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Fall 2012ENGL 685.1TTH6:00 - 8:40RH305 Ibis GomezVega

Title: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION (3)

Course Description: Study of American fiction from the realists and naturalists to the modernists and postmodernists, including such writers as Dreiser, Cather, Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wright, Ellison, O’Connor, and Morrison.

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Course Requirements:

A critical analysis (15+pages) typed using the MLA style or a research paper (15+ pages) typed using the MLA style

Required Texts:

Saul Bellow\'s Seize the Day (1956)

Willa Cather\'s A Lost Lady (1923)      

Don DeLillo\'s White Noise (1985)

Theordore Dreiser\'s Sister Carrie (1900)

Louise Erdrich’s Tracks (1988)

F. Scott Fitzgerald\'s The Great Gatsby (1925)

Ken Kesey\'s One Flew over the Cuckoo\'s Nest (1962)           

Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water (1993)

Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow (1983)

Walker Percy\'s The Moviegoer (1962)

John Steinbeck\'s The Grapes of Wrath (1939)           

Anne Tyler\'s Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982)        

Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange (1997)

Richard Wright\'s Native Son (1940)

 

Suggested Texts

Richard Ruland & Malcolm Bradbury\'s From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of

      American Literature

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