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Intro to American Literature

1. 1.      What is literature?
2. 2.      Why do people read literature?
3. 3.      Why is it necessary for you to study literature?
4. 4.      How to define American Literature?
5. 5.      Basic qualities of American writers?
6. 6.      How to study literature?

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgZOQVJtvR8

What is literature?

Pleasure, understanding, human motive

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1wsHtM8Gc8ZQ2lHbUJsZkprbXc/edit?pli=1

Fairy tale

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tale

Fantasy (genre, fiction)

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy

Picture book

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_book

Beatrix Potter

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Peter_Rabbit

Children’s literature

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_literature

Miss Potter

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482546/

KAP(Knowledge, Attitude, Perspective)

Nursery rhyme

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursery_rhyme

Mother Goose Rhymes

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Goose

A list of the rhymes:

http://www.fidella.com/trmg/title.html

Charles Perrault

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Perrault

Little Red Riding Hood

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood

Puss in Boots

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puss_in_Boots

Winnie-the-Pooh

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh

Charlotte’s Web

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte's_Web

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413895/

Onomatopoeia

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia

Aesop’s Fables

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop's_Fables

Bildungsroman à coming-of-age story

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman

Protagonist

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagonist

Oscar Wilde

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

Happy Prince

wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happy_Prince_and_Other_Tales