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Lecture 1

General and Brief Introduction to American Literature

1- Why was the literary tradition of America begins with the tradition of English literature?

Because America was a series of British colonies on the east coast of the present-day United States

2- Did the American literature kept on following the British literary tradition?

No, unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production began to develop an American writing tradition

3- Some consider him to be the first American author, when he wrote The (General Historie of Virginia) ( New England ) and ( The Summer Isles ) 1624

Captain John Smith

4-What did Captain John Smith write?

*the General Historie of Virginia

*New England

*The Summer Isles

5-There were similar writers of interest like John Smith who are they?

*George Percy

*Daniel Denton

*Thomas Ash

*John Lawson

*William Strachey

6- Nicholas Noyes, Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet were popular in what?

In American Poetry

7- Doggerel verse was written by?

Nicholas Noyes

8-The Day of Doom, the best-selling poem was written by?

Michael Wiggleworth

9-The religious questions took place as a rich topics for what?

For early writings

10- A journal that discussed the religious foundation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was written by?

John Winthrop

11- The first widely read American author was?

BenjaminFranklin

12- Witty aphorisms and sound advice written inthe yearly journal [Poor Richards' Almanack] were written by?

Benjamin Franklin

13- Witty aphorisms and sound advice helped shape ideas of what?

What it means to be an American

14-The Legend of Sleepy Hollow] was written by whom]?

Washington Irvin

15- The first American to gain an international literary reputation was?

Washington Irvin

16- The [Leather Stocking Tales] was written by?

James Fenimore Copper

17- What did the [Leather Stocking Tales] capture?

The nation’svast beauty

18- What did Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson break from?

They broke frompoetic tradition

19- What did Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson bring to the nation’s literature?

A sense of individuality

20- Still captivates readers with his unique—anduniquely American—humor and insight who is he?

Mark Twain

21- What did Mark Twain captivate readers with?

Hisunique—and uniquely American—humor and insight

22- The modernists of the 1920s and 1930s produced such talents as whom?

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

23- What did Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy continue to make of American literature?

They continue to make it relevant and exciting

24- American literature and American history both had one thing in common what was it?

they were both short

25- Although American literature was short like American history but has many things to be distinguish with such as?

- glories and shining masterpieces and writers

- gradually gains its unique style, theme and form

- is part ofworld's literature, however, it always has its unique flavor that cannot be easily ignored

26- Most critics hold that history of American literature can be divided into parts, how many parts are there?

Six parts

27- What are those parts in the right order?

1-colonial period

2- romanticism

3- realism

4- naturalism

5- modernism

6-post-modernism

28- American literature did not begin until?

The19th century

29- What does the colonial period represent to American literature?

A preparatory introduction to American literature

30- The definition of American literature is?

The written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies

31- What led to a number of key new literary figures to emerge?

The War of 1812 and an increasing desire to produce uniquely American literature and culture

31- Name the new literary figures that emerged after the war of 1812?

Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe

32- Considered the first writer to develop a unique American style and wrote humorous works and satire who is he?

Washington Irving

33- Some of Washington Irving writings on humour and satire are?

[wrote humorous works in [Salmagundi] and the satire [A History of New York

34- Wrote early romantic and nature-inspired poetry, which evolved away from their European origins who is he?

Bryant

35- In 1832, Poe began writing what?

Short stories

36- In 1832, he began writing short storieswho is he?

Poe

37- Poe began writing short stories in 1832, suchas?

[The Masque of the Red Death], [The Pit and the Pendulum], [The Fall of the House of Usher]
and [The Murders inthe Rue Morgue

38- What did Poe's short stories explore?

Explore hidden levels of human psychology and push the boundaries of fiction toward mystery and fantasy

39-What was Cooper's [Leather stocking Tales] About?

[Natty Bumppo [which includes The Lastof the Mohicans

40- Cooper's [Leatherstocking Tales] were popular at?

Both in the new country and abroad

41-Humorous writers included?

Seba Smith) and (Benjamin P.Shillaber) in New England)

Davy Crockett), (Augustus Baldwin Longstreet), (Johnson J. Hooper), (Thomas Bangs Thorpe)
(and (George Washington Harris

42- Humorous writers wrote about?

The American frontier