WELCOME ENG 295: World Literature 2 END-USERS!
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- View online [or download to your printer] this fact sheet to help you with reading or writing about literature.
- Speak or write as a seasoned drama critic: consult McGraw-Hill's online Glossary of Drama Terms.
- Learn about major playwrights and the century-by-century development of the theatre!
- What is a comedy of manners?
- Read this brief synopsis of the 18th C. play The School for Scandal, a great comedy of the Georgian drama period written by the celebrated British playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan [1751-1816]!
- Learn about Henry James [1843-1916], American author of the acclaimed novella Daisy Miller.
- Try to understand the complex Hedda Gabler, namesake of an unsettling drama written in 1890 by the famed 19th C. Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen [1828-1906], who is known as both the "Shakespeare" and "Father" of modern drama.
- Learn about the privileged life of Edith Wharton [1862-1937], American-born author of the 1911 short novel (novella) Ethan Frome!
- Explore useful literary links and also learn about the background, symbolism, and critical reception of Edith Wharton's 1911 novella Ethan Frome.
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How does one read and interpret poems?
- Scan this brief chronology of the development of African-American poetry.
- Explore the multi-faceted history and discover some key figures of African-American literature.
- Examine the varied backgrounds--and read analyses of some key works--of the major American poets of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
- Learn some background facts and also discover why Native American poems (more properly called songs) were created.
- Pay a virtual visit to the Native American Cultural Center [NACC]!
- What is a short story--and what about its history and its components?
- Click on this link to view orto download your ENG 295 Take-home Final Exam!
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