American Literature 1914 to the Present

English Department – American Literature, 1914 to the Present

Reading List 2011-2012 – American Literature, 1914-Present

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Fiction

 

Sherwood Anderson

 

Winesburg, Ohio

 

Zora Neale Hurston

 

“The Eatonville Anthology”

 

Joseph Heller

 

Catch-22

 

N. Scott Momaday

 

The Way to Rainy Mountain

 

Don DeLillo

 

Falling Man

 

Gene Luen Lang

 

American Born Chinese

 

 

Poetry

 

Marianne Moore

 

"The Jerboa"

 

Wallace Stevens

 

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

"A Study of Two Pears"

 

William Carlos Williams

 

"The Sparrow"

 

Elizabeth Bishop

 

"2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance"

            "The Fish"

 

Frank O'Hara

 

"Animals"

 

John Ashbery

 

"Some Trees"

"Rivers and Mountains"

 

Robert Lowell

 

"Skunk Hour"

 

Galway Kinnell

 

"The Porcupine"

"The Bear"

 

Gary Snyder

 

"Smokey the Bear Sutra"

 

Arthur Sze

 

"Slanting Light"

"The Shapes of Leaves"

 

 

Secondary Works

 

Irving Howe, "The Idea of the Modern"*

 

Helen Vendler, "Contemporary American Poetry"*

 

*On Reserve at Penrose Library.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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