Reflections on American Literature

This blog is a group of upper-level University of Mary Washington students offering their thoughts on the American literary tradition. This course--Survey of American Literature--aims at introducing students to some of the major issues within American literature. As hopeless as that may be for a mere semester, we are trying our best to fill our minds with as many new ideas as possible...Join us.

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Amy Lowell

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Amy Lowell Originally uploaded by elizabethanne628 . Amy Lowell, from whom the term “Amyigism” came as a quip by Ezra Pound, ha...

hull house

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hull house Originally uploaded by elizabethanne628 . The idea of settlement houses seems sort of nice when you first think about it...
Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Language Barrier

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In "America and I" and a few of the other recent selections we've discussed the issue of the language barrier. In "Ameri...
Monday, April 04, 2005

Railroad Standard Time

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I'm sure that most of you know that the title of this story refers to the 1883 adoption of a standardized national time that would enab...
Friday, March 25, 2005

Reaction to Howl

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In class I was one of the few people who didn't love Howl. I read it for class and then I read it again tonight before class since I go...
Monday, March 21, 2005

Something German we don't have in English

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For my Single Author Research project I took a closer look at James Weldon Johnson...one of the many contributions he made was to introduce ...
Monday, March 07, 2005

The American Tradition of Silent Suffering

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Tonight I began training at the Rappahanock Council Against Sexual Assault. We began training by discussing some statistics about the preva...
Thursday, January 27, 2005

The House of Usher fell, and the point is???

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Over a cup of tea, I read The Fall of the House of Usher . Then, I wondered, where is the allegory? This short story isn't like Young ...
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