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A period in Europe also known as scientific, artistic, and cultural "Rebirth" after the Middle ages. Poetry and drama were the main two types of writing in this era.
Most famous Writers:
"Mona Lisa" Leonardo Da Vinci
"Romeo and Juliet" William Shakespeare
"The book of the Duchess" Geoffrey Chaucer -
This era was based off of the oral stories from the Native Tribes that was here before the early settlers came here. The main types of stories were myths, poems, traditions, and songs.
Famous Writers:
"Fools Crows" James Welch
"Remember" Joy Harjo
"The Prairie Trilogy" Willa Cather -
Romanticism focused on the celebration of individual and glorification of Nature. The types of stories that were written in this era were novels, lyric poetry, odes, and ballads.
Romanticism writers:
"Don Juan" Lord Byron
"I wandered lonely as a cloud" William Wordsworth
"To Autumn" John Keats -
The movement tried to seek a truthful and objective vision of contemporary life. The stories were mainly Fiction, Realistic, and Modern.
Famous Writers in this era:
"The Portrait of a Lady" Henry James
"War and Peace" Leo Tolstoy
"The Open Boat" Stephen Crane -
This movement is similar to realism in the denying of Romanticism, but known for embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objection, and social commentary. It began in the mid 19th century and was considered to be a more detailed version of Realism.
Well known writers:
"To Build a Fire" Jack London
"The Story of San Francisco" Frank Norris
"Sister Carrie" Theodore Dreiser -
This era focused on the direct representation of nature to the world of the imagination. The most common symbols in literature are colors, objects, and seasons.
Common Producers:
" Les Palais nomades" Gustave Kahn
“Le Bateau ivre” Arthur Rimbaud
"Humanity Prime" Bruce McAllister -
This era people believed that the world needed to be fundamentally rethought. This era arose rapidly in the Western society.
Famous Writers:
"The Waste Land" T.S. Eliot
"The Cantos" Ezra Pound
"The Red Wheelbarrow" William Carlow Williams -
This era focused on making progress on the modern age of machines, dynamism, speed, energy, and change. Types of writing styles were intuition, irony, and analogies.
Well known writers for this era:
"Signs of Revival" Patrick Dixon
"Black Swan" Bruce Sterling
"Street Light" Giacomo Balla -
This era focused on trying to revolutionize human experiences. We can divide Surrealism into two main types of genres. Veristic art and automatism art.
Most well known writers:
"The Elephant Celebes" Max Ernst
"Danger of Death" Hans Arp
"Paysan de Paris" Louis Aragon -
The era focused on the diversity of human experience and multiplicity of perspectives. The types of stories were mainly horror, science fiction, and detective story.
The most well known composers were:
"JR" William Gaddis
"V." Thomas Pynchon
"Invisible Cities" Italo Calvino