In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement we call Modernism. At the same time a vast amount of ...

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Since America’s founding, the diversity of American writers has shaped its literature. Authors and poets of the past have created a colorful collection of works that are still studied today alongside ...

Journalist Terence Smith reflects on decades of reporting on American presidents ... one of the most recognizable characters in American literature. In the recent Broadway update of the classic ...

This unit aims to introduce students to a selection of poetry and prose that gives a flavour of the development and variety of American literature. Examples will be chosen from across the nineteenth- ...

He was a singular voice in American literature, and it was an honor and ... "House Made of Dawn," published in 1968, tells of a World War II soldier who returns home and struggles to fit back ...