Talk:American Literature

Suggested Guidelines
Welcome to any and all co-authors for this Wikibook on American Literature. In order to make this book consistent, I propose the following guidelines and structure. Please see the modules on Robert Frost and Langston Hughes which are practically complete.

Of course, it should be associated with other Wikimedia projects, too.Logophile 06:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) At ths stage of the game, I am not numbering any of the modules, because I want to leave room for inserting others easily.
 * 2) As you can see from the Contents, I have arranged the book chronologically. Unless another writer is willing to re-do the entire order, I suggest we keep it that way.  I would hate to see the organization get muddled.
 * 3) Each chapter should begin with
 * 4) a discussion of the various movements and styles of that century and
 * 5) a list of the major literary figures and works of that century.
 * 6) Each module within the chapter should be about a particular writer. It should include:
 * 7) an introduction on the significance of the writer,
 * 8) a brief biography of the writer,
 * 9) a brief critical discussion of the writer's works,
 * 10) a list of the writer's awards and honors (especially literary ones),
 * 11) a list of some or all of the writer's works, and
 * 12) a list of external links to high-quality sources, especially for the writer's works.

Section Headings
Updated subject headings to conform more with standard divisions of American Literature anthologists.DanQuigley (talk) 05:35, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned pages
The following are pages that do not have links to them from the main book page but are currently within the American Literature hierarchy. Their location is not consistent with the table of contents listed at American Literature. Their location indicates they are 20th century writers but there are three periods in the table of contents dealing with the 20th century. I note them here so a future contributor to this book will be aware of their existence for incorporation.
 * American Literature/20th Century/Carl Sandburg
 * American Literature/20th Century/Jack London
 * American Literature/20th Century/Langston Hughes
 * American Literature/20th Century/Robert Frost
 * American Literature/20th Century/Theodore Dreiser
 * American Literature/20th Century/Willa Cather

Adrignola (talk) 04:31, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Some authors, though, span time periods, literary movements, and even centuries. Robert Frost is an excellent example of this; his work was not entirely modernist work, but it wasn't exactly romantic, either. He exhibited the feeling of much modernist work (for instance, "The Woodpile"), but he also held a more rigid poetic structure than a typical modernist poet. Furthermore, his life lasted from the 1870's to the 1960's. Unless I have completely misunderstood what is being asserted here, perhaps we can find another way of categorizing these authors. One option is to simply link to them in every category where they fit. Cqbarton (talk) 16:29, 29 June 2010 (UTC)