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A Survey of American Literature Chapter 22 The New York School. Meditative Poetry. The Black Mountain Poets New York School Frank O’Hara(1926-1996) Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) John Ashbery( 1927 -) James Schuyler (1923-1991) experiment with surrealism, against New Critical values, introduce the popular and the low features of life into their writing, exhibit a huge sense of humor, offering room those vulgar and sentimental. Chapter 23 Postwar American Novel (I) Saul Bellow (1915-2005), a Jew Dangling Man (1944) The Adventures of Augie March (1953) Seize the Day(1956) Herzog(1964) 1976, Nobel Prize for Literature Pulitzer Prize Themes: 1) contemporary society a threat to human life and human integrity; 2) modern civilization tends to dehumanize; 3) material affluence distracts and produces a sense of alienation Bellovian characters suffer most from a kind of psychosis; a quest for truth and values, end happily Norman Mailer (1923-2007) The Naked and the Dead (1948) The Armies of the Night (1968) J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) The Catcher in the Rye (1951) ? depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence protagonist:?Holden Caulfield? Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) The Assistant (1957) A New Life (1963) The Fixer (1966) (Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award ) “The Magic Barrel” (short story) themes :about Jews and their lives, learning about life and struggle to survive with dignity; out of suffering and despair come epiphany and eventual growth. John Updike (1932-2009) “Rabbit” pentalogy: Rabbit, Run(1960) Rabbit Redux (1971) Rabbit is Rich (1981) Rabbit at Rest (1990) Licks of Love (2000) Harry Angstrom ,middle-class person, looking for something and is always running away from soemthing John Cheever (1912-1982) short story ( “The Swimmer”) novels: The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) The Wapshot Scandal (1964)