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Questions for Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Sections 1-32 | American Literature I
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Questions for Melville, “Bartleby, The Scrivener”. Questions for Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Sections 1-32. December 3, 2014. What does Whitman’s poem reveal about his understanding of American identity? How does Whitman’s sense of self compare to the visions of self-reliance and non-conformity articulated by Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau? How does Whitman’s view of human nature compare to Melville’s and Hawthorne’s? What seems most distinctive about Whitman’s view of nature? Stylistically, Song of Myself ...
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Questions for Thoreau, Walden, Day Two | American Literature I
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Questions for Thoreau, Walden, Day One. Questions for Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” →. Questions for Thoreau, Walden, Day Two. November 10, 2014. What reasons does Thoreau give for leaving Walden Pond? How persuasive are they? What do you think he learned from his experience? Where do you find Thoreau’s language most creative and powerful. Where do you question his ideas? Pick a few passages you find important and develop a thorough close reading. Link Thoreau’s concluding message in. Enter your comment here.
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General Resources | American Literature I
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Be sure to check out the Authors page. For more specific links. You can also search this site for specific authors or browse the archive for some of my reflections on previous course discussions. American Authors, Timelines, and Movements. Campbell’s site is one of the best available. American Literature I Links. Webster’s site is well organized and thorough. American Philosophy in the 18th and 19th Centuries. This essay surveys prevailing philosophies in the major periods we’ll cover in this class.
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Questions for Thoreau, Walden, Day One | American Literature I
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Questions for “Self-Reliance”. Questions for Thoreau, Walden, Day Two →. Questions for Thoreau, Walden, Day One. November 7, 2014. Thoreau embraces the notion of self-reliance and self-liberation as completely in. As any of our authors have. I hope you find some good food for the soul in this narrative. If you’d like a reading companion, consider Ann Woodlief’s fantastic study text of. At Virginia Commonwealth University. Why or why not do you believe his lifestyle is admirable? It might be useful to ori...
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Questions for Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” | American Literature I
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Questions for Thoreau, Walden, Day Two. Questions for Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” →. Questions for Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”. November 13, 2014. What elements of Gothicism or Romanticism do you find in Irving’s story? See this link for a definition of Gothic fiction (See other links to Romanticism on the right side of this page): http:/ public.wsu.edu/ campbelld/amlit/novel.htm. Among the writers we’ve studied, who do you think might have been Irving’s influences, stylistically? Nature is a theme tha...
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Visit the Cybrarian John Shook. Is a movement in American philosophy. Which began in the 1870s with the Metaphysical Club. Read about the history of pragmatism. To pragmatism and pragmatists. Society for the Advancement of. Institute for American Thought. Charles S. Peirce Society. Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway. Grupo de Estudios Peirceanos. Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism. Center for Dewey Studies. Centro de Estudos em Filosofia Americana. Error 404: Not Found. Valid XHTML 1.0!
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Visit the Cybrarian John Shook. Is a movement in American philosophy. Which began in the 1870s with the Metaphysical Club. Read about the history of pragmatism. To pragmatism and pragmatists. Society for the Advancement of. Institute for American Thought. Charles S. Peirce Society. Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway. Grupo de Estudios Peirceanos. Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism. Center for Dewey Studies. Centro de Estudos em Filosofia Americana. Graduate Programs in Philosophy: North America. Isaac Levi, J...
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Questions for “Self-Reliance” | American Literature I
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Questions for Apess and Seattle. Questions for Thoreau, Walden, Day One →. Questions for “Self-Reliance”. October 31, 2014. What elements of Romanticism. Do you find in “Self-Reliance”? Romanticism and Transcendentalism both have religious associations, though these tend to vary from author to author. What do you see as Emerson’s view of religion, based on “Self-Reliance”? He refers to Emmanuel Swedenbourg near the end of his essay, so this link to The Swedenbourgian Church. Could be useful for context.
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Authors | American Literature I
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I Colonial and New England. Native American Oral Literatures. Outline of American Indian Literatures. Colonization and Print in the Americas. DL Ashliman’s Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts. Native American History at the Library of Congress. The True Story of Christopher Columbus. The Life of Christopher Columbus. Columbus in American History. 1494 Letter to King and Queen of Spain. Columbus at the Library of Congress. Overview – Literature of Discovery and Exploration. Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca.
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Questions for Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” | American Literature I
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Questions for Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”. Questions for Melville, “Bartleby, The Scrivener” →. Questions for Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”. November 14, 2014. Irving’s blurring of fact and fancy becomes even more complex in Hawthorne’s work. Hawthorne sought to take the reader to an imaginative space that he described in the prologue to The Scarlet Letter. How can we distinguish fact from fancy, or the real from the imaginary, in “Young Goodman Brown”? What is Hawthorne saying about Puritan culture in t...
