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16 de mai. de 2009 · This short anthology includes poetry and non-fiction texts that explore the American Dream. This e-book is ideal for teachers and students of American literature.Authors Emma Lazarus, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Post–World War II and The American Dream
- Existentialism
- Theater of The Absurd
The phrase the American dreamwas coined in the 1930s by writer and historian James Truslow Adams, though the idea has been around since the founding of the United States in the late 18th century. The phrase originally meant that every American, regardless of circumstances at birth, could achieve economic prosperity and a way of life better than his...
Forming the backdrop to the arts during the 20th century was a philosophical movement known as existentialism that began after World War II. This way of thinking places the responsibility for finding meaning in life—or choosing to view life as meaningless—squarely on each individual. In literature influenced by existentialism, a struggle to find me...
The American Dreamis an example of the theater of the absurd, a short-lived but significant theater genre that began in Europe in the 1950s and spread to America in the 1960s with Albee's works. Absurdism was in some sense a reaction to the horrors of World War II and the following terror of the Cold War. During the Cold War the United States and t...
16 de mai. de 2009 · Amazon.com: American Dream: Texts & Contexts eBook : Emma Lazarus, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Books
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Lennie makes George recite their dream to him at the end of the novel, not realising that George is preparing to shoot him before he is lynched by the pursuing mob. Lennie dies at George's hands in an act of mercy. The dream they and many other migrant workers shared – We gonna get a little place – is as doomed as Lennie.
American Dream: Texts & Contexts eBook : Emma Lazarus, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store
- Emma Lazarus, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes
Critical Insights: The American Dream offers thirteen original essays exploring the contexts and expressions of the dream as it is reflected in our imaginative literature. "The American Dream" is a phrase that has become an essential component of the American experience, a phrase that, once entered into the national lexicon, has come to define our nation’s identity, underlying nearly every ...
