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The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest

This is post 3 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …

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The Great Gatsby: an American novel

This is post 6 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …

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19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism

This is post 5 of 6 in the series “Literary Movements” The 18th Century: the Age of Enlightenment The Gothic and the Fantastic The 19th Century : Romanticism in Art and Literature English Romanticism (1798-1832) 19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries Introduction Realism and Naturalism …

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Ray Bradbury est mort

Ray Bradbury, écrivain américain de science-fiction, est mort hier dans sa maison de Los Angeles à l’âge de 91 ans. Né le 22 août 1920 à Waukegan (Illinois, USA), Raymond Douglas Bradbury découvre la littérature à l’âge de 7 ans avec Edgar Poe. Fils d’un père technicien et d’une mère d’origine suédoise, il a 14 …

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American Modernism in literature

This is post 5 of 5 in the series “History of American Literature” History of American Literature Puritanism : a New World Vision An authentically American Literature American Literature: a Declaration of Literary Independence The American Renaissance American Modernism in literature Defining the (literary) self and the nation: representative figures As an aesthetic phenomenon, Modernism …

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The American Renaissance

This is post 4 of 5 in the series “History of American Literature” History of American Literature Puritanism : a New World Vision An authentically American Literature American Literature: a Declaration of Literary Independence The American Renaissance American Modernism in literature Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson’s literary and philosophical importance in the American Renaissance and after …

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American Literature: a Declaration of Literary Independence

This is post 3 of 5 in the series “History of American Literature” History of American Literature Puritanism : a New World Vision An authentically American Literature American Literature: a Declaration of Literary Independence The American Renaissance American Modernism in literature Washington Irving: evolution, nostalgia and imaginary compensation Irving was not under the influence of …

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