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Jan 1, 1400
Books based of native american
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Feb 27, 1400
Native American
http://opossumsal.homestead.com/nap.htmlThis period was mainly fond to poems and short anecdotes about the ancient spirits that took care of the Indians. Poems where worshiped and honored as the children learned to hunt animals by tales of ancient techniques about the great buffaloes. This form of literature was first read during the 14 hundreds until the Europeans intruded the Native Americans and changed their entire script completely. Most of the Indians that learned the skill to compose and write were considered to be very spiritu -
Jan 1, 1472
Puritan era
http://www.annebradstreet.com/anne_bradstreet_poems.htm</a> The puritan era was maily seen as the era of the rebellious as the New Englanders moved to America and created the their entire new belief that was reffered as puritanism. Puritanism was based on the pure word of god whitch most of the literature was ancient bibles and poems about sad or happy events and diseases that was going around in the early colonization days. As we can also see that the peoms were taken away from the native americans and modified to fit to more of a english style.
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Puritan era
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Enlightment http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/enlightenment-era
http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/enlightenment-era</a>>http://www.librarything.com/topic/61972</a> The era of enlightment was mainly focused on realism and science. The literature written at that time was based on the scientific theory and revelations. Also on the habits of living as new improved theories on the way of movement and the spectrum of light. As far as writting the writing it included political documents, speeches, and letters all based on new revelations. The enlightment period also brought a happier thinking to most novelist wrote about internal relief and enjoyment. -
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gothic fiction
http://www.poemhunter.com/edgar-allan-poe/</a> The era of gothic fiction was a very interesting period as the literature took a different point of view. Edgar Allan Poe the main known gothic writers wrote about terrifying events and mystical adventures. Not only adventures but ghost and spirits as well, as this era made fun of classical writers but gratified and enthused romantics writers which was the era that followed. Gothic fiction focused on supernatural events and tales of great spirits -
Romantism
http://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/romanticism</a>The romanticism era was a response to the dreadful and sad gothic fictions period as romanticism focused on fancy, imagination, emotion, nature, individual, and exotica. The books of this era had a high influence in motivating many individuals to seek and enjoy literature to its purest form as it brought many people out of a depression. Romanticism was highly seen in the New England as writers like Cooper, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and Melville were the main source of writers. -
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Romanticism era/ Gothic era
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Transcendentalism
http://www.goodreads.com/search?offer_spelling_suggestion=true&original_query=Trancendentalism&q=Transcendentalism&search%5Bsource%5D=goodreads&search_type=books</a>Transcendentalism was highly focused on motivation and self-esteem as many of the writers believed one should not settle for such low standards and rise seek for better experiences. Transcendentalism was in the nineteenth century and was a major part in influencing the colonist to rebel against the government and keep fighting for better standards. This period was influenced by Romanticism, as transcendentalist respected the individual spirit and the natural world, believing that divinity was pr -
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Realism era
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Realism
http://www.textetc.com/traditional/realism.html</a>Realism grew around the nineteenth century and had contradicted the romanticism literature. Realism focused on the reality of life and the sad or happy events that happen to people. Realism impacted many readers as the books prior focus was about social discrimination and slavery as a whole. This era inspired many young writers and even African American women to write novels about their experience working in the cotton fields along with their colleagues -
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Regionalism
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Regionalism
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/southlit_images.html</a>The regionalism era dedicated the majority of its writing in cultures and beliefs of mixed cultures. Regionalism was very spiritual and informative as they shared tales of different cultures and spirits that were believed to be real. Similar to realism, regionalism took a different turn as regionalism appreciated the geographical lands and its native people. The literature showed the beauty of speeches customs, beliefs, and history. -
Naturalism
http://nihilisticpoetry.com/tag/naturalistic-poem/</a> Naturalism was focused on the shameless lives of many of the people wondering the streets, as the novels were concentrated on the destiny set out for many of the immigrants or lower class civilians. Naturalism took realism to a higher extent and showed the cruelty of nature. The majority of authors who were inspired by realism made a shit in periods and followed the naturalistic form of writing. Being almost similar the authors argued that Naturalism was more of proving why such bad luck like k -
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Imagism
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/Imagism</a> Imagism as pure as it sounds was a creative and descriptive era that mainly focused on short poems to describe a picture in your minds. Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell led this era with their clean and crisp poems. Although the poems were purposely written with ordinary language they were successful enough to plant an image in your mind to get you thinking about life itself or the beauty of nature. -
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Modern Age
Modern age literature was highly known as one of the most important eras due to all the confusion going around due to the Great Depression. Modern age authors wrote about the disillusionment and misperception going on the twentieth century. The authors brought all questions in life and predicaments of the era with ought handing any answers out in order to distract and get the people thinking. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem renaissance was a period were it African-Americans were being recognized and their tales and anecdotes began affecting the American crowd during the twentieth century. It began in New York and speeded west. Writers like Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, and Arna Bontemps had majorly impacted American literature in the 1920s without the fear of being discriminated. -
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Harlem Renassaunce
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Contemporary
http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/contemporary-literature</a>
Last but not least, Contemporary literature was a mixture of many formats of writing, as it can be poems, novels, tales, anecdotes etc. This form of literature usually told dramatic, and adventurous tales of survival about different countries or races of people. Contemporary made people appreciate what they require in compared to what other people around the world have. This era was a very daring period as the novelist weren’t afra -
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