We'll read and discuss an assortment of novels and short stories written by American authors in the first half of the twentieth century. Students will be expected to keep up with reading assignments, attend class regularly, take part in class-discussion, and write a series of in-class essays done in answer to study questions handed out in advance.

TEXTS: William Faulkner, GO DOWN, MOSES; Zora Neale Hurston, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD; Ernest Hemingway, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS; Sherwood Anderson, WINESBURG, OHIO; THIRTEEN STORIES BY EUDORA WELTY; John Steinbeck, THE LONG VALLEY; Sinclair Lewis, BABBITT; and Richard Wright, UNCLE TOM'S CHILDREN.