20th century American fiction

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Content: Part 1. Lecture 1. American fiction and the individualist creed -- Lecture 2. The American self -- ghost in disguise -- Lecture 3. What produces "nobody"? -- Lecture 4. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio -- writing as the talking cure -- Lecture 5. Winesburg : a new American prose-poetry -- Lecture 6. Hemingway : journalist, writer, legend -- Lecture 7. Hemingway as trauma artist -- Lecture 8. Hemingway's cunning art. Part 2. Lecture 9. F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender Is The Night -- Fitzgerald's second act -- Lecture 10. Fitzgerald's psychiatric tale -- Lecture 11. Dick's dying fall -- an American story -- Lecture 12. Light In August : midpoint of the Faulkner career -- Lecture 13. Light In August : determinism vs. freedom -- Lecture 14. Light In August : novel as poem, or, beyond holocaust -- Lecture 15. Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God -- canon explosion -- Lecture 16. Their Eyes Were Watching God : from romance to myth. Part 3. Lecture 17. Flannery O'Connor -- realist of distances -- Lecture 18. O'Connor -- taking the measure of the region -- Lecture 19. William Burroughs -- bad boy of American literature -- Lecture 20. Naked Lunch -- the body in culture -- Lecture 21. Naked Lunch -- power and exchange in the viral world -- Lecture 22. Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five -- apocalypse now -- Lecture 23. Vonnegut's world -- tralfamadore or trauma? -- Lecture 24. Robert Coover -- postmodern fabulator. Part 4. Lecture 25. The Public Burining -- execution at Times Square -- Lecture 26. Robert Coover -- fiction as fission -- Lecture 27. Toni Morrison's Sula -- from trauma to freedom -- Lecture 28. Sula -- new black woman -- Lecture 29. Don DeLillo -- decoder of American frequencies -- Lecture 30. White Noise -- representing the environment -- Lecture 31. DeLillo and American dread -- Lecture 32. Conclusion -- nobody's home.