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ELIT 48A ELIT 48A Major American Authors 1620-1855
Elit 48A Syllabus Spring 2013
Elit 48A Presentations Spring 2013
Elit 48A Honors Project Spring 2013
Glossary of Terms Weeks 1-4
Glossary of Terms Part II
Glossary Terms Part III
ELIT 48A Literary Response 2013
Sample Literary Response 2013
Literary Response Grading Rubric
Analytical Tools for Deconstructing Literary Texts by Marilyn Patton
How and Why We Read by John Green http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSYw502dJNY&;;feature=g-high-u
Writing in Literature - The OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University is a great resource to read more about Literary Theory, Writing about Literature, and Close Readings http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/4/17/
American Lit- Quick and Dirty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7BjZLNaov0
Weekly Schedule and Handouts
Week 1 Native Voices
Native American Creation Story Spring 2013
Iroquois Creation Story Questions
American Passages Video (Native Voices) Discussion Questions
Watch Video
http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit01/index.html?pop=yes&;pid=1737
Week 2 Discovery and Conquest
Columbus and Smith Questions
American Ideals and Values
Some Mythic Conceptions of John Smith
Colin Farrell - New World Trailer -
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQIQ2ZyZDmQ>;
Pochahontas - Disney Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q1QF8G47oU
Week 3 Religion and Settlement
Puritanism 101
Historical/Cultural Context for Puritans and Pilgrims
Religion and Settlement (Bradford, Bradstreet, Edwards)
Plymoth Plantation Pictures Courtesy of my student Jenna Davis who is a descendant of John Howland
Rhetorical Analysis of Sinners Interesting Article by Edward J. Gallagher of Lehigh University analyzing the structure, parallelism, repetition, imagery, and pathos/logos of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Anne Bradstreet Article by Lisa Day-Lindsay This article from the Explicator analyzes the cultural context of child birth in Puritan life.
Anne Bradstreet Article by Robert Hilliker This article focuses on Bradstreet's poetry within the context of the changing transatlantic discourse on American colonialism.
Week 4 - Revolutionary Writings
Age of Enlightenment Power Point
Franklin and Jefferson Discussion Questions
Way of Wealth Article 1 This Article examines The Way of Wealth in comparison to another literary work in which a fictitious character examines his past writings
Declaration of Independence Deconstructed
Rhetorical Analysis of the Declaration of Independenc
Great Youtube clip of HBO series John Adams highlighting Franklin's demeanor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-PtozBKSBE
Great Youtube clip of HBO series John Adams highlighting Jefferson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaqmBOyNCuE
Week 5 - American Nationalism (Renaissance?)
American Renaissance Group Presentation Power Pt
Washington Iriving and James Fenimore Cooper Questions
Rip Van Winkle Powerpoint Thanks to Adity from group 4 for sharing this very helpful info on different readings of Rip!
Rip Article - Generational Divide
Rip Article - Hero's Journey
Rip Article - Storytelling
Rip Article - Landscape
Rip Article - Feminist Reading
Last of the Mohicans Article 1 Overview of intercultural aspect of native and anglo to discover American identity
Cross-Cultural Hybridity in The Last of the Mohicans by Lindsey Claire Smith
Last of the Mohicans Essay for Berkeley Am Lit
Last of the Mohicans Film - Daniel Day Lewis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxX6nemx6KE
Week 6 - Midterm
Midterm Preview 2013
48A Midterm Checklist of Points 2013
Presentations:
#3 - Revolutionary Writings https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11uOtIeg4I1U2NuN4XLcfUUJ-HzIAy1bR1xVPbMh3flY/edit#slide=id.p
Week 7 - The American Romantic Movement I- Hawthorne
Romanticism Power Point (This mostly focuses on English, but can apply to American as well)
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/Quintilliano-49770-Romanticism-as-Education-ppt-powerpoint/
Nathanial Hawthorne Questions
Article on Young Goodman Brown
Article on Minister's Black Veil
Romantic Literary Traits
Romantic Theory:
Natural Supernaturalism by M.H. Abrams http://books.google.com/books?id=-ygCZmrJ2E4C&;;printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Mirror and the Lamp by M.H. Abrams http://books.google.com/books?id=SSOGjRMvIGYC&;;source=gbs_book_other_versions
Introduction
to Romantic Philosophy and Literature: Interesting comparison between
John Locke's Empiricism (basis of Neoclassical thought) and Emmanuel
Kant's Idealism (basis of Romanticism) http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~dougt/rom.htm
Emmanuel Kant and Romanticism: http://www.philosopher.org.uk/rom.htm
Romantic Painting:
1. Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People- French Revolution
2. Wanderer Above the Sea and Fog by Caspar David Friedrich - Isolation and Individual
3. The Cornfield by John Constable 1826 - Landscape painting
4. Hudson River School Painters - http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hurs/hd_hurs.htm
Romantic Music
1. Frederic Chopin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-4Bv5Ng0w
2. Felix Mendelssohn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_uA_W1wB5A&;;feature=related
Week 8 - The American Romantic Movement II - Melville
Herman Melville Discussion Questions
Melville Biography Analysis Excerpt of Laurie Robertson-Lorant's 1996 Biography on Melville
Bartleby Themes
Bartleby the Scrivener 1 Article by Mark Elliot about ambiguous symbol of Bartleby character
Benito Cereno Major Themes
Benito Cereno Article 1 by Mary Rohrberger - examines the short story as "a microcosm of gigantic proportions."
Benito Cereno Article 2 "Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whitface, blackface, and 'Benito Cereno'" by Jason Richards -
Week 9 - Gothic Undercurrents - Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Discussion
The Philosophy of Composition
The Raven Article by Dan Gioia
Evolution of the Insanity Plea
Stories of the Psychotic Personality
Raven Poem Parody For extra credit write a poem using the rhyme scheme and meter of "The Raven"
Week 10 - Transcendentalism - Emerson and Thoreau
Transcendentalism Discussion
Trascendentalism Powerpoint by Sita Thomas
Emerson Power Point 2 by Evelyn Jimenez
Self-Reliance Article by Candyce Norvell
Walden Article by Markus Poetzsch
Week 11 - Slavery and Freedom - Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglas Discussion Questions
Hero's Journey Steps
Writing in the Spaces Left: Literacy as a Process of Becoming in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Lisa Sisco
The Politics of Language in Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of an American Slave by Lisa Yun Lee
Critical Essay on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself by Doreen Piano
Week 12 - Final Exam
Final Exam Review
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