App Detail » American Literature Guide

Published by: Mark Patrick Media LLC

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: $2.99
Current Version: 5.0.2
Released: August 28, 2012

What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to use the latest Apple signing certificate.

New in 5.0.3
- Updated with leading edge technology
- Built with scalable frameworks and versatile APIs
- Hang-free data binding for faster UI switching
- Clean, minimalistic design, focused on content rather than bling
- Responsive user interface adapts to most screen sizes and densities
- No ads or in-app purchases, suitable for classroom use and volume purchasing

App Description

American Literature Guide is a comprehensive reference app for students studying American literature in high school or college. The American literary tradition is broken down into the periods of Puritanism, Rationalism, Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. Each period is analyzed and explained from six different perspectives: literary attributes, major writers, musical influences, artistic influences, historical significance, and a thorough analysis of one period piece.

American Literature Guide is content rich with high-level instructional text, high-resolution images, and links to musical references. Students can explore the biographies and works of major authors within each literary tradition, and by clicking "Analysis" students can see the attributes of each literary period in action as one piece of literature from that category is fully analyzed, annotated, and explained:

1. "Upon the Burning of our House" - Anne Bradstreet
2. "The Declaration of Independence" - Thomas Jefferson
3. "To a Waterfowl" - William Cullen Bryant
4. "The Raven" - Edgar Allan Poe
5. "Nature" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. "Richard Cory" - Edwin Arlington Robinson
7. "A Man Said to the Universe" - Stephen Crane
8. "Mowing" - Robert Frost
9. "Lost in the Funhouse" - John Barth

American Literature Guide is suitable for classroom projection from an iPad and functions equally well all recent versions of iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. American Literature Guide was written and developed by a college English professor and is appropriate for all levels from secondary through graduate-level academics.

*This full version contains no ads or in-app purchases and is suitable for Apple's volume purchasing plan.