Prentice hall literature : the american experience /

Kinsella, Kate

Prentice hall literature : the american experience / Kate Kinsella, Sharon Vaughn, Kevin Feldman, [y otros siete]. - Boston : Pearson, 2007 - 697 páginas ; ilustraciones, 28 cm.

UNIT 1. A GATHERING OF VOICES: LITERATURE OF EARLY AMERICA(BEGINNINGS TO 1750).
Part 1. Meeting of cultures.
Part 2. Focus on literary forms: narrative accounts.
Part 3. The puritan influence.
UNIT 2. A NATION IS BORN: EARLY NATIONAL LITERATURE (1750-1800).
Part 1. Voices for freedom.
Part 2. Focus on literary forms: speeches.
Part 3. Defining an american.
UNIT 3. A GROWING NATION: NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1800-1870).
Part 1. Fireside and campfire.
Part 2. Shadows of the imagination.
Part 3. The human spirit and the natural world.
Part 4. Living in a changing world.
UNIT 5. DISILLUSION, DEFIANCE, AND DISCONTENT: THE MODERN AGE(1914-1946).
Part 1. Facing troubled times.
Part 2. Focus on literary forms: short stories.
Part 3. From every corner of the land.
UNIT 6. PROSPERITY AND PROTEST: THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD (1946-PRESENT).
Part 1. Literature confronts the everyday.
Part 2. Focus on literary forms: essays.
PArt 3. social protest.
RESOURCES.
Reading and vocabulary handbook.
Literary terms handbook.
Writing handbook.
Communications handbook.
Test prep handbook.
Grammar, usage, and mechanics handbook.
Indexes.
Acknowledgments (continued).
Credits.


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Literature--American
Literatura americana

R 810 / P927 2007