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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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5 de mai. de 2024 · American Dream, ideal that the United States is a land of opportunity that allows the possibility of upward mobility, freedom, and equality for people of all classes who work hard and have the will to succeed. The roots of the American Dream lie in the goals and aspirations of the first European.
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.
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
