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Literature - Coggle Diagram

- - - - win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976
      - Dangling Man, The Victim, The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet
  - - - the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature
      - The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Light in August
  - - - the first African-American writer to win a Nobel Prize
      - the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993
      - The Bluest Eye and Beloved
    - - receive the Pulitzer Prize
      - The Color Purple
    - - The Joy Luck and The Kitchen God's Wife
      - a Chinese-American writer
  - - - the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer four times
    - - The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly Last Summer
    - - social dramatist
  - - - one of the most important literary figures
      - the Negro Speaks of Rivers
- - - - the "father of American literature"
      - famous stories: Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    - - the author of the "Leatherstocking Tales"
      - a series of five novels: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer
    - - New England Transcendentalism
      - the best: Nature and Essays
  - - - Leaves of Grass---about man and nature
      - one of the great innovators in American literature
      - poetic style: free verse
    - - the inner feelings of the individual
      - short; the longest is but 50 lines
      - My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close; Because I Could Not Stop for Death; A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
- - - - Tales of the Jazz Age, The beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night and The Great Gatsby(the best)
    - - a Nobel Prize winner for literature
      - one of the best-known American writers
      - his world is essentially chaotic and meaningless
  - - - one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century
      - Imagism, which advocates a clear, highly visual presentation
      - life work: The Cantos, a collection of poems