During the exam, students randomly pick a number covering literature from 17th to 19th century (1-10) and another one covering the twentieth century (11-20). After a short introduction to the period, the discussion is based on their reading list which is to be discussed in advance with the teacher. The reading list may also include films (indicating the date and the name of the director), song lyrics, memoirs, homiletics, historical and literary historical works, chronicles, autobiographies, legal documents, interviews, philosophical, historical, and literary-work and non-US authors associated with American cultural and intellectual history. Arrange the individual "nests" chronologically, indicate the date of first publication. Indicate s tories and individual poems by quotation marks(""), novels and plays by italics. If you have not read the whole text, provide a note "(excerpt)". 1. Beginnings and Puritan Beginnings. 2. The Enlightenment. 3. R. W. Emerson. 4. H. D. Thoreau. 5. Whitman and Dickinson. 6. Hawthorne. 7. Melville. 8. Poe. 9. ['Realists']. Twain, Chopin, Harte, W.D. Howells, Henry James, S. Crane et al. 10. ['Naturalists']. Jack London, Frank Norris, S. Crane, Theodore Dreiser et al. 11. ['Modern Poetry']. T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Denise Levertov, Sylvia Plath et al. 12. ['Lost Generation']. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, G. Stein, J. Steinbeck et al. 13. ['Southeners']. (Mark Twain, E. A. Poe) William Faulkner, Flannery O´Connor, Thomas Wolfe, Tennessee Williams et al. 14. ['African-American authors']. Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, M.L. King, Malcolm X, Cornel West, Michelle Alexander, Angela Davis etc.) 15. ['Solitaires']. Henry Miller, Delmore Schwartz, Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Bukowski, Erica Jong, et al. 16. ['The Beat Generation'] Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouak, William Burroughs, Neil Cassidy, Kenneth Rextroth, Gary Snyder, etc. 17. ['Native-American Authors, Jewish-American and and other minority authors'] Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, I. B. Singer, J. D. Salinger, Philip Roth, Bob Dylan et al.; Geronimo, Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor; L. M. Silko, Sandra Cisneros. 18. ['American Drama and Cinematography'] E. O´Neill, A. Miller, T. Williams, E. Albee; C. Chaplin; Elia Kazan, M. Scorcese, S. Kubric et al. 19. ['Women authors, feminist authors'] Kate Chopin, Gertrude Stein, Ana?s Nin, Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, Ann Beattie, Erica Jong, Joyce Carol Oates, Leslie Marmon Silko, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, et al. 20. ['Minimalism, Postmodernism, Contemporary authors'] R. Carver, A. Beattie; T. Pynchon, T. Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, D. F. Wallace, C. McCarthy et al.
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