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08/22/2012

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Transcendentalism

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the american version of romantisism; held that there was something in human beings that transcended human nature.
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Surrealism

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employs illogical dreamlike images and events to suggest the unconscious.
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Romanticism

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literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form.
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Regionalism

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the tendency in literature to focus on a specific geographical region or locality.
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Realism

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an author's use of accuracy in the portrayal of life or reality.
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Primitivism

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the belief that nature provides a truer and more healthful model than culture; the noble savage.
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Pantheism

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the identification of god with the universe.
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Naturalism

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style of writing that rejects idealized portrayals of life and attempts complete accuracy.
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Hedonism

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the pursuit of pleasure above all else.
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Feminism

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the view that woman are inherently equal to men and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
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Existentialism

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presents life not as it appears on the surface, but as it is passionately felt to be by an author or character.
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Determinism

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philosophy that suggests people's actions and all other events are determined by forces over which human beings have no control.
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Classicism

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an adherence to the principles of greek and roman literature.
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Aestheticism

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reverance for beauty, movement that held beautiful form is to be valued more than instructive content.
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