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A second "Chicago Renaissance," this time lasting approximately 1935 to 1950 and referring to a wave of creativity from Chicago's African American writers. Bone suggests that this Chicago Renaissance was comparable in influence and importance to the earlier Harlem Renaissance. Bone's list of Chicago Renaissance writers includes fiction writers ...
[3] But modernism was already stirring by 1899, with works such as Joseph Conrad's (1857–1924) Heart of Darkness, while Alfred Jarry's (1873–1907) absurdist play, Ubu Roi appeared even earlier, in 1896. Knut Hamsun's (1859–1952) Hunger (1890) is a groundbreaking modernist novel and Mysteries (1892) pioneers modernist stream of ...
Pages in category "Writers from Chicago" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 987 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Little Review was an American avant-garde literary magazine founded by Margaret Anderson in Chicago's historic Fine Arts Building, published literary and art work from 1914 to May 1929. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With the help of Jane Heap and Ezra Pound , Anderson created a magazine that featured a wide variety of transatlantic modernists and cultivated ...
Harriet Monroe (December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts.She was the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, which she established in 1912.
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Writer Born in Chicago Mary Onahan Gallery: Jul 22, 1866: Jan 12, 1941: Writer, editor Larry Gelbart: Feb 25, 1928: Sep 11, 2009: Comedy writer Born in Chicago Miss Major Griffin-Gracy: Oct 25, 1946 Author, activist, community organizer Born in Chicago [92] [93] John Gunther: Aug 30, 1901: May 29, 1970: Writer Gary Gygax: Jul 27, 1938: Mar 4 ...
T. S. Eliot: Modernism; Harold Bloom: Aestheticism; Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation, On Photography; John Updike: Literary realism/modernism and aestheticist critic; M. H. Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp (study of Romanticism) F. O. Matthiessen: originated the concept "American Renaissance" Perry Miller: Puritan studies