Southern literature

The Impact of the Civil War on American Literature The Civil War inspired people to establish a literary culture for our new nation and it also affected the literature we read today. The Civil War was very traumatic. It caused over six hundred thousand American deaths. That is more than any other war in American history (Fuller). After America separated from Britain, the American people needed their own culture separate from Europe. Literature was very important in their lives back then.

The “Father of American Literature” Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more commonly known as Mark Twain, is not just a name most people know. It is a man of history who is said to be the Father of American Literature. Although there are other great authors of this time, Mark Twain used many different styles of writing within his work that helped to create the mastermind of a writer he once was and so that it would live on to be talked about today. Twain used a very relaxed style of writing that hadn’t been

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist commonly considered as Russia's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Born into an aristocratic family, Pushkin attended school at the prestigious Imperial Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo from 1811-1817, where, at age 15, he published his first poem and impressed the renowned poet Gavrila Derzhavin. He followed the traditional aristocratic career path by taking a post

rather than being described into fruition. It is a tale of boyish adventure floating along the Mississippi told as it would have appeared to the boy himself. Thus, the novel ascribes to one of several contrasting aesthetics found throughout American literature: Twain’s creation and manipulation of aesthetic through an emphasis of the ‘Vernacular’ rather than the ‘Literary’. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is therefore a novel that speaks for, and is demotic of, the people of the American South. The

Literature should be considered literature and should not be discriminated because of the ethnicity of the writer or how the literature is written. Richard Wright, N. Scott Momaday and Maxine Hong Kingston were all considered ethnic literature writers. Richard Wright wrote “Long Black Song” in a way to handle serious social issues. N. Scott Momaday wrote “House Made of Dreams” which is about a man named Abel who is struggling between two worlds and trying to find out where he fits in. Maxine

various forms of oppression that she had to face as well cope with them. Robert A. Gross wrote an analysis for Newsweek about the book and claimed that Angelou’s book is not only an interesting story of her own experience, but also a portrayal of a Southern black community, thus being a historic reference of the 1930’s. Joanne Megna-Wallace backs up Gross’s claim in her critique of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and also stresses the importance of the novel as a historic book, and also discusses

Literature was and still is a very important piece in American history. “American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it.” The 1900s was an important time during history. The early 1900s was consumed by World War I. Many people were affected by the war and the lasting impact it left on them, so many writings were about the war. These people are sometimes considered the “Lost Generation”. Many American writers went to Europe and wrote from there because they were so inspired

contemporary world. Boyle’s work illustrates the world as one without an ethical dimension. Dziemianowicz, Stefan (January 2015) T. Coraghessan Boyle. Salem Press Encyclopedia Of Literature T. Coraghessan Boyle is about the author of “Greasy Lake” and his upbringing. He was born and raised in Peekskill. He then moved to Southern California to teach. Boyle got into a lot of trouble as a youth because of

varies from having compound sentences to having polysyndeton. Lee’s writing style all leads directly back to the main theme of good and evil of the human nature. Throughout the novel, Lee uses colloquial and denotative diction to emphasize the southern culture

1. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor it notifies that violence is not just an act to beat one another but it can be interpreted as an intimate act between humans or a cultural/societal act. When there is violence that is brought up into the text it was put there for a reason, for a much deeper meaning that is written. There are two types of violence: a specific injury that causes the characters to visit one another, and when the narrative violence is general harm to the character. Reading