Unit 2. From aesthetics to ethics: American Modernism and 1930s social literature. |
2.1. Two outlooks in modernist subjectivity: Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.
2.2. Objectivism and Imagism in Poetry: E. Pound, HD, W.C. Williams
2.3. Depression Era Fiction: J. Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. |
Unit 4. After postmodernism: American Literature since the 1970s. |
4.1 Feminist criticism and the revision of the canon: emergence of ethnic women writers (1970-1990s).
4.2. Post-postmoderns & contemporary writing: Paul Auster and Don DeLillo |