352:344 AMERICAN LITERATURE OF 20th CENTURY
(Spring 2000)[344.1.S00]
TuTh 4:00-5:50 pm; Conklin 203
Ehrlich: Office 521 Hill (E-mail: ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
Reading and Assignment Schedule: (subject to change)Text: Nina Baym, ed, Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed, Vol. 2
| E | Jan 18 | Introduction:
| P1 | 20, 25 | Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Immigrants, Settlers: Eastman 638-45; Ghost dances, 839-46; Washington 581-95; DuBois 713-36; Yezeirska 1204-14
| P2 | 27,Feb1 | Willa Cather, My Antonia (1918) 949-1083
| | 3, 8 | Early American Modernism: S. Anderson, Adventure (1919) 1149-54; G. Stein, Americans (1906) 1093-1105, Buttons (1914) 1105-15; Frost, Road 1128, Birches 1130, Out 1131, Fire 1132, Woods 1133, Gift 1139, Poem 1141-43
| | 10,15 | The Twenties: Williams, Housewife 1216, Elsie 1220, Red 1221, Just 1224, Icarus 1230: Pound, Pact 1235, Metro 1236: Eliot, Prufrock 1370-73, Tradition 1375-78; 1481; Millay, Women 1058, Apostrophe 1058, Chaos 1460; Parker Profundus (1926) 1461, Resume 1461, Sex 1462, Waltz 1462-65; Porter, Flowering (1929) 1412
| P3 | 17, 22 |
Note: To adjust for the snow day, the readings originally scheduled for
February 17 and 22 will take place on the actual date of February 22.
The midterm will take place as scheduled on February 29. | The Harlem Renaissance: Hurston, Colored (1928) 1436-38: Hughes, Rivers (1921) 1731, Mother 1732,Mulatto 1734: Cullen, l 1752ab 1752; Grimke (1919) 1186-1202 E | 24 | The Thirties and Forties: Fiction: Hemingway, Snows (1936) 1687-1704; Fitzgerald, Babylon (1931) 1496-1511
| | Feb 29: | Mid Term exam
| P4 | Mar 2,7,9 | Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930) 1534--1640
| | Mar 14,16: | Spring Break
| T | 21 | Dos Passos, USA (1936) 1512-32; Roethke (1948) 2449, 2454, Jarrell, Gunner (1945) 2503
| P5 | 23 | Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) 1797-1860
| | 28, 30 | The Fifties -- Beat & Confessional Poets: Ginsberg (1956) Howl 2634-41,Supermarket 2641, Sunflower 2642,Rose 2636; Plath, Lazarus (1966) 2744, Daddy 2748; Sexton, Sylvia (1966) 2705-07, String Bean 2707-09; Rich, Power 2721-22; Malamud, Barrel (1958) 1871-83; O'Connor, Country (1955) 2020-34; O'Hara (1959) 2654
| | Apr 4, 6 | The Sixties and Seventies -- Fiction: Walker, Everyday (1973) 2274-80; Updike, Separating (1975) 2096-2101; Momaday, Rainy (1969) 2147-56; Paley (1974) 1986-90
| | P6 11 | Poetry: Wright, Blessing (1963) 2693; Levine, Grease Shop (1972) 2698-99, Fear and Fame 1701-02; Lorde, Coal (1968) 2756, Woman (1971) 2756-7; Harper, Coltrane (1970) 2770
| | 13, 18 | The Eighties and Nineties -- Fiction: Silko, Lullaby (1981) 2349-55; Morrison, Recitatif (1983) 2078-92; Erdrich, Fleur (1988) 2385-94
| P7 | 20 | Drama: David Mamet, Glengary Glen Ross (1984) 2315-48
| | 25-27 | Poetry: Oliver Snake (1983) 2762, Bluebird (1991) 2765-66; Pinsky Shirt (1990) 2784-85; Ortiz, Sandcreek (1981) 2793; Harjo Summer Night (1990) 2804; Rios, Seniors (1985) 2826;Cervantes, Uncle (1981) 2831-32, Virginia 2833-34, Braille 2836; Song, Chinatown (1983) 2842, Heaven (1988) 2845; Lee, Gift (1986) 2847, Persimmons 2848, Mnemonic 2851, Room (1990) 2851-52
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