EN 461 Regionalism in America (Spring: 3)
“North, South, East, West: Explain.”
Everybody knows what
a “Western” is—the frontier, Indians, adventure, the Code
of the West—but what about “Easterns” or “Northerns”
or “Southerns”? This course explores the concept of literary
regionalism developed by Leslie Fiedler in The Return of the Vanishing
American to explore the geography of a fictional America. Readings will
include fiction by Jack Schaefer and Thomas Pynchon; Poe, Faulkner, and
Flannery O'Connor; Hemingway, Edith Wharton and Louise Erdrich.
James Wallace
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