American Narrative Fiction,
1960 to the Present
Tentative Syllabus
04/24/08 Intro
05/08/08 Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck and Other Paradigms
05/15/08 Kerouac, Updike
05/29/08 The Documentary Novel:Truman Capote and Others
06/05/08 Thomas Pynchon and Others
Tentative Syllabus
06/12/08 John Barth
06/19/08 Philip Roth
06/26/08 Late Updike and Others
07/03/08 Jonathan Franzen
07/10/08 Richard Ford
07/17/08 Klausur
John Dos Passos
(1896 – 1970)
Manhattan Transfer
Published 1925
Ernest Hemingway
(1899 – 1961)
The Nick Adams Stories
Collection published 1972
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Published 1940
John Steinbeck
(1902 – 1968)
The Grapes of Wrath
Published 1939
William Faulkner
(1897 – 1962)
These 13
Collection published 1931