a dialectic approach to literature

[Terrance]

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Johnson, D. Barton. "Strange Bedfellows: Ayn Rand and Vladimir
   Nabokov." The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, vol. 2, no. 1 (Fall
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Clark, Beverly Lyon: Reflections of Fantasy: The Mirror Worlds of
   Carroll, Nabokov, and Pynchon. New York: Peter Lang, 1986

Topics in American Literature. 
American Literature and the State, 1935-1995. In this course we will
examine the American preoccupation with the state, and the perception
that the state has since the beginning of the New Deal come to play a
central role in the lives of individuals. In particular, we will ask
what difference this preoccupation has made to American literature,
focusing in particular on two distinct but related sets of stories that
have been told about the relation between the individual and big
government; the first group involves the imagined intrusion of
government into the family and its reproductive functions, and the
second involves the individuals attempt to uncover the existence of
systemic government conspiracy. 

Authors include Margaret Atwood, Joan Didion, E.L. Doctrow, Thomas
Pynchon, Ayn Rand, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard Wright. 

Atlas bugged
He just bugged
Bugged out
Atlas
he got big time troubles
he got heavy stuff
Atlas just bugged
just bugged out big time with the weight of it all
with the wait
with all that shootin straight
and lurkin late
with all that white man racism and senseless hate
Atlas
he just bugged
bugged out big time on his boyz
bugged
bugged out thin
high on crack and paper sack gin 
Atlas bugged
he got a vacation
did a straight eight
all that white wall thinking and brewing hate
came to a head on his shoulders and Atlas
he just bugged