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Literary themes for students.examining diverse literature to understand and compare universal themes /The American dream

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literary themes for students.Anne Marie Hacht, editor ; foreword by Margaret Brantley.
Reminder of title:	examining diverse literature to understand and compare universal themes /
other author:	Hacht, Anne Marie,
Published:	Detroit, Mich. :Gale,c2007.
Subject:	American Dream.
Online resource:	http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=9781414429311&userGroupName=nuk&version=1.0
ISBN:	9781414429311 (electronic book)

Literary themes for students.examining diverse literature to understand and compare universal themes /The American dream
Literary themes for students.examining diverse literature to understand and compare universal themes /The American dream[electronic resource] :Anne Marie Hacht, editor ; foreword by Margaret Brantley. - Detroit, Mich. :Gale,c2007. - Literary themes for students.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume 1. Guest foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Advisors -- Contributors -- Literary chronology -- The American dream: overview -- Absalom, Absalom! -- Adventures of huckleberry Finn -- ...And the earth did not devour him -- Autobiography of my dead brother -- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- The big money -- Black elk speaks -- Call it sleep -- Cane -- Chronicle of the Narva Ez expedition -- Common sense -- Daisy Miller -- Death of a salesman -- The declaration of independence -- Elbow room -- Finding my voice -- Grapes of wrath -- The great gatsby -- House made of dawn -- John F. Kennedy's inaugural address -- Little house on the prairie.

Provides readers with an overview of literary works that explore the theme of the American dream. Analyzes poetry, plays, short stories, novels, and works of nonfiction that address this theme in some capacity, and how that theme has been treated in literature at different times in history and across diverse cultures.

Electronic reproduction.
Farmington Hills, Mi :
Gale.

Available via World Wide Web.

Original:

2 v. [654 p.] : ill.

Mode of access: Internet.

ISBN: 9781414429311 (electronic book)Subjects--Topical Terms:

471841
American Dream.

LC Class. No.: PS169.N35 / L58 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/358

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