BIBLIOGRAPHY
o Norton Anthology of American Literature
o A Companion to the American Short Story, eds. A. Bendixen and J. Nagel, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010:
A. Bendixen, “The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story,” pp. 3-19
J. Nagel, “The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity”, pp. 217-223

SYLLABUS
 General introduction to the course; The American Short Story in the Nineteenth Century: A. Bendixen, “The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story” [8/6 CFU]
 The Gilded Age: Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism: American Literature 1865-1914 (Introduction and Timeline) [8/6 CFU]
 Realism and Society in the Gilded Age (Part 1): Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (1861) [8/6 CFU]
 Realism and Society in the Gilded Age (Part 3): Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth” (1898) [8/6 CFU]
 Geographies of Regionalism (Part 1): Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1865) [8/6 CFU]
 Geographies of Regionalism (Part 2): Kate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” (1893) – “The Story of an Hour” (1894) [8/6 CFU]
 The Frontiers of American Naturalism (Part 1): Stephen Crane, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (1898) [8/6 CFU]
 The Frontiers of American Naturalism (Part 2): Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890) [8/6 CFU]
 The Frontiers of American Naturalism (Part 3): Jack London, “To Build a Fire” (1902) [8 CFU]
 The Twentieth Century: Modernism in the United States: American Literature 1914-1945 (Introduction and Timeline) [8/6 CFU]
 American Modernism and Poetry: Robert Frost (“Mending Wall” – “The Road not Taken”), William Carlos Williams (“The Red Wheelbarrow” – “The Great Figure”) [8/6 CFU]
 American Modernism and Poetry (The Harlem Renaissance): Langston Hughes (“Negro” – “I, also, Sing America”) [8/6 CFU]
 The American Short Story in the Twentieth Century: J. Nagel, “The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity” [8/6 CFU]
 American Modernism and Fiction (Part 1): William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930) [8 CFU]
 American Modernism and Fiction (Part 2): Francis Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” (1931) [8/6 CFU]
 American Modernism and Fiction (Part 4): Ernest Hemingway, “Soldier’s Home”, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936) [8/6 CFU]
 American Modernism and Fiction (Part 5): John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937) [8 CFU]
 Contemporary Literature: Multiculturalism (Part 1): John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938) [8/6 CFU]
 The Contemporary Age and Postmodernism: American Literature since 1945 (Introduction and Timeline) [8/6 CFU]
 Contemporary Literature: Multiculturalism (Part 2): Toni Morrison, “Recitatif” (1983) [8/6 CFU]
 Contemporary Literature: Minimalism: Raymond Carver, “So much Water so Close to Home”, “What We Talk about when We Talk about Love” (1983) [8 CFU]
 Contemporary Literature: Multiculturalism (Part 3): Jhumpa Lahiri, “Sexy” (1999) [8/6 CFU]

Students can choose their edition (in English!)