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2 days ago · American literature, the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States. Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it.
- Literature has existed in the Americas for as long as the people who lived there have been telling stories. Native American cultures have a rich hi...
- Notable authors of American literature include: John Smith, who wrote some of its earliest works; Phillis Wheatley, who was the first Black woman t...
- American literature is often divided into six major periods:
4 days ago · Kevin Costner's 'Horizon: An American Saga' is fictional, but is rooted in America's very real Western history of outward expansion.
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2 days ago · July 3, 2024, 1:27 PM ET (AP) It's considered the first American novel, but this 1789 book isn't quite summer beach reading. In part because of the atomic bomb, American writers turned increasingly to black humour and absurdist fantasy.
4 days ago · Horizon: An American Saga — release date, review, trailer, cast and everything we know about Kevin Costner's epic western. By Michael Balderston. last updated 2 July 2024. Horizon: An American Saga will be released in two parts in the summer of 2024.
2 days ago · American literature - 19th Century, Realism, Romanticism: After the American Revolution, and increasingly after the War of 1812, American writers were exhorted to produce a literature that was truly native. As if in response, four authors of very respectable stature appeared.
1 day ago · Kevin Costner's new film is wildly ambitious and magnificent in scope and execution, but with one fairly substantial flaw. Kevin Costner is interested in developing long character arcs and using ...
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2 days ago · Academy Award®-winning visionary filmmaker Kevin Costner returns to direct and star in a multi-faceted chronicle, spanning 15 years of pre-and post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West.