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Highlights of American literature : a course in American literature for the advanced study of English. book III
Intended for high-intermediate/advanced level students of
English as a foreign language, this book contains selections from the wide
range of American literature, from its beginnings to the modern period. Each
section begins with a general introduction to the literary period, and then
presents essays about individual authors, selections from the author's
writings, discussion questions at the end of each prose selection or group of
poems, and discussion questions at the end of each chapter. The "National
Beginnings" section discusses Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, James
Fenimore Cooper, Philip Freneau, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, and
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The "Romanticism and Reason" section discusses Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and
Henry James, "The American Short Story: 19th Century Developments" section
discusses Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frank R.
Stockton. The "Realism and Reaction" section discusses Theodore Dreiser,
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Sinclair Lewis, Henry L. Mencken, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck. The "Modern Voices in Prose and Poetry"
section discusses Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Archibald
Macleish, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Katherine Ann Porter,
Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke, Randall Jarrell,
and James Wright. The "Modern American Drama" section presents two short
plays: "Return to Dust" (George Bamber) and "The Other Player" (Owen G.
Arno). Suggestions to the teacher conclude the book.
Contents
1 Colonial literature
1.1 Topics of early writing
1.2 Revolutionary period
2 Post-independence
2.1 The First American Novel
3 Unique American style
4 Early American poetry
5 Realism, Twain and James
6 Beginning of the 20th century
6.1 1920s
7 The rise of American drama
8 Depression-era literature
9 Post-World War II
9.1 The postwar novel
9.2 Short fiction and poetry
10 Contemporary American literature
11 Minority literatures
12 Nobel Prize in Literature winners (American authors)
13 American literary awards
14 Literary theory and criticism
15 See also
15.1 Additional genres
15.2 Regional and minority focuses in American literature
16 Notes and references
17 Bibliography
18 External links
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