American Literature

Perhaps you카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve heard some of the terms: 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Manifest Destiny카지노 게임 컬렉션�; 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The Color Line카지노 게임 컬렉션�; 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The Frontier카지노 게임 컬렉션�; 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The Red Scare카지노 게임 컬렉션�; 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The Pursuit of Happiness카지노 게임 컬렉션�; 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The American Dream카지노 게임 컬렉션�; 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The Melting Pot.카지노 게임 컬렉션� You may have a sense of what some of them mean, even if you didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t read The Great Gatsby in high school. But did you know that the phrase 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The American Dream카지노 게임 컬렉션� wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t actually popularized until the 1930s, some 150 years after the nation카지노 게임 컬렉션�s founding? Or that Martin Luther King, Jr.카지노 게임 컬렉션�s understanding of 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Civil Disobedience카지노 게임 컬렉션� was deeply influenced by the 1846 work of that title by Henry David Thoreau (the one who also wrote a tome on his 카지노 게임 컬렉션�back-to-the-land카지노 게임 컬렉션� experience at Walden Pond)? Did you know 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Make America Great Again카지노 게임 컬렉션� has been used repeatedly in American politics, at least since Ronald Reagan (in the 1980s), and appears as well in the form of an imagined presidential slogan in a novel published in 1998? 

This course will take a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�keywords카지노 게임 컬렉션� approach, building on, supplementing, and complicating the terms that have been used to understand American literary and cultural history. In fall term, we will ground our vocabulary in some of the founding documents (like the Declaration of Independence), before proceeding to our focus on the 20th  and 21st centuries. Along the way, we will read some significant works of American literature, including W.E.B. DuBois카지노 게임 컬렉션�s The Souls of Black Folk, Arthur Miller카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Death of a Salesman, Ralph Ellison카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Invisible Man, Kurt Vonnegut카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Slaughterhouse-Five, Leslie Marmon Silko카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Ceremony, Toni Morrison카지노 게임 컬렉션�s The Bluest Eye, and Gish Jen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s The Resisters, along with selected essays, short stories, and poetry. Students should expect to read extensively and actively, to listen and participate attentively, and to write rigorously.