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A History of American Literature Course Orientation A general inquiry: what do you know about American lit.? Contents of lectures historical background major writers and selected readings (main concern) Textbook Assessment Class performance (attendance, presentations and tests) 40% A final exam 60% Note: If the student is five times absent from class, no grade will be submitted to him. Major stages of American Literature 1. The Colonial and Revolutionary Period: 1607 --- 1800 2. The Romantic Period: 1800 --- 1860 3. The Realistic Period: 1860 --- 1910 4. The Modern Period: 1914 --- 1945 5. The Period of Pluralism:1945 --- the present Progression of the course Week 1: Orientation and The Colonial Period Week 2: American Romanticism: General Survey (Poe) Week 3: American Romanticism: Hawthorne Melville Week 4: American Romanticism: Whitman Emily Dickinson Week 5 National Day Week 6: American Realism: General Survey, Howells Henry James Week 7: American Realism: Local colorism, Mark Twain Week 8: American Naturalism: General Survey Week 9: American Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser Week 10: General Survey, Modernism in 20th Century: Imagism, Ezra Pound Week 11: Modernism: Poetry, T. S. Eliot Week 12: Modernism: Novel—the Lost Generation: Francis Scott Fitzgerald Earnest Hemingway Week 13: Modernism: Novel—William Faulkner Week 14: Modernism: Novel—the thirties: Dos Passos Steinbeck Week 15: American Drama: Eugene O’Neill Week 16: Multiethnic Literature: Black Literature—Ralph Ellison Week 17: Multiethnic Literature: Jewish Literature—Soul Bellow Week 18: General Review Question What is the origin of Western culture and literature? The ancient Greek culture Hebrew culture Greek Culture: 1.Greek and Roman Mythology 2.Epic: a poem that celebrates in the form of a continuous narrative the achievements of one or more heroic personages o