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GLOSSARYTall tale: A humorous, exaggerated story commonon the American frontier, often focusing on cases ofsuperhuman strength.Theme: An abstract idea embodied in a literarywork.Tory: A wealthy pro-English faction in America at thetime of the Revolutionary War in the late 1700s.Transcendentalism: A broad, philosophical movementin New England during the Romantic era(peaking between 1835 and 1845). It stressed therole of divinity in nature and the individual’s intuition,and exalted feeling over reason.Trickster: A cunning character of tribal folk narratives(for example those of African Americans andNative Americans) who breaks cultural codes ofbehavior; often a culture hero.Vision song: A poetic song that members of someNative-American tribes created when purifyingthemselves through solitary fasting and meditation.161
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special songs for children’s game
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he accepted his lifelong job as a m
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solo trip in 1704 from Boston to Ne
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mon, “Sinners in the Hands of an
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CHAPTER2DEMOCRATIC ORIGINSAND REVOL
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should look out for themselves.Bad
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of a Horse the Rider was lost, bein
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translate Homer. Dwight’s epic wa
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Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)A
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ness, and they became legends inthe
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CHAPTER3THE ROMANTIC PERIOD,1820-18
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physical self-discovery. For the Ro
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great detail, is a concrete metapho
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Whitman’s voice electrifies evenm
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anti-slavery poems such as“Ichabo
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CHAPTER4THE ROMANTIC PERIOD,1820-18
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cratic families: “The truth is, t
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emanates from the Book of Genesis i
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of ratiocination, or reasoning. The
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has become legendary:I have ploughe
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looked until recently. The same can
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the weak or vulnerable individual.S
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falling tree, and every lick makes
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Edel calls James’s first, or “i
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who had lived a century earlier. Pr
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the quiet poverty, loneliness, and
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TWO WOMENREGIONAL NOVELISTSNovelist
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CHAPTER6MODERNISM ANDEXPERIMENTATIO
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more technological, and more mechan
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erary and social traditions for the
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(1935), and Parts of a World (1942)
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themes of Greek tragedy set in ther
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F. Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)Franc
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where he lived most of his life.Fau
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John Steinbeck (1902-1968)Like Sinc
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ZORA NEALE HURSTONPhoto © Carl Van
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(1928), a winner of the Pulitzer Pr
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TRADITIONALISMTraditional writers i
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ground melody. It was experimentalp
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John Berryman (1914-1972)John Berry
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poetry writing, for women, as a dan
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his example and influence.Beat poet
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acial differences have shaped their
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Acoma, New Mexico.A central text in
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Americans, from Harper (a collegepr
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At the opposite end of the theoreti
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Robert Penn Warren(1905-1989)Robert
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was set in Mexico during the revolu
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ful people whose inner faultsand di
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veiled account of the life ofBellow
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(1964), Bullet Park (1969), andFalc
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eing reported. In The Electric Kool
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Page 159 and 160: GLOSSARYFaust: A literary character
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