American Literature Workshop Bibliography

America at the End of the Century: Contemporary American Literature as a Reflection of the Changing Social Structure

May 9-15, 1998

The following books and papers were used during the American Studies Workshop 21. The bibliography includes the ISBN (International Standard Book Number), when available, as an aid for purchasing copies of these materials in the future.

BOOKS

Appiah, K. Anthony. "The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding." The New York Review of Books, October 9, 1997.

Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward 2000-1887. New York: The Modern Library, 1917. (813BEL)

Bertens, Hans. The Idea of the Postmodern. A History. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. ISBN 0-415-06012-5. (149.7BER)

Biddle, Arthur, Gloria Bien et al. Global Voices. Englewood Cliffs: A Blair Press Book, 1995. ISBN 0-13-299793-2. (808.8GLO)

Chenetier, Marc. Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction Since 1960. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,1996. ISBN 0-8122-3059-0. (813.54CHE)

Delbanco, Andrew. Required Reading: Why our American Classics Matter Now. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. ISBN 0-374-23007-2. (810.9DEL)

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition. Great Britain: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.,1996. ISBN 0-8166-1251-X. (801.95EAG)

Ellis, John M. Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities. New York: Yale University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-300-06920-0. (001.3ELL)

Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-691-01298-9. (809.9FRY)

Gass, William H. Finding a Form. New York: Cornell University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8014-8489-8. (809GAS)

Gates, Henry Louis Jr. and Cornel West. The Future of the Race. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. ISBN0-679-44405-X. (305.8GAT)

Kitano, Harry H.L. and Roger Daniels. Asian Americans. Emerging Minorities. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN 0-13-315185-9. (973.0495KIT)

Kymlicka, Will. Multicultural Citizenship. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-829091-8. (323.1KYM)

Lauter, Paul, ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Volume one, second edition. Lexington, MA/Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1994. ISBN 0-669-32972-X. (810.8HEAc.1)

Lauter, Paul, ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Volume two, second edition. Lexington, MA/Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1994. ISBN 0-669-32973-8. (810.8HEAvol2,c2)

Lemna, Brian, ed. A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers: 1997-1998 Edition. New York: Poets & Writers, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0-913734-58-6. (REF813DIR)

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Amy Ling. Reading the Literatures of Asian America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-87722-936-8. (810.9REA)

Malloy, Judy. "Hypernarrative in the Age of theWeb." National Endowment for the Arts website: http://arts.endow.gov.

McMichael, George, ed. Anthology of American Literature: Volume II, Realism to the Present, Sixth Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0-13373458-9. (810.8ANT)

Millett, Fred B. Contemporary American Authors. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1994. (810.9MIL)

Mills, Nicolaus, ed. Arguing Immigration. Are New Immigrants a Wealth of Diversity … or a Crushing Burden? New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. ISBN 0-671-89558/3 (325.73ARG)

Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark. Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge,MA/London: Harvard University Press, 1992. (810.9MOR)

Pack, Robert and Jay Parini, eds. American Identities. Contemporary Multicultural Voices. Hanover and London: University Press of New England: 1994. (810.8AME)

Perry, Donna. Backtalk. Women Writers Speak Out. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8135-1991-8. (810.9BAC)

Roemer, Michael. Telling Stories: Postmodernism and the Invalidation of Traditional Narrative. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 1995. ISBN 0-8476-8042-8. (801.95ROE)

Scheer-Schaezler, Brigitte, ed. Immigrant Stories. New Fiction by New Writers. Berlin: Cornelsen Verlag, 1996. ISBN 3-464-66576-3. (810IMM)

Showalter, Elaine, ed. The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. ISBN 0-394-53913-3. (809NEWc.1)

Simpson, David. The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature: A Report on Half-Knowledge. London: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN 0-226-7590-4. (809.045SIM)

Wolff, Tobias, ed. The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1994. ISBN 0-679-74513-0. ( 813VIN)

SELECTION OF OTHER NOVELS:

DeLillo, Don. Underworld. New York: Scribner, 1997. ISBN 0-684-84269-6. (813.54DEL)

DeLillo, Don. White Noise. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN 0-14-007702-2. (813.54DEL)

Hoffman, Eva. Lost in Translation. A Life in a New Language. New York: Penguin Books, 1989. ISBN 0-1401.2773-9. (973.04HOF)

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Perennial Library, 1990. ISBN 0-06-091650-8. (813HUR)

Momaday, N. Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. University of New Mexico Press, 1969. ISBN 0-8263-0436-2. (879MOM)

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Signet, 1994. (813MOR)

Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. ISBN 0-394-49784-8. (813MOR)

Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. New York: Perennial Library, 1986. ISBN 0-06-091307-X. (813.54PYN)

Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity’s Rainbow. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. ISBN 0-14-018859. (813PYN)

Pynchon, Thomas. Mason & Dixon. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. ISBN 0-8050-3758-6. (813PYN)

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. Leaving Brooklyn. New York: Penguin Books, 1990. ISBN 0-14-01.3179-3. (813SCH)

Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. London: Mandarin, 1989. ISBN 0-7493-0259-3. (813TAN)

CD-ROMS

The Beat Experience. Voyager.

Mann, Ron. Poetry in Motion. Voyager. (two issues)

 


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