ESSAYS 1. Puritan views of New World in colonial America 2. Compare and contrast literature of Whitman and Dickenson in terms of God‚ man and nature 3. Man’s nature perceived by Hawthorne‚ Faulkner and Melville. 4. American dream and experience in 20th century American literature 5. Poe’s idea of rationalisation (symbolic poetry‚ short stories‚ invention of detective story‚ science fiction‚ tension on symbolism and psychological analysis) 6. Transcendentalizm 7. Establishment
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The term subaltern alludes to any individual or group of inferior rank and station‚ may be for race‚ class‚ sex‚ gender‚ ethnicity or religion. It is the social group who is socially‚ politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial country. It is derived from the social authority or hegemonic work of Antonio Gramsci‚ which distinguished the social groups who are excluded from a general society’s set up structures for political representation
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AMERICAN LITERATURE REQUIRED TEXTS: Native American Literature: Zitkala-Ša: ’Why I am Pagan?’ Joe Harjo‚ poetry Sherman Alexie: ’Class’ Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain Puritans: J. Smith‚ A Description of New England‚ A True Relation of... Virginia‚ handouts W. Bradford: Of Plimouth Plantation‚ handouts A. Bradstreet‚ poetry Awakening: J. Edwards ’Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’‚ ’Freedom of the Will’‚ ’The Nature of True Virtue’ B. Franklin: The Autobiography‚ handouts
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WHAT IS AMERICAN LITERATURE? AN OVERVIEW When the English preacher and writer Sidney Smith asked in 1820‚ “In the four quarters of the globe‚ who reads an American book?” little did he suspect that less than two hundred years later the answer in literate quarters would be “just about everyone.” Indeed‚ just a few years after Smith posed his inflammatory question‚ the American writer Samuel Knapp would begin to assemble one of the first histories of American literature as part of a lecture series
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Historiographic Metafiction Parody and the Intertextuality of History LINDA HUTCHEON Il y a plus affaire à interpreter les interpretations qu’a interpreter les choses‚ et plus de livres sur les livres que sur autre sujet: nous ne faisons que nous entregloser. -Montaigne The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title‚ the first lines‚ and the last full-stop‚ beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form‚ it is caught up in a system of references to other books‚ other
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A Bushman Fictions/Novels by A Bushman A.L.O.E. Fictions/Novels by A.L.O.E. Abbott‚ Belle Kendrick Fictions/Novels by Belle Kendrick Abbott Abbott‚ Eleanor Hallowell o Little Eve Edgarton o Molly Make-Believe o White Linen Nurse‚ The Abbott‚ Jane Fictions/Novels by Jane Abbott Abbott‚ Lyman Fictions/Novels by Lyman Abbott Adam‚ G. Mercer Fictions/Novels by G. Mercer Adam Adams‚ Andy Fictions/Novels by Andy Adams Adams‚ F. Colburn Fictions/Novels by F
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THE SCARLET LETTER: A UNIT PLAN Second Edition Based on the book by Nathaniel Hawthorne Written by Mary B. Collins Teacher’s Pet Publications‚ Inc. 11504 Hammock Point Berlin‚ Maryland 21811 Copyright Teacher’s Pet Publications‚ Inc. 1997‚ 1999 This Lit Plan for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter has been brought to you by Teacher’s Pet Publications‚ Inc. Copyright Teacher’s Pet Publications 1999 11504 Hammock Point Berlin MD 21811 Only the student materials in this unit plan such as worksheets
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Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature MARY ELLEN SNODGRASS Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature Copyright © 2005 by Mary Ellen Snodgrass All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or by any information storage or retrieval systems‚ without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Facts On File‚ Inc. 132 West
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