“20th Century American Literature: A Course of Lectures” is created for the students getting education on specialty 60111800 – Foreign language and literature (English). In this course of the 20th Century American literature, we have tried to be responsive to the immense changes that have occurred over the past 20 years in the study of American literature. In particular, we have tried to register the plurality of American culture and American writing: the continued inventing of communities, and the sustained imagining of nations, that constitute the modern literary history of the United States.