76 421 - Genre Studies

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Carnegie Mellon University

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Description:

This seminar will explore the idea that realism and/or naturalism represented the dominant fictional mode in the United States during the twentieth century. John Updike has claimed specifically that what he calls novels of domestic morality, as written by Williams Dean Howells, John O?Hara, and himself among many others, was dominant. Other critics have argued that the naturalism of writers like Theodore Dreiser, Richard Wright, and Russell Banks is most typical. We will look at these forms as well as the novel of manners, the proletarian novel, and modernist and perhaps even postmodernist versions of realism or naturalism. In addition to novels or short-story collections, we will read theoretical work on realism and naturalism.

Credits:

9.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.cmu.edu/

Phone Number:

(412) 268-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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