Artifacts & Fiction: Workshop in American Literature Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Ceremonial Artifacts

  The use of objects in religious ceremonies.

• Cultural Geography

  Viewing literary texts through the relationship of people to their environment.

• Domestic Architecture

  Interior spaces reveal the cultural setting and period of literary text.

• Oral Histories

  Oral histories provide alternative views of a text's cultural setting.

• Political History

  Capturing political views with speeches, protest posters and cartoons; comprehending the place and time of a text.

• Ritual Artifacts

  Reading ritual artifacts to understand the cultural setting of literary text.

• Social History

  Social history; lives of ordinary people.

• Visual Arts

  Visual art: paintings, sculptures; identifying the style, form and subject matter of works.