American literature Time line

1. Realism

2. Realism was a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people.

2.1. Characteristics: Comic, Satiric, or matter of fact.

3. New Topic

3.1. Colonialism

3.1.1. Colonial American literature in characterized by the narrative which was used extensively during this period.

3.1.1.1. Literary works

3.1.1.1.1. Genre, letters, Journals, biography, memories

4. Romanticism

5. Developed on the heels of romantic movements in Europe. Characteristics: The Novel, Symbolism, Nature, Individualism, Emotion, Imagination.

6. The Moderns

6.1. Modernist literature was a dominant trend in American literature between world war I and world war II.

6.1.1. Elements

6.1.1.1. Individualism, Experimentation , Absurdity, Symbolism, Formalism

6.1.1.1.1. Post Modernim

7. It's a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction unreliable narration self reflexivity Intertuaility

7.1. Features

7.1.1. Irony, pastiche, hyperreality, intertextuality, magical realism, distortion of time, unpredictability.