This article traces the history of American poetry, drama, fiction, and social and literary criticism from the early 17th century through the turn of the 21st century. For a description of the oral and written literatures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, see Native American literature....
During the school year, as students read and discuss writing and poetry which are examples from various American literary periods, they can use their timelines as a handy reference! In addition to their literature movement timeline, they can also expand their learning by creating a poetry movements...
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published the work of Wright and Himes for the first time, whileNew Challenge(1937), edited by novelistDorothy Westand Wright, helped the fledgling Chicago Black literary renaissance expound its purpose. In the 1940sNegro DigestandNegro Story, also literary products of Chicago’s South Side, prov...
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Some critics would say that Dreiser's novels were the only American literary works that could compete with European novels of his time. While his style has received much criticism and the content of his novels was extremely controversial during his lifetime, Dreiser is influential as one of the...
Modern American literature is characterized by the modernism and postmodernism movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Explore the literary themes most prominent in these eras: alienation, transformation, consumption, and the relativity of truth. ...
and reading Rabelais.OneSaturday, my friend Tom and I toured Ellis Island under the influence of small purple drops of acid. A couple of student discontents looking for our pasts. All lined up — Medieval peasants, striking students, literary irreverence in the halls of those huddled masses ye...
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Even in psychoanalysis and literary criticism, then, the past is somehow “there”, “back in the bends and curves behind us” (Finney 1970, 52). Colin Davis observes that “the relation to the dead has become an important trend in critical and psychoanalytical work”: the appeal of so-ca...