20th Century

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906): How Realistic is Realist Fiction? (Hirschfelder)

James Joyce, Dubliners (1914) - Modernist Narrative and the Irish Predicament (Reinfandt)

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H.D. "Oread" (1915): Modernist Poetry: Imagism and Beyond (Hotz-Davies)

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Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est" (1917): The Form(s) and Function(s) of First World War Poetry (Zirker)

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Claude McKay. "If We Must Die" (1919): African American Poetry and the Literary Tradition (Butter)

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T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922): Difficulty and the Canon of Modern Literature (Reinfandt)

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Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925): The Turn of the Novel (Reinfandt)

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E.E. Cummings, "next to of course god america i" (1926): Modernism and the Modern Self (Tonn)

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Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land (1992) - Provincializing Europe (West-Pavlov)

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) - How (Not) To Become Part of the Literary Canon (Clark)

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Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958): Launching the Modern African Novel (West-Pavlov)

Albee, Edward. The American Dream (1960): Postmodernism, Drama (Tonn)

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat (1967) and The Wizard of the Crow (2006): From the Colonial to the Neocolonial and Beyond (West-Pavlov)

Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night (1968): A Novelist's America (Tonn)

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Desai, Anita. Clear Light of Day (1980): The Indian Novel in English (Dengel-Janic)

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David Dabydeen, The Intended (1991): Postcolonial Literatures (West-Pavlov)