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ENG 2076: American Literature After 1945 (3 cr.)

The purpose of this course is to introduce

students to a diverse range of American

literature written between 1945 to the present; to consider

what is postmodernist about the form and content

of these works; and to situate them in relation

to their historical and cultural contexts. We will

discuss social changes and formal developments in

relation to a variety of thematic concerns:

postmodernist irony vs. the documentary truths of

the information era, the rise of "beats" and

"freaks" as voices of rebellion and conscience;

the relationship between gender, geography, and

cultural identity in post-war America; and the

infiltration of mass media into the domain of the

literary. Where possible, we will read

literature alongside significant historical documents and

artifacts from this period. Authors to be drawn

from the following: Bishop, Brooks, Bellow,

Ellison, Ginsberg, Lowell, Plath, Nabokov, Percy,

Salinger, O?Connor, Roth, Barth, Morrison,

Ashbery, O?Hara, Ammons, Graham, Gluck, Delillo,

Wallace, Saunders, Robinson, Eggers, Lahiri,

Diaz,Foer, Eisenberg.

Prerequisite: Completion of one 1000 level

English course.

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