What follows is a list of the primary texts
upon which you will be tested. The purpose
of the list is to reduce the amount of material
on which you will be asked direct questions
to a representative and practical size. It
is not to limit the depth and breadth of your
reading. Obviously, reading other primary
texts, historical studies, and secondary criticism
is one of the best ways of preparing to discuss
the content and form of at least these works,
and to give some account of the place of each
in its historical and critical context.
Fiction and Autobiography |
Gertrude
Stein |
Three
Lives |
Willa
Cather |
My Antonia
|
Sherwood
Anderson |
Winesburg,
Ohio |
Ernest
Hemingway |
The Sun
Also Rises
"Big Two-Hearted River"
"Hills Like White Elephants"
|
Jean
Toomer |
Cane |
F.
Scott Fitzgerald |
The Great
Gatsby |
William
Faulkner |
The Sound
and the Fury |
Katherine
Anne Porter |
"The Jilting
of Granny Weatherall" |
Zora
Neale Hurston |
Their Eyes
Were Watching God |
John
Steinbeck |
The Grapes
of Wrath |
Flannery
OíConnor |
"Everything
that Rises Must Converge"
"A
Good Man is Hard to Find" |
Richard
Wright |
Native Son
Black Boy |
Ralph
Ellison |
Invisible
Man |
James
Baldwin |
Notes of
a Native Son
Going to Meet the Man
|
Tillie
Olsen |
Tell Me
a Riddle |
Jack
Kerouac |
On the Road |
Thomas
Pynchon |
The Crying
of Lot 49 |
John
Barth |
Lost in
the Funhouse |
Toni
Morrison |
Sula
Song of Solomon |
Maxine
Hong Kingston |
Woman Warrior:
Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts |
Louise
Erdrich |
Tracks |
Richard
Rodriguez |
Hunger of
Memory |
Sandra
Cisneros |
The House
on Mango Street |
Tim
O'Brien |
The Things
They Carried |
Charles
Johnson |
Middle Passage |
Sherman
Alexie |
Reservation
Blues |
|
Drama |
Tennessee
Williams |
The Glass
Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desire |
Arthur
Miller |
Death of
a Salesman |
Eugene
OíNeill |
Long Day's
Journey into Night |
Lorraine
Hansberry |
A Raisin
in the Sun |
Edward
Albee |
Who's Afraid
of Virginia Woolf? |
David
Mamet |
Glengarry
Glen Ross |
August
Wilson |
The Piano
Lesson |
Luis
Valdez |
Zoot Suit |
|
Poetry |
| (Selections
in the Norton Anthology of American Literature,
vols. D and E, 6th edition or more recent) |
E.
A. Robinson
Robert Frost
Ezra Pound
T. S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams
Wallace Stevens
E. E. Cummings
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Countee Cullen
|
Elizabeth Bishop
Theodore Roethke
Robert Hayden
Robert Lowell
Allen Ginsberg
James Wright
Amiri Baraka
Adrienne Rich
Sylvia Plath
Gwendolyn Brooks |
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