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§Literature period
*每個時期都有一個燦爛的文體
*每個時期都是上一個時期的反動

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§Let it Snow (video)

-lyrics:

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§Free verse的代表→Walt Whithman, Emily Dickenson
 
1. Walt Whitman

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§Emily Dickinson
→An American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. Considered an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.

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**notice:
12/9 send Blog URL to Sara
 
1. Advent

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*News：黑人青年被槍殺→但是白人無罪？
-basic problem: GDP、失業率(unemployment)、黑人的剝奪感很重

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1. 葉丙成教授
-Benson’s Flip
→care(很在乎”成績”)

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Moby Dick白鯨記
→ The Great White Whale
→ A novel by Herman Melville, in which Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on the albino sperm whale Moby Dick, which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee.

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§Nathaniel Hawthorne
→An American novelist and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions.
(故居:Salem /祖父是法官，曾經參與燒女巫的案子)

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§American Renaissance
→具爭議性的議題
→In the history of American architecture and the arts, the American Renaissance was the period ca 1876–1917 characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance humanism. 

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§p.119
*Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
-The most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.

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*The Declaration of Independence
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' __Thomas Jefferson
  

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