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Originally Posted by HarryT
If it's an MA in English literature, then you wouldn't expect Dante or Cervantes to be included, since the first is Italian and the second Spanish.
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Good point, once I saw "Shakespeare" my mind triggered to thinking about significant works that came out of the Western Civ.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Even Steinbeck might be considered rather dubious - such courses often concentrate solely on British authors, considering American literature to be a distinct genre.
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Right but the original posts does list American literature as part of the book selection.
It was these sections that my comment was targeted to.
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Originally Posted by mahler
FIELD #6: EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE
Ann Bradstreet, Selections From
Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”;
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Walt Whitman, Selections
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
FIELD #7: TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Robert Frost, Selections from
Alice Walker, Meridian
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