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Chicago's early twentieth-century writers and publishers were seen as producing innovative work that broke with the literary traditions of Europe and the Eastern United States. In 1920, the critic H. L. Mencken wrote in a London magazine, The Nation, that Chicago was the "Literary Capital of the United States."
Pages in category "Writers from Chicago" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 992 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
John David Guillory (born 1952) is an American literary critic whose "distinguished career has transformed the ways in which the discipline of literary studies understands itself." [ 1 ] He is the Julius Silver Professor of English [ 2 ] Emeritus [ 3 ] at New York University .
A postmodern literary movement srarted ca. 1970, where writers use their speaking voice to present fiction, poetry, monologues, and storytelling arising from Beat poetry, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights movement in the urban centers of the United States. [133]
Modernist poetry is a broad term for poetry written between 1890 and 1970 in the tradition of Modernist literature. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Schools within it include already 20th-century Acmeist poetry , Imagism , Objectivism , and the British Poetry Revival .
This list includes notable authors, poets, playwrights, philosophers, artists, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letters) is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters").
The Chicago School of literary criticism was a form of criticism of English literature begun at the University of Chicago in the 1930s, which lasted until the 1950s. It was also called Neo-Aristotelianism , due to its strong emphasis on Aristotle 's concepts of plot, character and genre.
This is a partial list of 20th-century writers. This list includes notable artists, authors, philosophers, playwrights, poets, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non fiction