| Description |
1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations |
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Literary themes for students |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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Literary themes for students.
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| Contents |
volume 1. Absalom, Absalom! (by William Faulkner) -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by Mark Twain) -- ... And the earth did not devour him (by Tomás Rivera) -- Autobiography of my dead brother (by Walter Dean Myers) -- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by Benjamin Franklin) -- The big money (by John Dos Passos) -- Black Elk speaks (by John G. Neihardt) -- Call it sleep (by Henry Roth) -- Cane (by Jean Toomer) -- Chronicle of the Narváez expedition (by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca) -- Common sense (by Thomas Paine) -- Daisy Miller (by Henry James) -- Death of a salesman (by Arthur Miller) -- The Declaration of Independence (by Thomas Jefferson) -- Elbow room (by James Alan McPherson) -- Finding my voice (by Marie G. Lee) -- Grapes of wrath (by John Steinbeck) -- The great Gatsby (by F. Scott Fitzgerald) -- House made of dawn (by N. Scott Momaday) -- John F. Kennedy's inaugural address (by John F. Kennedy) -- Little house on the prairie (by Laura Ingalls Wilder) |
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volume 2. Lonesome Dove (by Larry McMurtry) -- Main Street (by Sinclair Lewis) -- Mending wall (by Robert Frost) -- A model of Christian charity (by John Winthrop) -- Montage of a dream deferred (by Langston Hughes) -- My kinsman, Major Molineux (by Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- On the road (by Jack Kerouac) -- O pioneers! (by Willa Cather) -- Our town (by Thornton Wilder) -- Rabbit, run (by John Updike) -- Self-reliance (by Ralph Waldo Emerson) -- Sister Carrie (by Theodore Dreiser) -- Song of myself (by Walt Whitman) -- White House Correspondents' Association Dinner 2006 Speech (by Stephen Colbert) -- The American dream in the nineteenth century -- The American dream in the twentieth century -- The American dream today -- The African American dream -- The American dream abroad -- The American feminist dream -- The American political dream -- The Asian American dream -- The Colonial American dream -- The frontier American dream -- The Hispanic American dream -- The immigrant American dream -- The Native American dream -- The southern American dream -- The American dream: what do I read next? -- The American dream: media adaptations |
| Summary |
Provides readers with an overview of literary works that explore the theme of the American dream. Analyzes poetry, plays, short stories, novels, and works of nonfiction that address this theme in some capacity, and how that theme has been treated in literature at different times in history and across diverse cultures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Themes, motives
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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American literature -- Themes, motives.
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American literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hacht, Anne Marie.
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Gale (Firm)
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Thomson Gale (Firm)
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| ISBN |
1414429312 |
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9781414429311 |
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