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American Authors
The Western Frontier
Connecting Text: The Autobiography of David Crockett
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Davey Crockett: Bio and Selection Davey Crockett: from the American West Daniel Boone: from the American West Daniel Boone: from Archiving Early America (read Boone's own narrative)
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James Joyce is considered with William Faulkner to be the two greatest, experimental fiction writers in the first part of the twentieth century. An examination of Joyce's work will give readers an insight into Faulkner's influences.
Parody
Ring Lardner's "You Know Me, Al"
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Early Horror in H. P. Lovecraft
Connecting Text: The Sun Also Rises
The Lost Generation
Connecting Text: The Sound and the Fury
Extra: Mr. Ryan's Favorite Author, William Faulkner
Modern Poetry
William Butler Yeats (The Great Irish Poet)
Ezra Pound
(The great American Poet who befriended Eliot and influenced everyone)
"In a station
of the metro,"
T. S. Eliot (The Great America/English poet and native St. Louisan)
Wallace
Stevens
"Anecdote of the Jar."
William
Carlos Williams: American Poetry
"The Red Wheelbarrow"
"This Is Just To Say"
Carl Sandburg
Langston Hughes
Gumshoes: Hard Boiled Detectives and Crime Novels
Raymond Chandler Links
Video
Dashiel Hammett
Pulp Fiction
Post Modern World War II-Present
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House Five
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
James Dickey
James Dickey from the New Georgia Encyclopedia
JOHN UPDIKE
Modern American Theatre
Arthur Miller
The Crucible
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