Chapter I. The peculiarities of american literature

TASHKENT – 2014
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………3

CHAPTER I. THE PECULIARITIES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

1.1.Some notable facts about Modern American literature..………..7 1.2. The American way of life in the works of William Faulkner and
Theodore Dreiser…………………………………………….……......16

CHAPTER II. SINCLAIR LEWIS AS THE AMERICA’S FIRST NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN LITERATURE

2.1. Some basic facts about the life and works of Sinclair Lewis…….28
2.2. The description of American social life in Sinclair Lewis‘s
works …………………………………………………………………

CHAPTER III. SINCLAIR LEWIS’S WORKS AND THE AMERICAN STYLE OF LIFE REFLECTED IN THEM

3.1 Reflection of American atmosphere in Sinclair Lewis‘s novel
―Main street‖…………………………………………………………...46
3.2 ―Babbitt‖ is a novel about urban America………………………...55
FINAL CONCLUSION…..…………………………………………..69

THE LIST OF LITERATURE…………………………....................73

Introduction

After the Independence of our country great importance is attached in the study and teaching foreign languages. Especially after the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the 10^th December 2012.―To develop the process of learning foreign languages‖. Not only learning foreign languages themselves but also learning their literature became important. Nowadays there are a lot of scientists, scholars, students who are interested in American literature. American literature is one of the interesting and important fields in the process of learning foreign languages. The works written by Mark Twain, Jack Jondon, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Upton Sinclair, and Sinclair Lewis are very popular among Uzbek readers.
Sinclair Lewis was the first writer from the United States who got theNobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." During the 1920 at the peak of his career, Lewis managed to write about the spirit of America in his novels. “Main Street” and “Babbitt” are presented especially about people who are belonged to the middle class. According to James Lundquist, ―Lewis was ultimately concerned with the question of how to live in American culture of the 1920s rather than with what that culture was like.‖¹ In ―Main Street‖, ―Babbitt‖ and ―Arrowsmith‖ Lewis examines the conditions of American society and explores different possibilities for the individual to cope with those conditions.
Lewis was a social critic because of this he wrote about the social condition of America in 1920s. Besides it he also managed to describe the role of the women in the society. Elizabeth Stevensonsays ― In Main Street, Sinclair Lewis held up a mirror of satire and longing to the whole people‖². In the preface of his novel ―Main Street‖ Lewis wrote ―This is America…‖ ³by these words everobody can understand that the novel is about America and the way of American living.