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(Also included should be the world-renowned cartoonist George Schulz ("Peanuts") and the Nobel Prize-winning songwriter Bob Dylan, both of whom were from Minnesota.) |
(Popular musician and songwriter Prince (musician) was also from the Midwest.) |
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The Midwest literary style is less pretentious and more direct. Some of it has a sweetness to it, or an innocence. There is a health skepticism, like the "Show Me State" motto of [[Missouri]]. | The Midwest literary style is less pretentious and more direct. Some of it has a sweetness to it, or an innocence. There is a health skepticism, like the "Show Me State" motto of [[Missouri]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 00:26, October 19, 2021
Midwest literature includes the works of these writers:
- Mark Twain
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ernest Hemingway
- T.S. Eliot
- Marilynne Robinson
- Robert Bly
Also included should be the world-renowned cartoonist Charles Schulz ("Peanuts") and the Nobel Prize-winning songwriter Bob Dylan, both of whom were from Minnesota. Popular musician and songwriter Prince (musician) was also from the Midwest.
Style
The Midwest literary style is less pretentious and more direct. Some of it has a sweetness to it, or an innocence. There is a health skepticism, like the "Show Me State" motto of Missouri.
Moral values are strong in much of Midwest literature, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald's early works.