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Spring 2012ENGL 607.1T6:00 - 8:40rh305 Ibis GomezVega

Title: TOPICS IN LITERATURE

Course Description: Course devoted to the study of special topics and periods of literature. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 semester hours when topic varies.

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Detailed Course Description:This class will examine the work of writers writing about the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001. It includes drama, poetry, and fiction by writers who live in New York and the surrounding area.
Course Requirements:An essay (15+ pages) written using the MLA style or A research paper (15+ pages) written using the MLA style
Required Texts:

Shirley Abbott’s The Future of Love (2008)

Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007)

Neil LaBute’s The Mercy Seat (2002)

Dennis Loy Johnson, ed. Poetry after 9-11( 2002)

Laila Halaby’s  Once in a Promised Land (2007)

Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2006)

F.P. Lione’s Clear Blue Sky (2007)

Jay McInnervey’s The Good Life (2006)

H.M. Naqui’s Home Boy: A Novel (2009)

Anne Nelson’s The Guys (2002)

Frances Khirallah Noble’s The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy (2007)

Joseph O’Neil’s Netherland (2008)

Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s The Writing on the Wall (2006)

Jess Walter’s The Zero (2007)

Craig Wright’s Recent Tragic Events (2003)

 

 

Suggested

 

Richard Gray’s After the Fall: American Literature since 9/11

Tram Nguyen’s We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities

                         After 9/11

David Simpson’s 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration

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