American Passages : a Literary Survey Study Guide by Oregon Public Broadcasting; Annwnberg/CPB instant download

American Passages : a Literary Survey Study Guide by Oregon Public Broadcasting; Annwnberg/CPB instant download

xxxiv, 681 pages : 25 cm, Includes appendix, Includes bibliographical references, Native voices: resistance and renewal in American Indian literature -- Exploring borderlands: contact and conflict in North America -- Utopian promise: Puritan and Quaker Utopian visions, 1620-1750 -- The spirit of nationalism: declaring independence, 1710-1850 -- Masculine heroes: American expansion, 1820-1900 -- American gothic: ambiguity and anxiety in the nineteenth century -- Slavery and freedom: race and identity in antebellum America -- Regional realism: depicting the local in American literature, 1865-1900 -- Social realism: class consciousness in American literature, 1875-1920 -- Rhythms in poetry: from the beat of blues to the sounds of everyday speech -- Modernist portraits: experimentations in style, World War I to World War II -- Migrant struggle: the bounty of the land in twentieth-century American literature, 1929-1995 -- Southern renaissance: reinventing the South -- Becoming visible: ethnic writers and the literary mainstream, 1945-1969 -- Poetry of liberation: protest movements and American counterculture -- The search for identity: American prose writers, 1970-present -- Appendix: writing about literature