2010-2011 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
ENG 328 - Contemporary American Literature
Intensive study of major authors, literary movements, and themes since 1945. Topics may include Postmodernism; Metafiction; the Beat Generation; Minimalism; Ethnic Autobiography; the 1960s and the Absurd; New Journalism; African, Latino/a and Native-American writings; Language and Confessional poetry; the Non-Fiction Novel; Travel Narratives, and developments in contemporary genres. Offered odd years, winter semester. Prerequisites: Fulfillment of the freshman writing requirement, ENG 225 and ENG 226 or permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit if content varies.
Credits: 3