pt. 1. Comic Perspectives. Humor in the United States. Washington Irving's Agrarian Fable. Thoreau's Enduring Laugh. Humor in Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales -- pt. 2. Popular Perspectives. The Study of Popular Culture. Melville as Popular Culture. Mark Twain in the Comics. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Popular Culture in the Depression Era. Walt Disney's American Dream. The Great Gatsby as the Great American Novel. Edward Albee's Love Story. James Baldwin's Blues. The American Comic Book. Davy, Huck, Clark, and Ollie: "A Hero in Our Eyes" -- pt. 3. International Perspectives. Miguel de Unamuno's Canciones on American Literature. Yoknapatawpha on the Don: Faulkner and Sholokhov. Faulkner and Mo Yan: Influences and Confluences. Lady Murasaki and the Craft of Fiction -- Checklist of Publications / M. Thomas Inge.