2013- 7- 21
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أكـاديـمـي نــشـط
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رد: مذاكــرة مدخل الادب الامريكي قبل الاختبار
Lecture 1 (Important Notes) The war was in 1812,(British-America).
Captain John Smith the first American author, wrote The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles.
Michael Wiggleworth,poem The Day of Doom.
John Winthrop,discussed the religious foundations of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Benjamin Franklin,The first widely read American author.
Washington Irving, (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) was the first American to gain an international literary reputation.
James Fenimore Cooper’s verbal landscapes in his Leatherstocking Tales captured the nation’s vast beauty,The Last of the Mohicans.
Emily Dickinson broke from poetic tradition and brought a sense of individuality to the nation’s literature.
Mark Twain still captivates readers with his unique—and uniquely American—humor and insight.
The modernists of the 1920s and 1930s produced such talents as Ernest Hemingway.
American literature in its true sense did not begin until 19th.
Perhaps most prominently in American literature Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Washington Irving, SalmagundiA History of New York,
Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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