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    American literature began with diverse oral traditions among Native American tribes before European settlement. With colonization came a written aspect of literature, including early accounts by Puritan writers like John Winthrop and William Bradford. The Revolutionary period saw the rise of intellectuals like Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin. Romanticism in the 19th century was influenced by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Civil War era saw works addressing slavery from authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Gilmore Simms. Modernism developed in the 20th century with figures such as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Langston Hughes. Contemporary literature includes diverse genres and styles.

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    American literature began with diverse oral traditions among Native American tribes before European settlement. With colonization came a written aspect of literature, including early accounts by Puritan writers like John Winthrop and William Bradford. The Revolutionary period saw the rise of intellectuals like Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin. Romanticism in the 19th century was influenced by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Civil War era saw works addressing slavery from authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Gilmore Simms. Modernism developed in the 20th century with figures such as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Langston Hughes. Contemporary literature includes diverse genres and styles.

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    American literature began with diverse oral traditions among Native American tribes before European settlement. With colonization came a written aspect of literature, including early accounts by Puritan writers like John Winthrop and William Bradford. The Revolutionary period saw the rise of intellectuals like Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin. Romanticism in the 19th century was influenced by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Civil War era saw works addressing slavery from authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Gilmore Simms. Modernism developed in the 20th century with figures such as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Langston Hughes. Contemporary literature includes diverse genres and styles.

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    Lesson 4:

    American Literature
    How the growth occurred?
    Before European settlers arrived
    in North America, there was a
    DIVERSE ORAL TRADITION
    of literature among more than
    500 Native American tribal
    cultures.
    2
    American Native
    Tribes
    Own religion Worshipped
    sacred persons,
    deities, animals or
    plants
    Political and Councils,
    social order theocracies, and
    early form of
    3
    “The coming of the
    English colonists
    brought about
    WRITTEN
    ASPECT of 4
    Early accounts of colonists’ exploits
    in the New World became part of
    American fabric while also
    providing documentation.
    JOHN WINTHROP
    CAPTAIN JOHN
    WILLIAM SMITH
    BRADFORD
    PURITANISM PURITAN WORKS

    The religious Served to


    movement that transform the
    aimed to lead colonized, and
    individuals to to ensure that
    the light of the colonizers
    God’s salvation. themselves
    would walk the 6
    Prominent names
    of Puritan
    Literature:
    Thomas
    Hooker
    Roger Williams
    Edward
    Johnson 7
    Prominent names
    of Puritan
    Literature:
    Jonathan Edwards
    Edward Taylor
    Anne Bradstreet
    Michael Wigglesworth
    8
    Historical Period of the American
    Revolution
    Brought about
    the rise of
    intellectuals Philip Freneau
    who molded PIONEER OF
    the identity of AMERICAN LYRICAL
    the new POETRY
    country. 9
    Historical Period of the American
    Revolution
    Brought about
    the rise of
    intellectuals
    who molded
    the identity of Thomas Paine
    the new PAMPHLET
    country. 10
    Historical Period of the American
    Revolution
    Brought about Francis Hopkinson
    the rise of PROMINENT
    intellectuals POLEMICIST
    Designed the first official
    who molded
    American Flag,
    the identity of
    continental paper money
    the new
    and the first United
    country. 11
    FOUNDING FATHERS

    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
    “Poor Richard’s Almanack” ALEXANDER 12
    FOUNDING FATHERS

    THOMAS JEFFERSON
    3rd US President 13
    THEATRE SCENE
    and NOVEL
    were also on
    the rise in the
    18 century.
    th

    14
    Plays of WILLIAM
    DUNLAP and
    ROYALL TYLER were
    infused with the
    theme of LOVE their
    newly liberated
    nation.

    15
    William Hill Brown and Charles
    Brockden Brown were among the
    earliest
    American Novelists.

    The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph


    of Nature Founded in Truth
    16
    Washington
    Irving – Rip
    van Winkle
    James
    Fenimore
    Cooper – The
    Last Mohicans
    17
    Transcendentalism – Romanticism

     Core beliefs in the inherent goodness of


    people and nature.
     The society and its institutions have
    corrupted the purity of the individual.

    18
    Transcendentalism – Romanticism

    Margaret Fuller ▫ Influential feminist


    ▫ Women suffrage
    campaigners
    Henry David ▫ Leading transcendentalist
    Thoreau

    Ralph Waldo ▫ Self - Reliance


    Emerson
    19
    Romanticism
    Edgar Allan The Raven
    Poe
    Walt Whitman Father of Free
    Verse
    Nathaniel The Scarlet
    Hawthorne Letter
    20
    Romanticism
    Nathaniel The Scarlet
    Hawthorne Letter

    Hermann Melville Moby Dick or


    the Whale
    21
    The division and tension of the Civil
    War led to the creation of realistic,
    passionate works like
    HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
    UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
    (Anti-Slavery)
    WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
    THE SWORD AND THE DISTAFF
    (Pro-Slavery
    22
    The Adventures
    Mark Twain of Tom Sawyer
    Samuel
    The Adventures
    Langhorne
    of Huckleberry
    Clemens
    Fins
    Famous for his humor, vivid details,
    and memorable characters.
    23
    Bret
    Harte
    George W.
    Cable

    Henry Timrod
    24
    19th Century

    American fiction went from the


    realism of William Dean
    Howells to the psychological
    mastery of HENRY JAMES and
    EDITH WHARTON.
    25
    Poetr
    y
    Emily Dickinson
    Ezra Pound
    E.E.
    Cummings
    26
    Poetr E.E.
    y Cummings
    • Edward Estlin “E.E.”
    Cummings
    • He wrote approximately
    2,900 poems, two
    autobiographical novels
    • Four plays and several
    essays 27
    Poetr E.E.
    y Cummings
    • Innovative Writer
    • Lack of stylistic and
    structural conformity

    28
    29
    30
    1900s
    Fictionist draw inspiration
    from several ideas like
    Marxian Social Theory and
    the new psychology.

    31
    Ernest Hemingway

    John Steinbeck

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Thomas Wolfe
    32
    Eugene O’Niell
    led the way for writers of
    drama

    33
    He was followed by
    Arthur Miller
    Tennessee Williams
    Maxwell Anderson
    Philip Barry

    34
    In the aftermath of World War I,
    African-American writers came
    to the forefront.

    Langston Hughes
    Paul Laurence Dunbar
    Countee Cullen
    35
    Contemporary
    Times:
    A Snapshot 36
    20th Centrury

    It marked the rise of Literary


    Criticism in America – a
    movement largely imfluenced by
    EZRA POUND.

    37
    CRITICS
    Edmund Wilson
    Allen Tate
    Robert Penn
    Warren
    Malcolm Cowley
    38
    In 1960s and ‘70s
    Saul Bellow
    Hortense
    Calisher NOVELIST
    John Updike
    William
    Burroughs 39
    POETRY

    Lawrence Felinghetti
    Gregory Corso
    Allen Ginsberg

    40
    Concrete
    poem
    41
    CONCETE POEMS
    As the name suggests
    describes an object and is
    written in the shape of that
    object. It is sometimes
    called a “Concrete Poem” or
    42
    CONCRET POEMS
    E
    It has something to do with
    the physical form of words on
    the paper. While words,
    writing style and literary
    devices may all impact the
    meaning of the poem, the
    PHYSICAL FORM of the poem 43
    OUTLINE POEM
    A visual structure that
    reflects the subject of the
    poem that fills in an
    outlined shape relating to
    the topic of the poem.
    44
    45
    46
    DRAWING POEM

    This uses the lines of words


    to make the lines of the
    drawing.

    47
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    Remember:

    Concrete poems can be


    short and sweet. Although
    this poem is short, it make
    a clever statement.
    50
    Remember:

    Concrete poems can be


    long and visually
    complex.

    51
    Remember:

    You can add graphics to


    enhance the meaning of
    your concrete poem.

    52
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    You can add graphics to


    enhance the meaning of
    your concrete poem.

    53
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    quality.
    ● Change line color, width and
    style.

    Isn’t that nice? :)

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