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BLOCK 2: Poetry

UNIT 1 Edgar Allen Poe “The Raven”

UNIT 2 Wallace Stevens “The Emperor of the Ice-Cream”

UNIT 3 Langston Hughes “Harlem”
UNIT 4 e. e. cummings “Buffalo Bills”

BLOCK 3: Short Fiction

UNIT 1 Alice Walker “Everyday Use”

UNIT 2 Stephen Crane “The Open Boat”

BLOCK 4: Drama

UNIT 1 Eugene O’ Neil Emperor Jones

BLOCK 5: Novels

UNIT 1 Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn

BLOCK 6: Essays and Non-Fiction

UNIT 1 Henry David Thoreau “The Battle of the Ants”

References

Ashton, Jennifer, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945. New
York: Cambridge U P, 2013.
Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature. New York:

Cambridge U P, 2004.
Berke, Amy et.al. Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature1865 to

Present. Georgia: University of North Georgia Press, 2015.
Duvall, John N, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945. New York:

Cambridge U P, 2011.

Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Kalaidjian, Walter. The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism. New York:

Cambridge U P, 2006.

Miller, Joshua L. The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel. New York:
Cambridge U P, 2015.

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