American Fictions

Syllabus of Spring 2000
 

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[with relevant links of each author]
Date
Author
Works
Part I: Short Stories    
March 1
Washington Irving
Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
"Rip Van Winkle"
"William Wilson"
"The Gray Champion"
"Jimmy Rose"
March 8
Jack London
Sherwood Anderson
Willa Cather
O' Henry
"The Chinago"
"The Teacher"
"The Joy of Nelly Deane"
"The Romance of a Busy Broker"
March 15
(Topic of first paper due)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
"Ice Palace"
"The Prizefighter"
"There Was a Queen"
March 22
Bernard Malamud
Flannery O'Conner

John Barth
Robert Carver
"The Magic Barrel"
"Everything That Rises Must Converge"
"Lost in the Funhouse"
"Cathedral"
March 29
Holiday
  
April 5
Holiday
  
Part II: Novels    
April 12
(First paper due)
Henry James
Washington Square
April 19
Continued
  
April 26
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
May 3
Continued
  
May 10
(Topic of second paper due)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Woman Warrior
May 17
Continued
  
May 24
(Second Paper 
of seniors due)
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
May 31
Continued
  
June 7
Toni Morrison
Sula
June 14
(Second paper due)
Continued
  

 


Relevant Links of Authors

Edgar Allan Poe 
           [Top]
―The Humor of Edgar Allan Poe
  with introduction of Allan Poe and quotations of critical essays
―Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
―The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
―MysteryNet
―Edgar Allan Poe Links
Nathaniel Hawthorne
           [Top]
―Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864
   a wonderful website with useful web resource in clear catagories 
Willa Cather
           [Top]
―Search Catagory--Willa Cather
F. Scott Fitzgerald
           [Top]
―F. Scoot Fitzgerald: Flappers and Philosophers Study
   With on-line stories and related web sites
―Centennial site
Ernest Hemingway
           [Top]
―Tracking Hemingway
  collection of Atlantic articles from 1939 to 1983, tracking the strengths and 
  weaknessnes of the American literary lion
―Michigan Hemingway Society
  made up of university professors, writers, teachers, fly fishers, journalists and 
  anyone interested in exploring Hemingway's work and its relationship to 
  Michigan
―Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum
  National Registered Historic Landmark, with information about Hemingway's 
  time in Key West