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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.) |
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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]]. | ||
Revision as of 04:15, October 17, 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.
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.