ENGLISH 126/COMP LIT 126 TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN FICTIONS Ramon Saldivar Stanford University ENGLISH 126/COMP LIT 126 TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN FICTIONS E 126 20th C Americn Fiction

20th Century American Fictions What does this mean? What is American Fiction? How will we recognize it when we see it? E 126 20th C Americn Fiction

Introduction The title to the course raises at least 3 problematics The question of History The meaning of "American" itself The issue of "Fiction” Each of these categories raises a series of kinds of questions that it will be our task to examine over the coming weeks E 126 20th C Americn Fiction

The Meaning of "American" itself 18TH CENTURY IDEOLOGY OF REVOLUTION AND CHANGE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE AMERICAN 19TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY REVISIONS E 126 20th C Americn Fiction

History and Historicism The changing meaning of the American history Freedom and Society Multiple Americas Universalism v. Ideology E 126 20th C Americn Fiction

Fiction as Ironic Reflection Relationship to Political and Social Issues Race, Class, and Gender E 126 20th C Americn Fiction

Next Time Begin reading Willa Cather Look for the ways in which American Identity is represented Look at the representation of individual identity Look at the narrative form of the novel E 126 20th C Americn Fiction