TEJIDO, Rocio Marie M.

Fiction)
MAED Literature

Litt 507 (Contemporary Anglo-American

June 25, 2016
Homework # 1
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Dix, A., Jenner, P., & Jarvis, B. (2011). The Contemporary American Novel
in Context. New York: Continuum.
This books offers and introduction to key literary fields. Each book outlines
major historical, social, cultural and literary contexts that has impact on its specified
area. It allows the readers to understand the stories through close readings or
exploring literary theories or other critical approaches to literature. It is a good book
for independent study since each chapter offers selected references for further
reading, web sources, open and closed questions, discussion topics and pointers for
extended study.
2. Hoskins, R. (2004). Graham Greene: An Approach to the Novels.
Routledge.
This is a study on the dual role of Greene as author, one who projects literary
experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and
its "literary" interpretation into his fiction; and it defines two phases of Greenes
novels through the changing relationship between writer and protagonists. The first
phase progresses from acutely sensitive, self-divided young men somewhat like the
young Greene to embittered, alienated characters ostensibly at great distance from
their creator. The second phase (1939) includes a series of "portraits of the artist"
through which Greene confronts more directly the tensions and conflicts of his
private life.
3. Lamb, R. & Thompson, G. (2005). A Companion to American Fiction
18651914. Blackwell Publishing.
This is a collection of essays and illustrations with accompanying texts for
students, scholars and interested readers of American fiction. This volume is divided
into three sections that cover historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes,
and major authors. It also contains criticisms on topics.
4. Millard, K. (2007). Coming of age in contemporary American fiction.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
This book explores the ways American novelists handled the Bildungsroman
novels. This book presents a variety of American cultures and a range of
contemporary coming-of-age novels that allows the readers to place aesthetic
judgments based on social historical context. The books raises questions on the
attempt of bildungsroman novels to define American culture with focus on the
contemporary period, and the historical changes in the status of the family and the
adolescent. Finally, it brings to light the importance of the coming-of-age genre as
part of a broader American literature genre.
5. Poplawski, P. & Worthen, J. (1996). D.H. Lawrence: A Reference
Companion. Greenwood Publishing Group.
This book is a comprehensive but easy to use reference guide to D.H.
Lawrences life, works and critical receptions. The book is structured to convey a
coherent overall sense of Lawrences achievements in his career. This allows the

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readers to find relevant information without having to read other parts on the text
by designing the book to specific topics of Lawrences life.
6. Rennison, N. (2005). Contemporary British novelists. London:
Routledge.
This book is a collection of stories from authors, specifically chosen by
Rennison according to his set criteria. Most of the fictions cited are from the 1980s
onwards. It intends to show the diversity of British fictions in the last two and a half
decades.