Death of a Salesman : an extended introduction
In Death of a Salesman, the spectator is plunged into the main character’s head. There is no linear onward progression but uninterrupted dramatic tension.
Littérature
Articles de littérature française, britannique, américaine et espagnole : analyses, auteurs, œuvres, mouvements littéraires et pistes de lecture.
The ordering of events in The Great Gatsby
Literary analysis : The ordering of events in “The Great Gatsby” by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
Structure and Narration in The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is the third novel of Fitzgerald, published in 1925 after This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Beautiful and the Damned (1922).
American Modernism in literature
Explore modernism in literature through fragmentation, subjectivity, urban life, experimentation, time, consciousness, and the break with tradition.
The American Renaissance
Emerson’s literary and philosophical importance in the American Renaissance has been associated with his lasting influence in American intellectual life.
American Literature: a Declaration of Literary Independence
Explore America’s declaration of literary independence, from British influence and national identity to Emerson, originality, and cultural freedom.
Puritanism : a New World Vision
English Puritans were divided: some accepted Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth, and were persecuted, many Puritans ran away to the New World.
An authentically American Literature
Explore the rise of an authentically American literature through national identity, democracy, language, frontier myths, and cultural independence.
American Literature
Explore American literature through its major periods, authors, works and themes, from Puritan writing to Gatsby, modernism and American drama.