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Program

Research Programs: Residential College Teacher Fellowships, 1976-1981

Period of Performance

3/1/1978 - 7/31/1979

Funding Totals

$38,529.61 (approved)
$38,529.61 (awarded)

LIterature & Representation

FAIN: FR-*0876-77

Amherst College (Amherst, MA 01002-2372)
Benjamin Demott (Project Director: February 1977 to October 1990)

To examine American literature in the innovative genres since 1945. Topics will include the anti-novel, performance journalism, fantasy fiction, the interview, confessional poetry, and the autobiographical essay. Authors will include Vonnegut, Mailer, Pynchon, Lowell, Baldwin, Sontag and Terkel.