what is american contemporary literature?
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American stands for us; Contempoary means that the literature is current for the era.\nAmerican Liteature has been the backbone of education within our country since before the 13 colonies united. It was a 'way' to teach the young children since schools were scarce, and it was also a manner of communicating to the community the needs of a growing society. \nFor example follows a review of Theodore Roethke's "Night Crow." A spirit in need of freedom. Jose\n\nNight Crow\nWhat is a Night Crow?  To Roethke crows were metaphorical tools, which he so gracefully applied to his compositions, and better described in a colorful didactic passage thusly, “So I came to see crows as metaphors for conditions of the heart”   (June O. Underwood, 2003).  Emotional conveyance in free verse is truly a magnificent ability.  Upon eyeing the title, an audience can immediately sense an emotional appeal coming forth from the author.  Is the need so great that someone’s desire would be as self-compelling as to write an emotion, or to have the ability to see a Black Crow on a dark night? Or is it the silhouette of a crow perched upon a dry and leafless tree between the poet and a moonless sky in the wanton girded mind, or is it attributable to the lack of sacred sight to which the poet refers?  It is the conveyance of Roethke’s strong will and imagination that is necessary to take account of this scrivener. Of his preferred type of written delivery, chosen genre and inquirical form; for it seems that Roethke’s desire when writing ‘Night Crow’, is to project an emotional need; actually an illusion of a need by the conscious mind or from the suppressed ego of his youth . Whichever the case may be, in my opinion Roethke’s poems are as holy and revealing as the scriptures because his themes and poetic orations definitely promote a reader unto a self-analytical plain and an emotional nearness to God and his creatures as well.    \nAuthor Theodore Roethke is best described as a poet who applies an appellant tone and expressive chant from his inner being unto his work.  Roethke utilizes extended landscape imagery in using natural analogies to the written passage, usually toward the dark unknown, and hoping to “in their rhythms to catch the very movement of the mind itself”.  This serves well a sufficient clarification and purpose to Roethke’s references in “Night Crow”.  \nRoethke’s early childhood survived morally strict experiences and an isolated environment.  Although surrounded by the beauty and aroma of flowers and knowledgeable in the science of creating new beauty from twigs within the glasshouse, it nevertheless was under a restrictive atmosphere imposed mainly by his father’s unjust austere discipline and barren nearby environment.  It was here that the stirrings of want and curiosity unwrapped the literary abilities within this youngster and as a plain seed soon sprouts forth into a live green sprout, Roethke’s nature began the linguistic accommodation from within his available surroundings and (day time desires, night time horrors) dreams.  Night Crow is the author’s revelations of a personal vivid dream.  A real dream versified to ‘someone’ attempting to share his childhood experiences and more mature manifestations later in life, by philosophical term and exploratory form.  A desire to reach as many ‘someones’ as possible through sincerity within his empathetic being, affording as many as possible the insight to dream, to interpret, to better understand the normality of an oppressed conscious mind, to be able to take flight, just as the crow in the night.   \nIn the first couplet to ‘Night Crow’ Roethke opens with the following passage: \n“When I saw that clumsy crow; Flap from a wasted tree”.  In this couplet the author’s thesis is not yet discernible however he is setting premise for the following passages.  “A shape in the mind rose up” begins to reveal the basic for
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all that i could find is that he wrote Fictions of Us History,American Crusade, Views of Women's Lives in Western Tradition: Frontiers of the past and the Future \nsorry i couldnt be of more help
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You need to narrow this down. What age/grade are you? What have you been reading for class?\nShakespeare?\n20th Century Plays?\nAmerican authors?\n\nNarrow it down some and you'll get better answers.
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First, try to find a topic the interests you.  Some of my faves:\nGrapes of Wrath, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Giver, Number the Stars, Call of the Wild, The Outsiders, Holes, Ironman, StarGirl, Of Mice and Men, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, I Robot, The Pigman, From the Mixed-Up Files of Basil E. Frankwieler, The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese.\nSome are real classics, some are Young Adult literature, but there are plenty of web resources for you to choose the right one for you
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Sorry could only find one about reading, but thinking about the "poems about books" should be a good read
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"Magical Realism" is a type of book or movie that is basically set in a somewhat "realistic" world (as opposed to a pure fantasy world like "Star Wars" or "Lord of the Rings") but where magical things happen.  The magical things that happen are often depicted in a sort of matter-of-fact manner -- people don't often seem surprised when they experience the magical stuff.  \nLatin American authors are generally considered the masters of this kind of fiction.
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Never heard it before. What does it mean?\n\nDo you mean 'modernism'? If so, ask again and get answers.
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I cannot teach you but I can point you to an interesting book about the topic:\nThe American Way: An Introduction to American Culture\nhttp://web.utk.edu/~mccay/mybooks/esl_list/details/8204.html
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Actually in America colleges teach "British Literature."  We just clump all writing from Great Britain (and sometimes from British author's who live in other parts of the world) into a category and study the author's by time period.\nNow what is your question?  Do you want a suggested topic?  An outline on a set topic?  Either way you'll need to give more info and tell which period of Brit. Lit. you are studying.
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It's from The Oxford Companion To Twentieth-Century Poetry, Ed. Ian Hamilton, 1994,pp.496-97
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Postmodernism is a term describing large-scale changes in intellectual thought, cultural production, and global societies beginning in the mid 20th century. Postmodernist thought has had large implications in philosophy, art, critical theory, literature, architecture, history, and culture. The term has been stretched over many different debates, and many would argue that any single cohesive definition is impossible. However, most definitions of the term are undoubtedly related and a basic summary is possible.\n\nPostmodernist scholars tend to emphasize the cultural contingency or relativity of different forms of intellectual production, claiming that there is no way for human beings to communicate in a language completely emptied of myth, metaphor, or cultural bias. Thus postmodernists portray all communication and analysis as inherently politicized and criticize those who attempt "pure," "objective," or "disinterested" intellectual endeavours. Postmodernist artworks in various displines tend to recognize the inherently politicized nature of communication, calling attention to the ideological underpinnings of their own representations through a lot of representational play and irony. Postmodernist scholarship and artworks, although often meant for a small audience, are frequently understood as merely one reflection of the larger collective culture of postmodernity. Scholars argue that the postmodern era (or "postmodernity") is characterized by a culturally pluralistic and profoundly interconnected global society lacking any single dominant center of political power, communication, or intellectual production. Other scholars understand postmodernism as a product of late capitalism, arguing that the economic and technological conditions of our age have given rise to a media dominated society in which there are only intereferential representations with no real original referent. For these scholars, the postmodern emphasis on the lack of any stable or objective referent for communication is often a profoundly negative historical development.
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who speaks it, the accent, the use of definite and indefinite articles (e.g. "in hospital" vs "in the hospital"), a zillion gabillion idioms such as "school leaver" instead of "high school graduate", spellings (programme vs program), the use of "presently" (meaning after awhile in british and right now in american), countless slang words, the fact that american has verbed a number of former nouns such as contact... pick up a publication from britain and compare it to a similar one in america and have a look.
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It is strictly FICTION.  Americans sure do love controversy-that why it has sold so many copies.
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The most famous literary work from that period is The Pilgrim's Progress.  It is considered a Puritan classic.  Read about it at Wikipedia.  \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim's_Progress
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it's a transition period between romanticism and modernism.\n\nfor more details see:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_literature
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American culture is a Western culture, largely based on British culture with influences from other parts of Europe, the Native American peoples, African Americans and to a lesser extent Asian Americans and other young groups of immigrants.
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" is pretty good; there is some under-stated humor and lots of juicy stuff for essays. It has the best definition of courage I've ever read, too.