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The American Novel Since 1945

Yale,, Spring 2008 , Prof. Amy Hungerford

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

Introductions - Richard Wright, Black Boy - Flannery OConnor, Wise Blood - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita - Guest Lecture by Andrew Goldstone - Jack Kerouac, On the Road - J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey - John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse - Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 - Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye - Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior - Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian - Philip Roth, The Human Stain - Edward P. Jones, The Known World - Students Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

Includes

Lecture 1: Introductions

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Lecture Details

In this first lecture Professor Hungerford introduces the courses academic requirements and some of its central concerns. She uses a magazine advertisement for James Joyces Ulysses and an essay by Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita, a novel on the syllabus) to establish opposing points of view about what is required to be a competent reader of literature. The contrast between popular emotional appeal and detached artistic judgment frames literary debates from the modernist, and into the post-45 period. In the second half of lecture, Hungerford shows how the controversies surrounding the publication of Richard Wrights Black Boy highlight the questions of truth, memory, and autobiography that will continue to resurface throughout the course.

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Sam

Excellent course helped me understand topic that i couldn't while attendinfg my college.

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Dembe

Great course. Thank you very much.

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