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Pembahasan: Gagasan utama dari bacaan ini adalah sastra Amerika baru kurang kedaerahan dari yang lawas (that the new American literature was less provincial than the old).ģ2. Keyword: were accompanied by the development of a national literature Jawab: (A) that the new American literature was less provinci al (D) that most people were wary of the new literature (C) that centers of culture shifted from East to West (B) that World War I caused a dramatic change in America (A) that the new American literature was less provincial than the old Just as America learned to play a role in this half century as an autonomous international political, economic, and military power, so did its literature establish itself as a producer of major works. Years fulfilled in considerable measure the condition Walt Whitman called for inl867 in describing Leaves of Grass: It treats, he said of his own major work, each state and region as peers “and expands from them, and includes the world … connecting an American citizen with the citizens of all nations.” At the same time, these years saw the emergence of what has been designated “the literature of argument,” powerful works in sociology, philosophy, psychology, many of them impelled by the spirit of exposurĮ and reform.

Least in its popular forms, in the main by solemn, typically moralistic men from New England and the Old South no longer were polite, well-dressed, grammatically correct, middle-class young people the only central characters in its narratives no longer were these narratives to be set in exotic places and remote times no longer, indeed, were fiction, poetry, drama, and formal history the chief acceptable forms of literary expression no longer, finally, was literature read primarily by young, middle class women. As a result, at the onset of World War I, the spirit and substance of American literature had evolved remarkably, just as its center of production had shifted from Boston to New York In the late 1880s and the sources of its energy to Chicago and the Midwest. Line New themes, new forms, new subjects, new regions, new authors, new audiences all emerged in the literature of this half century.

Anied by the development of a national literature of great abundance and variety.

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