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émile zola
1984
19th century
19th-century America

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A chorus line
A Farewell to Arms
A Good Man is Hard to Find
A Humble Romance and Other Stories
A mercy
A modern instance
A poetics of the concrete
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Rage in Harlem
A Raisin in the Sun
A Sand County Almanac
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Aaron Douglas
Abstract expressionism
Absurdism
Absurdity
Action painting
Activism
Actors Studio
Adaptation to Environment
Adrienne Rich
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
African American experience
African American Folklore
African American Literary Canon
African American literature
African American soldiers
Afrocentrism
Afrofuturism
Afternoon, a Story
Agatha Christie
Agrarian ideal
Agricultural Revolution
Aids crisis
Ain't misbehavin'
Alfred Stieglitz
Algorithmic poetry
Alien contact
Alien invasion stories
Alienation
Alienation effect
Alison Bechdel
All My Sons
All Quiet on the Western Front
Allegory
Allen Ginsberg
Allusions and Intertextuality
Alma Winemiller
Alternate history
Amanda Wingfield
Ambiguity
Ambrose Bierce
America is in the Heart
American Civil War
American Dream
American Exceptionalism
American Federation of Labor
American Identity
American Pastoral
American Romanticism
Americanah
Amherst, Massachusetts
Amiri Baraka
Amy Lowell
Amy Tan
An American tragedy
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Anachronism
Anagram Poetry
Anaphora
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english & capstone
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arts
🎨 ap art & design🖼️ ap art history🎵 ap music theory
science
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math & computer science
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