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Checkpoint: Literary Canon
Checkpoint: Literary Canon Erin Hailey Patton LIT/210 October 26, 2010 Harmon Johnson

Write a 175-300 word response to the following questions: 1.) What literature do you consider to be part of the United States current literary canon and why?
Over the years literature has changed quite a bit, new genres of the wood works as well as readers becoming more interested in the classics like wuthering heights or pride and prejudice. I think that novels about mysteries to romance and play rights to poetry are all considered literary canon in the United States. 2.) How
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