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The colonial period
There were 2 big groups: "Puritans" and "Aristrocats".
Puritans were from the north part of U.S.A, they had industries and people from that part worked hard. Puritans were religious people and his literature pieces were sermons.
Aristrocats were from the south part of U.S.A., they had plantations and slaves. They did not like the church and their literature pieces were journals. -
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Early America Beginnings
Early American Literature includes Native American stories as well as writings by European settlers about the Americas. -
The Declaration of Independence
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Rip Van Winkle
It is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. -
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The Romantic Period.
It is divided into 2 groups, Tracendentalists and Dark Romantics.
Tracendentalists were anxious to create their own identity, they wrote using imagination, intuition, individualism and escapism.
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American Renaissance
Shadowly approach of fantasy.
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The tell-tale heart
It is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator’s sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed. -
Moby Dick
It is a novel by an American writer, Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. -
My bondage and My freedom
It is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass), discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Following this liberation, Douglass, a former slave, went on to become a prominent Abolitionist, speaker, author, and publisher. -
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Realism and Naturalism
This period was a reaction to Romanticism, during this period writers exposed social problems in muckracking. It was influenced by Darwinian thought. There were not authorical comments. -
How the world was made.
It is a book about The Cherokee, their oral tradition, myths, biliefs and values.
It was by James Mooney, an antropologist or scientist who studies people and their culture. -
Wizard of Oz
It is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. It has since seen several reprints, most often under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the popular 1902 Broadway musical adaptation as well as the iconic 1939 live-action film. -
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20th. Century
The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts.
There were despair and bliss, and during this period we saw the Great Migration. -
The call of the wild.
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. -
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Modernism
American Modernism is an artistic and cultural movement in the United States starting at the turn of the 20th century with its core period between World War I and World War II and continuing into the 21st century. -
Women had right to vote.
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The depression and world war II
The stock values of American companies plunged, banks began to fail. By 1933 mora than 12 million people were unemployed. U.S.A. declared war on the Axis Powers and joined the battle on the side of the British. They analize genres and books, writers from this period used imagery, simple poems, free verse, and they were pessimistic. -
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Theodor Seuss Geisel published his first book under the name of "Dr. Seuss". -
The cold war
It was a tense competition between United States, with its democratic political and economy models, and the Soviet Union and its communist goverment and economy.
The cold war lasted about 40 years and led to buildcup of nuclear weapons on both sides. -
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Contemporary American Literature
American literature had become a much more complex and inclusive story grounded on a wide-ranging body of past writings produced in the United States by people of different backgrounds and open to more Americans in the present day. -
The hunger games
The Hunger Games is a series of young adult dystopian novels written by American novelist Suzanne Collins. The series is set in The Hunger Games universe, and follows young Katniss Everdeen. -
Twilight saga
The Twilight Saga is a series of five romance fantasy films from Summit Entertainment based on the four novels by American author Stephenie Meyer.
