Allen, Janet

Literature : American literature / Janet Allen, Arthur N. Applebee, Jim Burke [y otros once]; specil contributor: Kylene Beers - Grade 11 - Estados unidos : Houghton mifflin harcourt, 2012 - 1379 páginas: Ilustraciones, Fotografías; 27 cm

Exploring american literature.
Introductory unit.
Text análisis workshop.
Academic vocabulary workshop.
Writing process workshop.
UNIT 1. AN EMERING NATION.
Early american writing 1600-1800.
The native american experience.
Exploration and the early settlers.
The puritan tradition.
Writres of the revolution.
UNIT 2. CELEBRATING THE INDIVIDUAL.
American Romanticism 1800-1855.
The early romantics.
The fireside peots.
The transcendentalists.
American gothic.
UNIT 3. AN AGE OF TRANSITION.
From romanticism to realism 1855-1870.
Brilliant mavericks: whitman and Dickinson.
Literature of the civil war.
UNIT 4. CAPTURING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. Regionalism and naturalism 1870-1910.
Regionalism and local color writing.
The rise of naturalism.
A new role for women.
UNIT 5. A CHANGING AWARENESS.
The Harlem renaissance and modernism 1910-1940.
The Harlem renaissance.
The new poetry.
The modern short story.
Journalism as literature.
UNIT 6. NEW PERSPECTIVES. Contemporary literature 1940-present.
Modern american drama.
Responses to war.
Civil rights and protest literature.
A Mosaic of american voices.
UNIT 7. INVESTIGATION AND DISCOVERY.
The power of research.
An emergin nation.
EARLY AMERICAN WRITING 1600-1800.


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Literarure - --American
Literatura americana

R 810 / L776 2012