Journeys Through American LiteratureUniversity of Michigan Press, 2000 - 232 Seiten Journeys through American Literature, a more modern version of the classic text Journeys through Literature, introduces students to the best of nineteenth- and twentieth- century American literature while enhancing their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. A section from The House on Mango Street has been added to this edition. Chapters include an overview of the literary period and genre, biographical sketches of the author, and descriptions of the literary period or tradition to which the author belongs. Exercises and activities improve language skills and critical-thinking skills, with the focus on the student's response to the reading. Overall, the text provides a framework for the interpretation of prose and poetry and emphasizes collaborative learning so that students become more independent, critical thinkers. |
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... century , the styles and forms of American poetry became less structured and more diverse . Old - fashioned poetic diction was usually avoided , and most poets wrote as Wordsworth had suggested , in the real language of common people ...
... century , the styles and forms of American poetry became less structured and more diverse . Old - fashioned poetic diction was usually avoided , and most poets wrote as Wordsworth had suggested , in the real language of common people ...
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... century . From the early frontier adven- ture tales of James Fenimore Cooper ( 1820s - 1840s ) to the complex moral ... century novelists were interested in representing life as they lived and knew it . They wrote 141 Nineteenth- and ...
... century . From the early frontier adven- ture tales of James Fenimore Cooper ( 1820s - 1840s ) to the complex moral ... century novelists were interested in representing life as they lived and knew it . They wrote 141 Nineteenth- and ...
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... century ( 1890 ) . modernism : A term applied to experimental forms of early twentieth - century literature , such as symbolism , imagism , and surrealism , which rejected nineteenth - century conventions of realism and chronological ...
... century ( 1890 ) . modernism : A term applied to experimental forms of early twentieth - century literature , such as symbolism , imagism , and surrealism , which rejected nineteenth - century conventions of realism and chronological ...
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Romanticism | 111 |
The Novel | 141 |
Diversity | 177 |
Urheberrecht | |
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