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Subject Guide: Literature

L. Frank Baum - Fiction & Poetry

Willa Cather - Fiction

Joseph Conrad - Fiction

William Faulkner - Fiction

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Fiction

Thomas Hardy - Fiction & Poetry

Ernest Hemingway - Fiction

Langston Hughes - Drama, Fiction, & Poetry

Video

Publication Date: 2003

Alice Walker and Arnold Rampersad discuss Langston Hughes with Bruce Schwartz about the experiences shaping Langston's youth, how he became a writer, the beauty and style of his writing, and the Harlem renaissance

Books

Zora Neale Hurston - Drama, Fiction, & Non-Fiction

Video

Publication Date: 2006

Zora Neale Hurston combined a hunger for research and a desire to penetrate the deepest of popular beliefs with a truly exquisite narrative talent to write novels, short stories, folktales, plays, and essays.

 
Books

James Joyce - Fiction & Poetry

Nelle Harper Lee - Fiction

Video

Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES 813.69 L295T3 
Publication Date: 2011
Explores the "To Kill a Mockingbird" phenomenon, unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee, and brings to light the context and history of the novel's Deep South setting and the social changes it inspired after publication.
 
Books

Toni Morrison - Children, Drama, Fiction, & Non-Fiction

Ezra Pound - Poet

Video

Call Number: online
Publication Date: 2004

Follows Ezra Pound’s extraordinary course, from his collaborations with Yeats and Eliot through his years of detention at St. Elizabeths Hospital.

Books

Marcel Proust - Fiction & Non-Fiction

J.K. Rowling - Fiction

Dr. Seuss - Children

John Steinbeck - Fiction

Alice Walker - Fiction, Non-Fiction, & Poetry

Videos

Publication Date: 2004

Alice Walker discusses her short story, Everyday Use, with her official biographer, Evelyn C. White.

Alice Walker: Everyday Use. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Publication Date: 2004
Presents Alice Walker's short story, Everyday Use about Maggie and an old family quilt.

 
 
 
 
Books

Edith Wharton - Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry

Virginia Woolf - Fiction

W. B. Yeats - Poetry

G.K. Chesterton - Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry

T. S. Eliot - Poetry

Madeleine L'Engle - Fiction

C.S. Lewis

Flannery O'Connor

J.R.R. Tolkien