American literature after WWI

1 American Literature in Transition 1945-1960

2.American Literature in the 1960s

3.Contemporary American Novels

4.Contemporary American Drama

5.Contemporary American Poetry

6.Contemporary Popular Literature

7.Comtemporary American Literary Criticism

1 American Literature in Transition 1945-1960

1.1 Historical backgrounding

Economy Cold War McCathy

The Silent Generation

1.2 The New Generation of Writers

1.2.1 War Novel

John Hersey, James Gould Cozzens, Irwin Shaw, James Jones, Herman Wouk, Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead (1948)

1.2.2 Jewish-American Novel

Saul Bellow Dangling Man, The Victim, The Aducatures of Augie March, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain king, Herzog, Mr.Sammler's Planet Bernard Malamud The Assistant Issac Bashevis Singer The family Moskat Gimpel the Fool The Magician of Lublin 1.2.3 Southern Novel

Robert Penn Warren, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers

Willian Styron, Eudora Welty The Optimist’s Daughter

Flanmery O’Cannor A Good Man is Hard to Find

1.2.4 Afro-American Novel

Ann Petry The Street Ralph Ellison Invissible Man Go Fell it on the Mountain

James Baldwin

1.2.5 流浪汉小说

Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

Jack Kerouac On the Road 1.3 The New Drama

1.3.1 O’Neil

The Iceman cometh Long Day’s Journey into Night

1.3.2 Broadway and Off- Broadway

1.3.3 Musical Play

1.3.4 Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Cat on a Hot-Tin Roof The Night of the Inguana The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anywhere

1.3.5 Arthur Miller

All My sons Death of a Salesman Crucible

A View from the Bridge After the Fall

1.3.6 William Inge

Come Back, Little Sheba Picnic Bus Stop The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1.4 Beats, the Black Mountain Poets, and the Confessional Poets

Beats

Allen Ginsburg Howl

Gary Snyder Kenneth Rexroth Laurence Ferlinghetti

the Black Mountain Poets

Charles Olson The Kingfishers The Maximus Poems

Robert Duncan Robert Greeley

the Confessional Poets

Robert Lowell Land of Unlikeness Land Weary’s Castle

Life Studies W.D.Snodgrass

Heart’s Needle The Dream songs

John Berryman Anne Sexton Silvia Plath

1.5 The “New Criticism” and other Schools of Literary Criticism

1.5.1 “New Criticism”

William K.Wimsatt and Menroe C.Beardsley

The Intentional Fallacy The Affective Fallacy

Cleanth Brooks Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the structure of Poetry

Rene Wellek and Warren

Theory of Literary

1.5.2 The Chicago School and New York Intellectuals

Ronald Crane Wayne Booth

Lionel Trilling Leslie fielder Philip Rhav

2.American Literature in the 1960s

2.1. Historical backgrounding

Kennedy Vietname War Racial Conflict

Hippies

2.2. Realistic , Experimental Novel and Black Humor

2.2.1.Realistic School

John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicle The Wapshot Scandal Bullet Park

Walker Percy

The Movie Love in the Ruins

John Updike

Rabbit, Run Rabbit, Redeux Rabbit is Rich Rabbit at Rest Rabbit Remembered(2000)

2.2.2 Experimental Novel

John Hawks The Cannibal The Lime Twig John Barth

The Floating Opera The End of the Road Lost in the Fun House

William.H.Gass Omensetter’s Luck Second Skin

Donald Barthelme

Snow White The Dead father

2.2.3. Black Humor

Joseph Heller Catch-22

Thomas Pynchon

The Crying of Lot49 Gravity’s Rainbow Vineland

Kurt Vonnegut

Cat’s Cradle Slaughter house-Five 2.3 Albee and New Developments in the American Theater

2.3.1. Albee and The Absurd Theater

Who’s Afraid of Vivginia wolf? The Zoo Story The Sandbox The American Dream The Death of Bessie Smith

2.3.2 Jack Gelber Connection

Arthur Kopit The Questioning of Nick

Sing to Me Through Open Windows Indians Jack Richardson The prodigal

2.3.3 Off-Off-Broadway

2.3.4 Afro-American Playwrights

Lorraine HansBerry A Raisin in the Sun

Alice Childress Le Roi Jones

Ed Bullins

2.4.New Trends of Poetry

2.4.1 The New Yorker

Frank O’Hara John Ashbery Kenneth Koch

2.4.2 Neo-surrealism

Robert Bly James Wright William Staflord Louis Simpson

2.4.3 Neo-Formlists

Richard Wilbur Howard Nemerov James Merrill

3.Contemporary American Novels

3.1. Historical backgrounding

improved racial conflict end of the War Watergate Scandal

conservative presperity

3.2. Neo-Realism

Robert Stone Dog Soldiers Ragtime World’s Fair Billy Bathgate The Public Burning White Noise, Underworld E.L.Doctorow

Robert Coover

Don De Lillo

3.3. Jewish-American writers

Stanley Elkin

Walter Abish How German is it

Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus Sabbath’s Theater American Pastoral

Paul Auster City of Glass Ghosts The Locked Room

Cynthia Ozick The Shawl

3.4. Afro-Ameican Writers

Ernest J.Gaines The Autobiography of Jane Piffman Alex Haley Roots

Gayle Jones Toni Cade Bambara

Alice Walker In love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women The Third Life of Grange Copeland The Color Purple

Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Sula

Song of Solomon Tar Baby

Beloved Jazz Paradise 3.5. Native American Writers

N.Scott Momady The House Made of Dawn The Ancient Child

Leshe Marmon Silko Ceremony Story teller

James Welsh Winter in the Blood Fools Crow

Gerald Vizenov The Everlasting Sky The People Named the Chippewa

Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine Beet Queen Tracks Tales of Burning Love

Michael A.Dorris A Yellow Raft on Blue Water

3.6. Chinese American Writers

Frank Chin and his Literary Works

Food for All His Dead Gunga Din Highway Donald Duck Plays:The Chickencoop Chinaman The Year of the Dragon Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girhood among Ghosts China Men Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God’s Wife The Hundred Secret Senses The Bonesetter’s Daughter

Gish Jen

Typical American Mona in the Promised Land Who is Irish? Gus Lee

China Boy Glory and Duty The Tail of the Trigger

3.7.Women Writers

Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs

Ann Beatie Falling in Place

In Country What I Lived For

Bobbie Ann Mason Joyce Carol Oates Them Wonderland 4.Contemporary American Drama

4.1. Broadway Playwrights: Simon and Wilson

Neil Simon Jewish

1960s Come Blow Your Horn

Barefoot in the Park The Odd Couple

1970s Brighton Beach Memories Biloxi Blues Broadway Bound

Landford Wilson

1960s The Madness of Lady Bright This Is the Rill Speaking Balm in Gilead The Rimers of Eldritch 1970s The Hotel Baltimore Fifth of July Talley’s Folly

4.2. Ribman, Rabe and Guare

Ronald Ribman Cold Storage David Rabe The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel

Sticks and Bones

Streamers John Guare The House of Blue Leaves 4.3. Shepard and Mamet

Sam Shephard Curse of the Starving The Buried Child

True West

David Mamet Duck Variations 1974 Sexual Perversity in Chicago American Buffalo

4.4. Afro-American playwrights

Charles Fuller A soldier’s Play

Ma Rainey’s Black Bolton August Wilson

The Piano Lesson Fences

Women Writers:

J.E.Frankin Black Girl

Flin’ West

Pearl Cleage

4.5. Chinese-American Playwrights

Frank Chin The Chickencoop Chinaman The Year of the Dragon

David Henry Huang FOB The Dance and the Railroad Family Devotions Rich Relations

M.Butterfly

5.Contemporary American Poetry

5.1. Post-Confessional Poetry

Paul Zimmer The Zimmer Poems Charles Wright Black Zodiac

Gregory Orr William Matthews

5.2. Language Poetry

Language Group

Ron Silliman Michael Palmer BruceAndrews

Charles Berstein

Clark Cooling

5.3. Other Major Poets

Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems Donald Itall Mark Strand Adrienne

Amy Clampitt Rich

Philip Levine

5.4. Ethnic Poetry

5.4.1 Afro-American Poets

Gwendolyn Brooks

Robert Hayden Don Lek

Nikki Giovanni

Maya Angelon On the Pulse of Morning Rita Dove Thomas and Baulah 5.4.2 Native Poets

Momady Gourd Dance

Riding the Earthboy 40

James Welch

Gerald Vizenor Raising the Moon Vine Matsushima

Louise Erdrich Jacklight Baptism of Desire

Allen, Ortiz, Barnes, Harjo, Bear

6.Contemporary Popular Literature

6.1. The Continuing Development of Popular Historical Western Louis L’Amour

Jack Schaefer First Blood

6.2. The Evolution and Popularity of Modern Crime Fiction

Patricia Highswith Margaret Miller

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Leslie Waller George Higgins Elmore Leonard

6.3. The Resurging of Women’s Fiction, Science Fiction and Horror Fiction

Erich Segal Love Story

Helen Van Slyke Danielle Steel

Harry Harrison Samuel Delany William Gibson

Stephen King

6.4. The Rise of Sweet-Savage Romance and High-Thchnical Thriller

Kathleen Woodwiss The Flame and the Flower

Rosemary Rogers Sweet Savage Love Tom Clancy The Hunt for Red October

Michael Crichton Jurassic Park

6.5 The Revival of Social Expose Fiction

Margaret Truman Sidney Sheldon Robin Cook John Grishman

7.Comtemporary American Literary Criticism

7.1 Sructuralism

Robert Scholes Stucturalism in Literature:An Introduction(1974)

Jonathan Culler Strcturalist Poetics:Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature(1975)

7.2Deconstruction

Jacques Derrida Structure,Sign and the Play in the Discourse of the Human Science(1966), Of Grammatology(1967), Writing and Difference(1967),

Speech and Phenomena(1967) Dissemination(1972)

“Yale School”

Paul de Man Blindness and Insight:Essays in the Rhotoric of Contemporary Criticism(1971) Allegories of Reaing:Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzche, Rilke and Proust(1979)

Hillis Miller George Poulet’s “Criticism of Identification”(1971)

Tradition and Difference(1972)

Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels(1982) Deconstruction and Criticism(1979)

Geoffrey H.Hartman Harold Bloom

Derrida, De Man, Miller----boa-deconstructors

7.3. Jameson’s Marxist Criticism

Fredric Jameson

Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialactiona Theories of Literature(1971) The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism(1972)

The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially symbolic Act(1981)

7.4. Reader Response

Stanley E.Fish

Surprised By Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost(1967) Self-Consuming Literature(1972)

Is There a Text in This Class? The Authomity of Interpretive Communities(1980)

Norman V.Holland

Antifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-century

The Dynamics of Literary Response(1968) Poems in Persons(1973)

Five Roaders Reading(1975)

The I(1985)

Unity Identity Text Self(1975)

David Bleich

Readings and Feelings: An Introduction to Subjective Criticism(1975) Subjective Criticism(1978)

7.5. Feminist Criticism

Kate Millet Sexual Politics(1970)

Literary Women(1976)

Ellen Moers

Elaine Showalter A Literature of Their Own: British Woman Novelists from Bronte to Lessing(1977)

Sandra M.Gilbert & Susan Gubar

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteeth-center Literary Imagination(1979)

Norton Anthology of Literature by Women(1985)

Showalter

Toward a Feminist Poetics(1979)

Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness(1981)

7.6. The New Historicism

Stephen Jay Greenblatt

Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespaere(1980) Hamlet in Purgatory(1996)

Louis Adrian Motrose, Hayden White

7.7. Post-colonialism

Edward W.Said Orientalism(1978)

Gayatri Spivak