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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENG 3420 Contemporary American Fiction
A survey of American fiction since 1968, this course explores selected works of imporant short story writers and novelists in their aesthetic, historical, and cultural contexts. Authors may include Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, T.C. Boyle, George Saunders, Sandra Cisneros, Bharati Mukherjee, E.L. Doctorow, DonDeLillo, Toni Morrison, and Barbara Kingsolver. The course familiarizes students with the conventions of the short story and novel genres, as well as investigates how post-modern sensibilities, consumer/mass culture, and multi-ethnic and global issues impinge on current American literary practices. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500
Credits: 3.0
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