I-  Colonial Period in American Literature

1.  Prominent Authors and Works

2.  Types of American Literary Texts

II-  The Birth of American Nation in Literature

1.  Important Writers and their Contributions

2.   American Literary Genres

 III-The Rise of American National Literature

1.   Features of  National American Literature

2.   Prominent Authors and Works

IV-     Romantic Period

1.  Characteristics of American Romanticism 

2.  Major Writers and Works

V-  American Transcendentalism

1.  Features of Transcendentalism

2.  Prominent Authors and Works

VI-   Civil War and the Gilded Age

1.  Authors and Works

2.  Major Themes

VII-     American Realism

1.  Characteristics of Realism

2.  Major Writers and Literary Texts

VIII-American Naturalism

1.  Concepts and Features of Naturalism

2.  Realism Vs. Naturalism

IX-Modernism

1.  Characteristics of Modernism

2.  Literary Genres and Writers

X- Postmodernism

1.Features of Postmodernism

2.Prominent Techniques,  Authors and Works

XI- Analyzing an American Romantic Literary Text: Edgar Alan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher

1.Form and Content of Edgar Alan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Ushe

2.Terminologies of Romanticism in Edgar Alan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher

XII-Application of American Realism in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

1.Literary Elements in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

2.Features of Realism in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

XIII- Analyzing a Modern American Work: T.S.Eliot’s The Waste Land

1. Form and Content of T.S.Eliot’s The Waste Land

2.Features of Modernism in T.S.Eliot’s The Waste Land

XIV- Analyzing a Postmodern Literary Text: Don Delillo’s White Noise

1.Major Themes in Don Delillo’s White Noise

2.Postmodern Features in Delillo’s White Noise