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14. Mai 2024 · Yesterday, in her excellent substack The View from Rural Missouri, Jess Piper wrote about The Great Gatsby – a book she taught six times a day for seven years straight. She talked about how characters Tom and Daisy “smashed up things and creatures” and “retreat back into their money and let others clean up the mess they had made” – and how we are seeing the same behavior from the ...
22. Mai 2024 · Today it is celebrated as one of America’s great novels, but when it came out, Moby-Dick was received with little acclaim and none of the commercial success of Herman Melville’s first book, Typee. Here, Hester Blum, Professor of English at Penn State, introduces the 19th century American novelist and recommends which books to read by and about him.
17. Mai 2024 · The Great American Novel, recommended by Lawrence Buell Albeit an object of satire and overreach, the ‘Great American Novel’ remains a vital concept in American literature, encouraging writers to capture the essence of national culture and history, argues Lawrence Buell, Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University.
7. Mai 2024 · This article traces the history of American poetry, drama, fiction, and social and literary criticism from the early 17th century through the turn of the 21st century. For a description of the oral and written literatures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, see Native American literature. Though the contributions of African Americans to ...
6. Mai 2024 · Introduction: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is considered the "Great American Novel" and in 1940, the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In preparation for this novel study, it is important to understand events of the Great Depression. You will receive your own personal copy of the book to highlight and make annotations ...
23. Mai 2024 · “The Great American Novel is a long-dead cultural aspiration, extinguished by a healthy realization that the country is too big and too varied to generate any singular, definitive volume. American novelists tend, in our time, to earn public recognition of greatness in a steady, incremental (one is almost tempted to say un-American) way: through the long-term production of many books that ...
28. Mai 2024 · To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by Harper Lee, published in 1960. Enormously popular, it was translated into some 40 languages and sold over 40 million copies worldwide. In 1961 it won a Pulitzer Prize. The novel was praised for its sensitive treatment of a child’s awakening to racism and prejudice in the American South.
