Fiction:
- Arthur Miller, The Crucible
- James Baldwin, ”Sonny’s Blues”
- Grace Paley, ”The Loudest Voice”
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
- Bernard Malamud, “The Magic Barrel”
- Flannery O’Connor, “Good Country People”
- John Updike, Rabbit, Run
- Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Poetry:
- Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”
- Langston Hughes, “Trumpet Player”
- Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Lovers of the Poor”, “To the Diaspora”
- Robert Lowell, “Skunk Hour”
- Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus”
- Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A’Changin’", “With God on Our Side", "Masters of War" and "Like a Rolling Stone".
The novels and plays (in italics) can be bought at Akademika, while most of the short stories and poems can be found in The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Edition. The remaining texts can either be found in an ENG2334 compendium in the Akademika basement or will be handed out in class.