Contemporary literature

American literature is filled with distinct stories and perspectives. These contemporary American novels deserve a place on your reading list, whether you're in high school, college or beyond!

In my school, juniors take an American literature survey course, covering early American literature to Romantic, Realistic, Modern, and Contemporary writers. It's a course that spans centuries and generations, covering poetry, informational and nonfiction texts, classic American novels, reading literature, analyzing historical contexts, and writing across the content. To help other teachers with similar courses, I've put together a series of resources for teaching American literature. #ela

Beppe Giacobbe on theispot.com: In the images of Beppe Giacobbe the search for a synthesis is evident in order to arrive at dry, ironic and powerful images, ...

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If there's one nation that loves its cats, it's... well, probably Ancient Egypt, but they're gone. So, now, it's Japan. Japan and cats go together like Murakami and Kafka. In Japanese culture and mythology, cats

Courtney Gorter has created for Spark Notes an entertaining visual that collects major movements in the history of literature and sums them up in a single sentence. See also: [ef-archive number=2 t…

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen Dominant Fe: Lizzie is a tease, and she knows how to joke without being offensive (though not everyone gets her sense of humor). She teases so often that she even…

The circles of influence of some of the greatest minds in the world - a brilliant chart by Maria Popova, Michelle Legro, and Wendy MacNaughton #literature #film #music #art #NaNoWriMo