Show significance and influence that literature has

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Norton: T.S. Eliot excerpts from "The Waste Land" (1922); Leslie Marmon Silko "Lullaby" (1981); Yusef Komunyakaa poems (1988-2000).

Theme: Making Space: Cultures of Exclusion, Assimilation, and Belonging

English 320 Major Works of American Literature

Focus:
• On literary styles rather than the roles literature plays in history as a discipline and history's pedagogy.
• On 19th century forward, rather than first half of semester's inclusion of primary source texts.

Style: Ess should include elements of personal, analytical, and reflective writing that shows that you've researched topic; done deep reading; participated in class conversations; and have personally discovered new ideas.

Organizational Suggestions:

• Select texts from various eras that share thematic goals, then track how visions & aesthetics in American Literature have changed over time.
• Select texts from American cultural group/s and share examples of stylistic variety in an effort to upend essentialism (generalizations) and widen representation/s about group/s.
• Select texts that have attempted to deepen notions of identity; show significance and influence that literature has in our culture; enhanced your own knowledge of heritage, cultural and ethnic identities, sociopolitical issues.

• Elaborate ideas inspired by your first personal essay assignment

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