American Literature from 1900 to the present

Langston Hughes: - "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers" - "The Weary Blues" - "Note on Commercial Theater" Zora Neale Hurstone: - explanation of life and writing career - Explanation of novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Whitman: "A Pact" / "The Cantos" Marianne Moore: "The Paper Nautilus" WC Williams: "The Red Wheelbarrow" / "This Is Just To Say" Wallace Stevens: "The Snow Man" / "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

Introduction: - Scott Fitzgerald - Hemingway - Mencken Faulkner: " A Rose for Emily" " As I Lay Dying" (detailed description)

Description of the following authors: Booker T Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison and detailed notes about the Renaissance: Harlem Renaissance with Claude McKay ("The Harlem Dancer", "The Lyncing"), Langston Hughes ("I Too")

Detailed description of: Stein: "Composition as Explanation" / "Tender Buttons" Frost: "After Apple-Picking" / "The Road Not Taken" Pound: "Portrait d'une femme"

New American Highlights - Historical Developments: - Morrison - hyphenated identities - 3 perspectives: African-American (Morrison)/ Native American (Silko/Cisneros)/ Latin American (Díaz)

Opposition between high, low and middle brow Description of Broadway and Drama after 1905 Description of Expressionism and Theatrical Realism (Susan Glaspell and O'Neill) Major figures:

Environment in Postwar USA (1945-60) Description of The Beats generation - Neal Cassidy - Jack Kerouac - Allen Ginsberg ("Howl") - Robert Lowell - Adrienne Rich Inclusion of possible exam question)

description of Jewish America: - Before WWII - Postwar description of Jewish writers: - Sholem Aleichem - Bernard Malamud - Saul Bellow - Philip Roth - Art Spiegelman

Second class on Drama: - Tenessee Williams