Write an essay that asks a question about “American Fiction,” and that uses two texts we have read for class to develop and answer that question. For instance, you might want to examine how two of the authors we have read use humor, and whether such humor advances or undercuts their sense of national literature. […]
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Describe in detail and with a clear sense of the continuities and discontinuities, the development of American fiction in the period studied, in terms of changes in form, genre and theme Relate American novels in specific cultural, social, historical, and political contexts
Describe in detail and with a clear sense of the continuities and discontinuities, the development of American fiction in the period studied, in terms of changes in form, genre and theme Relate American novels in specific cultural, social, historical, and political contexts Assess and apply relevant literary criticism and theory to novels in order to […]
