{"id":801,"date":"2011-03-28T09:18:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=801"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:30:41","slug":"state-of-the-union-at-the-university-of-limmerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/03\/28\/state-of-the-union-at-the-university-of-limmerick\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union at the University of Limmerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The syllabus for a third-year course (EH4016) on &#8220;State of the Union: American Literature since 1890&#8221; being taught at the University of Limmerick (Ireland) requires students to read five novels. One of them is John Updike&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Rabbit, Run<\/em>. The others are Don DeLillo&#8217;s <em>White Noise<\/em>, F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>, Toni Morrison&#8217;s <em>Song of Solomon<\/em>, and \u00a0John Steinbeck&#8217;s <em>Of Mice and Men. <\/em>No Hemingway and Faulkner, you may ask? Hemingway&#8217;s &#8220;Hills Like White Elephants&#8221; did make the syllabus, as did Faulkner&#8217;s &#8220;A Rose for Emily,&#8221; along with short stories from James Baldwin, Flannery O&#8217;Connor, and Raymond Carver, and poems from Allen Ginsberg and Harlem Renaissance poets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The syllabus for a third-year course (EH4016) on &#8220;State of the Union: American Literature since 1890&#8221; being taught at the University of Limmerick (Ireland) requires students to read five novels. One of them is John Updike&#8217;s\u00a0Rabbit, Run. The others are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/03\/28\/state-of-the-union-at-the-university-of-limmerick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-classroom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}