration.
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Allen Ginsberg
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the 1955 San Francisco reading of Howl is considered the beginning of new directions and modes in poetry
-Beat |
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Frank O'Hara
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Used art to inspire his poetry
Part of the New York school of poetry loosely connected to the Beat poets |
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WS Merwin
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Is probably best known for his poetry about the Vietnam War.
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Philip Levine
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Most famous poem is told from the perspective of a pig which ends with the famous phrase "Not this pig."
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Anne Sexton
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Confessional poet
friend with Plath wrote a poem to her following her suicide Also committed suicide |
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Adrienne Rich
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feminist voice in contemporary American
Unlike Plath, she is not seen as a martyr |
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Gary Snyder
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Often associated with the beats. A lesser poet...
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Sylvia Plath
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The cultural significance of her Ariel poems cannot be doubted as one of the most important texts studied in America following WWII
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Lucille Clifton
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Common topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African American heritage, and feminist themes, with particular emphasis on the female body.
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Raymond Carver
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reinvigorated the short story in the 1980s
short story “Cathedral,” practitioner of a "stripped-down," minimalist sort of “hyper-realism,” |
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Louise Gluck
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This female poet
haunted by childhood, loss, and the idiosyncratic details of personal memory The Wild Iris won the Pulitzer Prize in early 90s. |
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Sam Shepherd
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American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play, Buried Child.
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David Mamet
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Glengarry Glen Ross 1984 Pulitzer Prize. indebtedness to Eugene O’Neil and Arthur Miller.
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John Updike
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His "Rabbit" novels, each of which manages to sum up an era of twentieth-century America, represent perhaps the best of his long fiction.
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