Transcription of Outline of AMERICAN LITERATURE
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AMERICANLITERATUREO utline of REVISED EDITION Early AMERICAN and colonial PEriod to 1776 dEmocratic origins and rEvolutionary WritErs, 1776-1820 thE romantic PEriod, 1820-1860: Essayists and PoEts thE romantic PEriod, 1820-1860: Fiction thE risE oF rEalism: 1860-1914 modErnism and ExPErimEntation: 1914-1945 AMERICAN PoEtry, 1945 1990: thE anti-tradition AMERICAN ProsE, 1945 1990: rEalism and ExPErimEntationcontEmPorary AMERICAN PoEtrycontEmPorary AMERICAN LITERATURE glossaryindExAMERICANLITERATURE314263647 607997121136157163 REVISED EDITIONP ublished by the united states dePartment of state staffWritten by: Kathryn VanSpancKerenexecutive editor: GeorGe clacKmanaging editor: paul MalaMudcontributing editor: Kathleen huGart director / designer: thaddeuS a.
chants, myths, fairy tales, humorous anec-dotes, incantations, riddles, proverbs, epics, and legendary histories. Accounts of migra-tions and ancestors abound, as do vision or healing songs and tricksters’ tales. Certain creation stories are particularly popular. In one well-known creation story, told with variations
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