1. Introductions
The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) In this first lecture Professor Hungerford introduces the course s academic requirements and some of its central concerns. She uses a magazine advertisement for James Joyce s Ulysses and an essay by Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita, a novel on the syllabus) to establish opposing points of view about what is required to be a competent reader of literature. The contrast between popular emotional appeal and detached artistic judgment frames literary debates from th
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