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Literature

A Basic aid for students in Introduction and Survey of World Literature Classes

Introduction to Page

This class introduces the student to literature from the mid Nineteenth Century to the Present in America.  You will also be required to do an analytical essay of 6 pages for a novel. Help for that assignment is located as a subpage accessible by the drop down arrow.  

This main page will help mostly with the bulk of the course assignments and analysis, sans the novel assignment.

 

Readings and themes in the class

Readings from: 

  • Walt Whitman
  • Mark Twain
  • Edith Wharton
  • Robert Frost
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • James Baldwin
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Jack Kerouac 
  • Anne Sexton
  • John Updike

Themes and literary eras covered

  • Realism
  • Naturalism
  • Modernism
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Beat Generation

Advice for finding literary analysis of these works:

When looking for resources for your papers in most cases using this formulae for your search terms will work well.  

"Title of work" + Analysis or "Title of work" + critique or "Title of work" + Criticism

You may also want to click full text when you do your search.

If there is no title of work that you need to analyze but you need to research the author or the era. You may need do this formulae.

"Author Full Name" + Analysis of works 

"Era/ Themes" + "Literary Analysis