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American Literature Handwritten Notes English Medium

English literature handwritten notes on American literature — the periods from the Puritans to the present, Transcendentalism, the American Renaissance, Realism and Naturalism, the Lost Generation, the Harlem Renaissance, the Beats, and the poets, novelists and dramatists each age produced.

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Chapter 1 Pass English Medium English Literature · American Literature Handwritten Notes American Literary Periods & Movements American literature handwritten notes on the periods and movements — the Colonial and Puritan age from John Smith to Jonathan Edwards, the Revolution and the Age of Reason, Transcendentalism with Emerson and Thoreau, the American Renaissance of 1850 to 1855 with Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson, Realism and Naturalism from Twain and Henry James to Crane and Dreiser, Modernism with the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance, and the post-war Beats, Confessionals and contemporary multicultural writing, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium English Literature · American Literature Handwritten Notes American Poetry American literature handwritten notes on American poetry — Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor and Phillis Wheatley, Poe with The Raven and the Philosophy of Composition, the Fireside poets, Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass with the Lincoln elegies and the technique of free verse, Emily Dickinson with her fascicles, slant rhyme and common metre, Imagism and Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Stevens, Williams, Cummings and Moore, the Harlem Renaissance poets, and the Confessionals, Beats and contemporary voices, with flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium English Literature · American Literature Handwritten Notes American Fiction American literature handwritten notes on American fiction — Irving, Cooper and the Leatherstocking Tales, Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter and Melville’s Moby-Dick with their characters, Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn, Henry James and the international theme, the naturalists from Crane to Dreiser, Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby, Hemingway and the iceberg theory, Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, Steinbeck, and the post-war novel from Salinger and Ellison to Morrison, Walker and Lahiri, with famous opening lines, a character-to-novel list, the American Nobel laureates, flashcards and practice questions. Open map Chapter 4 Pass English Medium English Literature · American Literature Handwritten Notes American Drama American literature handwritten notes on American drama — the nineteenth-century stage and the little theatre movement, Eugene O’Neill with his expressionism, masks, asides and Long Day’s Journey into Night, Arthur Miller with Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and the essay Tragedy and the Common Man, Tennessee Williams with The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and plastic theatre, and the later dramatists from Albee and Hansberry to August Wilson, Mamet and Kushner, with a character-to-play list, the Pulitzer winners, flashcards and practice questions. Open map