Syllabus
Introduction
Ernest Hemingway
Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos
William Faulkner
Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Harlem Renaissance
John Steinbeck
Erskine Caldwell and Nathaniel West
E. E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams
Eugene O\'Neil
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Introduction
Saul Bellow
Philip Roth
Vladimir Nabokov
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlingetti
Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Richard Brautigan
John Updike
William Styron
Joyce Carol Oates, Tony Morrison, Ann Tyler
Ken Kesey, Kurt Vonnegut
John Irving
Tom Robbins
Annotation
This course, conducted in English, will introduce the students to the period of American writing that saw an arrival of new form and new content in the 1920s and a new focus on the socially indigenous in the 1930s. Basic orientation in the various streams of postwar writing, from the confessional mainstream novel through the Beats to experimental prose and postmodern writing.
The diversity of styles in this period corresponds to the increasingly complex picture of the American society and reflects its complexity.