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    Post-1945 American Literature – Course schedule


    This course provides a detailed survey of American Literature from the aftermath of the WW II. to the present day. It
    covers major trends, subject matters, genres and significant authors of the era: American Drama (T. Williams, A.
    Miller, E. Albee), Postmodernism (V. Nabokov, J. Barth, D. Barthelme, etc.), Women Writers (F. O’Connor, S. Plath, T.
    Morrison), American Literary Minimalism (R. Carver). The course aims to develop students’ reading and analytical
    abilities, the ability to understand and evaluate literary works, to analyse sources, to discover interrelationships in a
    wider literary context, to get to know means and methods through which they can expand their knowledge, to study
    the historical background of the literary era in question.

    The lecture ends with an oral examination in the exam period. The completion of the seminar (a pass seminar mark)
    is pre-requisite to the possibility to take the exam. If you fail at the seminar, you cannot take the exam.

    Lecture – AN216
    Péter Tamás
    Time: Tuesdays 14.15-14.45, Room 205

    Course Description
    This course offers a brief overview of the major trends of American literature after
    WWII with an emphasis on postmodern fiction.

    Lecture Requirements:

    Presence and active participation: a maximum of three absences; reading the set texts; contributing to in-class
    discussions.

    Response papers during the study period.

    An oral test during the exam period.

    COURSE SCHEDULE
    Week 1 (Sep 11)

    Introduction. Features of postmodernism. Thomas Pynchon: “Entropy”

    Week 2 (Sep 18)


    Vladimir Nabokov: “Signs and Symbols” (1948) and chapter 1 of Pnin (1957)

    Week 3 (Sep 25)

    Flannery O’Connor: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1953) and “Good Country People” (1955)

    Week 4 (Oct 2)
    J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (1951) (Chapters 1-2, 5, 11, 20-26, and the second half of chapter 16 [starting
    with the paragraph “Even though it was Sunday”])

    Week 5 (Oct 9)
    John Barth: “Ambrose His Mark” and “Lost in the Funhouse” from Lost in the Funhouse (1968)

    Week 6 (Oct 16)

    Donald Barthelme: selected stories

    Week 7 (Oct 23) NO CLASS


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    Week 8 (Oct 30) NO CLASS

    Week 9 (Nov 6)
    Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) (chapters one and four)

    Week 10 (Nov 13)

    Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985) (chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, and 21)

    Week 11 (Nov 20)


    NO CLASS

    Week 12 (Nov 27)


    Lorrie Moore (selected stories)

    Week 13 (Dec 4)
    Paul Auster: The Book of Illusions (2002)

    Week 14 (Dec 11)

    Contemporary short fiction.


    Robert Coover: “Going for a Beer” (2011)
    Kristen Roupenian: “Cat Person” (2017)

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