Power and Alienation and Into The 1980s videos

Use online video to study American poetry and prose from World War 2 to the 1980s. Use the video subtitles to improve Reading and Literacy skills .... simultaneously!

Use these History of American Literature videos entitled Power and Alienation and Into The 1980s to study American poetry and prose published during the 40-year period that followed World War 2 up to the 1980s.

Use our 2 online educational video titles to examine American prose and poetry published during the 40-year period following World War 2. Writers discussed include Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger, and John Updike.

Learning Objectives:

• Survey American prose and poetry published during the forty-year period following World War 2, and examine how accelerating technological changes and an increasing public advocacy of human rights and social responsibility shaped these literary works.
• Discuss how literary works combining both fictional material and accounts of personal experiences and other factual data, such as those by Norman Mailer, reflect a focus on realism and the relationship between an individual and society.
• Explain how the outcome of World War 2 affected the sensibilities of American writers and artists, fully examining the implications of America's new, post-war image.
• Gain insight to themes explored by pre-eminent novelists, playwrights, and poets of this period, and understand how works by minorities challenged traditional views.

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• Power and Alienation (Runtime: 19:37)
• Into The Eighties (Runtime: 22:42)