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novel can be defined as a prose narrative that is longer than a short story. Novels are more complex more ambitious undertakings then short stories. novel introduces many more characters and much more detailed pictures of their society than short stories
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How do novels and short stories differ in length
complexity, characterization, and author's scope of vision
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Henry Brackenridge, One modern Chivalry
and Charles Brown, Wieland
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What 2 novels published in the 1790s indicated several important directions that the american novel would take? Give the authors of each
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Don Quixote
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What was the model for Modern Chivalry
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travels through Pennsylvania of Captain John Farrago and his servant Teague O Reagan and they traveled through some parts of the country and Teague O Reagan gets in a lot of scrapes but then he is rescued by Captain John Farrago
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Briefly Summarize Modern Chivalry's plot
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A journey through some part of this country was to be an important element in later novels that exposed and commented upon a particular segment of American life
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What element of the novel does Modern Chivalry introduce to the american art form?
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The castle of Otranto
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What was the model for Wieland?
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the tragic experiments of a ventriloquist who persuades others that they are hearing mysterious voices
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Briefly summarize Wiland's plot
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elements of suspense and horror (known as gothic novels)
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What element of the novel does Wieland introduce to the american novel?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables and William Faulkner's Light in August
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What later american novelist were significantly influenced by Wieland?
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Who is considered America's first important novelist?
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The Pioneer, The first of five Leatherstocking Tales dealing with the frontier man, and Natty Bumppo
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Name James Fenimore Cooper's best work's
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the natural man who serves as a bond between the innocent ways of the forest and the complex ways of society (Natty Bumppo)
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What central character type of american literature did he create?
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The Scarlett letter
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What Hawthorne novel is considered a masterpiece of american literature?
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The scarlet letter is compact intricately worked out story of how the live of 4 people are affected by one sin. it is as notable for its artistry as for its psychological and moral depth
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What is Hawthorne' contribution to the novel form-how is his work different? for what characterization is the novel "notable"?
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Henry James and Willa Cather
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What 2 writers were influenced by Hawthorne?
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No one would call it perfectly constructed but it is above all other american novels for its grapplings and meaning of life and our place in the universe
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Characterize the novel Moby Dick. What does the novel contribute to american literature?
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as an exploration of the technique and form of the novel probably has had little influence on subsequence
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What contribution to technique and form does Moby dick make?
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Mark Twain
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Who is considered the greatest american prose writer in the decade after the Civil War?
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a humorist and a lecturer
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For what else is Mark Twain known for?
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Roughing it, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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List Mark Twain's most significant works?
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Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson
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What writers were most influenced by Mark Twain?
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based on common speech rhythms
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In what ways - techniques - style - were they influenced?
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realism
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What movement in the late 1800s began to dominate american literature?
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influential as a magazine editor and critic also one of the foremost novelist of the period
he wrote The Rise of Silas Lapham
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What did William Dean Howells write and what were his contributions?
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spent his artistic life striving to make the novel a more sensitive, subtle and complex instrument for exploring the life around him
he wrote Daisy Miller, Washington Square, the American
his later works included The wings of the dove, the Ambassadors and the Golden Bowl
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what did Henry James Write and what were his contributions?
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he lived to complete other novels and some short stories but his early death is one of the tragedies
he wrote The Red Badge of Courage
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What did Stephan crane write and what were his contributions
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Regarded by some critics as a giant amount realist writer
he wrote The Octopus
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What did Frank Norris Write and What were his contributions?
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Wrote long, detailed novels
he wrote Sister Carrie
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What did Theodore Dreiser Write and What ere his contributions?
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they are all talking about society and how we try to live up to it
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How were the works of Chopin, Wharton, and Cather different form the previous writers?
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marked a major advance for women writers when she published The Awakening
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What did Kate Chopin write and what are her contributions?
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her novels explore the suffering that results when society's conventions collide with human needs and desires
her works included The age of Innocence and Edith Frome
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What did Edith Wharton write and what were her contribution?
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was concerned with the limitations society places on individuals. left journalism to become a professional writer of fiction
her works included (O Pioneer and My Antonia)
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What did Willa Cather write and what were her contributions?
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novels of social realism
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What type of novel is Sinclair Lewis Known for?
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social satires
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What type of novels were Sinclair Lewis's influences
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Main Street
Babbitt
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list Sinclair Lewis's works
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experimental novels of social criticism
works - manhattan transfer, USA
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What did John Dos Passos Write and what were his contributions? (include by social realism)
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harsh portrayal of lower class life in his Studs Lonigan novels of the 1930s
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What did James T. Farrell write and what were his contributions
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American Renaissance
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To what period in american literature are the 1920s compared?
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adapted the novel of social manners to the new social conditions in The Great Gatsby and
The Sound and the Fury (most difficult ) novel ever written by an american.
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What did F. Scott Fitzgerald write and what were his contributions?
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The Sun also Rises so new it created an international sensation
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What did Ernest Hemingway write and what were his contributions?
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The Grapes of Wrath somewhat disguised during the great Depression
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What did John Steinbeck Write and What were his contributions?
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dominated by old style and social protest
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What movement in literature dominated the writing of the 1920s?
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world war II
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What briefly interrupted this movement
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the Great Depression
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What moved the novel back toward old style and social protest?
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Richard Wright's native son
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What marked a turning point in African American novels?
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Native son
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What did Richard Wright write?
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go tell it on the mountain
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What did James Baldwin write?
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invisible man
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what did Ralph Ellison write?
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Their eyes were watching God
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what did Zora Neale Hurston write?
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song of Solomon
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What did Toni Morison write?
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the color purple
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What did Alice Walker write?
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Eudora Welty, Flannery O connor, Carson McCullers, William Styron, and Truman Capote
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list the southern writers who were influenced by Faulkner?
