The Amer. Ear: Memoir, Journal, Narr. and Joke

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This is a course in American literature with its emphasis on American prose, starting with selections from Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Henry James and William Dean Howells; short sections from the work of Melville, stories by Grace Paley, essays of Edward Dahlberg on Thoreau and Melville, folklore from Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men, Go Tell My Horse, selections from Margaret Astrov's The Winged Serpent, Leo Litwak’s Medic, stories by Flannery O’Connor and Cynthia Ozick.