The 8 CFU survey course includes the following works and related themes:
Realism and Society in the Gilded Age
- Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (1861)
- Henry James, Daisy Miller (1878)
- Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth” (1898)
Geographies and Frontiers of Regionalism
- Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1865)
- Kate Chopin, “La Belle Zoraide” (1894)
- Stephen Crane, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” (1898)
Forms of American Naturalism
- Stephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel” (1898)
- Jack London, “To Build a Fire” (1902)
- O. Henry, “The Furnished Room” (1906)
Modernist Poetry in America
- Robert Frost (“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” – “ The Road not Taken”), Edgar Lee Masters (“Trainor the Druggist” – “Dippold the Optician”), and William Carlos Williams (“The Red Wheelbarrow” – “The Great Figure”)
Modernist Fiction: The American Short Story
- William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930)
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” (1931)
- Zora Neale Hurston, “The Gilded Six-Bits” (1933)
- Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936)
Forms of Postmodern Literature
- Thomas Pynchon, “Entropy” (1960)
- Toni Morrison, “Recitatif” (1983)
- Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (1983)
Critical Bibliography:
- American Literature 1865-1914: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
- American Literature 1914-1945: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
- American Literature since 1945: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
- A. Bendixen, “The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story,” in A Companion to the American Short Story, eds. A. Bendixen and J. Nagel, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 3-19.
- L. Montrose, “Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture,” in The New Historicism, ed. H. Aram Veeser, London – New York, Routledge, 1989, pp. 15-36.
The 6 CFU survey course includes the following works and related themes:
Realism and Society in the Gilded Age
- Henry James, Daisy Miller (1878)
- Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth” (1898)
Geographies and Frontiers of Regionalism
- Mark Twain, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865)
- Kate Chopin, “La Belle Zoraide” (1894)
Forms of American Naturalism
- Stephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel” (1898)
- O. Henry, “The Furnished Room” (1906)
Modernist Poetry in America
- Robert Frost (“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” – “ The Road not Taken”), Edgar Lee Masters (“Trainor the Druggist” – “Dippold the Optician”), and William Carlos Williams (“The Red Wheelbarrow” – “The Great Figure”)
Modernist Fiction: The American Short Story
- William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930)
- Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936)
Forms of Postmodern Literature
- Thomas Pynchon, “Entropy” (1960)
- Toni Morrison, “Recitatif” (1983)
Critical Bibliography:
- American Literature 1865-1914: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
- American Literature 1914-1945: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
- American Literature since 1945: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
- A. Bendixen, “The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story,” in A Companion to the American Short Story, eds. A. Bendixen and J. Nagel, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 3-19.
- L. Montrose, “Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture,” in The New Historicism, ed. H. Aram Veeser, London – New York, Routledge, 1989, pp. 15-36.
