PPT-Overview of American Literature

Literary Movements September 8 2014 Major themes in American Literature American individualism Also known as the selfmade man Celebration of ambition and achievement Original colonists came for religious freedom. Junior American Literature. Did you know…. According to archaeologists, the first American Indians arrived in the our country around 50,000 B.C. by the Bering Strait.. American Indians probably founded the town you were born in, but were likely to have been removed from it forcibly.. Graham . American Literature and Composition. Essential Question: What are we doing in here and what will we be learning about today?. Review Syllabus. What is American Literature and Composition?. What are the expectations and procedures in the classroom?. By Karlee and Melanie. Stereotypes. 2 Categories:. Negative. Dirty, drunk, cruel, warring savages. Romantic . Glorified, noble, naïve, “hot warrior”. Children’s Literature. False image: American Indians are extinct. ure. Art. Music. Literature. Art. Hudson River School. – . A mid-19. th. century (1800s) American art movement influenced by romanticism. This style of painting consisted of natural images and landscapes of New England.. The 20. th. Century comeback of the Gothic Spirit. What are the three important . literary devices . used in Gothic Literature? . Who is the Gothic Literature Mascot?. List five characteristics of Gothic Literature.. the Age of Reason . (1750-1800). The literary implications of the American Revolution. . Military victory and . p. olitical independence from Britain spanned nationalistic hopes for a great . national. Critical . perspectives from the literature review on the contribution of Universities to regional sustainable development. Dr. . Karatzoglou. . Benjamin . University of Macedonia. Introduction. The . Or, how we ended up with all these pieces of literature we have to study in school.. Overview. There are many different literary movements and not everyone agrees on what qualifies things to be a movement. Definition. Literature about the . sociocultural. experiences of underrepresented groups. This literature includes those who fall outside the “mainstream” of categories such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, language. This literature is written by those who are members of these underrepresented groups and those who fall within the category of “mainstream.”. . i. n American Literature. 1800-1870. http://www.honors.uiuc.edu/eng255/lectures/12-13.html. Historical and Cultural Background. Write down the essential questions. :. What is the relationship between place and literature?. What is American Literature?. American Literature is exactly what it sounds like literature that is specific to America. So what exactly does that mean?. Early American Fiction (1492-1789). The history of American Lit. begins with the 1. Causes of the Modernist Temper. WWI. Urbanization. Industrialization. Immigration. Technological Evolution. Growth of Modern Science. Influence of Austrian Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Influence of German Karl Marx (1818-1883). Native American Literature Native American Literature: Cultural Diversity At time of Columbus, 350 distinct languages existed in North America Thousands of distinct cultural groups existed as well. Tuesday, 07 May 2019. The Modern World. Focused on the new Century and seen clearly between the two World Wars.. Modernism can look at the reality of the country, away from Manifest Destiny. It can examine the disconnect between the new, modern cities and the ideals of the Pioneer world.