American Literature 1914-1945 (NAAL, Volume D) -- Short Papers
Required: Read the historical and literary-historical background material on pages 1071-1086, and then write one page, word-processed and double-spaced (10-, 11-, or 12-point font), summarizing what you consider to be the most important information found in this section. For this summary, you do not have to cover everything; instead, focus on those parts that are most essential or interesting to you.
Optional Extra Credit: Read a selection (at least 5 pages long) by one writer not listed on the course reading schedule, and then write one page, word-processed and double-spaced (10-, 11-, or 12-point font), briefly summarizing and then mostly reacting to, analyzing, or evaluating the selection. Perhaps highlight what you consider to be significant about the selection, or make connections between your chosen writer and one or more of the writers on the course reading schedule.
Edgar Lee
Masters Poetry Traditional,
Early Modernism
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Poetry Traditional, Early Modernism
Amy
Lowell Poetry Modernism, Imagism
Gertrude
Stein Prose
Experimental
Sherwood Anderson
Fiction Midwest
Carl Sanburg
Poetry Chicago, Early Modernism
Wallace Stevens
Poetry Modernism
Anzia Yezierska
Fiction Polish Immigrant
Ezra
Pound Poetry Modernism, Imagism, Intellectual
H.D. (Hilda
Doolittle) Poetry Modernism,
Imagism
Robinson
Jeffers
Poetry
Modernism
Marianne
Moore Poetry Modernism
Eugene
O’Neill Drama
Modernism
T.S.
Eliot Poetry Modernism, Intellectual
John Crowe Ransom
Poetry Modernism
Claude
McKay Poetry Harlem
Renaissance
Nella
Larsen Novel
Harlem Renaissance
Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Modernism
Dorothy
Parker Prose
Intellectual Humor
Genevieve Taggard
Poetry Political, Feminism
E.E.
Cummings Poetry Experimental
Jean Toomer Poetry, Fiction Harlem Renaissance
John Dos Passos Prose, Fiction Modernism, Multiple-Genre
Louise Bogan Poetry Modernism
Hart
Crane Poetry Modernism
Thomas Wolfe
Prose, Fiction South, Modernism
Sterling A.
Brown
Poetry Harlem
Renaissance
John
Steinbeck Fiction California, Social Reform
Countee
Cullen Poetry Harlem
Renaissance
Richard
Wright Fiction Harlem
Renaissance
Carlos Bulosan Fiction Filipino-American
Muriel Rukeyser Poet Jewish, Political, Feminism
Papers are Due on Wednesday, March 24, 2004