Ebook American Literature: Prose, drama, poetry: Part 1

American Literature Prose, Drama, Poetry Article From Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2008. © 1993-2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Compiled by Masoud Abadi abadi.masoud@yahoo.com And Iman Kiaee imankiaee@yahoo.com Table of Contents Prose I. INTRODUCTION 11 II. BEGINNINGS: THE 1500S AND 1600S 11 A. Exploration Narratives 12 B. Histories 13 C. Religious Writings 19 III. TOWARD INDEPENDENCE: THE 1700S 27 A. Religious Writings 28 B. Travel Narratives 29 C. Journalism 30 D. Political Writing 31 E. Voices Outside the Mainstream 43 F. The First American Fiction 50 IV. NATIONHOOD: THE 1800S 50 A. Manifestations of Nationhood 51 1. History 51 2. Early Fiction: Irving 52 3. Westward Expansion 54 4. Biography 56 iii B. American Romanticism 59 1. Transcendentalism 60 2. Historical Fiction: Cooper, Hawthorne, and Others 69 3. Good and Evil: Melville and Poe 91 4. Sentimental Fiction: Stowe 98 C. The Civil War and After 105 1. Regionalism 106 2. Realism and Naturalism: Twain, Crane, and Others 107 V. MODERNISM: THE 1900S 121 A. Fiction: 1900 to 1945 121 1. Psychological Realism 122 2. Social Realism and Naturalism 130 3. The Lost Generation 144 4. Experimental Writers 147 5. The Harlem Renaissance 148 6. The Great Depression and Its Legacy 150 B. Regionalism 152 1. The West 155 2. The South 166 C. Fiction: 1945 to the Present 180 1. War Narratives 181 2. Beat Generation 182 3. Experimentation 184 4. Diversity 195 iv D. Nonfiction 212 1. Public Affairs and History 213 2. The Black Experience 224 3. Women’s Experience 226 4. The Environment 227 5. Literary Criticism 233 VI. CURRENT TRENDS 234 v ... - tailieumienphi.vn