{"id":237623,"date":"2025-05-12T07:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T07:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/major-american-authors-of-the-20th-century\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T07:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T07:14:58","slug":"major-american-authors-of-the-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=237623","title":{"rendered":"Major American Authors of the 20th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-3742335617686686371\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<p>[About halfway<br \/>\nthrough the Spring 2025 semester, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/dailyprogress\/name\/stephen-railton-obituary?id=57716139\">I<br \/>\nlost my Dad<\/a>. While that was of course the semester\u2019s most defining moment,<br \/>\nit also allowed me to reflect for the remaining weeks on my own teaching in<br \/>\nrelationship to one of the most dedicated and talented teachers I\u2019ve ever<br \/>\nknown. So for this semester reflections series, I want to highlight one moment<br \/>\nfrom each class where I\u2019d say I particularly felt my Dad\u2019s presence.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">We lost my<br \/>\nDad on a Sunday morning; on Monday morning, I taught two American Literature<br \/>\ncourses over Google Meet. I hope that doesn\u2019t seem insensitive or unfeeling; I<br \/>\nassure you it was quite the opposite, not least because I was teaching at my<br \/>\nDad\u2019s desk in his study, with his books and papers and so much else of his<br \/>\namazing career and life around me. In Major American we were beginning our second<br \/>\nweek with Langston Hughes, and discussing in particular his stunning book-length<br \/>\npoem\/collection \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestoryweb.com\/montage\/\">Montage of a<br \/>\nDream Deferred<\/a>\u201d (1951). At the heart of that collection, in its literal<br \/>\ncenter but also I would argue its philosophical core, is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/47880\/theme-for-english-b\">Theme<br \/>\nfor English B<\/a>,\u201d one of Hughes\u2019s most explicitly autobiographical poems and<br \/>\na text focused on an English classroom and assignment. As we talked about \u201cTheme\u201d<br \/>\nduring that class, and especially as I reflected for a bit on the limits and<br \/>\nthe possibilities of teaching and writing alike before we move to another focal<br \/>\ntext, I certainly felt like my Dad, a lifelong writer and teacher and critical<br \/>\noptimist about all things literary, was there in the conversation with us. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Next reflection<br \/>\ntomorrow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Ben<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">PS. Spring<br \/>\nsemester reflections you\u2019d share?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[About halfway through the Spring 2025 semester, I lost my Dad. While that was of course the semester\u2019s most defining moment, it also allowed me to reflect for the remaining weeks on my own teaching in relationship to one of the most dedicated and talented teachers I\u2019ve ever known. 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