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Introduction. I. What is Literature?. II. Why do we read literature?. III. Why is literature important?. IV. What are we to learn from the book?. V. The outline of American Literature. exit. continue. What is literature?. exit.

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  1. Introduction I. What is Literature? II. Why do we read literature? III. Why is literature important? IV. What are we to learn from the book? V. The outline of American Literature. exit continue

  2. What is literature? exit

  3. Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, "literature" is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction. exit

  4. Why do we read literature? exit

  5. 1. Literature represents a language or a people: culture and tradition. • 2. Literature is more important than just a historical or cultural artifact. • 3. Literature introduces us to new worlds of experience. • 4. We learn about books and literature; we enjoy the comedies and the tragedies of poems, stories, and plays; and we may even grow and evolve through our literary journey with books. • 5. Ultimately, we may discover meaning in literature by looking at what the author says and how he/she says it. We may interpret the author's message. • 6. In academic circles, this decoding of the text is often carried out through the use of literary theory, using a mythological, sociological, psychological, historical, or other approach. exit

  6. Why is literature important ? exit

  7. Literature is important to us because it speaks to us, it is universal, it affects us and it is beautiful exit

  8. Why are we to learn from the book ? exit

  9. The book “A Survey of American Literature” intends to cover the whole range of the literary history of the United States of America from the early Colonial Period through the present. • We need to learn: • 1. A brief account of the major authors and their masterworks. • 2. The major literary trends and currents of thought that have dominated the American literary scene at one time or another exit

  10. 1. A brief account of the major authors and their masterworks. • 2. The major literary trends and currents of thought that have dominated the American literary • scene at one time or another. exit

  11. The outline of American Literature exit

  12. Colonial period: (from the early 17th century to the end of 18th century) Major Writers: Benjamin Franklin Jonathan Edwards • Romanticism: the first half of 19th century Major Writers: Washington Irving J.M. Cooper Edgar Allan Poe Hawthorne Whitman • Transcendentalism: (New England Renaissance) Emerson Thoreau ( Civil War) • Realism Major Writers: W.D. Howells • Mark Twain • Henry James exit continue

  13. Naturalism: (from the last decade of 19th century to the early 20th century) Major Writers: Stephen Crane Frank Norris • Dreiser • The 1920s Major Writers: T.S Eliot William Faulkner Hemingway (Lost Generation) • Imagism: Major Writer: Ezra Pound • The 1930s Major Writer: Steinbeck • American Drama: Eugene O’Neill • The Post-war Poetry: Confessional Poetry Black Mountain Poets San Francisco Renaissance The Beat Generation The New York Poets The Post-war novel exit

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