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English (ENGLISH) - Contemporary American Literature
ENGLISH 336      Contemporary American Literature
An intensive study of American literature since World War II, concentrating on the profound literary changes following that war, as a new kind of poetry, fiction and drama emerges which chronicles the simultaneous dissolution of old values and the efforts to establish new ones. Writers such as Lowell, Roethke, Ginsberg, Ellison, Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Pynchon, Katherine Anne Porter, Heller, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee will be considered along with others, as American writing develops in our time.
Faculty: College of Arts & Sciences
Department: English Language & Literature
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