3rd year English major, English minor Spring semester 2012 American literature R.

Moldovan Reading list Edgar Allan Poe, The tell-tale heart Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature Nathaniel Hawthorne, The celestial railroad Henry David Thoreau, from Walden (Where I lived and what I lived for, Solitude) Herman Melville, Bartleby, the scrivener Walt Whitman, Song of myself (sections 1, 2, 6, 16, 21, 24, 50, 52) Emily Dickinson, I heard a fly buzz when I died; I am alive I guess Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The great Gatsby William Faulkner, The bear Ernest Hemingway, A clean, well-lighted place, The killers Flannery OConnor, The river Allen Ginsberg, Howl Jack Kerouac, On the road (part I, 1-4) Jerome David Salinger, Franny and Zooey, A girl I knew Sylvia Plath, The bell jar John Berryman, Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so Charles Bukowski, so you want to be a writer?, freaky time Frank OHara, Personal poem Anne Sexton, Angels of the love affair The seminars will be divided as follows: 2 seminars for each of the first two clusters of texts, 3 (ideally) for the third cluster.