Southern literature

ESHMURADOVA XAYOTGUL DAMINOVNA ABUBAKIROVA BARNOXON OLIMJON QIZI 2.26 – O‘ZBEK
Theme: LITERARY ELEMENTS OF AMERICAN & ENGLISH LITERATURE


CONTENTS:


INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………3


CHAPTER 1. SOUTHERN LITERATURE IN THE 17^TH AND 18^TH CENTURIES
1.1. Overwiev of Southern literature and history of Southern literature…….3
1.2. Southern Renaissance in the literature……………………………………7
1.3. Contemporary Southern literature…………………..9


CHAPTER 2. EARLY AMERICAN AND COLONIAL PERIOD IN THE LITERATURE
2.1.The literature of Exploration and The Colonial Period in New England…21
2.2. The literature in the Southern and Middle Colonies Authors……….....32
CONCLUSION.
USED LITERATURE.


INTRODUCTION.
Southern literature¹ (sometimes called the literature of the American South) is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region. Characteristics of Southern literature include a focus on a common Southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one’s role within it, a sense of justice, the region's dominant religion (Christianity — see Protestantism) and the burdens/rewards religion often brings, issues of racial tension, land and the promise it brings, a sense of social class and place, and the use of the Southern dialect.
Had history taken² a different turn, the United States³ easily could have been a part of the great Spanish or French overseas empires. Its present inhabitants might speak Spanish and form one nation with Mexico, or speak French and be joined with Canadian Francophone Quebec and Montreal.
Yet the earliest explorers of America were not English, Spanish, or French. The first European record of exploration in America is in a Scandinavian language. The Old Norse Vinland Saga recounts how the adventurous Leif Eriksson and a band of wandering Norsemen settled briefly somewhere on the northeast coast of America -- probably Nova Scotia, in Canada -- in the first decade of the 11th century, almost 400 years before the next recorded European discovery of the New World.
The first known and sustained contact between the Americas and the rest of the world, however, began with the famous voyage of an Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, funded by the Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella. Columbus's journal in his "Epistola," printed in 1493, recounts the trip's drama -- the terror of the men, who feared monsters and thought they might fall off the edge of the world; the near-mutiny; how Columbus faked the ships' logs so the men would not know how much farther they had travelled than anyone had gone before; and the first sighting of land as they neared America.
The aim of the work is studying of creativity of my course work the Southern and Middle Colonies authors .
The task of the work :
− to study the literary activity of Middle Colonies authors.
− to give the general review of creativity of Middle Colonies authors.
− to analyze one of Middle Colonies authors.