Title: AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1920-1960

PRQ:

This class will examine some of the most representative works from 1920 to 1960, with emphasis on the modernist period.

Two analytical essays (5-7 pages) typed using the MLA style (30% each); Ten quizzes (40% of grade).

Edward Albee's The Zoo Story (1959); Saul Bellow's Seize the Day (1956); Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady (1923); F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925); Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959); Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants" (1925); Paul Lauter’s Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume D, 6^th ed.; Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman  (1949); Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955); "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"; "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"; "Good Country People" ; J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1945); Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie (1945)