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American Literature 1900-1950

Class at Faculty of Social Sciences |
JMM348

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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

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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.