Course Description & Objectives:
- The historical Approach highlighting the writer’s lives, ethnic, literary geographical and political environment within which writing took place.
- The major Authors Approach which revolves around the author(s)'s:
- Appeal to a wide variety of readers.
- Influence on one other major author
- Contribute an acknowledged "masterpiece to American Literature
- Sustained a literary career beyond a single tour de force
- Pioneer/innovator in subject matter, literary tradition, technique, genre.
- Recognized as major literary critic or historian.
- The literary traditions Approach
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