352:344 AMERICAN LITERATURE OF 20th CENTURY (Spring 2000)
TuTh 4:00-5:50 pm; Conklin 203 Ehrlich:
Text: Nina Baym, ed, Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed, Vol. 2
20, 25| Eastman 638-45;
Washington 581-95; DuBois 713-36; Yezeirska 1204-14
| 27,Feb1 | Willa Cather, My Antonia (1918) 949-1083
| 3, 8 | Early American Modernism: S. Anderson, Adventure (1919) 1149-54; 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: Pound, Pact 1235, Metro 1236: Eliot, Prufrock 1370-73; Parker Profundus (1926)
1461, Resume 1461, Sex 1462
| 17, 22 | The Harlem Renaissance: Hurston, Colored (1928) 1436-38: Hughes, Rivers (1921) 1731, Mother 1732,Mulatto 1734: Cullen, l 1752ab 1752; Grimke (1919) 1186-1202
| 24 | The Thirties and Forties: Fiction: Hemingway, Snows (1936) 1687-1704;
| Mar 2,7,9 | Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930) 1534--1640
| 21 | Dos Passos, USA (1936) 1512-32; Roethke (1948) 2449, 2454b, Jarrell, Gunner (1945) 2503
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| 23 | Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) 1797-1860
| 28, 30 | The Fifties -- Beat & Confessional Poets: Ginsberg (1956) Howl 2634-41; Plath, 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; Morrison, Recitatif
| 11 | Drama: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, 1919--
| 20 | Drama: David Mamet, Glengary Glen Ross (1984) 2315-48
| 25-27 | Poetry: selections
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