Title: LITERARY TOPICS

PRQ:

Topic:  American Literature Since 9-11-01 

Two essays (5-7 pages) typed using the MLA Style (30% of grade each); Ten quizzes (30% of grade); Class exercises (10% of grade)

Shirley Abbott's The Future of Love (2008); Gail Brandeis' Self Storage (2007); Don DeLillo's Falling Man (2007); Yussef El Guindi's Back of the Throat (2006); Ken Kalfus's A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2006); Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat (2002); Dennis Loy Johnson, ed.  Poetry after 9-11 (2002); Jay McInnervey's The Good Life (2006); Anne Nelson's The Guys (2002); Frances Khirallah Noble's The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy (2007); Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005); Sam Shepard's The God of Hell (2005); Jess Walter's The Zero (2006); Craig Wright's Recent Tragic Events (2003); Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's Lidless (2007)