lecture6amp;7Americanliterature.pptVIP

American Literature;General Introduction ;The outline of American Literature;Early fiction;James Fenimore Cooper;Transcendentalists ;Henry David Thoreau;Quotes from Thoreau;Power of Imagination;Edgar Allan Poe;Nathaniel Hawthorne;Herman Melville;New visions of America;Song of Myself ;Emily Dickinson;;SUCCESS is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple host 5 Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear 10 The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear. ;Reform and Liberation;Regionalism ;Mark Twain;Quotes from Twain;A New Wave;;The Modernists;T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land reveals a pessimistic vision of post-World WarⅠ society;William Carlos Williams;Lost Generation;;William Faulkner;Harlem Renaissance; Dreams /programs/view/xDM8tPHK8Zw/ ;Depression, Realism and Escapism;Postwar Voices and the “Beat Generation”;American Drama;American Broadway;“Beat Generation”;New American Voices;Topics for presentation;