HISTORY OF AMERICAN ...

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• Généralités
  

  Généralités

  • HAL/Syllabus Forum

    Section I: Colonial Beginnings & the Birth of a National Literature in America

    Lecture 01: Native American Traditions
    Lecture 02: Colonial Echoes: Exploration, Travel Writing & Faith

    Lecture 03: National Echoes: the Literature of Revolution and Reason
    Lecture 04: The Literature of the National Character   

    Tutorial for Section I

    
    

    Section II:  The 19th-Century Incongruities of American Literature 

    Lecture 01: Transcendental Voices VS. The Dark Shades of Romanticism & Naturalism
    Lecture 02: Slave Narratives & the sunbeam of the Civil War 

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
  • Key Reference to HAL : An Outline of American Literature URL
• Section I: Colonial Beginnings & the Birth of a National Literature in America
  

  Section I: Colonial Beginnings & the Birth of a National Literature in America

  
  

  
  
  

  “All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.” (William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation)

  
  

  "God helps them who help themselves" ( Benjamin Franklin, "Poor Richard's Almanac")

  
  "There's wealth enough, I need no more
  , Farewell, my pelf, farewell, my store.

  The world no longer let me love,
  My hope and treasure lies above."  (Anna Bradstreet, "Upon the Burning of Our House")

  • Lecture 01: Native American Traditions Fichier
  • Lecture 02: Colonial Echoes: Exploration, Travel Writing & Faith Fichier
  • Lecture 03: National Echoes the Literature of Revolution and Reason Fichier
  • Lecture 04: The Literature of the National Character Fichier
  • Upon The Burning Of Our House, July 10th, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet URL
  • The Power Of Sympathy; Or, The Triumph Of Nature (AUDIOBOOK FULL BOOK) - By William Hill Brown URL
  • Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson - Audiobook URL
• Tutorial for Section I
  

  Tutorial for Section I

  Topics for Presentation:

  1- Washington Irving's A History of New York & The Sketch Book  (Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ) . 

  2- Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard Almanac 

  3- Charles Brockden Brown and the horror genre (1771-1810) Wieland (1798) Ormond (1799), Arthur Mervyn (1799), Edgar Huntly.

  4- A/ James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy  & The Pioneers 

  B/ William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) The Yemasee (1835) vs. J.  

              Fenimor Cooper’s Pathfinder or Deerslayer         

  
  

  Presentation Structure: BKAC 2 questions format

  Elements to cover:
  Introduction: Question 01 
  1- Biography of the author
  2- Key contribution to American literature
  3- A Well established summary of a key work
  4- Critical review ( how this work is approached in literary criticism: theses, dissertations, articles, books, etc,).
  Conclusion: the answer to question 1 + raising question 2 for the audience. 

  Group Work Task:  Answer one of the following questions 
  

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  • P1/ Rip Van Winkle Story URL
  • P1/Rip Van Winkle: an Allegory of the American Revolution by Huang, Min-Yu (PDF) URL
  • P1/ Rip Van Winkle: Allegory of the American Revolution URL
  • P1/ Symbols in Rip Van Winkle URL
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving URL
  • Sleepy Hollow: Fearful Pleasures and the Nightmare of History Fichier
  • Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown part 1 URL
  • Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown part 2 URL
  • Gothic Roots: Brockden Brown’s Wieland, American Identity, and American Li Fichier
  • Benjamin Franklin and Poor Richard's Almanac URL
  • The Leatherstocking Tales. Part 1 URL
  • The Leatherstocking Tales. Part 2 URL
  • William Gilmore Simms URL
  • From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature URL

    This article examines the comparisons made between Indians and Antiquity in early nineteenth-century American literature (notably in the works of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper); to do so, it begins by reaching back to references in European and American writings of the eighteenth century. One of the main motivations behind the associations between Native Americans and the Ancient World made in the early decades of the nineteenth century was to “elevate” Indians in order to transform them into worthy symbols of the recently established United States. Such associations also rendered them suitable subjects for treatment by authors inspired to a large extent by the Romantic Movement and involved in the project of creating a national literature for the new country. Bringing together these two quite different worlds, however, resulted in various ambiguities: it simultaneously reinforced the suggestion that Indians were already part of the past (providing a certain complicity with the continuing destruction of Indian culture) and questioned the then dominant image of Ancient Greece and Rome as examples of some of the highest levels attainable of government and human civilization.
    

• Section 02 The 19th-Century Incongruities of American Literature
  

  Section 02 The 19th-Century Incongruities of American Literature

  

  
  

  

  
  

  • Lecture 01:Context + Transcendental Voices VS. The Dark Shades of Romanticism & Naturalism Fichier
  • Tutorial For Section 02/ The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe URL

    Artistic Reading of the Raven by Christopher Lee

  • Tutorial for Section 02 : Fantastic Conflict in The Raven by Kyle Jung URL

    Keywords: the representation of the unreal -  subconscious despair - a pseudo-dialogue bet the real and the unreal- the fantastic (the uncanny and marvelous)

    "The raven is an uncanny manifestation of the narrator's subconscious, thus resolving the conflict between reality and unreality"  Kyle Jung 

• Section 03
  

  Section 03

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