ENG122 American Literature and Culture, Fall Semester 2004
Textbooks (available at Studia)
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vols. A-E, 6th ed. 2002. (If you use the 5th ed.
of The Norton Anthology, the short story by Willa Cather is not included.)
Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun. (You need the stage play edition, published by
Signet-Random House. Do not buy the screen play edition.)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby (Oxford World’s Classics, with introduction and notes).
Tindall, George B., David E. Shi, and Thomas Lee Pearcy, The Essential America (Norton).
Study Guide: American Literature and Culture, Dept. of English, U. of Bergen, 2004.
We expect students to use a handbook of literary terms, where literary and critical terms that are
used in the course are explained. We recommend that students buy one of these:
Murfin, Ross C., and Supriyia M. Ray, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms.
Abrams, M.H., A Glossary of Literary Terms.
The books and the Study Guide will be available at Studia at the beginning of the semester. In the
Study Guide students will find information about the course, some texts from the list of required
reading, and notes and questions for the texts discussed in seminars.
The TRUST program—an interactive electronic resource for reading poems from the list of
required reading—is available at the multimedia lab (HF-building, room 131, ground floor). The
program can also be accessed online: find the net address in the general information given about
100-level courses (“Studentportalen”), and ask for user name and pass word at the department.
Required Reading
1. Primary texts
* Novels and plays (i.e. longer texts) are marked with an asterisk (*). Unless a publisher is
given, these longer texts are all included in The Norton Anthology.
I. Texts before 1865
Winthrop, John, from “A Model of Christian Charity,” Norton A: 216-17
(from “Thus stands the cause …”).
Taylor, Edward, “Meditation 8” (First Series), Norton A: 344.
Edwards, Jonathan, “Personal Narrative,” Norton A: 466–76.
Franklin, Benjamin, from Autobiography [Part Two], Norton A: 590–99
(from “I had been religiously …” to “… of my Humility”).
Jefferson, Thomas, from Notes on the State of Virginia (Study Guide).
Hamilton, Alexander, from “Report on Manufacturers” (Study Guide).
Poe, Edgar Allan, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Norton B: 1534–47.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “Days” and “Each and All” (both in Study Guide).
Thoreau, Henry David, “Resistance to Civil Government,” Norton B: 1792–1807.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Norton B: 1280–89.
Fuller, Margaret, from The Great Lawsuit, Norton B: 1626–29.
(from “Of all its banners …” to “… hope that it draws near”).
Whitman, Walt, from “Song of Myself” (1881 version): poems 1, 2, 6, 11, and 52, Norton B:
2232–33, 2235–36, 2238–39, 2274. (Norton C: 122–23, 125–26, 129, 165–66.)
Melville, Herman, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Norton B: 2330–55.
ENG122 Required Reading 2004
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Dickinson, Emily, No. 258: “There’s a certain Slant of light”; No. 328: “A Bird came down
the Walk—”; No. 465: “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—”; and No. 632: “The Brain—
is wider than the Sky—,” Norton B: 2508, 2513–14, 2517, 2522 (also Norton C).
II. Texts 1865—1914
*Twain, Mark, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Norton C: 219–407.
James, Henry, “Daisy Miller,” Norton C: 468–506.
Crane, Stephen, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” Norton C: 920–27.
*Chopin, Kate, The Awakening, Norton C: 633–723.
Eastman, Charles Alexander/Ohiyesa, From the Deep Woods to Civilization, Chs. 6–7, Norton
C: 798–810.
Washington, Booker. T., Up From Slavery, Ch. 14: “The Atlanta Exposition Address,”
Norton C: 760–68.
DuBois, W.E.B., The Souls of Black Folk, Ch. 3: “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington …,” Norton
C: 884–93.
“Life Story of a Lithuanian” (Study Guide).
III. Texts 1914—1945
Cather, Willa, “Neighbour Rosicky,” Norton D: 1122–42 (not in Norton 5th ed.).
Robinson, E.A., “Richard Cory,” “Eros Turannos,” Norton D: 1106–07, 1108–09.
Frost, Robert, “Home Burial,” Norton D: 1183–85.
Williams, W.C., “Spring and All,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,” Norton D: 1268, 1271.
*Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby (Oxford World’s Classics ed.).
Hurston, Zora Neal, “How It Feels To Be Colored Me,” Norton D: 1516–18.
Faulkner, William, “Barn Burning,” Norton D: 1790–1803.
Hemingway, Ernest, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Norton D: 1848–64.
IV. Texts 1945–
*Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman, Norton E: 2111–76.
*Hansberry, Lorrain, A Raisin in the Sun (Signet-Random House edition).
Hughes, Langston, “Harlem: What happens to a dream deferred?” (epigraph in Hansberry).
O’Connor, Flannery, “Good Country People,” Norton E: 2211–25.
Lowell, Robert, “Skunk Hour,” Norton E: 2774–75.
Ginsberg, Allen, “A Supermarket in California,” Norton E: 2872–73.
Levertov, Denise, “The Jacob’s Ladder,” Norton E: 2820.
Wright, James, “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio,” “A Blessing,” Norton E: 2923,
2924.
Plath, Sylvia, “Morning Song,” “Lady Lazarus,” Norton E: 2968–71.
Silko, Leslie Marmon, “Lullaby,” Norton E: 2543–50.
2. Cultural Studies and Literary History
2.1. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vols. A–E (1 and 2):
• all introductions to literary periods
• all introductions to the writers on the reading list
2.2. George B. Tindall, David E. Shi, and Thomas Lee Pearcy, The Essential America.
REQUIRED READING FROM THIS TEXTBOOK WILL BE SPECIFIED ON A HANDOUT.