1. ENGLISH 126/COMP LIT 126 TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN FICTIONS
Ramon Saldivar
Stanford University
ENGLISH 126/COMP LIT 126 TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN FICTIONS
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2. 20th Century American Fictions
What does this mean?
What is American Fiction?
How will we recognize it when we see it?
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3. 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
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4. The Meaning of "American" itself
18TH CENTURY IDEOLOGY OF REVOLUTION AND CHANGE
INTERPRETATIONS OF THE AMERICAN 19TH CENTURY
20TH CENTURY REVISIONS
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5. History and Historicism
The changing meaning of the American history
Freedom and Society
Multiple Americas
Universalism v. Ideology
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6. Fiction as Ironic Reflection
Relationship to Political and Social Issues
Race, Class, and Gender
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7. 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
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