1.
American Fiction and the Individualist Creed
2.
The American Self — Ghost in Disguise
3.
What Produces "Nobody"?
4.
Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio — Writing as the Talking Cure
5.
Winesburg — a New American Prose-Poetry
6.
Hemingway — Journalist, Writer, Legend
7.
Hemingway as Trauma Artist
8.
Hemingway's Cunning Art
9.
(feat. Scott Fitzgerald — Tender Is the Night — Fitzgerald's Second Act)
10.
Fitzgerald's Psychiatric Tale
11.
Dick's Dying Fall — an American Story
12.
Light in August — Midpoint of the Faulkner Career
13.
Light in August — Determinism vs. Freedom
14.
Light in August — Novel as Poem, Or, Beyond Holocaust
15.
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God — Canon Explosion
16.
Their Eyes Were Watching God — From Romance to Myth
17.
Flannery O'Connor — Realist of Distances
18.
O'Connor — Taking the Measure of the Region
19.
Williams Burroughs — Bad Boy of American Literature
20.
Naked Lunch — The Body in Culture
21.
Naked Lunch — Power and Exchange in the Viral World
22.
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five — Apocalypse Now
23.
Vonnegut's World — Tralfamadore or Trauma?
24.
Robert Coover — Postmodern Fabulator
25.
The Public Burning — Execution at Times Square
26.
Robert Coover — Fiction as Fission
27.
Toni Morrison's Sula — From Trauma to Freedom
28.
Sula — New Black Woman
29.
Don Delillo — Decoder of American Frequencies
30.
White Noise — Representing the Environment
31.
Delillo and American Dread
32.
Conclusion — Nobody's Home