Literature and the City in America: Comparative Approaches
FAIN: FS-10228-76
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
Alan Trachtenberg (Project Director: January 1976 to present)
To examine the meanings (thematic, stylistic, formal) of the "city" in American fiction and poetry. The course will include readings from other national literatures in an effort to bring into focus the uniqueness of American treatments of the city in literature.