Literature 257,258,259,260 - Literature of the United States I,II,III,IV

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Bard College

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American Studies, Victorian Studies This regularly repeating sequence of four independent but related units explores major authors and issues in American literature, from its Puritan origins to the 21st century. Literature 257 examines writings from the first three generations of Puritan settlement in 17th-century Massachusetts, in relation to one another and also to later American texts bearing traces of Puritan concerns.Authors include notable Puritan divines, poets, historians and citizens, and later writers such as Jonathan Edwards, Irving, Emerson, Dickinson, Twain, and Robert Lowell. Literature 258 includes Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and other writers of the American Renaissance. Literature 259 studies works written from the post-Civil War period to the start of the Depression, emphasizing the new and evolving spirit of realism, naturalism, and emergent modernism. Authors include Henry James, Twain, Dreiser, Wharton, Frost, Louise Bogan, Dawn Powell, and Fitzgerald. Emerson began his essay "Experience" by asking: "Where do we finourselves?" Literature 260 asks this question of American literature in the wake of World War II and September 11. Authors include Mailer, Baldwin, TennesseeWilliams, Ginsberg, Updike, Roth, Carver, and Cisneros, among others.

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4.00

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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