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American Literature
Curious fact about USA :
English is not the official language of the United States.
The Unites States of America is a federalconstitutional republic consisting of fifty states and federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, possesses 3.79 million square miles (9.83million km2) and with over 314 million people.
It is one of the world’s most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigrationfrom many countries also is the largest national economy in the world.
Government and politics:
The United States is a constitutional republic and representativedemocracy, "in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law". The government is regulated by a system of checks and balances defined by the U.S.Constitution, which serves as the country's supreme legal document.
AMERICAN LITERATURE:
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, American art and literaturetook most of its cues from Europe. Writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau established a distinctive American literary voice bythe middle of the 19th century. Mark Twain and poet Walt Whitman were major figures in the century's second half; Emily Dickinson, virtually unknown during herlifetime, is now recognized as an essential American poet.
A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as HermanMelville's Moby-Dick (1851), Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925)—may be dubbed the "Great American Novel"
Curious fact about USA :
English is not the official language of the United States.
The Unites States of America is a federalconstitutional republic consisting of fifty states and federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, possesses 3.79 million square miles (9.83million km2) and with over 314 million people.
It is one of the world’s most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigrationfrom many countries also is the largest national economy in the world.
Government and politics:
The United States is a constitutional republic and representativedemocracy, "in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law". The government is regulated by a system of checks and balances defined by the U.S.Constitution, which serves as the country's supreme legal document.
AMERICAN LITERATURE:
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, American art and literaturetook most of its cues from Europe. Writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau established a distinctive American literary voice bythe middle of the 19th century. Mark Twain and poet Walt Whitman were major figures in the century's second half; Emily Dickinson, virtually unknown during herlifetime, is now recognized as an essential American poet.
A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as HermanMelville's Moby-Dick (1851), Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925)—may be dubbed the "Great American Novel"
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