Periods Puritanism The Enlightenment the American Renaissance Realism & Regionalism Modernism & the Contemporary Literature and the Arts 19th century Painting & Lit. (Use IE) ekphrasis Mina Loy Novelists John Barth Kurt Vonnegut Related Links Drama Modern & Contemporary

 

 

Puritanism

The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment
 
• Map of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1682

 
Early National Literature
 
• Irving, "Rip Van Winkle"(study questions)
• Pictures from Washington Irving's Sketch Book
Transcendentalism and the American Renaissance
 
• Emerson, Nature(study questions)
• Douglass, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave(study questions)
• Dickinson, poems #216, 249, 258, 328, 341, 448, 465, 632, 640, 712, 754 (study questions)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter: Chapter I-VIII and IX-XXIV (study questions)
• Poe, "The Raven" & "Ligeia" (study questions)
• Thoreau, Walden(study questions)
• Whitman "Song of Myself"  and Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California"(study questions)
• Pictures related to Walden
• Pictures related to Walt Whitman
Realism and Regionalism
 
• Crane, "The Open Boat" & "The Blue Hotel"  (study questions)
• Chopin, The Awakening (study questions)
• James, "The Beast in the Jungle" & "Daisy Miller"(study questions)
• Cather's Re-Vision of American Typology in My Antonia  by Joseph Murphy
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Modernism / Contemporary American Poets
 
• Robert Frost (B)
• Imagist poems: Ezra Pound, H. D., Charles Reznikoff, and Carl Sandburg
• T. S. Eliot
• Wallace Stevens
• William Carlos Williams
• Hart Crane
• Langston Hughes
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Lorine Niedecker
• Robert Lowell
• Sylvia Plath
• Allen Ginsberg
• Frank O'Hara
• James Wright
• Li-Young Lee

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Under Construction, Sept. 2001
Homepage Construction: Dr. Joseph Murphy and Dr. Raphael Schulte
Homepage Designer: Johnny Lo
The materials on this page are from the courses:
A. [American Literature 1998]
B. [Modern and Contemporary American Poetry 1998]

US Literature Survey 1

US Literature Survey 2
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