Texts & time periods Flashcards
Which texts are from the beginnings to 1820
John Smith: “Description of New England” (1616)
John Winthrop: “A model of Christianity” (1630)
Benjamin Franklin: “Autobiography” (1771-1790)
J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur: “Letter 3 What is an American” (1782 ish)
Which texts are from the American Renaissance (1820-1865)
Walt Whitman: “Song of myself” (1881)
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Self-Reliance” (1841) and “Each and all” (1839, 1847)
Emily Dickinson “359” (1862), “591” (1863) and “598” (1863)
Frederick Douglass: “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by himself” (1845)
Herman Melville: “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853)
Which texts are from the realism period (1865-1914)
Eastman/Ohiyesa: “the Ghost Dance War” (1916)
Stephen Crane “the Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” (1898)
Drude Krog Janson: “the Saloonkeeper´s Daughter” (1887)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wall-Paper” (1892)
Lee Chew: “the Biography of a Chinaman” (1903)
W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Forethought” (1903) and “I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings”
Mary Antin: “The Promised land” (1912)
Which texts are from the Modernism period (1914-1945)
William Faulkner “Barn Burning” (1938)
Zora Neal Hurston: “How it feels to be colored me” (1928)
Langston Hughes: “I, Too” (1925, 1959)
Ezra Pound: “In a station of the metro” (1913, 1916)
William Carlos Williams: “the Red Wheelbarrow” (1920) and “Spring and All”
Marianne Moore: “Poetry” (1921, 1935)
F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The Great Gatsby” (1925)
Ernest Hemingway: “Indian Camp” (1925)
Which texts are in the post-modern category (1945-)
Arthur Miller: “Death of a Salesman” (1949)
Allen Ginsberg (beat): “A Supermarket in California” (1956)
Lorraine Hansberry: “A raisin in the sun” (1959)
Langston Hughes: “Harlem” (1951)
Which texts are contemporary
George Saunders: “Civilwarland in bad decline” (1996)
Sandra Cisneros: “Woman Hollering Creek” (1991)
Alison Bechdel: “Fun Home, A Family Tragicomic” (2006)
