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 -----------------------summer term--------- 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.