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The Stranger and Modern Fiction: A Portrait in Black and White

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 79.01.01

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The American Hero-Quester

Robert Lyman Biral

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STUDENT BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. Mythology

Beowulf . Joseph F. Tuso. ed., New York: W.W. Norton Co., 1975.

Bullfinch, Thomas. The Age of Fable . Greenwich, Ct.: Fawcett, 1961.

Graves, Robert. The Siege and Fall of Troy . New York: Dell, 1962.

Hamilton, Edith. Mythology . New York: The New American Library, 1953.

Homer. The Odyssey . New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1965.

Ovid. Metamorphoses . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961.

Rose, H. L. A Handbook of Greek Mythology . New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1959.

Virgil. The Aeneid. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co., 1953.

Warner, Rex. The Vengeance of the Gods . East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1954.

II. General Fiction

Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain . New York: Dial, 1963.

Bellow, Saul. Henderson the Rain King . New York: Viking Press, 1956.

Clarke, Arthur. 2001: A Space Odyssey . New York: New American Library, 1968.

Crane, Hart. “To Brooklyn Bridge,” The Complete Poems . Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1933.

Cummings, E.E. “Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind,” Modern Verse . New York: Washington Square Press, 1960.

Deal, Borden. “Antaeus,” Values in Literature . New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1965.

Dickinson, Emily. “The Snake,” Complete Poems , ed. T.H. Johnson. New York: Little Brown, 1914.

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man . New York: New American Library, 1947.

Faulkner, William. “The Bear,” Six Great Modern Short Novels . New York: Dell, 1959.

_____________, “Barn Burning,” Collected Stories . New York: Random House, 1939.

Frost, Robert. “Onset,” “Leaf Treader,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” Selected Poems . New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc., 1963.

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin In The Sun . New York: Random House, 1959.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “Young Goodnam Brown,” “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” Selected Tales & Sketches . Hyatt H. Waggoner, ed. New York: Rinehart & Co. 1950.

Heinlein, Robert. Stranger In a Strange Land . New York: Berkley Medallion Books, 1968.

Hemmingway, Ernest. A Farewell To Arms . New York: Scribner, 1957.

James, Henry. “Daisy Miller,” The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels . New York: The New American Library, 1962.

Klein, A.M. “Filling Station,” Rocking Chair and Other Poems . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957.

Malamud, Bernard. The Magic Barrel . New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. 1954.

Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Sailor . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Poe, Edgar Allan. “Annabel Lee,” “Eldorado”, Selected Poetry and Prose of E.A. Poe . New York: The Modern Library, 1951.

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye . Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1953.

Steinbeck, John. “Flight,” The Long Valley . New York: Viking Press, 1938.

____________, Of Mice and Men. New York: Viking Press, 1937.

____________, The Grapes of Wrath . New York: Viking Press, 1939.

____________, Travels with Charley . New York: Viking, 1961.

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden . New York: Rinehart, 1960.

Toomer, Jean. Cane. New York: Harper & Row, 1923.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . New York: Rinehart & Co., 1960.

Updike, John. Rabbit Redux, New York: Knopf, 1971.

Whitman, Walter. “Song of Myself”’ “I Sing the Body Electric,” Complete Poetry and Selected Prose . Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1959.

Wright, Richard. “The Street,” from Black Boy . New York: Harper and Row, 1945.

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