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Literary Heritage of the USA
Renata Dulatova
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Unique American style
Washington Irving
James Cooper Edgar Allan Poe
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Washington Irving
• short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" (in the book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent)
• image of St. Nicholas soaring over treetops in a flying wagon (A History of New York, 1812)
Sleepy Hollow (1999):• police constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny
Depp) from New York City is to investigate a series of murders in the village Sleepy Hollow by a mysterious Headless Horseman.
(1783 –1859)
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James Cooper
• sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales
• a historical novel The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
• The American adaptations – 1920, 1932, 1936, 1992
• German adptations - Der Letzte der Mohikaner (1920), Chingachgook die Grosse Schlange (Chingachgook the Great Serpent) (1967)
(1789 –1851)
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Edgar Allan Poe
• the first American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career
• tales of mystery and the macabre• practitioner of the short story and
the inventor of the detective-fiction genre
• contribution to the emerging genre of science fiction
• "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
(1809 –1849)
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Realism
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Henry James
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Mark Twain
• "greatest American humorist of his age“, "the father of American literature" (William Faulkner )
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
• American adaptations – 1920, 1931, 1939, 1954, 1960, 1993 (Elijah Wood )
• Russian adaptation – Hopelessly Lost (1972)
• Japanese anime – 1976, 1994
(1835 –1910)
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Henry James
• the series of novels in which he portrays the encounter of Americans with Europe and Europeans
• Daisy Miller (1879), The Bostonians (1886), The Ambassadors (1903)
• a ghost story, novella The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Adaptations:• An opera, The Turn of the Screw (1954 )• TV movie, The Turn of the Screw (1974) • A film, The Others starring Nicole Kidman is
partly based upon the novel (2001) • A film, In a Dark Place (2006)
(1843 –1916)
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Theodore Dreiser
Ernest Hemingway
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Jack London
Margaret Mitchell
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Jack London
• one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing
• purchased plots and novels from the young Sinclair Lewis and used incidents from newspaper clippings as writing material
• The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, Hearts of Three
1876 –1916
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Theodore Dreiser
• Sister Carrie (1900), The Financier, The Titan, The Stoic, An American Tragedy (1925)
1871 –1945
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald
• works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age
• future wife, Zelda Sayre, the "golden girl", in Fitzgerald's words
• This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night and the most famous, the celebrated classic, The Great Gatsby (a critique of the American Dream)
1896 –1940
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Margaret Mitchell
• one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies
• A highly-grossing American film adaptation (1939)
1900 –1949
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Ernest Hemingway
• distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement
• an enormous influence on 20th-century fiction
• 1954 - the Nobel Prize in Literature
• best novelsThe Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms
1899 –1961
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Post-World War II
Nelle Harper Lee
Jerome Salinger
John Hoyer Updike Ray Bradbury
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Harper Lee
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - racial injustice and the destruction of innocence
Adaptation• To Kill a Mockingbird
(1962) - Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch
1926 -
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Jerome Salinger
• The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
• Franny and Zooey and a collection of two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour
1919 - 2010
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John Hoyer Updike
• Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and the novella "Rabbit Remembered") which chronicled the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to his death
• The Witches of Eastwick (1984), Roger's Version (1986) and In the Beauty of the Lilies
1932 - 2009
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Ray Bradbury
• an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer
• best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951)
• more than 20 filmed dramatizations of his works
1920 -