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English 147 - Fall, 2017
American Literature 1945-present
Class Information
Instructor:
Thomas, George
CRN:
63231
Time:
TR 3:10-4:30
Location:
106 Olson
Description
Working through novels, short stories, and poetry, this course traces a path through several important shifts in American literature since 1945: the immense social changes wrought by the Second World War, the emergence of new voices in a rapidly changing literary canon, and the fuzzy paradigms of postmodern and contemporary literature.
Grading
Participation, reading responses, two essays, a midterm and a final exam.
Texts
Nine Stories (Little, Brown, and Co.)
, J.D. Salinger
The Crying of Lot 49 (Harper Modern Classics
, Thomas Pynchon
The Bell Jar (Harper Modern Classics)
, Sylvia Plaith
Beloved (Vintage)
, Toni Morrison
All the Pretty Horses (Vintage)
, Cormac McCarthy
A course reader including: John Barth, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Phillip K. Dick, Amari Baraka, Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, Junot Díaz, and Yiyun Le.
