American Literature: A Survey

Bibliography

Authors
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature; Self-Reliance*; The American Scholar*; The Poet*;
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher*; Ligeia*; The Tell-Tale Heart*;
The Purloined Letter*; The City in the Sea*; The Raven*; Ulalume*; Annabel Lee*;
A Review: Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne*; The Philosophy of
Composition*; Bartleby the Scrivener.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter*.
Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses*; Moby-Dick.
Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass: Preface*; Song of Myself*; from Sea-Drift:
Out of the Cradle Endless Rocking*; As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life*.
Emily Dickinson, I never lost as much but twice*; Wild Nights – Wild Nights!*: I felt
a Funeral, in my Brain*; I’m Nobody! Who are you?*; This is my letter to the
World*; This was a Poet-It is That*; This World is not Conclusion*; The Brain-is
wider than the Sky-*; Because I could not stop for Death*; Tell all the Truth but tell it
slant*.
S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage; The Open Boat*.
Robert Frost, Mending Wall*; The Road Not Taken*; Stopping by the Woods on a
Snowy Evening*; Design*; An Old Man’s Winter Night*.
Ezra Pound, A Pact*; In a Station of the Metro*; Portrait d’une Femme*.
Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods*.
Gertrude Stein, from The Making of Americans*.
Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Babylon Revisited*.
Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro*; Hills like White Elephants*; The
Sun Also Rises.
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury; The Bear; As I Lay Dying; Absalom,
Absalom! Barn Burning*.
John Dos Passos, from U.S.A. The Body of an American*.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five; Harrison Bergeron; Hocus Pocus.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22; Something Happened; Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man.
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49; V.; Entropy.
Donald Barthelme, Snow White; The Indian Uprising*.
John Barth, The Floating Opera; Lost in the Funhouse*.
John Updike, Licks of Love; Gertrude and Claudius.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; Pale Fire.
Saul Bellow; Herzog; The Dean’s December.
Raymond Carver, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love
Tony Morrison, Beloved; Paradise.
Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy; Nineteen Fifty-Five*.
Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint; American Pastoral; Everybody; Indignation.
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Don DeLillo, Underworld; The Body Artist.
Joyce Carol Oates, Broke Heart Blues; The Female of the Species.

* To be found in The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. I, II and Norton

Anthology of American Literature, 2 vols.

General Reference

Grigorescu, Dan. Dicţionarul literaturii americane, Editura Floarea darurilor,

Bucureşti, 1999
Literary History

Bottez, M., Motley Landscapes. Bucharest University Press 1997.

Bradbury, M., The Modern American Novel, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Chase, R., The American Novel and its Tradition, 1959.
Dumitriu, G., American Literature –The Nineteenth Century. vol. I, Bucureşti, 1985.
Ford, B., (ed.) The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. IX. American
Literature. New York, 1988.
Grigorescu, D., Romanul american al secolului XX. Editura Saeculum I.O.,
Bucureşti, 1999.
Heiney, D. and Downs, H. L., Recent American Literature after 1930, Vol 4.
Barrow’s Educational series, Woodbury, N.Y., 1974.
Hilfer, T., American Fiction Since 1940. Longman, 1992.
Hutcheon, L., A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Fiction. Routledge, 1988 [1995].
McHale, B., Postmodernist Fiction, Routledge, London, 1993.
Putz, M., Essays on American Literature and Ideas. Institutul European, 1997.
Seed, D., In Pursuit of the Receding Plot: Some American Postmodernists in Edmund
Smyth, Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction, B. T. Batsford, Ltd. London,
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Tanner, T., City of Words: American Fiction 1950-1070. London, 1971.

Anthologies
Paul Lauter, (gl. ed.) The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Vol. I, II
Baym, Nina, et al, eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 2nd ed., 2 vols.,
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