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Bodelson's American Literature 1865-Present
For the last 150 years, American literature has offered brilliant stories, fearless language experiments, astute social criticism, comic philosophizing, and more. These writings are the focus of this course. We will read famous authors and major works from the late 19th, the 20th, and the 21st centuries.
- Author
- Amery Bodelson
- Publisher
- Western Technical College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY
- Language
- EN
- Category
- English
Contents· 35 sections
- 01: Realism (1865-1890)
- 1.01: American Literature 1865-Present Overview
- 1.02: Making Connections
- 1.03: Twain's The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- 1.04: Chopin's The Storm
- 1.05: Realism vs. Naturalism
- 1.06: DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk
- 1.07: Dunbar's Poetry
- 1.08: Zitkala-Sa's The School Days of an Indian Girl
- 02: Modernism (1890s-1940s)
- 2.01: Historical Cultural Overview
- 2.02: Making Connections
- 2.03: Cather's The Sculptor's Funeral
- 2.04: The Harlem Renaissance
- 2.05: McKay's Poems
- 2.06: Hurston's How It Feels to Be Colored Me
- 2.07: Eliot's The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
- 03: Post-Modernism (1945-Present)
- 3.01: Historical Cultural Overview
- 3.02: Making Connections
- 3.03: Roethke's Poems
- 3.04: Bishop's Poems
- 3.05: Brooke's Poems
- 3.06: Southern Gothic and Flannery O'Connor
- 3.07: O'Connor's Good Country People
- 3.08: Clifton's Poems
- 04: Critical Theory
- 4.01: Formalism New Criticism
- 4.02: Deconstruction
- 4.03: Psychoanalysis
- 4.04: Marxism
- 4.05: New Historicism
- 4.06: Feminism
- 4.07: Post-Colonialism
- 4.08: Gender Studies Queer Theory