|
1972-3
Fall 1972
En 182.03 Major American Writers
"The Mosaic myth and the pursuit of the American Dream as chronicled by advocates and adversaries. Authors studied will include Hawthorne, Twain, Thoreau, Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Capote, Steinbeck, and Hannibal."
En 211 The Matter of the Red Man
"The American Indian, most malleable of literary properties, studied as he runs the gauntlet of caucasian caprice from the days of the captivity narratives through the works of Morton, Freneau, Irving, Cooper, Crockett, Bird, Simms, Parkman, Jackson, Twain, Beston, Edmonds, Guthrie, and Richter."
En 734 Romanticism in American Literature
"American historical and philosophical romanticism, romanticism of sentiment and of the frontier, and Gothicism, studied in the works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Melville, Stowe, Dickinson, and Whitman."
(Evening College) En 197 Crime Fiction and Folk Myth
"Detective Fiction as an art form studied in the works of Poe, Gaboriau, Collins, Doyle, Chesterton, Freeman, Sayers, Christie, Hammett, Chandler, Stout, Allingham, Tey Van Gulik, Simenon, Ross MacDonald and others, together with critical assessments by Auden, Alvarez, Gide, Malraux, Krutch, Barzun, Wilson and Van Doren."
Spring 1973
En 183.03 Major American Writers II
"The Boot Strap Myth and the Grail Impulse. Alienation and the search for new affirmations in American life, studied in seminal works of Howells, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Salinger, Knowles, Skinner, Forst, Beston and Kosinski."
En 212 Realism and Naturalism in American Literature
"The quest for truth and self-awareness traced in the fiction of Crane, James, Dreiser, Wharton, Anderson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Wright, Salinger, Knowles, Kosinski."
En 735 Counter-Romanticism in American Literature
"Repudiation of the tenets of romanticism as variously dealt with in the works of Twain, Howells, Crane, Kirkland, Jewett, James, Chopin, Frederic, Dreiser, and Wharton, discussed in terms of its implications for American literature and life."
(Evening College) En 198 Realism & Naturalism in Our National Literature
"The evolution of modern American fiction traced in the works of Crane, James, Dreiser, Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Wright, Salinger, Knowles and Anderson."
Summer 1973
En 717.01 New England in Fiction: The Brahmin World
"The cultural ascendancy of Boston studied in the novels of James, Howells, Crawford, Bates, Grant, Sinclair, Dos Passos, Marquand, Santayana, Stafford, O’Connor, and Sheehan."
|