University Library: LIT/305: Major American Novel: Week 1

Creating the Story of America

Augustyn, A. (2011). Chapter 1: Novels and short stories from 1945. American Literature From 1945 Through Today (1st ed.) (pp. 20-32). Britannica Educational Publishing.
Augustyn, A. (2011). Introduction. American literature from 1945 through today (1st ed.) (pp. 10-19). Britannica Educational Publishing.
Brown, H. R. (1935). The great American novel. American Literature, 7(1), 1-14.
Cather, W. (2015). Part I: The wild land. O pioneers! (pp. 6-31). Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Cather, Willa. (2021). In Hart, J., Martin, W., & Hinrichs, D. (Eds.), The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature. Oxford University Press.
Cowell, P. (1998). Less false stories: Teaching comparative early American literatures. Early American Literature, 33(1), 86.
Nagel, J. (2013). The Great Gatsby and the American dream. Critical Insights: The American Dream, 113-124.
Shestakov, V. P. (2009). American dream and American culture. In T. J. Schoenberg (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 210). Gale. (Reprinted from The Origins and Originality of American Culture, by T. Frank, Ed., 1984).
Turco, L. (2020). The book of literary terms: The genres of fiction, drama, nonfiction, literary criticism, and scholarship. Second edition. University of New Mexico Press.
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin). (1921). Impressions of an Indian childhood. American Indian Stories, 2-13.
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin). (1921). The school days of an Indian girl. American Indian Stories, 13-22.
Zitkála-Šá. (2021). In Hart, J., Martin, W., & Hinrichs, D. (Eds.), The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature. Oxford University Press.

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