Catalogue · Faculty of Letters
LIT 210
The American Novel Since 1945
Amy Hungerford’s Yale lectures follow the American novel from Black Boy to Blood Meridian — thirteen major works in twenty-six lectures, read closely for what their forms are doing. The reading list is the real curriculum: budget a semester and read the novels; the lectures reward it.
Syllabus
- the postwar novel
- formal innovation
- Nabokov, Morrison, Pynchon
- reading closely
Held at Open Yale Courses. The materials remain theirs; the structure is ours. Finished it? Record it in your transcript.