born samuel langhorne clemens | Mark Twain |
1st thoroughly american writer | Mark Twain |
rejected Eu art, history and cultural tradition | Mark Twain |
returned to his native land for inspiration | Mark Twain |
born and raised in the South | Mark Twain |
first author who examined possibilities of American | Mark Twain |
Colloquial speech of common America | Mark Twain |
personal experience in his books | Mark Twain |
was soldier during Civil War then journalist | Mark Twain |
riverboat pilot on Missouri, also connected with this river | Mark Twain |
wealth and fame, first media personality | Mark Twain |
1st guidebooks to Europe | Mark Twain |
his writing grew pessimistic with time: depression bankruptcy | Mark Twain |
focus on consciousnes, psychological complexity of mind | Henry James |
One of the greatest novelist in English fiction | Henry James |
pioneer of psychological realism | Henry James |
characters presented through meaningful dialogue and detailed observation, | Henry James |
brought up in a family interested in the arts, philosophy and politics | Henry James |
injury prevented from enlisting | Henry James |
failed in drama writing | Henry James |
developed dramatic techniques for his fiction | Henry James |
experiments with narrative techniques | Henry James |
Who invented invisible narrator? | Henry James |
Who invented different points of view? | Henry James |
his poetry is nostalgic, conventional,expressing,romantic | Sydney Lanier |
musical composition about Georgia's field | Sydney Lanier |
Belief in the redemptive power of the land | Sydney Lanier |
one of the feminist authors of the 20th century | Kate Chopin |
The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
Slavery and women's right | Kate Chopin |
Exploration of women's independence | Kate Chopin |
Champion of literart realism | W.D.Howells |
Biography of Abraham Lincoln | W.D.Howells |
Editor of the Atlantic Montly | W.D.Howells |
The Rise of Silas Lapham | W.D.Howells |
fidelity to life, realism as 'nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material" | W.D.Howells |
Maggie : a girl of the street | Stephen Crane |
The Red Badgee of Courage (Henry Fleming) | Stephen Crane |
The Open Boat | Stephen Crane |
combined authenticity and emotional involvement | Theodore Dreiser |
Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
Jennie Gerhardt | Theodore Dreiser |
An American Tragedy- best novel | Theodore Dreiser |
he joinced Communist Party in 1945 | Theodore Dreiser |
1st author who won Nobel Prize for literature | Sinclar Lewis |
criticised American provincial life and middle class | Sinclar Lewis |
Nobel prize in 1930 | Sinclar Lewis |
Nobel Prize in 1962 | John Steinbeck |
naturalist and California regionalist | John Steinbeck |
combination of realistic naturalism and moral optimism | John Steinbeck |
worked in ranches and as a constructor | John Steinbeck |