Question

What literary period is the Beat Generation aligned with?

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Hello

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hi*

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Is this a multiple choice question?

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Or free answer?

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multiple choice quotation

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What are the answer choices?

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A. naturalism
B. realism
C. postmodernism
D. modernism

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mhm okay, I'll help you break this down. First we have to define what 'Beat Generation' is

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Google provides this: "a movement of young people in the 1950s who rejected conventional society and favored Zen Buddhism, modern jazz, free sexuality, and recreational drugs. Among writers associated with the movement were Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg."

The general takeaway is that they 'rejected conventional society.'

So we want to look for the era that did that.

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"Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from 1865 to 1900 that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. "
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1081555.pdf

"Realism, an artistic movement that began in France in the 1850s, rejected Romanticism, seeking instead to portray contemporary subjects and situations with truth and accuracy."
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/chapter/realism/

"Postmodernism, also spelled post-modernism, in Western philosophy, a late 20th-century movement characterized by broad skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism; a general suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic power."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy

Modernism is a period in literary history which started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s. Modernist writers in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century.
https://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/guidepages/Modernism2.html#:~:text=Modernism%20is%20a%20period%20in,verse%20from%20the%2019th%20century.

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Which one sounds like rejecting conventional society?

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Realism?

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mhm, that's certainly a good answer. But we have to note the times related to Beat Generation and these given eras.

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So Postmodernism is the answer.

Answer 15

I think you're right. It fits the time setting, and the description.

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Thank you for helping me

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No problem1