American Literary Movements

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Across
  1. 1. promote jazz music, drugs, sexuality, Buddhism, and all "hip" and free ideals
  2. 4. Consists of political and philosophical writings about reason and common sense.
  3. 5. consists of a noticeable shift in expression and writing style from previous movements like the great depression
  4. 6. based on oral tradition of stories, fables, tales, myths, and chants
  5. 8. Written by immigrants who left Europe to find religious freedom
  6. 9. concentrated outburst of African-American art, writing, and music from Harlem
  7. 10. Lines are blurred between popular culture, literature, and art. The interpretation of reality is more important that the concrete experience of reality itself
  8. 13. Written by first immigrants coming to america to settle a new land
Down
  1. 2. Shares beliefs about the natural and spiritual world
  2. 3. intentional creation of literature by authors from diverse cultural backgrounds
  3. 7. realated to post-modernism but focused on relationships, connections between people, and evoking emotioin
  4. 11. Promotes facts over intellectual or emotional reasoning. includes stories of everyday people and is written in natural language
  5. 12. related to realism but it focuses specifically on social issues caused by industrialization. includes dark, tragic stories of struggle