5. Modern American Literature

Unit 5

        Modern American Literature                        5                     

                                                                       Unit´s purpose                       1Unit overview
Glosary

       

                                                                                               

                                     American Romanticism          2           

Movenment of the eighteen and nineteenthcenturies. The following aspects characterized it: love of nature, sympathetic interes in the past primitivism, individualism and other. Raymond (1991) recognizes three keystones of thgis movement: Individualism, Imagination and Nature.

 Edgar Allan Poe         3                                                   Edgard Allan Poe was an author , poet editor and literary critic. Born in Boston Massachusetts, but lively and in an worked largely in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.

Nathaniel Hawthorne   4

Born as Nathaniel Hawthorne july 4 1804- May 1864 in Salem Massachussetts. He was an American novelist and short story writer.

                                       

Hernan Melville  5

                                                  Born in Mamhattan, New York , august 1 1809 . His first novel was Typped and it was published in 1846, it become a huge success.

Modern American Prose         6

                                       

Ernest Heminhgway       9

    (1898-1961) was born in Ilinois, his family took  him, as a b on frequent hunting and fishing trips an so acquainted him early with the kinds of virtues, such a courage and endurance, which were later reflected in his fiction.

Ray Bradbury   10

 Born in August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. One the most prominent American fantasy,Science , Fiction, Horror and Mistery fiction writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Literature