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AMERICAN LITERATURE

AMERICAN LITERATURE. Revolutionary period. Revolution started in 1773 with Boston Tea Party First autors were scientists, politicins, philosophers so literature had political character Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)-scientist and journalist, work: Autobiography

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

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  1. AMERICAN LITERATURE

  2. Revolutionary period • Revolution started in 1773 with Boston Tea Party • First autors were scientists, politicins, philosophers so literature had political character • Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)-scientist and journalist, work: Autobiography • Thomas Pain (1737-1809) work: Common sence

  3. Revolutionary period pt.2 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) • Author of the Declaration of the Indenpendence • Third president of the U.S.A. • Founder of the university in Virginia • Optimistic Aproach to life

  4. First National period • Romantic writers Washington Irving - (1783-1859) work: Rip Van Winkle Edgar Allan Poe - (1809-1849) - he mainly wrote short stories inspired by gothic novels: The Pit and the Pendulum The Mask of the Red Death - Famous is his poem The Raven - Died for alcohol poisoning James Fenimore Cooper - (1789-1851) Last of the Mohikans

  5. First National Period pt.2 2. Transcendentalis Inspired by Kant and Coleridge, interested in nature and the limits of human mind Ralph Waldo Emerson- esseys, speeches Henry Thereau- philosopher and scientist

  6. First National Period pt.3 • Novelists Nathaniel Hawthorne - Inspiredby the Transcendentalists - work: The Scarlet Letter Hermann Melville – worked on the whale ship - work: Moby Dick, Typee • Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – poet and translator, wrote the epic The Song of Hiawatha

  7. The Critical Realism • Novelists Jack London (1876-1916) journalist, inspired bysocialist ideas works:Sea Wolf, White Fang Mark Twain (1835-1910) printer, boater and humourist Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

  8. The Critical Realism pt.2 • Poets Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) wrote 1800 poems which weren‘t published until her death, greatest american poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892) journalist, the first poet who wrote in the free verse

  9. The 20thcentury • Fiction of the 1920s [ “the Jazz Age”, the Lost Generation] Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) work: The Great Gatsby Sinclair Lewis (1865-1951) first American writer who get Nobel prize Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)Work: Farewell to the Army

  10. The 20thcentury pt.2 2. II. World War reflection Joseph Heller (1923-1999)- Served as pilot works: Catch 22 Closing hour Norman Mailer (1923-?) Fought in Pacific works: Naked and Death Marilyn William Styron (1925-?) work: Sophia's choice

  11. The 20thcentury pt.3 3. The Depression years John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Nobel prize winner works: Of Mice and Man, The Grapes of Wrath William Faulkner (1901-1963) another Nobel prize winner works: The Sound And Fury

  12. The 20thcentury pt.4 4. Poets Erza Pound (1885-1972) founder of “Imagism” Thomas Stearns Elliot (1888-1965) Nobel Prize winner Works: Wasteland Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

  13. The 20thcentury pt.5 5. Beat Generation Jazz, Buddhist philosophy and psychotropic drugs Allen Ginsberg(1926 – 1997) work: poem Howl Jack Kerouac: (1922-1969)spokesman of Beatniks, work: On the Road (manifest of the Beat)

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