Fall 2010    English 343

American Literature Survey
oral beginnings to 1865

T/Th 12:30 - 1:45   Niccol 006

1. What is an American?

2. What is American Literature?

3. How do place and time shape an author's works, and our understanding of them?

4. What characteristics of a literary work have made it influential over time?

5. How are American myths created, challenged and re-imagined through this literature?