| Unit 2. From aesthetics to ethics: American Modernism and 1930s social literature. |
2.1. Modernist subjectivity in prose: Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner / Modernist objectivity in poetry: Imagism in Ezra Pound, HD, W.C. Williams
2.2. Depression Era Fiction: John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. |
| Unit 3. Post-war Literature: Existentialism, Ethnicity and Postmodernism. |
3.1. The Broadway stage: A. Miller's Death of a Salesman & Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.
3.2. Jewish American fiction: Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth.
3.3 American postmodernism: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 & John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse" |
