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HLI 354: American Culture

A guide to the Library's information resources in Professor Pennino's American Culture course.

Introduction

This library course guide will

 introduce you to the Library's resources which may inform and support your research project in Professor Pennino's class.

RESEARCH PAPER

Length: 10 pages (using Time New Roman 12 point font, double spacing between lines, 1” margins). Titles pages and work cited pages do NOT count toward your total.

Works:

On the Road. Jack Kerouac

“Howl”. Allen Ginsburg

The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison

The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath

The Crying of Lot 49. Thomas Pynchon

Portnoy’s Complaint. Philip Roth

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Hunter S. Thompson

The Fire Next Time. James Baldwin

Dispatches. Michael Herr.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Tom Wolfe.

Paper Requirements

For this paper, you must have a minimum of seven sources.

  • The work you choose counts as one source (primary source).
  • Some of your sources must be from peer-reviewed journals (no reviews). 

Literature Review: due on November 24th.

For this paper, you need to choose one of the major works we have read in class. You have a great deal of leeway in choosing your topic, but this work must be at the center of your paper. You can be a bit imaginative here, utilizing the perspective of another humanities discipline (philosophy, history, art, music, etc.). You need, however, to clear your topic with me.

 

Paper is Due December 8th.