Answer. ☞Main themes of novels written in the 19th century in Europe included: Rural life and community like that depicted in the works of Leo Tolstoy. ☞Problems of industrialization and urbanization like that depicted in Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

POLITICS AND CITIZENSHIP – Colonial and revolutionary legacies, American political traditions, growth of democracy, development of the government.

Myths, legends, and folktales lie at the beginning of literature, and their plots, situations, and allegorical (metaphorical narrative) judgments of life represent a constant source of literary inspiration that never fails.

What are two common themes in American literature?

• The American Dream.
• Loss of Innocence.
• Coming of Age.
• Relationship with Nature.
• Relationship with Society.
• Relationship with Science.
• Alienation and Isolation.
• Survival of the Fittest.

This lesson identifies four important themes in Modern American Literature: alienation, transformation, consumption, and the relativity of truth. These themes reflect the distinct sensibilities of both the modernist and postmodern aesthetic movements.

Answer: Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and Emerging Literary Trends. The Latin American wars of Independence that occurred in the early nineteenth century in Latin America led to literary themes of identity, resistance, and human rights.

THEMES OF COLONIALISM, LIBERATION, NATIONALISM, TRADITION, DISPLACEMENT AND ROOTLESSNESS IN AFRICAN LITERATURE This paper deals with some of the themes in African literature such as colonialism, liberation, nationalism, tradition, displacement and rootlessness.

Social realism — dark and often depressing depictions of life in Latin America; sometime the literature reflects the violent history of the region: “Torrents of blood.” Authors associated w/social realism are Novas Calvo, Rulfo, and Arias.

Since 1940, when Latin American literature has become an important reference in universal literature. Nowadays it continues to grow thanks to its various movements such as realism, antinovel and magical realism. Literature is an important part of Hispanic culture.

But the standard is that a person can read 40 to 50 pages in an hour on average. When you want to speed up the reading, you must read books regularly to develop the habit of reading.

Reading Time by Page Counts

Most people can finish reading 20 pages within 30 minutes. And if you do it first thing in the morning, then the urgencies of the day don’t get in the way. Finally, 20 pages seems small but adds up fast. It’s a great average speed.

Howard “Speedy” Berg

around 200 to 250 words per minute

Is it possible to type 400 wpm? 600 WPM is quite fast for an “ordinary reader”, even 400 WPM is fast. Most people, even well educated people read below 300 WPM .

The average typing speed is around 40 words per minute (WPM) or around 190-200 characters per minute. To give you an idea of how fast that is, consider this: a typical 13-year-old types at around 23 WPM while experienced secretaries average at 74 WPM.

As to fiction, at 150 pages per hour, you are “reading” 2.5 pages per minute, or a page every 24 seconds.

Answer: 150 pages will take about 4.2 hours to read for the average reader. Typical documents that are 150 pages or more include full-length novels. A typical single-spaced page is 500 words long.

A 300 page book is easily ‘read’ in a day by resorting to a technique called ‘skimming and scanning’. You will not attempt to read every word on every page – instead you will move your eyes rapidly across and down each page, focusing on key words and phrases.