Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

Study the Literature of this Period using Online Video

With this topic, you'll trace America's literary heritage from the turn of the century to the beginning of World War II. Use our 2 online educational video titles to trace America's literary heritage from the turn of the century to the beginning of World War II. Writers discussed include William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, and Eugene O'Neill.

Learning Objectives:

• Trace America's literary heritage from the turn of the century to the beginning of World War II, a prolific era distinguished by the now-legendary voices of the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation
• Survey monumental literary works that explore themes of social injustice and the desensitisation and dislocation that followed in the wake of the First World War
• Gain insight to the honesty and directness characteristic of modern poetry through a survey of pre-eminent poets, including Hart Crane, Hilda Doolittle, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edgar Lee Masters, Ezra Pound, and Carl Sandburg
• Identify works by Eugene O'Neill, Thorton Wilder, and Lillian Helman, playwrights who made important contributions to the American theatre in the 1930's

• Literature > The History Of American Literature > After The Great War And The Lost Generations Many Voices
• After the Great War and A World Outlook (Runtime: 21:03)
• The Lost Generations Many Voices (Runtime: 15:55)