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AN OUTLINE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
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COLONIAL LITERATURE pamphlets about the benefits of the colonies
journals religious poetry political writings (Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine: Common Sense )
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Thomas Jefferson: United States Declaration of Independence
„We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.“
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POST-INDEPENDENCE first American novel William Hill Brown:
The Power of Sympathy (1791)
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AMERICAN ROMANTICISM Washington Irving – short stories (Rip Van Winkle) James Fenimore Cooper – novels (The Last of the Mohicans) Edgar Allan Poe – poetry, horror stories, detective fiction (The Raven, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue) Nathaniel Hawthorne – novels (The Scarlet Letter) Herman Melville – novels (Moby-Dick)
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TRANSCENDENTALISM Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau – philosophical essays Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman - poetry
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REALISM Mark Twain: O. Henry – short stories Jack London:
Life on the Mississippi (1883) - memoirs Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) O. Henry – short stories Jack London: The Call of the Wild (1903)
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NATURALISM Stephen Crane: Theodore Dreiser:
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) – novel from the Civil War Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy (1925)
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LOST GENERATION Earnest Hemingway: Francis Scott Fitzgerald:
The Sun Also Rises (1926) A Farewell to Arms (1929) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) The Old Man and the Sea (1951) Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)
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DEPRESSION ERA – 1930s John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men (1937)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) East of Eden (1952)
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WAR / ANTI-WAR NOVEL Norman Mailer: Joseph Heller: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.:
The Naked and the Dead (1948) Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1961) Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
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BEAT GENERATION Allan Ginsberg: Jack Kerouac: William S. Burroughs:
Howl (1955) Jack Kerouac: On the Road (1957) William S. Burroughs: The Naked Lunch (1959)
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POSTMODERNISM John Irving: Truman Capote: William Styron: Don DeLillo:
The World According to Garp (1978) Truman Capote: In Cold Blood (1966) – a non-fiction novel William Styron: Sophie´s Choice (1979) – a historical novel Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985)
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SOUTHERN LITERATURE William Faulkner: Flannery O´Connor:
The Sound and the Fury (1929) – Southern Gothic As I Lay Dying (1930) – modernism, stream of consciousness method Flannery O´Connor: A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) - Southern Gothic; short stories Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) - drama
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AFRO - AMERICAN LITERATURE
Langston Hughes – jazz poetry of 1920s, Harlem Renaissance Tony Morrison: The Bluest Eyes (1970) Beloved (1987) Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) – an autobiography
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JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE
Bernard Malamud: The Magic Barrel (1958) – a collection of short stories Philip Roth: Goodbye, Columbus (1959) - a novella and short stories
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SCIENCE-FICTION Isaac Asimov: Ray Bradbury:
I, Robot (1950) – a collection of short stories Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles (1950) Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
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AMERICAN DRAMA Eugene O´Neil: Arthur Miller: Tennessee Williams:
Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman (1949) Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Edward Albee: Who´s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962)
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CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Stephen King: Dan Brown: Cormac McCarthy:
The Green Mile (1996) Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code (2003) Cormac McCarthy: No Country for Old Men (2005) The Road (2006)
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