American fiction and drama in the postwar period frequently incorporated and celebrated characters that were nonconforming outsiders.

In the excerpt from Invisible Man,  as which African American writer did the protagonist visualize himself as he wrote his graduation oration?

Robert Frost’s poems focused on life in the rural South.

In postmodern poetry, there is a growing focus on gender, women’s experiences, and the poet’s personal life.

Match the following excerpt to the work from which it is taken: “One night when Dean ate supper at my house–he already had the parking-lot job in New York–he leaned over my shoulder as I typed rapidly away and said, ‘Come on man, those girls won’t wait, make it fast.”

Where does the short story “Petrified Man” take place?

In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral,” why does Robert, the blind man in the story, visit the narrator’s home?

Match the author to the description that is true of him or her.

In Death of a Salesman, what is Willy Loman’s biggest single criticism of his oldest son, Biff?

Who does Ginsberg describe as “destroyed by madness, starving / hysterical naked” (l. 1)?