Groups - 205, 210, 215, 220, 225, 230, 235, 240 Psychological Realism: Henry James
American Literature of the 20th Century (1st half). (Theodore Dreiser, John Silas Reed, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner)
American poetry of 20th cent. (1st half):Paul Laurence Dunbar,Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost
Whitman’s tradition in American poetry: Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes and others.
Imagism: Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound
Literature of the “Lost Generation” (Sherwood Anderson, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway)
Dadism and surrealism in American literature
Expressionism in American drama: Eugene O’Neill
Gertrude Stein - her life and work
Impressionistism: Dos Passos, John Roderigo
Harlem Renaissance. The main representatives.
The Great Depression and Its Legacy. (Langston Hughes, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell)
Willa Cather -her life and work
Margaret Mitchell- her life and work. Peculiarities of her novel “Gone with the wind”.
Western Genre: Zane Grey.
James Baldwin -his life and work
American literature after the Second World War
Beat Generation. The main representatives
Experimantation in American literature: Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo