Università Roma Tre

1) Between the world wars and the oceans: the "Lost Generation".
"The last tycoon", Francis Scott Fitzgerald (To Episode 11 included)
"The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas", Gertrude Stein (Chapter 7, plus passages discussed in class)
"Midnight in Paris", Woody Allen

2) The Fifties
"Death of a Salesman", Arthur Miller

3) Postmodernism
"White Noise" Don DeLillo (Third Part, plus passages discussed in class)
"Recitatif", Toni Morrison

4) Post-postmodernism e the contemporaneity
"E Unibus Pluram: television ans U.S. fiction", David Foster Wallace
"Citizen, An American Lyric", Claudia Rankine

"The Last Tycoon", Francis Scott Fitzgerald, any edition
"White Noise", Don DeLillo, any edition
"Citizen, An American Lyric", Claudia Rankine, Graywolf, 2014
The other texts will be provided by the professor