| Spring 2013 | ENGL 334.1 | MW | 2:00 - 3:15 | RH 305 |
Ibis GomezVega |
Title: AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1960-PRESENT Course Description: Includes such writers as Bellow, Rich, Morrison, Pynchon, Ashbery, and Kushner.
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| Detailed Course Description: This class will examine some of the most representative works from different periods of American literature since 1960.
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| Course Requirements: Two analytical essays (5-7 pages) typed using the MLA style (30% each); 10 Quizzes (40% of grade)
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| Required Texts: Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story (1960); Don DeLillo's White Noise (1985); Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays (1970); Louise Erdrich’s Tracks (1988); Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962); Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Perestroika (1993); Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1992); Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow (1983); Walker Percy's The Moviegoer (1962); Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus (1959); Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (1969); Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005); Sam Shepard's True West (1981); Neil Simon’s The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1972); Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive (1997); August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson (1990); Craig Wright's Recent Tragic Events (2003); J. D. McClatchy's The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry |
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