... seem obvious from the start. In many of the editorial introductions to the essays, stories, and songs found in "The Heath Anthology of American Literature," the editors seem to wonder the same thing and appear to have taken pains to consult a wide variety of sources for inclusion, "So ... , William Faulkner and others."" (Lauter xxiii). At the beginning of this course, we were given an overview of indigenous literary traditions, surveyed native poetry and oral narratives, and looked at early America from the eyes of the European imagination. Even there one could argue that the English, ....

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... Sleepy Hollow, 1844" Leo Marx" The Machine in the Garden is considered one of the landmarks in American cultural/literary studies. Whereas Marx" study is on the one hand part of a long tradition, highlighting ... into the natural idyllic (bucolic) landscape is a constitutive motif in American "culture" (here, his conceptual definition is rather blurred, cf. p.4: "the region where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination meet"). Literary ... ideal in the general sense has become "a distinctively American theory of society", and has been transformed unde...

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... Sleepy Hollow, 1844" Leo Marx" The Machine in the Garden is considered one of the landmarks in American cultural/literary studies. Whereas Marx" study is on the one hand part of a long tradition, highlighting ... into the natural idyllic (bucolic) landscape is a constitutive motif in American "culture" (here, his conceptual definition is rather blurred, cf. p.4: "the region where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination meet"). Literary ... ideal in the general sense has become "a distinctively American theory of society", and has been transformed unde...

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... drew his interest for the sea, he set sail aboard a whaling vessel. In the South Pacific, he left his ship to live with a native tribe. Melville escaped the island by finding passage on a whaling ship from Australia. As he came back to America, he immediately began writing about ... this time, Herman met his wife Elizabeth and decided to marry her. Moby Dick, written in 1851, is now admired as a masterpiece of American literature and considered one of the greatest novels of all time. He wrote just three more novels after that and then retired from literary life (191 ... anger and hatr...

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... longs for love and affection. They meet and fall deeply in love, but are restrained because of Hester's marriage. They soon receive news of Roger Chillingworth falling victim to the Native Americans, and act on their within minutes. The theme of love is evident each time they see each other. Their love never dies and only grows stronger with time. They ... 's world, and will continue to be evident throughout time. Hawthorne lets the reader feel these themes throughout the novel, which deepens the work, and makes The Scarlet letter a classic within American literature....

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• Grade Level: High School