Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICAN FICTION 1950-PRESENT ***** This course investigates the major American writers of the post-war era, a period we sometimes call postmodernist, and their versions of the social realities of violence, race, sex, and gender. Pynchon, Morrison, De Lillo, Mailer, Oates, Updike, Ellison, and Roth are among the likely suspects we round up. ***** INSTRUCTOR: Doody, Terrence