Lesson 4:

American Literature
How the growth occurred?

Before European settlers arrived in

North America, there was a
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 social Councils, theocracies,
order and early form of
democracies
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“The coming of the
English colonists
brought about

of American Literature.
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Early accounts of colonists’ exploits in the
New World became part of American
fabric while also providing
documentation.
JOHN WINTHROP
CAPTAIN JOHN
WILLIAM BRADFORD SMITH
PURITANISM PURITAN WORKS

The religious Served to

movement that transform the
aimed to lead colonized, and to
individuals to the ensure that the
light of God’s colonizers
salvation. themselves would
walk the right path 6
Prominent names of
Puritan Literature:
 Thomas Hooker
 Roger Williams
 Edward Johnson
 Cotton Mather
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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
who molded the PIONEER OF AMERICAN
identity of the LYRICAL POETRY
new country.
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 Historical Period of the American
Revolution
Brought about
the rise of
intellectuals
who molded the
identity of the Thomas Paine
new country. PAMPHLET
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 Historical Period of the American
Revolution
Brought about Francis Hopkinson
the rise of PROMINENT POLEMICIST
intellectuals
Designed the first official
who molded the
American Flag, continental
identity of the
paper money and the first
new country.
United States coin 11
 FOUNDING FATHERS

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“Poor Richard’s Almanack” ALEXANDER HAMILTON 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 Emerson ▫ Self - Reliance

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 Romanticism
Edgar Allan Poe

Walt Whitman
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
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 Romanticism
Nathaniel
Hawthorne

Hermann Melville

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The division and tension of the Civil War
led to the creation of realistic, passionate
works like

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

(Anti-Slavery)

THE SWORD AND THE DISTAFF

(Pro-Slavery
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 Mark Twain The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer
Samuel Langhorne
The Adventures of
Clemens
Huckleberry Fins
Famous for his humor, vivid details, and
memorable characters.
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19th Century

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Poetry

Emily Dickinson
Ezra Pound
E.E. Cummings

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Poetry E.E. Cummings
• Edward Estlin “E.E.”
Cummings
• He wrote approximately
2,900 poems, two
autobiographical novels
• Four plays and several
essays 27
Poetry E.E. Cummings
• Innovative Writer
• Lack of stylistic and structural
conformity

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In the early 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
John Updike NOVELIST
William Burroughs
Joyce Caril Oates
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POETRY

Lawrence Felinghetti
Gregory Corso
Allen Ginsberg

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Concrete
poem
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CONCETE POEMS

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CONCRETE POEMS
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
of the poem
takes is also of significance. 43
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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the meaning of your concrete
poem.

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