Temas Subtemas
1. Towards 'The Real Thing': From Romance to realism in the literature of the United States, 1850-1914 1. American realities and forms of literary realism: Mark Twain and Henry James
2. 'A Homemade World': American Modernism and its context, 1914-1945 1. Poetry: Modernist experiments
2. Prose: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner
3. AMERICAN DRAMA (1945-2017)



 1. Arthur Miller.
2. David Mamet.
4. “MULTI-ETHNIC” LITERATURE (1945-2017)


 1. Multi-ethnic literature: general overview
2. Case study: Asian American literature (narrative by Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, and Andrew Lam; a selection of Asian American poetry)