Course Introduction"What is Literature, Why do we read it, and How?"
Native American LiteratureVideo Resources: "Native Voices" and "Chief Seattle's Letter to the President"
Colonial American LiteratureVideo Resources: "Utopian Promise" (from the American Passages series)
The American Revolution: A Country Written into ExistenceVideo Resources: The Constitution, The Articles, and Federalism and John Lock on Personal Identity
Romanticism: Words Written from the HeartVideo Resources: The Headless Horseman, The History of Ideas: Romanticism, and Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Gergiev - Vienna Philharmonic.
American Wilderness Writing: The Last of the MohicansTranscendentalism: An American Ideal
Video Resources: American Passages Part 4: "A Spirit of Nationalism"
Civil War Writings: A Country Divided
Video Resources: "Battle of Gettysburg: Civil War Documentary"
Walt Whitman: America's Poet
Second HalfRealism, Naturalism, and Regionalism
Video Resources: Mark Twain's America
Video Resources: "To Build a Fire" (1969)
ModernismVideo Resources: "The Rites of Spring"
Ernest HemingwayClick to set custom HTML
Postmodernism
The Beat MovementVideo Resources: On the Road Trailer, "Howl" Animation
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Final Exam Previewhttps://prezi.com/-gyyikmk3-br/final-exam-preview-amlithist-s16/
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