Last Century's Writing Styles

"Genre is a made up thing."

Liminal: not quite what we used to be but not quite yet what we're going to become

• Institutions can be liminal
• modern artists and modern writers were also liminal

Naturalism: a movement that basically made the protagonist a victim facing forces greater than themselves, but they can't fix anything around them.

Realism: literally about keeping it real; journalistic kind of way of showing the world.
-Richard Cory was one of the earliest examples of realism

Modernism: a movement that aims to break with classical and traditional forms.
two types of people who break the rules: the type that doesn't know the rules and the ones that want to be different

• Modern writers: they wrote in incomplete sentences and they didn't capitalize things.