Literární část
Background for Topic 28: Early American Literature.
E x p l o r a t i o n W r i t i n g s
- Bjarni: (a Norseman) blown off course (985)
- Leif Ericsson: establ. a settlement ‘Vinland’ [= ‘Newfoundland’ >> New En.] (1000)
- Christopher Columbus: not...
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(28) American Puritanism and Colonial Literature.
(T. Morton, J. Winthrop, W. Bradford, A. Bradstreet, and J. Edwards).
E a r l y A m e r i c a n L i t e r a t u r e
[See "Background for Topic 28..."]
T h o m a s M o r t o...
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Background for Topic 29: Literature of the American Revolution.
I d e o l o g i c a l B a c k g r o u n d
- the 18th c. = the age of reason and enlightenment
- development of natural sciences
T h e C o n c e p t o f G o d :
(a) 17th c.,...
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(29) Genres in the Literature of the American Revolution, their Basic Features, the Declaration of Independence.
(B. Franklin, T. Paine, T. Jefferson, J. Adams, and St J. De Crevecoeur).
L i t e r a t u r e o f t h e A m e r i c a n R e v o l u t i o n
[See "Background for Topic...
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Background for Topic 30: American National Literature.
D e v e l o p m e n t o f N a t i o n a l L i t e r a t u r e
- attempts to create the Am. national lit. x but: disagreements about the way:
(a) the Am. lit. lacks national feeling, seeks to...
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(30) Rise of the American National Literature: Topics, Backgrounds, and Methods of the Early Nineteenth Century American Literature.
(Epics and Indian Captivity Narratives; W. Irving, J. F. Cooper, and St J. de Crevecoeur).
A m e r i c a n N a t i o n a l L i t e r a t u r e
[See "Background for Topic 30..."]
W a s...
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Background for Topics 31-33: American Romanticism.
R o m a n t i c i s m
- associated with imagination and boundlessness x classicism
- demands a greater personal freedom for the individual, and spontaneity in thought and action
- struggles against...
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(31) American Nineteenth Century Romanticism: from H. W. Longfellow to E. A. Poe and Transcendentalism.
A m e r i c a n R o m a n t i c i s m
[See "Background for Topics 31-33..."]
H e n r y W a d s w o r t h L o n g f e l l o w ( 1 8 0 7 – 8 2 )
L i f e :
- received uni education...
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(32) Transcendentalism and its Influence in American Literature.
A m e r i c a n R o m a n t i c i s m
[See "Background for Topics 31-33..."]
R a l p h W a l d o E m e r s o n ( 1 8 0 3 – 8 2 )
L i f e :
- grew up in a family incl. a heritage...
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(33) The Influence of E. A. Poe: European Tradition and New Genres in Prose and Poetry.
A m e r i c a n R o m a n t i c i s m
[See "Background for Topics 31-33..."]
E d g a r A l l e n P o e ( 1 8 0 9 – 4 9 )
L i f e :
- son of wandering actors: his mother died when...
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(34) Reaction against Puritanism in N. Hawthorne.
T h e A m e r i c a n R e n a i s s a n c e ( 1 8 3 6 – 6 1 )
- 1836, the publ. of R. W. Emerson’s Nature – 1861, the beginning of the Civil War
- a distinctive period of great growth and...
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(35) Crisis of Intellectual Individualism in H. Melville.
A m e r i c a n R e n a i s s a n c e
[See under "34 N. Hawthorne..."]
H e r m a n M e l v i l l e ( 1 8 1 9 – 9 1 )
L i f e :
- son of a NY City merchant: bankrupt >> Albany...
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(36) American Poetry before E. A. Poe and W. Whitman: Its Diversity and its Reception in America and Abroad.
A n n e B r a d s t r e e t
[see B. under ‘28 American Puritanism’]
E d w a r d T a y l o r
[see T. under ‘28 American Puritanism’]
T h e C o n n e c t i c u t W i t...
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(37) Walt Whitman and his Poetic Sequence.
A m e r i c a n R e n a i s s a n c e
[See under "34 N. Hawthorne..."]
W a l t W h i t m a n ( 1 8 1 9 – 9 2 )
L i f e :
- apprenticed in a printing shop (<=> B. Franklin, M....
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(38) Emily Dickinson: Innovation of her Poetry and its Influence upon the Next Century.
E m i l y D i c k i n s o n ( 1 8 3 0 – 8 6 )
L i f e :
- led one of the most prosaic lives of any great poet: except for a few brief trips spent her entire life in her father’s house,...
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