Literature III

==Basic Concepts==
==Authors Overview==
Author 	Life Span 	Movement 	Movement	Related Concept(s) 	Work(s) 	Work(s)
Author 	Life Span 	Name 	Span 	Related Concept(s) 	Title 	Year
Pre-colonial & Puritan	17th-18th C.	 	 	Captivity Narratives	Various 	
St. John de Crevecoeur	1735-1813 	 	 	 	Letter III 	1782
Edgar Allan Poe 	1809-1849 	Dark Romanticism 	 	 	The Tell-tale Heart 	1843
Edgar Allan Poe 	1809-1849 	Dark Romanticism 	 	 	The Raven 	1845
Ralph Waldo Emerson 	1803-1882 	Transcendentalism 	 	 	The American Scholar 	1837
Walt Whitman 	1819-1892 	 	 	 	Song of Myself 	1855
Emily Dickinson 	1830-1886 	Romanticism 	 	 	A Narrow Fellow in the Grass 	1865
Emily Dickinson 	1830-1886 	Romanticism 	 	 	Because I Could not Stop for Death 	1890
Emily Dickinson 	1830-1886 	Romanticism 	 	 	I'm Nobody! Who Are You? 	1891
Kate Chopin 	1850-1904 	 	 	 	The Storm 	1894
Mark Twain 	1835-1910 	American Realism 	 	 	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 	1884
Ezra Pound 	1885-1972 	Modernism 	 	Imagism 	In a Station of the Metro 	1913
Ernest Hemingway 	1899-1961 	The Lost Generation	 	Iceberg Theory 	Hills like White Elephants 	1927
Langston Hughes 	1902-1967 	Harlem Renaissance 	 	 	The Negro Speaks of Rivers 	1921
Langston Hughes 	1902-1967 	Harlem Renaissance 	 	 	Passing 	1934
Langston Hughes 	1902-1967 	Harlem Renaissance 	 	 	I, too, sing America 	1945
Langston Hughes 	1902-1967 	Harlem Renaissance 	 	 	Harlem (Dream Deferred) 	1951
Robert Frost 	1847-1963 	 	 	 	Mending Wall 	1914
Robert Frost 	1847-1963 	 	 	 	The Road not Taken 	1916
Robert Frost 	1847-1963 	 	 	 	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	1923
William Faulkner 	1897-1962 	 	 	 	A Rose for Emily 	1956
Arthur Miller 	1915-2005 	 	 	 	Death of a Salesman 	1949
Allen Ginsberg 	1926-1997 	Beat Generation 	 	 	Howl 	1956
Maya Angelou 	1928-2014 	 	 	 	And Still I Rise 	1978
Maya Angelou 	1928-2014 	 	 	 	Phenomenal Woman 	1995
Sandra Cisneros 	b. 1954 	 	 	Chicano 	The House on Mango Street 	1984
Paul Auster 	b. 1947 	 	 	Metafiction 	Auggie Wren's Christmas Story 	1990
Jonathan Foer 	b. 1977 	 	 	Multimodality 	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 	2005
==Possible Essay Titles==
*de Crevecoeur’s Vision of America in “Letter III: What is an American?”
*Dickinson’s Imaginative Approach to Death in “Because I could not Stop for Death”.
*Chopin's distinctive style in Chopin's "The Storm".
*Twain´s Contribution to American Realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
*The Power of the Image in Pound’s “In the Station of the Metro”
*Angelou’s Celebration of Black Pride in “Still I Rise”  
*The Search for Identity in Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street 
*Metafictional Traits in Auster’s “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story”
*Ernest Hemingway's Characteristic Narrative Style in "Hills Like White Elephants"
*A Shout of Help in Ginsberg's "The Howl"
*The "Tell-Tale Heart:" A Test to Poe's Maestry in Short Story Writing
*Emerson's Novel Approach to the Academia in "The American Scholar"
*Characteristics of Frost's Aesthetics in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
*Failed American Dream in Miller's "Death of a Salesman"
*Southern Gothic in "A Rose for Emily"