Lesson 4:

American Literature
How the growth occurred?
Before European settlers arrived
in North America, there was a
DIVERSE ORAL TRADITION
of literature among more than
500 Native American tribal
cultures.
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American Native
Tribes
Own religion Worshipped
sacred persons,
deities, animals or
plants
Political and Councils,
social order theocracies, and
early form of
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“The coming of the
English colonists
brought about
WRITTEN
ASPECT of 4
Early accounts of colonists’ exploits
in the New World became part of
American fabric while also
providing documentation.
JOHN WINTHROP
CAPTAIN JOHN
WILLIAM SMITH
BRADFORD
PURITANISM PURITAN WORKS

The religious Served to

movement that transform the
aimed to lead colonized, and
individuals to to ensure that
the light of the colonizers
God’s salvation. themselves
would walk the 6
Prominent names
of Puritan
Literature:
Thomas
Hooker
Roger Williams
Edward
Johnson 7
Prominent names
of Puritan
Literature:
Jonathan Edwards
Edward Taylor
Anne Bradstreet
Michael Wigglesworth
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Historical Period of the American
Revolution
Brought about
the rise of
intellectuals Philip Freneau
who molded PIONEER OF
the identity of AMERICAN LYRICAL
the new POETRY
country. 9
Historical Period of the American
Revolution
Brought about
the rise of
intellectuals
who molded
the identity of Thomas Paine
the new PAMPHLET
country. 10
Historical Period of the American
Revolution
Brought about Francis Hopkinson
the rise of PROMINENT
intellectuals POLEMICIST
Designed the first official
who molded
American Flag,
the identity of
continental paper money
the new
and the first United
country. 11
 FOUNDING FATHERS

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“Poor Richard’s Almanack” ALEXANDER 12
 FOUNDING FATHERS

THOMAS JEFFERSON
3rd US President 13
THEATRE SCENE
and NOVEL
were also on
the rise in the
18 century.
th

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Plays of WILLIAM
DUNLAP and
ROYALL TYLER were
infused with the
theme of LOVE their
newly liberated
nation.

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 William Hill Brown and Charles
Brockden Brown were among the
earliest
American Novelists.

The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph

of Nature Founded in Truth
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Washington
Irving – Rip
van Winkle
James
Fenimore
Cooper – The
Last Mohicans
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 Transcendentalism – Romanticism

 Core beliefs in the inherent goodness of

people and nature.
 The society and its institutions have
corrupted the purity of the individual.

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 Transcendentalism – Romanticism

Margaret Fuller ▫ Influential feminist

▫ Women suffrage
campaigners
Henry David ▫ Leading transcendentalist
Thoreau

Ralph Waldo ▫ Self - Reliance

Emerson
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 Romanticism
Edgar Allan The Raven
Poe
Walt Whitman Father of Free
Verse
Nathaniel The Scarlet
Hawthorne Letter
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 Romanticism
Nathaniel The Scarlet
Hawthorne Letter

Hermann Melville Moby Dick or

the Whale
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The division and tension of the Civil
War led to the creation of realistic,
passionate works like
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
(Anti-Slavery)
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
THE SWORD AND THE DISTAFF
(Pro-Slavery
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 The Adventures
Mark Twain of Tom Sawyer
Samuel
The Adventures
Langhorne
of Huckleberry
Clemens
Fins
Famous for his humor, vivid details,
and memorable characters.
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Bret
Harte
George W.
Cable

Henry Timrod
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19th Century

American fiction went from the

realism of William Dean
Howells to the psychological
mastery of HENRY JAMES and
EDITH WHARTON.
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Poetr
y
Emily Dickinson
Ezra Pound
E.E.
Cummings
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Poetr E.E.
y Cummings
• Edward Estlin “E.E.”
Cummings
• He wrote approximately
2,900 poems, two
autobiographical novels
• Four plays and several
essays 27
Poetr E.E.
y Cummings
• Innovative Writer
• Lack of stylistic and
structural conformity

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1900s
Fictionist draw inspiration
from several ideas like
Marxian Social Theory and
the new psychology.

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Ernest Hemingway

John Steinbeck

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thomas Wolfe
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Eugene O’Niell
led the way for writers of
drama

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He was followed by
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Maxwell Anderson
Philip Barry

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In the aftermath of World War I,
African-American writers came
to the forefront.

Langston Hughes
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Countee Cullen
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Contemporary
Times:
A Snapshot 36
20th Centrury

It marked the rise of Literary

Criticism in America – a
movement largely imfluenced by
EZRA POUND.

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CRITICS
Edmund Wilson
Allen Tate
Robert Penn
Warren
Malcolm Cowley
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In 1960s and ‘70s
Saul Bellow
Hortense
Calisher NOVELIST
John Updike
William
Burroughs 39
POETRY

Lawrence Felinghetti
Gregory Corso
Allen Ginsberg

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Concrete
poem
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CONCETE POEMS
As the name suggests
describes an object and is
written in the shape of that
object. It is sometimes
called a “Concrete Poem” or
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CONCRET POEMS
E
It has something to do with
the physical form of words on
the paper. While words,
writing style and literary
devices may all impact the
meaning of the poem, the
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OUTLINE POEM
A visual structure that
reflects the subject of the
poem that fills in an
outlined shape relating to
the topic of the poem.
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DRAWING POEM

This uses the lines of words

to make the lines of the
drawing.

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Remember:

Concrete poems can be

short and sweet. Although
this poem is short, it make
a clever statement.
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Remember:

Concrete poems can be

long and visually
complex.

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Remember:

You can add graphics to

enhance the meaning of
your concrete poem.

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Remember:

You can add graphics to

enhance the meaning of
your concrete poem.

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