20th century American Novel

A survey of the 20th-century novel, its forms, patterns of ideas, techniques, cultural context, rivalry with film and radio, short story, and fact. Wharton, Age of Innocence; Cather, My Antonia; Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms and stories; Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury and stories; Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night; Ellison, Invisible Man; Nabokov, Lolita; Bellow, Herzog; Salinger, Catcher in the Rye and stories; Ha Jin, Waiting. Stories by James, London, Anderson, Gaitskill, Wallace, Beattie, Lahiri and Ford.

Philip J. Fisher

A survey of the 20th-century novel, its forms, patterns of ideas, techniques, cultural context, rivalry with film and radio, short story, and fact. Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Wharton, The House of Mirth; Cather, My Antonia; Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms and stories; Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury and stories; Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night; Ellison, Invisible Man; Nabokov, Lolita; Bellow, Herzog; DeLillo, White Noise. Stories by London, Anderson, Salinger, Gaitskill, Wallace, Beattie, Lahiri, Roth and Ford.

A survey of the 20th-century novel, its forms, patterns of ideas, techniques, cultural context, rivalry with film and radio, short story, and fact. Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Wharton, The House of Mirth; Jack London, Stories; Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio; Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms and stories; Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury and stories; Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night; Ellison, Invisible Man; Nabokov, Lolita; Bellow, Herzog; Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49; DeLillo, White Noise.