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1. 'The Real Thing': Forms of realism in the literature of the United States, 1865-1914
 1. American realities and literary realism: Mark Twain & Henry James
2. From regionalism to naturalism: Kate Chopin & Stephen Crane
2. 'A Homemade World': American Modernism and its context, 1914-1945
 1. Poetry: Frost, Pound, Williams, Stevens, Moore, cummings
2. Prose: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner
3. Post-War to postmodern to ...
 1. Post-war angst: Salinger
2. Southern writing after Faulkner: Flannery O'Connor
3. Postmodern uncertainties: Donald Barthelme
4. Multicultural multiplicity: Sandra Cisneros