The Teaching Company:  Twentieth Century American Fiction (Audio)  
Thirty-two 30min lectures   56kbps/22khz



1 American Fiction and the Individualist Creed
2 The American SelfΓÇöGhost in Disguise
3 What Produces "Nobody"?
4 Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, OhioΓÇöWriting as the Talking Cure
5 WinesburgΓÇöA New American Prose-Poetry
6 HemingwayΓÇöJournalist, Writer, Legend
7 Hemingway as Trauma Artist
8 Hemingway's Cunning Art
9 F. Scott FitzgeraldΓÇöTender Is the NightΓÇöFitzgerald's Second Act
10 Fitzgerald's Psychiatric Tale
11 Dick's Dying FallΓÇöAn American Story
12 Light in AugustΓÇöMidpoint of the Faulkner Career
13 Light in AugustΓÇöDeterminism vs. Freedom
14 Light in AugustΓÇöNovel as Poem, or, Beyond Holocaust
15 Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching GodΓÇöCanon Explosion
16 Their Eyes Were Watching GodΓÇöFrom Romance to Myth
17 Flannery O'ConnorΓÇöRealist of Distances
18 O'ConnorΓÇöTaking the Measure of the Region
19 Williams BurroughsΓÇöBad Boy of American Literature
20 Naked LunchΓÇöThe Body in Culture
21 Naked LunchΓÇöPower and Exchange in the Viral World
22 Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-FiveΓÇöApocalypse Now
23 Vonnegut's WorldΓÇöTralfamadore or Trauma?
24 Robert CooverΓÇöPostmodern Fabulator
25 The Public BurningΓÇöExecution at Times Square
26 Robert CooverΓÇöFiction as Fission
27 Toni Morrison's SulaΓÇöFrom Trauma to Freedom
28 SulaΓÇöNew Black Woman
29 Don DeLilloΓÇöDecoder of American Frequencies
30 White NoiseΓÇöRepresenting the Environment
31 DeLillo and American Dread
32 ConclusionΓÇöNobody's Home

NOTE:  Hemingway's brand of macho is politically incorrect today, but his work remains a permanent feature of the American landscape, and his terse, tight-lipped style has influenced generations of journalists and writers. In Our Time introduces war and violence to American readers in unheard-of ways.